Eden Project

Climate change debate

One Planet, the BBC World Service’s flagship environment and global development programme, is to broadcast a climate change discussion from the unique surroundings of Eden’s Mediterranean Biome on Thursday December 3 in the Mediterranean Biome’s citrus grove.

The debate will be broadcast on One Planet on the eve of the United Nations Climate Change Conference and features some of the world’s foremost environmental thinkers.

Together, the programme’s panellists and contributors will be examining whether international summits are the best way to tackle climate change, looking at what realistically can be expected out of the Copenhagen process and asking what issues are not on the table at the summit, but which need to be factored in to any attempt to reduce global warming.

Four people will make up the panel at Eden: Tim Smit, Chief Executive of Eden, Vicky Pope, Head of Climate Change Advice at the Met Office, Peter Sammonds, Professor of Geophysics at University College London and John Sauven, Executive Director of Greenpeace UK.

Panellists contributing by telephone on the day will be: Changhua Wu, Greater China Director of the China Group from Beijing, Nigel Purvis, President of Climate Advisers and Hammer Simwinga, who runs the North Luangwa Wildlife Conservation and Community Development programme in Zambia.

Also contributing to the broadcast will be: Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – the diplomat in change of the Copenhagen summit and Mohamed Nasheed, President of the Maldives. President Nasheed announced a pioneering collaboration between the Eden Project and the Government of the Maldives on climate change earlier this year.

One Planet is a weekly view of global development and the environment presented by Mike Williams, an experienced former BBC foreign correspondent. BBC World Service is the BBC’s International radio station and has a reach of up to 40 million listeners.

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