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Potential for Collaboration with Green Health Initiatives in Oxfordshire

Scoping the opportunities for engagement and collaboration with NGOs working in the green health space.

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The role of volatile organic compounds in physical and mental wellbeing outcomes

Determining the mechanism through which volatile organic compounds released by plants can influence our physical and mental wellbeing.

How do we scale up nature-based solutions in the UK?

Working with its partners and stakeholders, this project is assessing the potential for nature-based solutions to contribute to national climate, biodiversity and economic targets, understand the social and practical obstacles to NbS, and strengthen tools and guidance for decision makers. Outputs are aimed at supporting key policy processes including net zero strategy, nature recovery, economic recovery, levelling up and climate change adaptation.

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Mapping nature recovery at scale

Our AI team is developing state-of-the-art AI approaches to combine different sources of data, including drones, satellite, survey data and social media, that are robust to a range of environmental scenarios, data noise and model reliability.

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Financing local nature recovery in Oxfordshire 

Understanding the scale of the opportunity to fund nature recovery with offsite Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) payments. 

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Combinatorial auction for turtle dove habitat 

Using reverse auctions to maximise cost effectiveness of habitat creation project.