A group of experts will analyze the phenomenon of Climate Change from a multidisciplinary point of view.

The Science Museum of the University of Navarra has organized a series of conferences with experts to address Climate Change from a multidisciplinary approach, in connection with the Climate Summit to be held in Glasgow (UK) in early November. The series, entitled "The COP26 Climate Summit: A new hope?", will be held from November 9 to 19.

"The aim of these conferences is to bring to society, in an informative way and from the hand of experts, a topic as complex as this and that can be addressed with a multidisciplinary approach. The sessions will cover topics such as biodiversity, circular economy, ecology, energy sources and sustainable building", says Ignacio López-Goñi, director of the Science Museum of the University of Navarra. 

All sessions will be held in person -until full capacity is reached- in the Assembly Hall of the Science Library Building of the University of Navarra at 19:00 hours. In addition, the lectures will be broadcast via streaming on the Science Museum's YouTube channel.

This series of conferences is one of the activities that are part of Science Week and is supported by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) / Ministry of Science and Innovation, Government of Navarra, Banco Sabadell Foundation, the LIFE Invasaqua project, and the Institute of Biodiversity and Environment of the University of Navarra.

The COP26 Climate Summit will be held in Glasgow (United Kingdom) from November 1 to 12, and will bring together representatives from different countries around the world with the aim of implementing measures to reduce global temperatures to below 1.5 ºC compared to pre-industrial levels.

Multidisciplinary panel of experts

The cycle of conferences starts on November 9th with the lecture of Luis Herrera, professor emeritus of the University of Navarra and Humboldt award: "Ecology, Climate Change and Sixth Extinction". He will be followed on November 10 by the engineer Ricardo García, vice-president of the Technical Committee of ATECYR, who will speak to the attendees about "Energy in buildings in the face of the 2050 objective". On the third day (November 11) the principles governing the Circular Economy will be explained by Carmen Jaca, professor and researcher at Tecnun University of Navarra. On November 12, the protagonist will be Juan Miguel González-Aranda, technical responsible for the development of LifeWatch ERIC and director of its Common Facility in Spain: "Climate change, ecosystem services and disruptive ICT".

On November 15, Miguel Clavero, researcher at the Department of Conservation Biology of the Biological Station of Doñana-CSIC (Seville), will address the topic of invasive species: "Ancient invasions: searching in the trunk of memories. Historical ecology to understand a changing world". On November 17, Jorge Lobo, professor at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, will give the lecture "Life". The series concludes on November 19 with a lecture by Agustín del Prado, Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), with the conference "Searching for the holy grail of climate neutrality in livestock farming".

All the information about the series is on the Science Museum's website.

- Cycle of conferences "The COP 26 climate summit - A new hope?" (PDF)