The climate emergency and global species extinction crisis call for urgent action to ensure the future habitability of our planet. The world must achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 to stay below the threshold for dangerous climate change of +1.5°C. The Institute for Environmental Futures carries out transformative and transdisciplinary research into human-environment systems together with our stakeholders and partners. We co-develop policy solutions and innovations towards an environmentally sustainable future.
Institute for Environmental Futures events
Environmental Futures Seminar Series
Our Environmental Futures seminar series is due to restart in the 2024/5 academic year.
You can view our previous seminars for the 2023/4 academic year on our YouTube channel.
Environmental Futures Café
Everyone is welcome to join our Environmental Futures Café. The topic for the café this semester is Quantifying Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services.
Our coffee discussions aim to generate work on measurement of ecosystem services:
- Start a dialogue with the UK Office of National Statistics, ONS (who are expanding their work, and say “we welcome all those with expertise in any area” to work with us)
- Critically evaluate published work on measuring natural capital
- Develop ways to measure natural capital robustly, emphasizing necessity for validation and use of open datasets
- Consider implications of measurements for UK policy with respect to ELMS Environmental Land Management Scheme and SFI Sustainable Farming Initiatives