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Cities in Nature: Transforming Singapore into a City in Nature

Lena Chan

Monday, 28th November 2022, 4:15pm - 5:15pm

The talk a) showcases some cities that have incorporated biodiversity conservation successfully, b) shares how the National Parks Board of Singapore (NParks) implements its City in Nature vision and c) illustrates how NParks identifies problems, crafts specific problem statements, works with the scientific community to design research projects that seek nature-based solutions, interprets the data, […]

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The Wildlife Trust’s action for nature and climate: priorities and challenges

Kathryn Brown

Friday, 3rd February 2023, 4:15pm - 5:15pm

Kathryn Brown spoke about the 2030 Strategy for the Wildlife Trusts, which focusses on action for nature and climate to achieve three goals by 2030: nature in recovery, people taking meaningful action, and nature playing a role in addressing global challenges including climate change. She highlighted some of the most innovative nature-based solutions projects happening […]

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Monetary valuation of nature Pragmatic conservation of unhelpful commodification of nature

Kate Raworth, Robert Costanza, Erik Gomez-Baggethun

Friday, 17th February 2023, 1:00pm - 2:00pm

The valuation of nature and ecosystem services in monetary units plays a central role in many forms of environmental governance, including in carbon and biodiversity markets and offsetting schemes which are increasingly under scrutiny. The idea of using monetary units to value nature has precipitated significant debate, with proponents contending that it represents a pragmatic […]

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Results based payments and REDD+ safeguards

Daniela Rey Christen

Friday, 4th November 2022, 4:15pm - 5:15pm

Results based payments and REDD+ safeguards: Challenges for demonstrating and verifying the social and environmental integrity of Verified Emission Reductions at jurisdictional scale. Billions of dollars of results-based financing for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+) at jurisdictional and project scales are expected to be delivered over the next 5 years through voluntary carbon […]

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Overcoming our societal addiction to growth to build a sustainable wellbeing future

Robert Costanza

Friday, 17th February 2023, 4:15pm - 5:15pm

Our global society is hopelessly addicted to a particular vision of the world and a future that has become both unsustainable and undesirable. In this lecture Robert Costanza spoke about his new book, Addicted to Growth, which frames our current predicament as a societal addiction to a ‘growth at all costs’ economic paradigm. While economic […]

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Rewilding, we can’t live without it

Charlie Burrell

Friday, 24th February 2023, 4:15pm - 5:15pm

Charlie is the inspiration behind Knepp Wildland, a 3,500 acre estate in West Sussex and the largest rewilding project in lowland Britain. Switching to ‘process-led’ conservation, using free-roaming herds of grazing animals, Knepp is now a hotspot for numerous endangered species like turtle-doves, nightingales and purple emperor butterflies and has become a leading light in […]