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From Balconies to Alleys: How to Make Our Towns and Cities Greener?

Event start: 30 April 2025

We’re excited to be supporting this event in partnership with The Oxford University Museum of Natural History Join Jason Williams, aka The Cloud Gardener, for an inspiring evening at Oxford’s Natural History Museum as he shares insights from his recent Churchill Fellowship research. Traveling across Europe and Asia, Jason explored how urban greenspaces—from small balconies […]

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Are carbon markets a good model for investing in nature recovery?

19 March 2025

Finance Theme Lead Alex Teytelboym, recently took part in a webinar analyzing approaches to scaling investment in nature recovery. At a time of urgent need for private finance to pick up the heavy lifting in nature recovery, Alex discussed why existing market designs such as carbon and Biodiversity Net Gain are not sufficient to scale […]

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How do perceptions of risk shape nature finance?

12 March 2025

Caitlin Hafferty, Postdoctoral Researcher in the Centre, has recently been awarded an Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) Fellowship to conduct a project on understanding the impact of risk and uncertainty on high-integrity nature markets in the UK. The UK is committed to meeting net zero and nature recovery targets through the Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP), […]

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Ensuring gold standards are followed for green spaces to help create healthier, more sustainable, and climate-resilient communities

20 February 2025

A new paper published in Frontiers in Environmental Science describes a comprehensive menu of standards for green infrastructure in England to help deliver green space that is accessible, connected, multifunctional, and reflects local character. Here Alison Smith, a Senior Researcher with the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery, who helped compile the standards, explains how following […]

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As climate change threatens cocoa production, why new efforts are needed to support pollination

18 February 2025

This Valentine’s Day, millions of pounds worth of chocolate were exchanged as gifts, but researchers have found climate change and biodiversity loss threaten future global supplies of this treat. A new study led by the University of Oxford has found that cocoa production—the key ingredient in chocolate—is at risk due to climate change and low […]

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Rewilding the City… A new discourse on urban rewilding.

11 February 2025

Rewilding has become established as a new mode of nature conservation. There is a growing body of science, ambitious landscape-scale plans, and increasing political will. But until recently, cities and the urban were neglected; the idea of urban rewilding seen as oxymoronic. Of late, however, there has been a shift, with growing enthusiasm amongst metropolitan […]

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Beyond ‘technical fixes’: Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery conference provokes debate at the interface between theory and application

5 February 2025

Noemi Duroux, Lotti Jones, Caitlin Hafferty, and Jonathon Turnbull reflect on the 2024 Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery conference, which created a vibrant, interdisciplinary space for knowledge sharing, posing difficult questions, and forming constructive alliances across science, policy, and practice in the UK and internationally. The following sections explore four interlinked themes around equity and […]

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Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery conference explores the potential, pitfalls, and diverse futures of technological innovation

5 February 2025

Noemi Duroux, Lotti Jones, Caitlin Hafferty, and Jonathon Turnbull reflect on the 2024 Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery conference, which created a vibrant, interdisciplinary space for knowledge sharing and debate across science, policy, and practice. The Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery conference, held at the Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub at Jesus College, Oxford, explored the […]

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