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Sandy Trust is a senior risk manager in the financial industry, and council member and lead author on the UK Institute and Faculty of Actuaries’ research paper collaborations with Earth system scientists on climate change and sustainability topics. Tim Lenton is the founding director of the University of Exeter’s Global Systems Institute.