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Sam Douglas-Bate a former UK civil servant is the managing Director of ForgeFront. ForgeFront work with governments, think tanks, and public and private sector organisations to futureproof themselves against the threats of tomorrow. A recent report Sam wrote for The New Lines Institute, a think-tan

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Fake news impacts the life of every person, with profound implications for trust in government and real-world impacts, such as the 2024 summer riots across the UK. With over 90% of the UK population having encountered fake news on the web, and most US citizens reporting seeing false or misleading information online at least weekly, the issue is top of the agenda for leaders around the globe. New technologies from home and abroad have the power to transform the debate by both enabling and stopping the spread. In this talk, ForgeFront’s Managing Director and former UK civil servant Sam Douglas-Bate puts this so-called ‘double-edged sword’ under the microscope, looking at what powerful new technologies mean for the spread of misinformation and disinformation. The talk will draw upon a recent report Sam wrote for The New Lines Institute, a think-tank based in Washington DC. He has discussed his research most recently on C-Span and in the podcast Disinformation Wars. Sam Douglas-Bate, Founder, ForgeFront

We invite you to join in with our COP30 panel discussion, in the style of BBC Radio’s Any Questions.  Please submit your questions for the panel in advance to profstuartreynolds@cantab.net By the date of our discussion the COP30 meeting will have concluded, but the news from Belém will still be fresh. One of the main functions of this event will be to demystify the political process of COP meetings, allowing our panellists (and audience members) to offer their own judgements on the Belém conference's successes and failures. Since Paris in 2015, successive COPs have attempted to codify and promote global scale mechanisms for climate finance including carbon trading, blended finance, damage funds, debt for climate swaps and sovereign climate insurance.  Challenges to radically upscaling climate finance include the persistent funding gap, inequitable distribution, over-reliance on debt, difficulty mobilizing private capital, institutional inefficiencies, underinvestment in nature-based solutions, and weak transparency and tracking systems. There remain serious problems of international and intergenerational justice, ethics and equity. And the USA is not even there. The big question will be: is the world any further forward after the COP30 meeting? Panellists for this session: Jay Connor (undergraduate student in International Development with Economics at the University of Bath, representing “Gen Z”). Dr Alix Dietzel (University of Bristol, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies and Cabot Institute for the Environment) Peter Harper (independent researcher, formerly at the Centre for Alternative Technology at Machynlleth, Wales, one of the original authors of Zero Carbon Britain, also visiting lecturer at University of Bath) Dr Yixian Sun (University of Bath, Department of Social Policy; Adjunct Senior Research Fellow of the Institute for Environment and Sustainability Sciences, National University of Singapore) Please submit your questions for the panel in advance to profstuartreynolds@cantab.net