ActNowFilm: Tim and Bauro – Tipping Points and Planetary Systems
Find out about Professor Tim Lenton and Bauro Lambourne, participants in ActNowFilm: Youth Climate Leaders as Agents of Change
Professor Tim Lenton
Tim Lenton is Professor and Chair in Climate Change and Earth System Science and Director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter, UK. Tim focuses on understanding the Earth as a system, modelling evolution, ecology, and biogeochemistry, providing early warning of climate tipping points, and identifying positive tipping points towards sustainability. He is the author of Revolutions that made the Earth with Andrew Watson (OUP, 2011) and Earth System Science: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2016).
Tim's work identifying the tipping elements in the climate system won the Times Higher Education Award for Research Project of the Year 2008. He has also received European Geosciences Union Outstanding Young Scientist Award 2006, British Association Charles Lyell Award Lecture 2006, Geological Society of London William Smith Fund 2008, and Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award 2013.
Bauro Lambourne
Bauro Lambourne is a passionate youth and climate change advocate from Kiribati, currently serving on the board of Tungaru Youth Action (TYA), empowering young people in Kiribati to become agents of change. TYA is the first youth-led organisation in Kiribati, and works with young people to empower them to become leaders in their communities. Bauro has a wealth of experience having witnessed first-hand the impacts of climate change on the island of Kiribati. As a result, in 2023, Bauro was part of the Kiribati Government’s youth delegation to COP28.
Bauro is particularly passionate about raising awareness of the impacts of climate change on small island states, especially in respect to sea level rise. His passion for finding innovative and sustainable solutions to this growing issue has led him to study architecture. This provides him with a unique perspective on how the built environment can both adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change.
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