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Successful Session at Planet Under Pressure

23 Apr 2012

Planet Under Pressure was a major international conference held in London 26-29 March 2012 that focused on finding solutions to the challenge of global sustainability. Over 3000 people attended the conference at which the PSMSL (Philip Woodworth, Simon Holgate and Svetlana Jevrejeva) took the lead in organising a session on the second day called Past and Present Sea Level Rise and Ice Sheets.

The session consisted in an afternoon and evening of poster presentations with over 30 posters contributed, and a panel discussion earlier in the afternoon with four distinguished panelists and a well-known TV journalist as Chairman. The panel gave their views on many aspects of the science of sea level change, its impacts and its costs and took questions from an audience of 200 people. The Chairman was David Shukman, BBC Science Editor, and the panel members were:

• Anders Carlson - Anders is a glaciologist at the University of Wisconsin.
• Carl Wunsch - Carl is an eminent oceanographer, a Professor at MIT and a Foreign Member of the Royal Society.
• Antony Long - Antony is a Professor of Geography at Durham University and is an expert in coastal processes.
• Richard Tol - Richard is Professor of Economics at the University of Sussex and Professor of the Economics of Climate Change at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

The PSMSL thanks the Chairman, panel members and poster presenters for making this such an enjoyable event.