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Razing the
rainforests, a 21st Century Challenges event
Wednesday 22
October at 19:00
Royal Geographical Society (with
IBG), London
- Rainforests
produce 20% of the entire world’s oxygen and 30% of our planet’s fresh water
- Forests store
40% of all carbon in terrestrial life, plus a third of all carbon stored in
the world’s soils.
- How can
governments, indigenous populations and organisations work together to
conserve them?
As part of 21st Century Challenges,
the Society’s new flagship public engagement series, Professor Sir Gordon Conway
(Scientific Advisor to DfID and the Royal Geographical Society with IBG
President) will chair Warren
Evans (Director of the Environment, World Bank),
Senator Marina
Silva (former Brazilian Minister for Environment) and
Simon Counsell
(Director of the Rainforest Foundation
discussing how best to conserve the
world’s rainforests.
Put your questions to a panel of
leading international experts, discussing how best to conserve the world’s
rainforests in the face of enormous challenges
from palm oil, timber trade, green colonialism and
tourism.
Tickets: RGS-IBG Members £10, non-Members
£15
Date:
Wednesday 22
October at 19:00
Book tickets
online: www.rgs.org/Whatson/21CC
or by phone: +44 (0)207 591 3100
Details online: www.rgs.org/21stcc/countryside
Royal Geographical Society with
IBG
1 Kensington
Gore
London
SW7 2AR
Entrance to the Society is via
Exhibition
Road
Nearest tube:
South
Kensington
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