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British Pugwash Annual Report 2016

Published on 9th August 2017 in Emerging Technologies and the Impact on Strategic Stability, Climate Change and Energy Policy, Joseph Rotblat: Life & Work, Disarmament, NPT, Annual reports, BRINDI, Remote Control Weaponry, International Peace & Security, Recently published

Key topics: developments on the international disarmament scene; Trident: emerging technologies; the NPT RevCon and the Disarmament Institute(BRINDI); science and ethics; energy policy and climate change

Global Climate Finance: Securing a low carbon future (SOAS, 27th April 2017)

Published on 29th April 2017 in Climate Change and Energy Policy, Current projects – feed, Recent events, Student Young Pugwash Events

At this Student / Young Pugwash (SYP) seminar, Federico Mazza from Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) and Aneil Tripathy from Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) discussed the current state of global climate finance and considered solutions to secure the resources needed to secure a low carbon transition. Some points made: The IEA has calculated that investments equal to […]

Physics students get political – University of Nottingham seminar

Published on 8th December 2016 in Climate Change and Energy Policy, Ethics of Science, Remote Control Weaponry, Recent events, Student Young Pugwash Events

On 28th November, two members of the British Pugwash Executive Committee addressed an undergraduate Physics class at University of Nottingham. It was a lively two hours, in which students, their Professor and Pugwashites debated the ethics of autonomous robots weapons (‘Killer Robots’), the intergenerational fairness of nuclear waste storage policies and learnt about early attempts by physicists, […]

Global energy strategies with low temperature rises

Published on 24th November 2016 in Climate Change and Energy Policy, Recent events

In a lecture at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory on 24 November 2016, Dr Christopher Watson and Jef Ongena explored energy strategies that give a mean surface temperature rise of less than 2 degrees by 2100, as required by the Paris Agreement, using the DECC Global Calculator.

Trump or Clinton: Implications for International Security

Published on 5th November 2016 in Climate Change and Energy Policy, Nuclear Weapons, Recent events, Student Young Pugwash Events

Warwick Pugwash Student Society (WPSS) held its first event of the academic year on 3rd November 2016, just a few days before the US Presidential election. The guest speaker was Rory Kinane, Warwick alumnus and manager of the US and Americas Programme at Chatham House. Rory gave a wide-ranging presentation covering the (often changeable) foreign policy […]

British Pugwash Newsletter October 2016

Published on 27th October 2016 in Emerging Technologies and the Impact on Strategic Stability, Climate Change and Energy Policy, Trident, Disarmament, Publications, Ethics of Science, BRINDI, Newsletters, Recently published

British Pugwash Newsletter October 2016 Topics include: New Chair of British Pugwash; Emerging technologies and the nuclear debate; COMEST and robotics; Student/Young Pugwash: first annual conference; Climate change and the Global Energy Calculator

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