Institute for Environmental Futures
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
Title: Synergies between climate action and disaster risk reduction
Date and time: 11 December 2025, 2.00pm - 3.00pm, online
Speaker: Dr Animesh Kumar
Abstract: Impact of disasters and disaster risk continue to rise, exacerbated by climate change. This puts to question the resilience of communities and threatens development gains. Sharing the key outcomes of COP30, the talk will trace the current discourse on growing risk complexity, including a strong call for synergies between disaster risk reduction and climate action.
Email ief@leicester.ac.uk to attend.
Environmental Futures Café
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