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May
'From swimming in data to drowning: What happens when new data essentially falsify all extant theories within a field?' with Prof Robert Axtell
19th May 2022: 5:00pm
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Live Stream
Online & Oxford Martin School
Data have always been the lifeblood of the sciences, giving rise to new theories, invalidating old.
Panel Discussion: 'Illicit financial flows and offshore finance: its impact on African development'
11th May 2022: 5:00pm
Live Stream
Online - Crowdcast
Join us as our panel of three major African experts discuss the impact of illicit financial flows and offshore structures on the continent’s development prospects.
Series: African Governance: economic, social and political governance challenges
Panel Discussion 'Adaptation limits and prospects for people and ecosystems: findings from the IPCC (WGII) report’
10th May 2022: 5:30pm
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Online & Oxford Martin School
The IPCC WG1 has already established that human-induced global warming has reached over 1C and is continuing to rise, demonstrating that climate change is not only a threat in the future, but also right now.
Panel discussion: "On the trail of capital flight from Africa"
4th May 2022: 5:00pm
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Online - Crowdcast
Angola, Cote d'Ivoire, and South Africa are countries that have witnessed large-scale illicit financial outflows in recent decades.
Series: African Governance: economic, social and political governance challenges
Book talk: ‘Why do some countries gamble on development, and others don’t?’ with Stefan Dercon, David Pilling, Melinda Bohannon & Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
3rd May 2022: 5:00pm
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Online & Oxford Martin School
In the last thirty years, the developing world has undergone tremendous changes. Overall, poverty has fallen, people live longer and healthier lives, and economies have been transformed.
Series: African Governance: economic, social and political governance challenges
March
'The critical case for reforming land-based carbon accounting' with Tim Searchinger
29th March 2022: 4:00pm
Live Stream
Main Lecture Theatre, School of Geography and the Environment
The capacity of land to grow plants plays a key role in emerging carbon-neutrality climate strategies of both countries and companies.
"Getting to a fusion pilot plant: a perspective from the US" with Prof Sir Steve Cowley
23rd March 2022: 5:00pm
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Online & Oxford Martin School
Fusion could, if developed, play a major role as a major "firm" addressable power source in the future decarbonised energy supply.
February
Panel Discussion: "Fleshing out a future COP"
24th February 2022: 5:00pm
Live Stream
Online - Crowdcast
The food system generates around a third of human-made greenhouse gas emissions, with about half of these attributable to animal production; and yet food was markedly absent from official discussions at COP26.
Series: Post COP26: successes, lessons learnt & what do we need to do now?
“What would a sustainable economy look like?” with Prof Sir Dieter Helm
3rd February 2022: 5:00pm
Live Stream
Online - Crowdcast
What would have to happen for this generation to live within its environmental means and to bequeath to the next generation a set of assets at least as good as it inherited?
Series: Post COP26: successes, lessons learnt & what do we need to do now?
January
Panel Discussion: "Towards COP27: moving forwards after COP26"
27th January 2022: 5:00pm
Live Stream
Online - Crowdcast
At the end of 2021, the world looked with great expectation towards Glasgow for the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference, COP26.
Series: Post COP26: successes, lessons learnt & what do we need to do now?
December
Panel discussion: 'Capitalism: what has gone wrong, what needs to change and how can it be fixed?' - In-person attendance fully booked
3rd December 2021: 5:00pm
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Online & Oxford Martin School
Rising levels of inequality, social exclusion, environmental degradation and political divisiveness are a of source growing disillusionment with our capitalist system.
Series: Levelling-up regional disparities, inequality and social inclusion
November
Book talk: "Exponential: how accelerating technology is leaving us behind and what to do about it" with Azeem Azhar
29th November 2021: 5:45pm
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Online & Oxford Martin School
As technology accelerates, the human mind struggles to keep up - and our companies, workplaces, and democracies get left behind. This is the exponential gap.
"The political economy of Nigeria: challenges and opportunities for reform" with Prof Kingsley Moghalu
24th November 2021: 5:00pm
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Online & Oxford Martin School
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country and the continent’s largest economy, is populated by dynamic and talented citizens, but has faced steep challenges in development, leadership and governance.
