Our outputs are categorised by theme, type and whether the output has been funded and supported by the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery or is an associated output produced by centre members/affiliates and is relevant to the goals of the centre but not funded by it.
Nature Seminar Series. Phantom credits why rainforests offsets are not working – Patrick Greenfield
In January 2023, a joint investigation by the Guardian, Die Zeit and Source Material found that the forest carbon offsets approved by the world’s leading certifier and used by major corporations for climate claims are largely worthless. Patrick Greenfield, one of the reporters on the investigation, will detail the story of their investigation and discuss […]
Nature Seminar Series. Rewilding, we can’t live without it – Charlie Burrell
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 […]
Nature Seminar Series. Overcoming our societal addiction to growth to build a sustainable wellbeing future- Robert Costanza
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 […]
Nature Seminar Series. Nature Positive – fact or fiction? Joe Bull, University of Oxford
Biodiversity loss is one of the great global challenges of our time. If we are ever to address and ultimately reverse biodiversity loss, we must face the difficult truth that amongst its most substantial drivers are consumption and trade. As such, to arrest declines in biodiversity, we may all have to change the way we […]
Nature Seminar Series. The role of the carbon sink in recovering degraded & secondary forest across the tropics. Viola Heinrich
In this talk Dr. Viola Heinrich discusses how tropical forests play a key role in climate change mitigation. Recovering, degraded and secondary forests are becoming more dominant in tropical landscapes and yet large uncertainties exist regarding their carbon sink and storage. Starting in the Brazilian Amazon, this talk explores how a variety of satellite datasets […]
Nature Seminar Series. The new Global Biodiversity Framework the good, the bad and the narratives. Sandra Diaz
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 […]
