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A future for nature: quantitative perspectives on land and biodiversity under global change

Tom Harwood

Friday, 23rd June 2023, 4:15pm - Wednesday, 28th June 2023, 5:30pm

Our understanding of nature is incomplete, and nowhere is this more evident than when faced with the challenge of maintaining a viable natural world under the dual pressures of land use and climate change. Differing values and ad hoc solutions risk an incoherent and piecemeal response, with nebulous consequences. We need clearly defined measures of […]

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Climate change and nature recovery from global thinking to local action

Mike Morecroft

Friday, 26th May 2023, 4:15pm - Wednesday, 14th June 2023, 6:30pm

The links between the climate and nature crises are clear. Climate shapes patterns of biodiversity at all scales from global to local; ecosystems are key to the global carbon cycle and often mediate the impacts of climate change on people. The latest IPCC reports show how the impacts of climate change on ecosystems and biodiversity […]

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The new Global Biodiversity Framework the good, the bad and the narratives

Sandra Diaz

Friday, 17th March 2023, 5:30pm - Wednesday, 14th June 2023, 6:30pm

In December 2022, the parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity enshrined the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). This policy instrument will structure all the global intergovernmental action on biodiversity during the next ten years. It is thus bound to have massive influence on what will be done (or not) in this field. I will […]

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Is livestock grazing essential to mitigating climate change?

George Monbiot and Allan Savory, chaired by EJ. Milner-Gulland

Tuesday, 11th July 2023, 5:00pm - 6:30pm

George Monbiot and Allan Savory will be taking part in a timely debate on 11th July supported by the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery. Hosted by the Museum of Natural History in Oxford.

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Quantifying and predicting resilience from individuals, to populations, to whole communities

Dr Rob Salguero-Gómez

Friday, 9th June 2023, 4:15pm - 5:15pm

Understanding and predicting the responses to natural systems to disturbances has been a fundamental goal of Ecology since its birth as a science.

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The Art of Plant Conservation

Chris Thorogood

Friday, 5th May 2023, 4:15pm - 5:15pm

Chris Thorogood is a botanist and artist who has travelled the world in pursuit of plants. In this talk, Chris will take us on some of his hair-raising, global adventures over clifftops, up erupting volcanoes, through typhoons, and out into the very heart of the world’s vast, green wilderness, all for the love of plants.