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March
'Navigating world orders over five millennia: does the past offer clues to the future?' with Prof Amitav Acharya
7th March 2024: 5:00pm
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Building world order is not the monopoly of any civilisation, region or nation.
'The UK’s development strategy and the new economic and geopolitical challenges' with Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP, Minister for Development and Africa
6th March 2024: 5:00pm
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The UK launched an international development White Paper in November 2023, setting out seven areas for action across a broad range of development themes and policy areas.
February
Panel Discussion: 'The great carbon market debate: is it over for offsetting?'
27th February 2024: 5:15pm
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Critics and proponents of offsetting agree: achieving global net zero emissions is essential. But how we get there is up for debate.
Book talk: 'Not the end of the world: how we can be the first generation to build a sustainable planet' with Hannah Ritchie & Charles Godfray
26th February 2024: 12:30pm
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We are bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won't be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, that we should reconsider having children.
Panel Discussion: 'Saving the Oceans from the Sky' with David Freestone, Efthymios Papastavridis, Catherine Redgwell & Gwilym Rowlands - CANCELLED
22nd February 2024: 5:00pm
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Please note this event has been cancelled and we will advertise the new date as soon as possible.
'Why governments need scientists' with Sir Patrick Vallance
21st February 2024: 5:00pm
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'The inequality of wealth' with Rt Hon Liam Byrne, Prof Barbara Petrongolo & Prof Brian Nolan
19th February 2024: 5:00pm
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Wealth inequality has been rising for the last forty years and today the richest 10% of household hold 43% of the country’s wealth and the bottom 50% under a tenth.
'Agent-based modelling in public health: from playground to planet' with Professor Joshua M. Epstein
6th February 2024: 5:00pm
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Agent-Based Models (ABMS) are artificial societies of individual software people whose interactions generate large-scale social patterns—of violence, of inequality, and of disease.
'The science and policy of Wellbeing' with Prof Lord Layard & Prof De Neve
2nd February 2024: 12:30pm
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What produces a happy society and a happy life?
January
Panel discussion: 'Post-COP28 Debrief: Does the agreement go far enough?'
16th January 2024: 12:30pm
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COP28 closed with an agreement, that for the first time in three decades, includes oil and gas.
November
'Is conservation working?' with Prof Julia Jones
27th November 2023: 5:00pm
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We are living through a nature crisis.
Book talk: 'The Power of Platforms: Shaping Media and Society' with Prof Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
21st November 2023: 12:30pm
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More people today get news via Facebook and Google than from any news organisation in history, and smaller platforms like X serve news to more users than all but the biggest media companies.
'Health misinformation: the barriers to its recognition by information consumers and the limits to the concept of medical “truth”' with Dr Olessia Koltsova
16th November 2023: 5:00pm
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As mass communications facilitate the dissemination of messages, both true and false, wrong or inaccurate medical information is increasingly leading to large-scale social consequences.
'Medicine in the 4th Industrial Revolution' with Prof Andrew Morris
13th November 2023: 5:00pm
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With increasing connectivity, advanced analytics, automation, and advanced-manufacturing technology, how can health care embrace this digital revolution?
'Human security versus National security: have we lost our capacity for collective action?' with Achim Steiner
3rd November 2023: 5:00pm
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Conflicts, climate change, rising inequalities…. the list of crises is long and growing.
'How can we build the sustainable economy?' with Dieter Helm & Dimitri Zenghelis
2nd November 2023: 5:00pm
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What would the sustainable economy look like? What would it take to live within our environmental means?
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