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
The Institute for Environmental Futures and the Centre for European Law and Internationalisation will be co-presenting the 2024/25 seminar series on Climate Change, Energy Transition and Sustainability. Seminars can be attended online or in person, please email ief@leicester.ac.uk if you would like to attend.
The details for each seminar can be found below:
Title: International Investment and Arbitration, Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation and the Emergent African Continental Free Trade Agreement
Speakers: Dr Okechukwu Ejims, University of Bedfordshire
Date and time: Wednesday 23 October, 12.00pm
Title: The Impact of the Global Gas Crisis: Lessons for the UK and Implications for its Net-Zero Pathway
Speakers: Professor Mike Bradshaw, Professor of Global Energy, Warwick Business School and Professor Amelia Hadfield, Dean International, Head of Department of Politics, University of Surrey
Date and time: Wednesday 28 November, 12.00pm
Title: Advances in Climate Litigation and Environmental Justice
Speakers: Professor Christina Eckes, University of Amsterdam and Dr Kim Bouwer, University of Durham
Date and time: Wednesday 11 December, 12.00pm
Environmental Futures Café
Everyone is welcome to join our Environmental Futures Café. There is no set topic for this term, but instead we encourage institute members and anyone who is interested to join us and discuss any relevant topic on your mind, from ongoing projects to recent environmental publications.
The café will meet every Wednesday from 16 October till 11 December.
Time: 10.00am - 10.50am
Location: Ogden Lewis Seminar Room 2, Fielding Johnson South Wing (lower ground floor)