Climate related talks of interest
Description: A list of climate related talks which include climate and any of the following: climate change; environment; biodiversity; greenhouse gas removal; carbon; net zero; energy; water; economics; history
Talks:

Monday 28 April 2025

The Oxford Ministry for the Future presents: 'Art, nature and science: Imagining other worlds'
Date: 28 April 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Brian Eno, Kim Stanley Robinson, Laline Paull, J. M. Ledgard
Venue: Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street OX1 3AZ
Venue Details: Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Host: Oxford Ministry for the Future

The Social and Environmental Consequences of the Twin Energy-Digital Transition
Date: 28 April 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Aurelien Saussay (London School of Economics)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 2 May 2025

UK systemic resilience to international climate and nature risks
Date: 2 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Economics of Nature-Based Solutions for Mitigating Climate Change
Date: 2 May 2025, 16:15 - 17:30
Speaker : Edward Barbier (Colorado State University)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Main lecture theatre (1st floor, lift available)
Organisers: Carlyn Samuel (University of Oxford), Jane Applegarth (University of Oxford, Oxford University Centre for the Environment)
Host: Professor Yadvinder Malhi (University of Oxford)

Who cares about deltas? Growth vs. culture vs. climate change
Date: 2 May 2025, 17:00 - 19:15
Speaker s: Professor Jim Hall (Director, Environmental Change Institute), Professor Veronica Strang (Environmental Anthropologist), Professor Katherine Ibbett (University of Oxford), Dilip da Cunha (Architect)
Venue: St Edmund Hall, Queen's Lane OX1 4AR
Venue Details: Doctorow Hall
Organiser: St Edmund Hall (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

AfOx Insaka
Date: 2 May 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker
Venue: Kellogg College, 62 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Venue Details: The Hub
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 5 May 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 5 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:15
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 6 May 2025

Shock Therapy for Clean Innovation: The Dynamics of Firms’ R&D Investments
Date: 6 May 2025, 13:15 - 14:30
Speaker : Esther Boler (Imperial College Business School)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 7 May 2025

Ageing and Ageism: a cross-disciplinary perspective
Date: 7 May 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Financial Security, Climate Shocks and Social Cohesion
Date: 7 May 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Sandra Sequeira (London School of Economics)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G (third floor)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Dennis Egger (University of Oxford), Rocco Zizzamia (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Kyoto Prize at Oxford 2025: Paul F Hoffman - Dancing continents and frozen oceans: reading Earth’s diary in natural stone tablets
Date: 7 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Venue Details: In person and online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Natural Connection: What Indigenous Wisdom & Marginalised People Teach us about Environmental Action
Date: 7 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Joycelyn Longdon (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Organiser: Lila Stewart-Roberts (Department of Biology)
Host: Lila Stewart-Roberts (Department of Biology)

Climate Realism: time for a reset
Date: 7 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:45
Speaker s: Professor Dieter Helm, CBE (University of Oxford), Professor Cameron Hepburn, Professor Mette Morsing (Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 9 May 2025

Climate and the Macroeconomy: why monetary policy makers are increasingly focusing on the impact of climate risks
Date: 9 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : James Talbot (Bank of England)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 12 May 2025

The Moral Cost of Carbon
Date: 12 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Sébastien Houde (Université de Lausanne)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 13 May 2025

'Infection dynamics in a changing world: from climate drivers to immunity and vaccination’ presented by Jess Metcalf
Date: 13 May 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Professor Jessica Metcalf (Princeton University)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0+1, Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus
Organiser: Pandemic Sciences Institute
Hosts: Jana Lipcakova (University of Oxford), James Hay (Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow), Ksenia Ananyeva (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 14 May 2025

Maurice Lubbock Memorial Lecture - Engineering Climate Change Solutions
Date: 14 May 2025, 14:30 - 19:15
Speaker s: Warren East, Professor Sarah Sparrow (Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford), Professor Jesus Lizana (Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford)
Venue: Rhodes House, South Parks Road OX1 3RG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Prevention first vs. cap-and-trade policies in an agent-based integrated assessment model with GHG emissions
Date: 14 May 2025, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Lilit Popoyan (Queen Mary University London)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Prof. Doyne Farmer

Friday 16 May 2025

Transforming Nature-based Solutions
Date: 16 May 2025, 16:15 - 17:30
Speaker : Prof Nathalie Seddon (Director, Nature-based Solutions Initiative)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Main lecture theatre (1st floor, lift available)
Organisers: Carlyn Samuel (University of Oxford), Jane Applegarth (University of Oxford, Oxford University Centre for the Environment)
Host: Professor Yadvinder Malhi (University of Oxford)

Monday 19 May 2025

The Economic Costs of Lopsided Power Contracts: Evidence from Pakistan
Date: 19 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Sugandha Srivastav (Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Paths to ecological thinking: Reflections on situating social relations in energy and environmental context
Date: 19 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Matthew Eisler (Strathclyde)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 20 May 2025

ONE Annual Lecture and briefing event
Date: 20 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Danny Sriskandarajah (Chief Executive at New Economics Foundation)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L1
Organiser: Environmental Change Institute (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 21 May 2025

Macro-financial dynamics in energy transitions: a stock-flow consistent, input-output approach
Date: 21 May 2025, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Andrew Jackson (University of Surrey)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Prof. Doyne Farmer

Monday 26 May 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 26 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 27 May 2025

"Wicked" problems in public health: epidemics, climate change, and migration
Date: 27 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Caroline Buckee (Harvard University)
Venue: Biology South Parks Road, South Parks Road OX1 3RB
Venue Details: Biology building South Parks Road (former Plants Sciences Building), Large Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Host: Prof Sunetra Gupta (Department of Biology)

Friday 30 May 2025

Megafauna recovery and relevance amidst people and poverty in India
Date: 30 May 2025, 16:15 - 17:30
Speaker : Ninad Mungi (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Main lecture theatre (1st floor, lift available)
Organisers: Carlyn Samuel (University of Oxford), Jane Applegarth (University of Oxford, Oxford University Centre for the Environment)
Host: Professor Yadvinder Malhi (University of Oxford)

Monday 2 June 2025

Title TBC
Date: 2 June 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Sophie Zhou (University of Reading)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 June 2025

Understanding climate-related disruption of global financial governance: Vertical and horizontal models of change
Date: 4 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker : Jeff Colgan (St Antony's College, Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College - North Site,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Organiser: Julie Adams (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Othon Anastasakis (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Monday 9 June 2025

Weathering Poverty
Date: 9 June 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Clare Balboni (London School of Economics)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 13 June 2025

Terrestrial carbon cycle feedbacks in a warmer world – new insights from ancient climates
Date: 13 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Gordon Inglis (Southampton)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 June 2025

Narrative Entanglement: The Case of Climate Policy
Date: 16 June 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Luis Garicano (London School of Economics)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Narrative Entanglement: The Case of Climate Policy
Date: 16 June 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Luis Garicano (London School of Economics)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

This list contains talks from the following series:
ECM Brown Bag Seminar Series
Environment and Resource Economics Seminar
Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series
School of Geography and the Environment
The Reality of Net Zero