Date: 18th of April
Time: 19.00 – 20.30
Location: The House of Literature in Bergen
The House of Literature in Bergen, the University of Bergen and the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research invites you to a panel discussion and debate about climate change.
When glacial ice melts on Greenland, the seas rise most in the tropics. How do rising sea levels and other effects of climate change affect life on low-lying islands in the Pacific and the Caribbean? Coral reefs and mangroves shield roads and houses, but what happens when warm water and plastic pollution eat away at corals and trees?
Five young climate scientists from Fiji, Jamaica and Canada are here to tell us. Bernadette Tunidau has a background in development studies at the University of the South Pacific, where Ozayr Akbar studies ethics and law. Deron Maitland and Chauntelle Green from the University of the West Indies are researching rising sea levels and the resulting consequences for life in and by the sea. Natalya Gomez is an associate professor at McGill University in Montreal, where she researches melting ice and sea levels.
The five scientists joined Statsraad Lehmkuhl on parts of its One Ocean Expedition around the world. This evening they meet with social anthropologist Camilla Borrevik from the University of Bergen for a conversation about life by a changing sea.
The conversation will be in English. The event is free.