Research

Researchers from across the University carry out world-leading pure and applied biodiversity science which inform policy and decision-making. Our researchers are at the forefront of developing frameworks and tools as well as developing cutting edge technologies which are key to ensuring decisions are made based on sound science.

Organisations making their catering more sustainable can make genuine positive contributions.

Organisations making their catering more sustainable can make genuine positive contributions, though it will take extremely ambitious action to come close to fully mitigating biodiversity loss. A study published ...

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The hopes of the Nature based Solutions Initiative team and the biodiversity community for COP15

This week, the much anticipated 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) kicks off in Montreal and will run to 19 December. This is an ...

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BUILDING BRIDGES: ENGAGING THE ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

Social and environmental challenges are deeply interwoven. Responding to overlapping concerns about climate change, biodiversity loss and inequality is not merely a scientific or technical enterprise, but also ...

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Universities restoring nature – Join the Alliance of Nature-Positive Universities

UNEP and the University of Oxford are launching a global network of Nature Positive Universities in order to prompt the prioritization of nature and its restoration within the ...

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The natural world is critical to climate – Professor Yadvinder Malhi

The living world is not a sideshow in the climate debate. Our climate benefits from a healthy and flourishing biosphere, just as ecosystems and the diversity of living ...

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Nature-based Solutions in Action in the UK – Nature Day documentaries launch at COP26

Research shows that further climate warming and biodiversity loss are now unavoidable but that we still have time to make a lasting difference: i.e. to keep warming below ...

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