Past events

Brief abstract The Convention on Biological Diversity is the world’s principal multilateral agreement to protect nature and the benefits it provides for people. It provided the forum for the development and adoption of ...

Venue: City room, School of Geography and the Environment, as well as online The Bernwood Otmoor Ray (BOR) landscape is a rich tapestry of diverse habitats, characterised by its unique woodlands, grasslands and ...

Abstract: Temperate coastal marine ecosystems have undergone severe global loss and degradation. International goals to restore planetary resilience through climate mitigation, reversing biodiversity loss and ameliorating pollution are set out by key international ...

Abstract Many of the most pressing issues in environmental and conservation sciences are caused by humans and our activities. Yet, our well-intentioned efforts to address these issues often fail to critically engage with ...

Brief abstract: There has never been more interest in allocating resources to reversing biodiversity loss. The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework is a theory of change with an explicit focus on addressing the causes ...

Abstract Forests and the people who live in and with them are under the global scientific, policy and popular spotlight as never before. Forest-human interactions, often framed as disturbance of natural forest, are ...

Abstract: The voluntary carbon market is an important near-term opportunity for funding nature-based climate solutions. It is shrinking just as states of the Amazon are preparing to sell large volumes of a new ...

Abstract In this talk I will present and discuss the array of interdisciplinary evidence on nature and health developed by myself and colleagues at the European Centre for Environment and Human Health. I ...

Have you ever wondered why you exist? What had to happen for you – and all life on Earth – to come into being? In this talk I start at the beginning ...