Carbon: Our Flexible Friend that Built the Natural World - Helen Czerski
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University College London
1:00:44·2026·undergraduate level·Public Colloquium
Helen Czerski elucidates the global carbon cycle, examining its various reservoirs—ocean, soil, permafrost—and the anthropogenic impacts on carbon flux. The lecture also addresses IPCC scenarios for net-zero emissions and the challenges of carbon dioxide removal technologies.
Carbon used to be something that was only mentioned in school chemistry classes, but now it seems to be everywhere: on the news, in political debate, in discussions on health, and as a framework for thinking about our civilisation’s future. But the carbon that’s the focus of most of that debate is what’s in the atmosphere, and that’s only about 2% of the accessible carbon on Earth.
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