Thursday 30 January 2025

• 14:00 - Enabling Adaptation: Sustainable Fiscal Policies for Climate Resilient Development and Infrastructure
  Dr Nicola Ranger (Director of the Resilient Planet Finance Lab), Dr Mark Bernhofen (Environmental Change Institute), Mathias Weidinger (Smith School of Enterprise)

Friday 31 January 2025

• 16:15 - Nature, health and wellbeing: evidence and action.
  Ben Wheeler (University of Exeter)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Tuesday 4 February 2025

• 17:00 - The Oxford System Thinking Hub: Fireside Chat with Monika Zurek (Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford)
  Dr. Monika Zurek (Environmental Change Institute)
  The INET Systems Thinking Seminar Series

Wednesday 5 February 2025

• 12:00 - Zero Carbon Energy Systems – the Heavy Lifting for Net Zero
  Professor Nick Eyre (Environmental Change Institute)
  The Reality of Net Zero
• 16:00 - How to make sense of being a social science student?
  Anna Zizkova (Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford)
  ECM Brown Bag Seminar Series

Friday 7 February 2025

• 16:15 - The Amazon Forest Climate Solution
  Daniel Nepstad (Earth Innovation Institute)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Tuesday 11 February 2025

• 13:00 - The Oxford System Thinking Hub: Reading Group
  TBA
  The INET Systems Thinking Seminar Series

Wednesday 12 February 2025

• 12:00 - Net Zero from Scientific Concept to Policy and Practice
  Alexis McGivern (Net Zero Standards Manager, Oxford Net Zero), Kaya Axelsson (Head of Policy and Partnerships, Oxford Net Zero), Dr Matilda Becker (Strategic Partnerships Manager, Oxford Net Zero)
  The Reality of Net Zero
• 16:00 - Book Launch: Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market
  Registration required for this event. Please use the following teams form: https://forms.office.com/e/dWvYaufhV7
  Dr. Adam Hanieh
  Geographies of Solidarity and Palestine
• 16:00 - What's the cost of climate?
  James Hubbard (ERM)
  ECM Brown Bag Seminar Series

Thursday 13 February 2025

• 15:00 - Unequal mobilities: reflections on researching active travel
  Professor Rachel Aldred (University of Westminster)
  Transport Studies Seminar Series 2025

Friday 14 February 2025

• 15:00 - Decolonizing Land, Treaty Rights, and Environmental Justice in Native America
  Dr. Pat Gonzales-Rogers (Yale University)
• 16:15 - From livelihoods to lifeways: Reflections on conservation justice from West Africa's Upper Guinean forests and beyond
  Melissa Leach (CCI)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Wednesday 19 February 2025

• 12:00 - Removing CO2 from the Air: the Net in Net Zero
  Dr Steve Smith (Executive Director, Oxford Net Zero), James Mwangi (Climate Action Advocate and Investor)
  The Reality of Net Zero
• 16:00 - Gender and sustainable practice in disaster contexts: a feminist ethics of care lens
  Dr Yiwen Lin (Portsmouth Business School, University of Portsmouth, UK)
  ECM Brown Bag Seminar Series

Friday 21 February 2025

• 16:15 - Biodiversity science for 2030 - knowledge needs to support action to reach the targets of the Global Biodiversity Framework
  Andy Gonzalez (McGill)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Tuesday 25 February 2025

• 13:00 - The Oxford System Thinking Hub: Reading Group
  TBA
  The INET Systems Thinking Seminar Series

Friday 28 February 2025

• 16:15 - Leveraging human behavioural science for conservation
  Brock Bergseth (James Cook University)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Wednesday 5 March 2025

• 11:00 - Battery Energy Storage in Low Carbon Grids
  Prof Paul Shearing (ZERO Institute)
  The Reality of Net Zero
• 16:00 - TSU Annual Lecture - Women, travel and data bias
  Caroline Criado Perez
  Transport Studies Seminar Series 2025
• 16:00 - Balancing the production of low-emission energies with its impacts on biodiversity at RWE Offshore
  Dr Umberto Binetti (RWE - London office)
  ECM Brown Bag Seminar Series
• 16:30 - The Oxford System Thinking Hub: Fireside Chat with Peter Drobac (Said Business School)
  Dr Peter Drobac (Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Saïd Business School)
  The INET Systems Thinking Seminar Series

Friday 7 March 2025

• 16:15 - Joining the blue dots - how our understanding of connectivity across the seascape can inform nature restoration policy and practice
  Joanne Preston (University of Portsmouth)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Thursday 13 March 2025

• 14:00 - Bicycle Cultures and the Grammar of Traffic in Mumbai
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria (Brandeis University)
  Transport Studies Seminar Series 2025

Friday 14 March 2025

• 16:15 - Biodiversity Governance: past, present and future: Reflections on COP-16, and on 16 COPs.
  David Cooper
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Thursday 20 March 2025

• 09:00 - 7th Oxford Desert Conference
  Various Speakers