In the second of a two-part special feature, Chief Scientific
Adviser for Europe Professor Anne Glover shares her thoughts on
gender equality, addressing climate change and her future hopes…
Professor Anne Glover Anne Glover is a vocal advocate of
improving gender equality in the science and engineering
community, and she is clear that everyone has a responsibility
for driving this change forward. "Improving the situation around
gender equality is everyone's responsibility," she urges. "We
need to make sure that not only do we have good employment law,
but that we have good recruitment and retention practices.
Climate change won't affect most of the life on the planet. We
will be negatively affected, but lots of other things like
microbes will just adapt because they can evolve very quickly.
It will be very hard to adapt to climate change with seven
billion people, and rising, on the planet. We need to prevent it
happening and that requires Europe to work together to identify
visions and options for the futur