A short synopsis of Julian's talk:

Mankind's impact on the climate led the atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen to coin the phrase "the anthropocene", to mark a new geological epoch.
"I first started to cover climate change when I reported on the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. I will review the current status of international climate geopolitics post-Copenhagen and pre-Cancun, and ask if the shifts in attitudes I've observed over nearly two decades within both the fossil fuel industries and th environmental movements have gone far enough. I will consider the challenges, opportunities and the moral duties faced by both as they adapt too the anthropocene. I will propose that there are signs of a potential rapprochement between the two sides which must be nurtured if we are to enter the post-anthropocene epoch, the zerocarboniferous."