[Seminar] From Climate Change to Global Change

In this talk, Julian Stargardt examines health challenges and global change and how in a carbon-based global economy the right to economic and social development implies the right to pollute – a key issue in climate and pollution reduction and mitigation policies, especially for emerging economies.

Julian discusses how pollution and environmental degradation as by-products of industrial agriculture and manufacturing may imply a globalization of liability for pollution and health impacts.

Date: Monday March 2nd, 2026

Time: 16H30-17H00

Venue: SRA1, HKJC Building for Interdisciplinary Research, 5 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR

About Julian Stargardt

In a multi-disciplinary career spanning over 40 years, Julian Stargardt has researched and published on global change for several decades.

He has worked in a number of disciplines including with the United Nations as a Country Head of Legal (VNSU). He served as a delegate at United Nations and Asian Development Bank climate conferences, as an academic, as a risk advisor, adjudicator, arbitrator, mediator and negotiator.

He worked with a leading polar research institute and as an archaeologist. 

A long time Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, in 1995 he helped found the Royal Geographical Society Hong Kong branch.

He is a published author on law, climate change, technology and economics.

He has an interdisciplinary approach to his work and research.

Taking raw pollution data from Antarctic ice cores to map global pollution trends over thousands of years, he has mapped the rise of industry and tracked anthropogenic inputs such as manufacturing, consumption and pollution patterns and their impact on the environment.

All are welcome!