Video from Second Annual Graham Woodgate Lecture on Interdisciplinarity now available!

Missed the second Annual Graham Woodgate Lecture on Interdisciplinarity from Dr Caroline Howe on ‘At the Nexus: tackling biodiversity loss and climate change through the lens of equity and justice’, or just want to watch it again?

Watch the video now on YouTube.

The IPBES Nexus Assessment (2024) on the interlinkages between biodiversity, water, food and health within the context of climate change, provided definitive evidence that biodiversity loss, climate change and sustainable development must be considered concurrently. However, to-date these crises are often tackled independently, with biodiversity loss often considered as the poorer cousin to climate change, receiving much less media coverage and direct funding, whilst human health and wellbeing are often considered completely independently to either of these challenges. 

This talk explored the boundaries between disciplinary silos. It will argue that to ensure the success of international agreements and programmes, such as the SDGs or the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, new and novel research and policy approaches to managing environmental change must account for intersectionality as well as indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) to ensure that they minimise and reduce inequalities rather than exacerbate them. 

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