As environmental challenges escalate, and the responses required become ever more urgent, tensions are emerging between the globally adopted goals and local actions needed to achieve them.

How capable are global decision-making institutions for addressing these challenges? How do we equitably and effectively disaggregate global targets into local actions? How can we best upscale local knowledge and capabilities into global research and decision making?  Where is research conducted and by whom, and what are the consequences of this?

Join us as we explore these questions and more, across themes of climate change and biodiversity, with our panel of experts, and continue the discussions afterwards at our drinks reception. All welcome!

Date: 2nd May 2024

Event time: 5pm - 6.30pm

Drinks reception time: 6.30pm - 7pm

Venue: Jesus College Auditorium, Ship Street Centre, Oxford. The venue entrance is a tunnel just to the right of the restaurant called "No.1 Ship Street", on the opposite side of the street from New Ground Coffee cafe.

Expert Panel:

• Prof Michael Obersteiner, Director - Environmental Change Institute

• Dr Bronwyn Wake, Editor in Chief - Nature Climate Change

• Dr Stephanie Brittain, Research Fellow - Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science

• Dr Rhian Rees-Owen, International Climate Science Lead, IPCC and UNFCCC - UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

• Prof Amanda Power, Sullivan Clarendon Associate Professor in History, Faculty of History