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2026 PESA WEBINAR SERIES: Can PESA Members Help the World to Stop Climate Change? (Bob Ward): RESCHEDULED FOR FRIDAY 17 APRIL

Friday, 17 April @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm (Australia/Perth time)
Free – $10.00

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Guest Speaker(s): Bob Ward (Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science)

Bob Ward is Policy and Communications Director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His responsibilities include managing the team that supports the Institute’s Chair, Lord Nicholas Stern. Bob joined the Institute in November 2008 from Risk Management Solutions, the world’s leading provider of computer models for quantifying the risk of catastrophic events, where he was Director of Public Policy. He worked at the Royal Society, the UK national academy of science, for eight years until October 2006, where his responsibilities included science policy communications. He has also worked as a freelance science writer and as a science reporter for ‘The Daily Telegraph’. He has a first degree in geology and an unfinished PhD thesis on palaeopiezometry. Bob is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a Fellow of the Geological Society and a Fellow of the Energy Institute. He is also Chair of the London Climate Ready Partnership, and a member of the executive committee of the Association of British Science Writers.

The PESA Webinar Series is back for 2026!!

PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FOR FRIDAY 17 APRIL DUE TO A TECHNICAL ERROR

 

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The first webinar as part of the 2026 PESA Webinar Series will take place at 3pm (Perth time) on Tuesday 14 April 2026.  Please note the time has changed from its usual time for this webinar to accomodate our international guest!

This live webinar will take place at:

3pm              –     Perth
4.30pm       –     Darwin, Adelaide
5pm                –    Brisbane, Canberra, Hobart, Melbourne, Sydney

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Can PESA Members Help the World to Stop Climate Change?

Presented by Bob Ward (Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science)

Abstract:

The world will not be able to limit global warming to 1.5 Celsius degrees above pre-industrial level if all current reserves of coal, oil and gas are consumed and the resulting carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere. The International Energy Agency has warned that new development of fossil fuels is incompatible with limiting warming to 1.5 Celsius degrees above pre-industrial level, which was the strongest target that countries signed up to in the 2015 Paris Agreement.

However, President Donald Trump rejects the evidence for climate change as a “hoax” and has withdrawn the United States from international action on climate change. He is attempting to thwart domestic action and encouraging fossil fuel companies to “drill baby drill”. Should PESA members also pretend that climate change does not exist, and support President Trump’s goal of American Energy Dominance? Or is there a better option by supporting the development of carbon capture and storage?

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Friday, 17 April
Time:
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
(Australia/Perth time)
Cost:
Free – $10.00
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