Professor Munasinghe © Progressio

Professor Mohan Munasinghe, an internationally-recognised expert on energy, sustainable development and climate change, will speak on viable models of development that can alleviate poverty without exacerbating climate change – a task that is challenging but, he believes, achievable. Professor Munasinghe is former Vice Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The event promises to be an evening of challenging debate ahead of the pivotal summit on climate change in Copenhagen this December.

Professor Munasinghe will be speaking as part of Progressio’s AGM. His talk is however a public meeting and all are welcome.  

If you would like tickets for the event please send an email to Denise MacMahon at Progressio (denise@progressio.org.uk)

Event Details

The event will take place at 7.30pm on Monday 19 October 2009, at the Royal Commonwealth Society (25 Northumberland Avenue London WC2N 5AP).

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With kind support from Las Casas Institute, The Tablet and The Pastoral Review

About Professor Munasinghe

Professor Munasinghe is Chair of the Munasinghe Institute for Development, Sri Lanka, and Director-General of the Sustainable Consumption Institute at the University of Manchester, UK. He received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, along with IPCC colleagues and Al Gore, for his efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract it.