Please also see our listings on the Oxford Talks website for more information about our events. Information on past events hosted by the School may be available on request, please contact our Events Officer
The following events are recurring event series hosted by the ECI.
Five keynote lectures introducing 'the Anthropocene' launch our MSc in Environment Change and Management.
Weekly lectures throughout the year organised by the Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests.
Various events, lectures and conferences organised across Oxford University related to the environment
A series of talks on current energy research and implementation from internal and external speakers.
The ECI host and get involved in numerous events every week. Below are a selection of the major events and lectures we have hosted over the last few years, and specifically includes those with a recorded output/resource.
An event at London’s Royal Society, organised by the ECI and ICCS, will showcase fourteen UK Government projects which aim to help build resilience to future extreme climate events such as El Niño
This debate took place on January 22nd at CICERO Center for International Climate Research and involves Richard Miller and Myles Allen of the Oxford Martin Net Zero Carbon Investment Initiative discussing some of the points raised in their recent study in Nature Geoscience. Temperature choices, the role of CO2 & other gasses and the usefulness of carbon budgets are also topics of the discussion.
The ambition of the 2015 Paris Agreement of the 21st Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has caught the world by surprise. "Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C" represents a substantially more ambitious mitigation objective than many were expecting, and reveals a significant research gap on the nature, benefits and feasibility of a 1.5 degree world, as well as a huge policy challenge.
The 1.5 degrees conference brought together researchers, policy makers, businesses and members of civil society to understand the impacts of warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and assess the feasibility of meeting the challenges in the Paris Climate Agreement. The conference will review the arguments behind the 1.5 degrees goal and will seek to understand how the goal is to be interpreted. It explored the options for how a 1.5 degrees target could be achieved and evaluated the possible consequences of the goal from a wide range of perspectives.
Watch full playlist of conference talks online
Launching the 1.5 Degrees International Conference the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford was proud to present a special evening of keynote speeches and discussion from some of the key figures behind the historic Paris Climate Agreement on 20 September 2016. Keynote speeches were given by Laurence Tubiana, French Ambassador for climate negotiations, Nebojsa Nakicenovic, IIASA and IPCC scientist, and Janos Pasztor, Senior Advisor to the UN Secretary-General on Climate Change. The evening was opened by Vice-Chancellor, Professor Louise Richardson and moderated by the award winning Environment Correspondent at the Financial Times, Pilita Clark. It featured a poem by Hazim Azghari, ECI MSc student and an introduction from Professor Jim Hall, Director of the ECI.
Watch our 'Bitesize Big Idea' with Professor Pete Smith
A conversation between the author, Andrea Wulf, and Prof Yadvinder Malhi, Professor of Ecosystem Science, SoGE. Rothermere American Institute Special Event.
Organised by AgileOx. | Watch debate online
International conference by the REACH: Improving Water Security for the Poor programme and OECD.
Oxford's COP21 Side Event, Paris
4th Annual Trapnell Lecture | Dr Jessica Tierney, University of Arizona
A series of talks on current energy research and implementation from internal and external speakers
The ECI's annual lecture series to launch the MSc programme in Environmental Change and Management
Oxford University Estates
One-day symposium | 8 September 2015, Exeter College |
This annual symposium brings together global experts and will showcase multidisciplinary research being undertaken on droughts from across the world.
One-day workshop and celebratory dinner | 3 September 2015 |
One-day Conference | Various speakers | 2 July 2015 |
Oxford Martin School Series | Various speakers | Jan-May 2015 | Listen to talks
Professor Yadvinder Malhi | 12 February 2015 | Listen to talk
Professor Jim Hall | 2 February 2015
Organised by Dr Thomas Thornton | Various speakers | November 2014
Oxford Water Network | Various speakers | September 2014
Organised by Christine Baro-Hone | 6 September 2014
Organised by Oxford Energy Network | 17 June 2014
Organised by ITRC | 27-28 March, St Catharine's College, Cambridge. | Watch keynote talks
Organised by Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests | 28 February 2014 | Listen to talks
Organised by Dr Thomas Thornton | Various speakers | November 2013
Professor Joshua Farley | 5 March 2013 | Listen to talk
The Rt Hon John Gummer | 28 February 2013 | Listen to talk
Various Speakers | 3 June 2013 | Listen to talks
Organised by Dr Constance McDermott | 31 May 2013 | Listen to talks
Organised by Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests | 8 March 2013 | Listen to talks
Peter Carter, Chief Environmentalist at the European Investment Bank | November 2012 | Listen to talk
Professor Britaldo Soares-Filho | 27 October 2012 | Listen to talk
Professor David Grey | 26 October 2012 | Listen to talk
Professor Sir David King | 25 October 2012 | Listen to talk
Core organisers | 26-29 March 2012 | Resources available online
23-24 March 2012 | Listen to talk
Inaugural Lecture of Professor Myles Allen | 7 February 2012 | Watch talk
Various speakers in the ECI's public lecture series to mark the start of the MSc in Environmental Change and Management | October 2011 |
The 2011 Linacre Lectures were based upon Professor Sir John Beddington's "Perfect Storm" idea, first presented in early 2009 that the world is at significant risk of facing multiple interacting environmental and natural resource challenges by "2030" | Jan - March 2011 |
18-20 June 2018
A major international conference bringing together leading scientists, researchers, policy experts and practitioners from around the world to review and debate the current state of knowledge relating to intact forests, their values, the threats they face, and the most appropriate responses.
March 2014
Exploring the role that large animals play (or have played) in the structure and function of ecosystems from the high Arctic to the tropics.
April 2012
A platform for over 200 academics, policymakers and business leaders to respond to society’s pressing water security challenges by (i) taking stock of the evidence base informing policy choices and strategic business decisions; and (ii) establishing investment priorities for science-policy-enterprise partnerships.
January 2012
a multidisciplinary examination of the fate of African tropical forests in the 21st century.
September 2011
An interdisciplinary conference focusing on the relationship between society and energy use, particularly in the context of the major transition to a low carbon energy system.
September 2009
Implications of a global climate change of 4+ degrees for people, ecosystems and the earth-system