First Annual Graham Woodgate Lecture on Interdisciplinarity - 6 May 2025

Getting transformative change right for biodiversity and climate change policy

Policymakers now discuss “transformative change” in social and economic behaviour as a radical way to protect climate and biodiversity. Yet, transformative change raises significant challenges for integrating scientific analysis with social values. This talk will discuss the movement within environmental science from assessing change towards finding socially valued “solutions,” and what this means for environmental assessment processes, interdisciplinarity, and social participation. The presentation will draw in particular from the assessment on transformative change conducted by The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).

Find out more at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-sciences/events/2025/may/getting-transformative-change-right-biodiversity-and-climate-change-policy