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Attitudes to sustainability in China: past, present and future - China Now: Norton Rose Sustainability Conference 2008. Delivered at 3 More London Riverside, 19 February 2008.

Climate change: the hazards and opportunites for agriculture - address to the Oxford Farming Conference, 4 January 2008, at the Examination Schools, Oxford University. The 2008 Frank Parkinson Lecture.

World′s highest climate observatory to be named for Sir Crispin Tickell - lead article in Climate Alert winter 2008, published by the Climate Institute (HTML version). "On September 24, 2007 the Climate Institute announced that it is naming for Sir Crispin Tickell a new High Altitude Climate Observatory in Pico de Orizaba National Park. The Tickell Climate Center will be the first high altitide climate observatory in Mexico and the highest of its kind in the world. ... "

World′s highest climate observatory to be named for Sir Crispin Tickell - lead article in Climate Alert winter 2008, published by the Climate Institute (.pdf version). It reports: "On September 24, 2007 the Climate Institute announced that it is naming for Sir Crispin Tickell a new High Altitude Climate Observatory in Pico de Orizaba National Park. The Tickell Climate Center will be the first high altitide climate observatory in Mexico and the highest of its kind in the world ... ". Note: This links to the entire Climate Alert issue as .pdf file.

Earth System Science: Gaia and the human impact - this inaugural T. H. Huxley Lecture was delivered at Imperial College, London on 18 October 2007.

Vulnerable earth (2) - the Miguel Aleman Foundation Lecture by Crispin Tickell, delivered in Mexico DF, 24 September 2007.

Curriculum Vitae as of July 2007.

Energy challenges: the next thousand years - Dinner Keynote Speech at the Energy Challenges international conference, Seattle, 30 March 2007. "Looking forward a thousand years may be difficult, if not impossible, but at least none of us will be here to see whether any of our guesses are right or wrong. Two thousand years ago it might have been possible to guess something of the world a thousand years later; but a thousand years ago it would have been impossible to guess what the world looks like today ... "

Threats to cities: hazards of environmental change - a lecture at Arizona State University, 6 March 2007. "Those of us who live in industrial countries have to recognize that the last 250 years have been a bonanza of inventiveness, exploitation and consumption which may not continue ... "

The Chinese environment: prospects and hazards - Lecture at the Said Business School, Oxford University, 20 February 2007. Organised by the James Martin Insitutute. "Within China the environmental cost may be high, even unworkable. But the government seems well aware of the risks and hazards, and knows better than its critics that it has to do a lot more to look after the only China, indeed the only Earth, there is. They may turn out to be pioneers in doing so. As in technology, the rest of the world may soon be learning as much from the Chinese as the Chinese learn from the rest of the world."