The sustainable planet: opportunities and challenges for science, technology and society

• 12.00pm – 12.30pm on 12 July 2010 – 14 July 2010
• at The Kavli Royal Society International Centre, Buckinghamshire

Organised by Professor Judith Howard CBE FRS, Professor Ash Amin FBA, Professor Martyn Chamberlain and Professor Matthew Davidson

Programme available to download here.

This meeting will review global sustainability in the context of: climate change; supply of essential materials, food and energy; and new disease patterns. The challenges to global societies will be discussed and the potential of advances in biology, chemistry, physics, medicine, energy technology and materials science to ameliorate these problems will be considered, together with the intrinsic limits of wholly scientific solutions.

Speakers and chairs include:
Professor Ash Amin FBA, Lynda Armstrong OBE, Professor Alan Bilsborough, Professor Martyn Chamberlain, Professor Anthony Costello, Professor Matthew Davidson, Professor Robert Edwards, Professor Judith Howard CBE FRS, Dr Jackie Hunter, Professor Allan Jones FREng, Professor Jonathan Jones FRS, Professor Stuart Lane, Professor Tom McLeish, Professor David Newbery FBA, Professor Daniel Nocera, Professor Laurie Peter, Dr Vicky Pope, Dr David Satterthwaite, Professor Sir Ian Wilmut OBE FRS FRSE and Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub KBE FRS.

Biographies are available to view here.

The proceedings of this meeting are due to be published in a future issue of Philosophical Transactions A.

Audio recordings are now available to download.