Past Events

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Prescribing nature for human health

Kathy Willis

Friday, 18th November 2022, 4:15pm - 5:15pm

The past few decades have been a large global increase in the incidence of non- communicable diseases (NCDs), including cardiovascular, respiratory, and mental illnesses. These conditions now account for more than 50% of annual deaths worldwide (WHO 2021: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/noncommunicable-diseases ). Alongside the rise in these NCDs, there has also been a large emerging scientific evidence-base […]

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40 years of conservation in Sabah

Glyn Davies

Tuesday, 4th July 2023, 10:00am - 11:00am

In his talk, “40 years of conservation in Sabah”, Glyn will consider the changes that have taken place in this Bornean state of East Malaysia since the late 1970s. Early survey results will be compared with more recent research findings to illustrate the impacts of timber logging, palm oil production and hunting on orangutans, elephants, […]

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Connected Conservation: rethinking conservation for a telecoupled world

Rachel Carmenta

Friday, 16th June 2023, 4:15pm - 5:15pm

Connected Conservation is a dual-branched conservation model that calls for the conservation community to embrace novel actions to tackle distant wealth-related drivers of biodiversity decline, while enhancing site-level conservation to empower biodiversity stewards.

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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 […]