Fully funded places are available at a conference on 'Climate
change: Scicence, politics and the management of
uncertainty' at Merton College, Oxford, 17 to 23 September
2007, organised by the 21st Century Trust in collaboration with the
German Research Foundation, the German Donors Association and the
UK Foreign Office.
The target group for participants are emerging leaders,
outstanding people still in mid-career and from diverse
professional backgrounds. Bursaries are available from sponsors to
cover costs for participants who are British or German nationals.
Some 21st Century Trust bursaries are also still available for
articipants from other countries.
Speakers at the conference will include: John Elkington,
SustainAbility; Dr Ottmar Edenhofer, Potsdam Institute for Climate
Impact Research; Isabel Hilton, editor, chinadialogue.net; Dr
Saleemul Huq, Head of the Climate Change Group, International
Institute for Environment and Development; Professor Nebojsa
Nakicenovic, IIASA (International Institute for Applied Systems
Analysis), Vienna; Sunita Narain, Director, Centre for Science and
Environment, New Delhi; Professor Steve Rayner, Director, James
Martin Institute, University of Oxford; David Stevenson, The Rocket
Science Group; David Vincent, The Carbon Trust.
For further details, please see The 21st Century Trust website
or to contact the director, John Lotherington, at the Trust's
office:
21st Century Trust
25 Museum Street
London WC1A 1JT
United Kingdom
Tel. +44-(0)207-323 2099
Fax +44-(0)870 056 7163