Staff and research students across Oxford University are invited to a showcase of Oxford University's environmental and energy research.
The afternoon event, to be held in the Oxford Museum of Natural History, will feature: keynote lectures from Professor Sir Bob Watson, Chair of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES); a panel discussion; and news from the ONE network.
We encourage anyone who works in the fields of Biodiversity, Climate, Energy, Food and Water, across Oxford University to attend.
Programme
15:00 | Welcome from the Vice Chancellor
Professor Louise Richardson
15:15 | Keynote Lecture
Scientific Urgency or Social Emergency? 30 years of lessons from international science of biodiversity and climate.
Sir Bob Watson, Chair of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
16:00 | Panel Discussion
Chair: Professor Sir Charles Godfray (Director, Oxford Martin School)
Panel:
- Professor E.J. Milner-Gulland (Tasso Leventis Professor of Biodiversity; Director, Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science; Fellow of Merton College)
- Professor Kathy Willis (Principle of St Edmund Hall)
- Professor Gideon Henderson (Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
- Dr Tom Clements Senior Director, Wildlife Conservation Society)
