Mark Maslin: “There are now more non-recyclable lego mini figures in the world than human beings. And there’s 7,9 billion of us.”
Mark A. Maslin is Professor of Earth System Science at University College London. He is a leading scientist with particular expertise in past global and regional climatic change. His areas of scientific expertise include causes of past and future global climate change and its effects on the global carbon cycle, biodiversity, rainforests and human evolution. He is the author of popular books including The Human Planet and Cradle of Humanity, he has also written a number of papers and popular articles (e.g. for New Scientist, The Times, Independent and Guardian), and appeared in the media. His popular book Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction has sold over 50,000 copies.
Read moreMark spent years looking into the use of satellite data to monitor the surface of the Earth, with a particular interest in understanding climate change and its implications, and developed a system that translates different datasets into a common format so any spatial data can now be combined to give us new insights about the state of our planet and how this relates to anything from plant growth to human health.
In 2011, he was granted a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award for the study of early human evolution in East Africa. In 2012, he co-founded Rezatec, a geospatial AI leader for businesses in water, forestry, agriculture and energy.
Prof Mark Maslin provides an introduction to the climate crisis we are facing and the challenges of reaching Net Zero emissions globally by 2050. He will examine what Governments, Companies and Individuals can do to deal with the environmental crisis while making people around the world healthier, wealthier and safer. Hosted and facilitated by climate activist and climate documentraty maker Shooka Bidarian.