OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
If staff have any questions about the Oxford Events launch, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
Climate COPs, the annual summits of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, have in recent years entered public discourse and any environmentalists’ vocabulary. Yet many are left perplexed about the outcomes (or lack thereof) resulting from each COP, let alone what actually happens during summits.
To demystify what happens before, during and after a COP, who calls the shots, and understand the realistic progress we can expect from the UNFCCC process, we will be taking a behind-the-scenes look with Dr Omnia El Omrani, who was part of the COP27 Presidency, and whose term also covers COP28, as the first ever Youth Envoy. This will be a frank, open discussion under Chatham House rule.
The event will include a 30-minute lecture, 30-minute facilitated Q&A, and 30-minute audience Q&A. This event will be facilitated by Professor in Global Public Policy at Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government, Thomas Hale, who co-leads the Net Zero Tracker, and MSc in Sustainability, Enterprise and the Environment student Luke Spajic, who spoke at COP26 and COP27.
Please arrive on time as we will begin at 5:30pm.
