{"id":6404,"date":"2015-09-11T06:57:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T06:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6404"},"modified":"2015-09-11T06:57:46","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T06:57:46","slug":"midnight-in-paris-will-cop-21-make-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/09\/11\/midnight-in-paris-will-cop-21-make-a-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Midnight in Paris: will COP 21 make a difference?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To London yesterday, to the LSE, to hear Professor Scott <a href=\"http:\/\/earth.columbia.edu\/articles\/view\/2799\">Barrett<\/a>, Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics at Columbia University. \u00a0Barrett is a leading scholar on transnational and global challenges, ranging from climate change to disease eradication, and he talked about the likelihood of the Paris Climate Summit in December having much\u00a0effect. \u00a0The title of the talk was:\u00a0<em>Midnight in Paris: will COP 21 make a difference<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Here are the details of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/GranthamInstitute\/event\/public-lecture-midnight-in-paris-will-cop-21-make-a-difference\">lecture<\/a>\u00a0which was co-organised by the Grantham Research Institute, and\u00a0the LSE's department of Geography and Environment. \u00a0Going to listen to this sounded better than\u00a0attending the mad scrum that the Paris event will no doubt prove to be. \u00a0I'll comment on it next week, but before I do, let me say how it started.<\/p>\n<p>The Chair (who never said who he was) introduced Barrett and then told us to keep our mobile phones on so we could tweet about the lecture; he gave us the hashtag. \u00a0So far, so normal, these days. \u00a0It was what happened next that was odd. \u00a0Barrett got up and the first thing he said was to admit to being apprehensive as he didn't know what a tweet was, even though the Earth Institute [\u00a0@earthinstitute ] has some 76,000 followers. \u00a0Barrett\u00a0said later that, as a theoretician, he didn't get out much. \u00a0Part of me rather envied him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To London yesterday, to the LSE, to hear Professor Scott Barrett, Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics at Columbia University. \u00a0Barrett is a leading scholar on transnational and global challenges, ranging from climate change to disease eradication, and he...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}