Canada-UK Colloquium report on the UK, Canada and Global Warming

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Philip Peacock, Nicolas Maclean (both Canada-UK Council) and Lucien Georgeson (UCL Geography) - In December, 2015 the Paris Agreement on Climate Change was adopted by 196 governments at the 21st Conference of the Parties. It limits average global warming to 2 degrees C above pre-industrial global temperatures, and seeks as an aspirational target to limiting warming to 1.5 degrees C. The focus has now shifted to the efforts of individual countries to make "nationally determined contributions" to the global effort. The 2016 Canada-UK Colloquium last November focussed on ways in which the UK and Canada could respectively achieve their "nationally determined contributions" and amongst other things concluded that unless governments, businesses and civil society across the globe summon the necessary will to act, future generations will face a dystopian future.

Philip Peacock is the Chair of the Canada-UK Council which holds its monthly meetings at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He has an LLM degree from the University of London and works as a business consultant for Radcliffes Le Brasseur in London.

Nicolas Maclean CMG is a member of the Canada-UK Council and a former Senior Fellow in International Affairs at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He has a long-standing interest in Japan and was a founder member of the UK-Japan 21st Century Group and Chairman of the Japan Festival Education Trust (now Japan 21 Education). He has worked in financial services for over 30 years, as Executive Director of Prudential Corporation Asia Ltd amongst other roles.

Lucien Georgeson was a participant at the Colloquium and is a Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Geography at UCL. His research focuses on redefining and measuring the global green economy using transactional data. He also has research interests in the development and implementation of the sustainable development goals, and city and national level responses to climate change and sustainable development challenges.