KEB, Alm.del - 2012-13 - Bilag 329: Invitation til foredrag den 22. og 23. oktober 2013 på Københavns Universitet om klimaforandringer m.v.

What have future generations done for me lately?Making sense of the role of media in shaping awareness and engagementwith climate changeThe University of Copenhagen is pleased toinvite you to a Sustainability Lecture withMax Boykofffrom University of Colorado-Boulder and the author of ‘Who Speaks forthe Climate?’Editor-in-Chief of Politiken Bo Lidegaardwill respond to the talk with Prorector forEducation Lykke Friis as moderator.Mass media serve vital roles in communication pro-cesses between science, policy and the public, andoften stitch together perceptions, intentions, consid-erations, and actions regarding climate change. Manydynamic, contested and complex factors contributeto how media outlets portray climate change science,politics and policy.In his talk, Boykoff will highlight how particular prob-lems and snags in the web of interaction betweenscience, media, policy and the public have contributedto (mis)perceptions, debates, and varied understand-ings – that can be at times detrimental to efforts thatseek to enlarge rather than constrict the spectrum ofpossibility for responses to climate challenges.

Maxwell T. Boykoff is an Assistant Professor in the Center forScience and Technology Policy, which is part of the CooperativeInstitute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the Univer-sity of Colorado-Boulder. In addition, Max is a Senior VisitingResearch Associate in the Environmental Change Institute at theUniversity of Oxford.Max has ongoing interests in climate adaptation, cultural poli-tics and environmental governance, science-policy interactions,and political economy and the environment, and he has experi-ence working in North America, Central America, South Asiaand Europe.

Sustainability Science Lecturesaim to create attention and visibility of the challenges of glob-al sustainability. Danish and foreign speakers visit University of Copenhagen to focus on a broadarray of topics concerned with sustainability, pass on their experiences, and give their opinions onhow to approach the challenges we are facing now and in the future.