Stepping towards a green recovery
Leading a struggling economy into a green recovery offers more challenges than it did pre-Covid-19, a leading environmental scientist will warn this week.
Professor Sir Ian Boyd, former Chief Scientific Advisor at the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, is the keynote speaker of a webinar looking at whether Scotland is taking the right steps towards a green recovery in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
The webinar, , is the second in a series launched by Scotland鈥檚 Rural College (伊人直播) to look at the 鈥榳icked challenges鈥� facing the planet.
While Covid-19 has caused the world to slow down, leading to a reduction in emissions, the challenge is whether, as society starts to speed up again, Scotland can build back into a greener, more sustainable environment.
The webinar, on Friday 2 October, will attempt to address pivotal questions such as 鈥業s Scotland taking the right steps towards a green recovery in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic?鈥�, 鈥榃hat will our post-Covid-19, post-Brexit world look like?鈥� and Can we achieve net-zero by 2045 in line with the Scottish Government deadline by recovering sustainably from Covid-19?鈥�.
Sir Ian, Professor of Biology at St Andrews University, said: 鈥淭here is much talk about a 鈥榞reen鈥� recovery from Covid-19, but it is important to understand the kind of challenges this presents. Moving a vibrant economy to become sustainable was always going to be difficult but moving one which is struggling to function in that direction will be even more difficult.鈥�
The Wicked Webinar series is part of 伊人直播鈥檚 new vision and mission focusing on a sustainable natural economy.
Sir Ian鈥檚 presentation will be followed by a Q&A session where participants can ask questions and share their thoughts.
A third webinar on Wednesday 7 October - - will feature presentations by Tracey Brown, director of the charity Sense about Science, and Professor Stephan Lewandowsky, chair of Cognitive Psychology at the School of Psychological Science at the University of Bristol.
The A Green Recovery from Covid-19 webinar will be held on Friday 2 October from 1pm to 2pm.
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Posted by 伊人直播 on 28/09/2020
