Wednesday 22 January 2025

• 12:00 - Net Zero from a Planetary Perspective
  Prof Myles Allen (School of Geography and the Environment), Alexis McGivern (Net Zero Standards Manager, Oxford Net Zero)
  The Reality of Net Zero

Friday 24 January 2025

• 16:15 - The Universal History of Us: The Science of Why We Exist.
  Professor Tim Coulson (Department of Biology)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Wednesday 29 January 2025

• 12:00 - Getting Net Zero Right: The Role of International Law
  Professor Lavanya Rajamani (Faculty of Law), Ewan White (Faculty of Law)
  The Reality of Net Zero

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

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

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 - What's the cost of climate?
  James Hubbard (ERM)
  ECM Brown Bag Seminar Series

Friday 14 February 2025

• 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)
  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

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 - 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

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

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