Paul Monks, Professor of Physical Chemistry, recently presented a keynote lecture at the Rio+20 Regional Science and Technology Workshop for Europe, held in Helsinki, Finland. A recording of the lecture has been uploaded to YouTube.

The Rio+20 Regional Science and Technology Workshop for Europe was held 12-14 October 2011. It was part of the regional workshop series that were organized prior to the intergovernmental Rio+20 preparatory meetings. Regional workshops gave each region's scientific and technological community the opportunity to prepare concerted inputs for the regional preparatory processes, and to discuss their views with policy makers and other key actors. In this way, region-specific scientific knowledge, issues and concerns can be integrated to the Rio+20 Conference to be held 4-6 June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.