The science behind the G8 summit

The Royal Society of Chemistry is orchestrating the only event at which Parliament, Government and the UK scientific community will discuss the science behind the upcoming G8 Summit to be hosted by Britain at Gleneagles in July.

This high profile event will bring together many of the leading scientific and learned bodies in the UK and will allow MPs, many of them newly arrived in Parliament, to hear at first hand the ways in which scientists are able to help find solutions to the Government's top priority world problems being discussed in Scotland next month: Climate Change and Africa.

Parliamentary Links Day will be taking place at the Houses of Parliament at 10.30 on 21 June in the Attlee Suite, Portcullis House, Westminster. With the recent General Election producing well over a hundred new MPs and with the UK Government currently chairing the G8 Nations the theme of this year's Parliamentary Links Day will be Science and the New Parliament: the G8 Agenda. 

This year's Links Day is a valuable opportunity to show the contribution of the science and engineering community to solving the key public priorities of the British Government at the G8 Summit at Gleneagles in July: Africa and Climate Change.

Co-hosted on an entirely bi-partisan basis by Dr Brian Iddon MP and Dr Andrew Murrison MP, speakers will include the Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP (Secretary of State for International Development) Sir David King (the Government's Chief Scientific Adviser) and Lord Sainsbury (Minister for Science and Innovation) as well as prominent figures from Parliament and from the scientific and engineering community including speakers on behalf of the Institute of Physics, the Institute of Biology, the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Campaign for Science and Engineering. The Society's Chief Executive Dr David Giachardi and the President Dr Simon Campbell are also scheduled to speak.

Links Day will also see the exceptional Parliamentary Presentation of Teacher of the Year awards to teachers representing physics, biology and chemistry.