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Yesterday, parliamentarians received a briefing from Sir Patrick Vallance and other leading UK scientists on climate change, hosted by Caroline Lucas MP, chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group, and Baroness Hayman, co-chair of Peers for the Planet.

Speakers were:

  • Sir Patrick Vallance, Government Chief Scientific Adviser
  • Professor Stephen Belcher, Met Office
  • Professor Emily Shuckburgh, Cambridge Zero
  • Professor Gideon Henderson, Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

You can download the speakers’ presentations using the links on the right hand side of the page. The speakers’ notes can be found as comments in the top left corner of each slide.

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