The PSA Environmental Politics group is hosting its annual workshop previewing the twin COPs on the biodiversity and climate crises

This workshop will analyse the key dynamics shaping the upcoming UN Biodiversity conference (COP15) and the UN climate change conference (COP26). The core workshop theme will centre around what transformative change for stemming climate and biodiversity breakdown ought to entail.

The workshop will feature the following:

– A keynote talk by Sir Robert Watson, former chair of the IPBES and lead author of the recent UN report Making Peace with Nature

– Two panel discussions on COP15 and COP26, and an interactive roundtable session looking beyond the twin COPs to consider other routes to transformative global political action on the environment.
 

Unfortunately, due to COVID-related venue issues, this event will now be taking place online. We will send final confirmation and details to registered attendees around one week before the event takes place.

Confirmed speakers include:

· Professor Richard Beardsworth – University of Leeds

· Anna Åberg – Chatham House

· Professor John Vogler – University of Keele

· Professor Rosaleen Duffy – BIOSEC, University of Sheffield

· Dr Haydn Washington – UNSW

· Professor Bram Buscher – Wageningen University

· Dr Lucy Ford – Oxford Brookes University

· Dr Claire Duncanson – University of Edinburgh

· Professor Alice Larkin – University of Manchester

Workshop Programme:

• 10:00 – 10:10am – PSA Environment committee welcome & tea/coffee

• 10:15 – 11:20am – Keynote talk by Sir Robert Watson, former chair of the IPBES and lead author of the recent UN report Making Peace with Nature, followed by Q&A

• 11:30 – 1:00pm – COP26 & the climate emergency (Chair: Dr. Emma Foster, University of Birmingham)
  • Dr. Joanna Flavell (University of Manchester)
  • Anna Åberg (Chatham House)
  • Professor Richard Beardsworth (University of Leeds)
  • Dr. John Vogler (University of Keele)

• 1:10 – 2:10pm – (Lunch break/social hour)

• 2:15 – 3:45pm – COP15: averting the sixth mass extinction (Chair: Dr. Heather Alberro, Nottingham Trent University)
  • Dr. Haydn Washington (University of New South Wales)* – Pre-recorded talk
  • Professor Rosaleen Duffy (BIOSEC, University of Sheffield) & Professor Dan Brockington (University of Sheffield)
  • Joshua Barritt (University of Manchester)
  • Dr. Scott Leatham (University of Edinburgh)

• 4:00 – 5:30pm – Transformative change roundtable (Chair: Dr. Ashley Dodsworth)
  • Professor Bram Buscher (Wageningen University)
  • Dr. Lucy Ford (Oxford Brookes University)
  • Dr. Claire Duncanson (University of Edinburgh)
  • Professor Alice Larkin (University of Manchester)
  • Dr. Georgios Kyroglou & Professor Matt Henn (Nottingham Trent University)

Register for the Twin COPs workshop here, registration closes on the 8th of September at 5PM.