For our new mini-series - Science, Policy and Climate Resilience - Host Rob Doubleday is joined by our new Co-Host Emily So, Professor of Architectural Engineering, University of Cambridge. Season 6 is focusing on the race to resilience global climate campaign and how to accelerate climate priorities after COP26.

In this first episode, Rob and Emily are joined by Dr Emily Shuckburgh, Climate Scientist and Director at Cambridge Zero, the University of Cambridge’s climate initiative, Amy Mount, a climate policy and politics expert who has worked in government, NGOs and now advises philanthropies, and Dimitri Zenghelis, Economist and Co-Founder of the Wealth Economy Project at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy in Cambridge. 

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Season 6 is produced in partnership with the research project Expertise Under Pressure, Centre for the Humanities and Social Change at the University of Cambridge.

CSaP: The Science & Policy Podcast is edited and produced by CSaP Communications Coordinator Jessica Foster. Research for this series is supported by CSaP Policy Researcher Nick Cosstick.

Podcast theme music by Transistor.fm. Learn how to start a podcast here.

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Resources relevant to this episode:

• The Glasgow Climate Pact – Key Outcomes from COP26.
• Glasgow Climate Pact: https://unfccc.int/documents/310475
• Last IPPC Report published before COP26––Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis.
• The Paris Agreement: https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/the-paris-agreement
• Cambridge Zero work on cascading risks associated with climate change.
• Bennett Institute working paper – Climate and Fiscal Sustainability: Risks and Opportunities. 
• The Climate Change Act: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/27/contents
• UK Climate Change Risk Assessment 2022: https://bit.ly/3Py8vQH
• Climate Change Committee New Article – It's Time to Turn the Tide on UK Adaptation Action
• Climate Change Committe Post-COP26 report – COP26: Key Outcomes and Next Steps for the UK.
• UN Convention on Biological Diversity: ​https://bit.ly/3MBTbRm

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