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Love Your Planet 2025

17 February 2025, 9:30 am–6:00 pm

Love your planet 2025 graphic design with a heart in the shape of the earth

Join us on 17 February to be part of the solution! Together, let's transform awareness into action & make a tangible impact on our planet.

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Organiser

Max Gillingham – UCL Grand Challenges

We’re thrilled to announce that the Love Your Planet event will be returning in 2025!

The full programme, with timings, is now available to download :

A collaboration between the UCL Grand Challenge of Climate Crisis, Climate Reality Project, and Climate Cafe, the day will focus on what businesses, policymakers, academics, and activists can do in the UK to accelerate the green transition.

Love Your Planet will be a day of connections, insights, and action, uniting UCL's esteemed faculty, students, and guests with policy influencers, industry leaders, and civil society advocates. Together, we aim to illuminate decision-making processes with empirical research and expertise while inspiring the next generation of climate pioneers.

Programme for the event includes:

  • Welcome and event open with Professor Mark Maslin (UCL Geography), Shooka Bidarian (Climate Reality Europe) and Alan Salazar Guerra (UCL Student Union)
  • Session 1: Are international climate negotiations fit for purpose? Collaboration with UCL Disagreeing Well, featuring Sir David King, Andrew Simms (University of Sussex), Dr Simon Chin-Yee (UCL School of Public Policy), Dr Jared Finnegan (UCL Political Science), Farhana Yamin (Climate Lawyer and Activist) and  Shooka Bidarian (Climate Reality Europe)
  • Session 2: How rapidly can the UK reach net zero? Alongside Professor Piers Forster (Climate Change Committee), Professor Eloise Scotford (UCL Laws), Neil Anderson (Soly UK), Professor Susan Michie (UCL School of Life and Medical Sciences) Owen Jones (Independent Journalist)
  • Lunch and chat with UCL Grand Challenges Climate Crisis projects, Climate Reality Project Teams, student groups and more
  • Climate Comedy: Stand-up comedy from UCL’s Dr Matt Winning
  • Session 3: How can local communities accelerate the net zero transition? Featuring Oliver Pendered (Community Energy Pathways), Harold Garner (London Borough of Camden), Professor Jim Watson (UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources), Emma Fletcher (Octopus Energy) and Mark Chivers (Zero Carbon Dorset) and Jess Pepper (Climate Café)
  • Fireside Chat: Communicating climate change and the net zero transition with Shooka Bidarian (Climate Reality Europe) and Tom Heap (Broadcaster and Author)
  • Closing remarks by Professor Mark Maslin (UCL Geography)
  • Networking event hosted by Climate Café

If you are unable to join us in person, please use this livestream link to follow the sessions online.

This is the first event as part of the 28 Days of Sustainability 2025 and is open to all. If you are a UCL staff or student, please sign up with your UCL email address. You can read about the success of the last event, Love Your Planet 2024, here. 

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