'From woods to goods: how consumer choices affect our forests' with Andrew Mitchell & Dr Connie McDermott

Past Event

Date
23 June 2017, 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Location
School of Geography and Environment
South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY

This lecture is organised by the Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Andrew Mitchell, CEO of the Global Canopy Programme and Dr Connie McDermott, Chair of the Ecosystem Governance group at the Environmental Change Institute will take you on a journey to some of the world’s most remote tropical forests, all the way… to the supermarket shelves. Through this fascinating adventure from wood to goods, you will learn about how we are changing the state of our forests, and what we can do as consumers to reverse their fate.

This event is part of the Oxford Green Week Festival (June 17-25) organised by the Oxford City Council. You can find details about the Festival here: http://oxfordgreenweek.org/