The Edmund Lectures: Climate Change: Science and Solution
- Next Event
- 20th November 7:00pm
- Event Finishes
- 20th November 9:00pm
About this event
This October and November will feature Big Issues: The Edmund Lectures 2024 – a series of lectures by internationally renowned experts on some of the big issues that challenge our lives as we continue to navigate the 21st Century.
“Climate Change: Science and Solutions” – Professor Rachel Warren
Wednesday 20 November at 7.00pm
Interdisciplinary synthesist Professor Rachel Warren is Professor of Global Change and Environmental Biology at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia, UK. She has over 25 years’ experience leading interdisciplinary teams to deliver policy relevant science on climate change. Rachel is a joint author of a Nobel Peace Prize winning intergovernmental report on climate change (2007) and co-authored the UN Environment Programme’s Making Peace with Nature report (2021).
The effects of global climate change are greater, and are happening faster, than most people ever imagined. Big increases in searing heat and flooding are no longer confined to the predictions scientists have made about the future – they are already lived realities for much of the world’s population. After record hot summers in southern Europe and floods in the UK, many of us are finally waking up to an inconvenient truth; our climate and our weather is changing fast. Science has identified a crisis. How big are the risks? What do they mean for the economy, biodiversity, and food security? How can climate science help us to think about our planet and how we can safeguard its future? Professor Warren will address these questions and help us to reflect on what we can do.
Free to attend, but please book.
Interdisciplinary synthesist Professor Rachel Warren is Professor of Global Change and Environmental Biology at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia, UK. She has over 25 years’ experience leading interdisciplinary teams to deliver policy relevant science on climate change. Rachel is a joint author of a Nobel Peace Prize winning intergovernmental report on climate change (2007) and co-authored the UN Environment Programme’s Making Peace with Nature report (2021) and the Special Report on 1.5°C warming (2018). Since 2007, her work has informed world governments about the risks associated with global warming and has catalysed the decarbonization of the world’s largest pension fund. Her academic background and training are in physics and the natural sciences at Cambridge University. Rachel appears in the Reuters hot list of top 1000 climate scientists.
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About the Venue
For over 1,000 years, the site of Suffolk ’s Cathedral has been one of worship and pilgrimage.
The death of Edmund, King of the East Angles, at the hands of the Danes in 869 led to the building of an abbey to house his remains. St James’s Church was built within the precincts of the Abbey, becoming a Cathedral in 1914. The Cathedral building has continued to develop over recent years with the addition of the Millennium Tower, completed in 2005, and its magnificent painted and gilded vault, added in 2010. In 2009 the Cathedral changed its dedication to become the Cathedral Church of St James and St Edmund.
Visitors are welcome to look around the Cathedral on their own. Entry is free but donations gratefully received. A free introductory leaflet is available in English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, and Polish. Visitors are most welcome to attend any of the daily services.
Guided Tours of the Cathedral run Monday to Saturday at 11am from the font from April to October. Tickets can be purchased at the Cathedral Shop. Occasionally a tour may have to be cancelled if another event is taking place in the Cathedral. If you are travelling some distance, please do ring the Cathedral office to check. These tours last approx 1 hour and cost £6 per person (under 16s free).
St Edmundsbury Cathedral Tower Tours - Experience a fascinating behind-the-scenes tour of St Edmundsbury Cathedral's Millennium Tower with fun and knowledgeable guides. Explore heady heights with amazing views from the top of the tower, the highest point in Bury St Edmunds! Don’t forget your camera!
St Edmund Statue by Dame Elisabeth Frink - A trip to Bury St Edmunds would not be complete without a photo of the iconic St Edmund statue by Dame Elisabeth Frink. The statue can be found outside in the Great Churchyard of the Cathedral.
Cathedral Lego Project - St Edmundsbury Cathedral has launched an ambitious project to recreate the Cathedral out of 200,000 LEGO bricks! Visitors can see the Lego Cathedral being built before their eyes and donate a brick to be part of this amazing project. The Lego Cathedral is located in the South West corner of St Edmundsbury Cathedral. Opening times may vary based on volunteer availability.
The Ancient Library - The Ancient Library was founded by Dr Miles Mosse in 1595 as a resource for clergy training. There are over 550 books, mainly printed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The library, in a room over the north-west porch designed by Stephen Dykes Bower in 1960, has bookcases made by Leonard Goff in 2004. If you would like to visit the library, please contact the librarian through the Cathedral Office on visits@stedscathedral.org or 01284 748730.
Pilgrim's Kitchen - after touring the Cathedral why not relax with a cuppa at the Cathedral's cafe?
