Blake Lapthorn Green breakfast with guest speaker Ian Curtis of the ECI

i‐green? Inspiring? Innovative? Inexplicable? Indulgent? Insolvent?Interdisciplinary? International?ECI….Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute……………..is “i” for international?

…created as ECU in 1991

Became ECI in the late 1990’s International Rescue

Tag Cloud for ECI’s home page www.eci.ox.ac.uk

1st October 2011 …ECI’s 20th anniversary

“Oxford is on such a fast track to environmental excellence because…..”ECI’s birth (Oct 1991) …a “soccer‐style transfer”

75 scientists 60 graduate students £4m turnoverECI’s Size now?

ECI Mission (from first Annual Report 1991‐92)1. ECU is an interdisciplinary unit dedicated to collaborative research on the nature, causes and impacts of environmental change, and to the development of strategies to manage future changes. 2. Environmental change refers to alterations of valued resources that have significant social and economic implications. 3. The Unit actively collaborates with a variety of institutions in Oxford, the UK and throughout the world, and participates in major international programmes on the physical and human dimensions of global change. 4. The Unit is active in research, education, and policy.

Fun bits of “international”: High Society (1)

President of the Maldives HRH Duke of Edinburgh Kofi Annan HRH Prince Charles ‘Tropical briefings for Sir Richard Branson & guests Fun bits of “international”: HighSociety (2)

July 1993 ECU Research Report No.3NATO Workshop Climate Change & WorldFood Security ....still for sale on Amazon

1992: a global story about climate change impacts on food

ECI: long history of international climate change, agriculture, & food interactions

…which continues today

“I” is indeed for International1. 300+ multi‐partner research projects completed across Africa, South America, Asia, Australasia, Europe2. Worked with 350+ Research Partner organisations in more than 40 countries3. Supported by 100+ Funders across more than 15 countries

ECI’s current Research Focus 1. Climate Change: impacts, risk, adaptation, resilience2. Energy and Lower Carbon Futures: renewables, technology/policy interactions, demand management3. Ecosystems & Ecosystem services: carbon dynamics, natural resources and land use, food systems, tropical forests, conservation

Climate change… the world’s largest climate forecasting experiment, with over 350,000 participants in over 150 countries

And now “Weatherathome” …climate prediction at more regional scales

ECI is regularly in the climate media, taking on both sides

And also studying the media, and undertaking huge global opinion surveys

Ecosystems: Tropical Forests eg RAINFOR monitoring the biomass and carbon dynamics of Amazonian rainforests

RAINFOR is an example of one of the many very large international consortia ECI often (co‐)leads

Stability of Altered Forest Ecosystems (SAFE) ProjectHow does forest modification impact local ecosystems? One of the world’s largest ecological experiments to understand the myriad ways in which logging, deforestation and forest fragmentation modify the functioning of tropical rainforest, affect their ability to deliver ecosystem services and conservation value. New work in Malaysian Borneo: one of the world’s largest ecological experiments

UK Europe International British National Space Centre, Danish Energy Agency, Food & Agriculture Carbon Trust, Electrolux, Organisation of the United The Co-operative Bank, European Commission ALTENER Programme, Nations (FAO) Darwin Initiative International Council of European Environment Agency, Economic and Social Research European Tropical Forest Research Scientific Unions (ICSU) Council, Network EcoSecurities French Environment and Energy International Energy Agency Engineering and Physical Sciences Management Agency (ADEME) (IEA) Research Council, International Geographical Environment Agency, Union IBM United Kingdom Trust United States International Geosphere- Jackson Foundation Biosphere Programme Environment Now Foundation James Martin 21st Century School, (IGBP), FPL Energy, University of Oxford Andrew W Mellon Foundation International Human Leverhulme Trust, Microsoft Research, National Trust, Dimensions Programme Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Natural Environment Research (IHDP), Smithsonian Institution, Council, US Government Environment Protection North Atlantic Treaty Royal Commission on Environmental Agency Organization (NATO) Pollution, United Nations Environment Royal Society for the Protection of Programme (UNEP) Birds, Thames Water plc, World Bank, UK Government Department for World Climate Research Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Programme (WCRP), UK Government Department for World Conservation Union- International Development IUCN World Wide Fund for Nature – UKWide range of 100+ Funding Partners, including many substantial international investors

Su Zang, Sustainable Agricultural Development Programme, Beijing ECI 2005 The course The students • 600+ graduates• International postgraduate training in environmental science and policy • From 60+ countries• 12 months intensive study • Varied student backgrounds: agriculture,• Aims to produce confident and aware chemical engineers, lawyers, foresters, leaders and decision-makers international relations, energy policy,• Broad-based, cross-disciplinary •Careers in government, business, NGOs, research ECI’s MSc Environmental Change & Management ‘Oxford’s most sought after graduate science course’

“I was astonished that 80% of my fellow students were lawyers, engineers, ex‐ McKinsey consultants, accountants, and from international relations..an electrifying year.” Ayub Osman PricewaterhouseCoopers“Through the MSc I gained a deep understanding of “I owe immensely to complex scientific and socio‐ “I couldn’t find a better the ECI.s excellent political systems. After the program than this MSc in education and MSc I worked for Environmental Change and managementMcKinseys, before helping Management to prepare training . A turning found a technology services myself for future career point in my life.”company that attracted advancement.” Amin Aslam over $120 million in private Lan Luan, Former Minister of equity” (former) Chinese Ministry of State for the Patrick Cheung Water Resources Environment, Pakistan. “The perfect means to Masters of make a career change, “A fantastic grounding exposing me to the Science in in environmental latest thinking in “Environmental matters”. environmental Gareth Morgan MP management and policy.” Change & Democratic Alliance Craig Hanson Management” Environment World Resources Institute, Spokesman, South Green Power Market. Environmental Africa, Change Institute,

A few examples of International Businesses and Governmental Organisations employing ECI graduatesBusiness Government and International OrganisationsAccenture Australian Government, Leader of the OppositionBalfour Beatty plc European Commission AREVA Japanese Government, Ministry of EnvironmentBooz Allen Hamilton Pakistan Government, Ministry of Environment Ericsson Enterprise UK Govt Department for International DevelopmentErnst & Young UN Development Programme China Halcrow China Limited UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative HSBC plc UN Framework Convention on Climate ChangeIntel Corporation UN Institute for Training and Research KPMG US EmbassyLloyds of London World BankMcKinsey and Company World Food Programme, UNMott MacDonald India Limited World Resources Institute Procter & Gamble plc Reuters Ltd Rio Tinto plcTokyo Electric Power Company

And now: Oxford’s International Graduate Environment School in the School of Geography & Environment• 230+ international students, more than 50 countries• Doctoral research programme• Master of Science (MSc) Courses in: – Environmental Change and Management – Water Science, Policy, and Management – Biodiversity, Conservation, and Management – Nature, Society, and Environmental Policy

MACIS: What might be the impacts of climate change adaptation and mitigation policies on Europe’s biodiversity?In the built environment, human health, energy, flooding, tourism, agriculture, forestry “E” is for Europe (inc. UK)

UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) An acknowledged global pioneer in its work with stakeholders

One of UKCIP’s many legacies: regional network of adaptation and risk management consortia

Energy & Lower Carbon Futures: European energy labelling

Energy & Lower Carbon FuturesLeading the UK Energy Research Centre’s theme on demand reduction

ECI hosts a G8 conference on energy innovation The UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC)ECI hosts the international Meeting Place

THE MOST IMPORTANT SLIDE?Is Ecosystem Services the emerging REALLY BIG GAME? ECI wrote the England chapter

“C” is for creative ..even crazy…working with “unusual partners” on the ground

(and Brookes) “E” is for elsewhere in the University: environment research is growing very fast

Oxford Martin School: Energy & Environment

Energy Researchacross Oxford80+ lead researchersacross 15+departments www.futureenergy.ox.ac.uk

FEAR! GREED! ..so, what’s in it for us?

“CAMBRIDGE SAVES PLANET” FEAR!

• 1st science conference on what 4 degree warming will mean for the world• Topics: food & water security, vulnerable populations, human health, migration, wild fires, sea level rise, wildlife conservation, ecosystem services. • Regional case studies: Amazonia, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia, Finland, Mauritius, Siberia, Vietnam, and the monsoon region. FEAR! ECI hosts first “4 degrees science conference”

FEAR! The SUN reports on ECI

A Our ecological footprint is terrible too: we need nearly 14a times Oxfordshire’s area to meet our demands Oxfordshire’s land area Oxfordshire’s ecological footprint area 260,500 ha 3,539,358 gha FEAR …. 1 : 13.5 44

Opportunity: ECI Advisors to exotic places

But missing words in ECI’s tag cloud!! (business ..??)

…but in 2020?AAA GREEN JOB SECTOR

It is taking time for OU to bring its environmental expertise to the surface ..something business needs to see 1999: ECI publishes the first attempt to capture the University’s cross‐departmental environmental expertise

BUT NOW: New Oxford University NetworksOxford is on the point of establishing major new multi‐department environment networks:•ENERGY, led by Professor Sir Christopher Llewellyn‐Smith, Vice‐President of the Royal Society, (and President, Synchrotron Light for Experimental Science and its Applications in the Middle East)•WATER, led by Professor David Grey, former World Bank Special Advisor•CLIMATE, led by Professor Myles Allen, founder climateprediction.net, the world’s largest climate forecasting experiment for the 21st Century •BIODIVERSITY, led by Tasso Leventis Professor Kathy Willis•FOOD, led by Professor Charles Godfray, Chair of the UK Govt’s Foresight Project on Food Security

Energy and People: Futures, complexity and challengesInternational Conference Oxford20th/21st September 2011 (plus ECI has a key organising role in this huge international conference) COMING SOON! Increasing flow of major Oxford conferences

“With the joint working agreement between our organisations now coming into effect, we are “Whether on the level of internationaldetermined to deliver a true health sciences government and business or that ofpartnership that provides high‐quality healthcare for individual human beings we arepatients backed by the latest in world‐leading medical increasingly recognising that going itresearch.” alone will not work. Instead, in our search for solutions, the most significantIt is hoped Oxford University’s global reputation should attract extra millions in grants and funding for contributions will come from better, moreclinical research, while boosting the trust’s ability to innovative and more diverse partnershipsattract leading clinicians. between researchers, decision-makers, entrepreneurs, practitioners and ordinaryMeanwhile, it is claimed the merger would also people”provide more opportunities for joint training Vice‐Chancellor, Oxford Universityprogrammes and developing specialist services not 1999widely available in the UK. TOWN/GOWN: It’s happening in health. How about environment?

ITRC: UK Infrastructure Transition Research Consortium Breadth and scale in a new ECI national research/business/government consortium Project Leader: ECI Budget: £5m+ Object: The future of national infrastructure systems (energy, transport, water, waste and ICT) in response to risk and uncertainty Government Depts, agencies, and Universities BUSINESSlocal authorities Cardiff UniversityAssociation of North East Councils Newcastle University Engineering & multi‐ UtilitiesCABE – the Commission for University of Cambridge disciplinary consultants BP GlobalArchitecture and the Built University of Leeds AEA Technology BTEnvironment University of Oxford Arup E.ONCabinet Office University of Southampton Atkins National GridDepartment for Communities and University of Sussex Black & Veatch Network RailLocal Government (DCLG) Halcrow Northumbrian WaterDepartment of Energy & Climate JBA Consulting Scottish and Southern EnergyChange (DECC) Research organisations & Mott MacDonald United UtilitiesDepartment for Evnironment, Food data providers MWH Veoliaand Rural Affairs (Defra) Met Office Parsons Brinckerhoff Yorkshire WaterDepartment for Transport (DfT) Ordnance Survey Royal HaskoningEnvironment Agency Swanbarton InsurersHampshire County Council Engineering Institutions WillisHighways Agency Inst. of Civil EngineersInfrastructure UK Contractors Inst. of Engineering and TechnologyTransport Scotland Bam Nuttal Inst. of Mechanical Engineers CostainNGOsLocal Government AssocnTown and Country Planning Assocn

Oxford University – “Gown” “Town”Environmental Change Institute (ECI) BioDiversity International LtdInstitute of Social and Cultural C‐QuestorAnthropology Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Oxford Martin School (CEH)Plant Sciences EarthwatchSaid Business School EcoPlanet BambooSchool of Geography and the EcoSecuritiesEnvironmentPro‐Natura Environment and Development GroupWildCRU – Wildlife Conservation Global Canopy ProgramResearch Unit HelvetaZoology The Living Rainforest Oxford Biochar Proforest The Rainforest Club Se‐Perú Stockholm Environment Institute Sumatran Orangutan Society Track RecordOxford Centre for Tropical Forestsa model of international green enterprise on our doorstep

C is for …crazy… What might be the proposition with Oxon plc?

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