18 Mar Researcher Spotlight – Natalie Duffus Monday 18 Mar 2024 Natalie Duffus shares the challenges and learnings from working as a researcher on the Agile Sprint investigating how we account for biodiversity.
15 Mar Presenting at the Ocean Sciences Meeting: Anna Rufas Friday 15 Mar 2024 Anna Rufas, a postdoctoral oceanographer working on the Sprint research project What do we need to know to safely store CO2 beneath our shelf seas?, recently attended the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2024 (OSM2024).
01 Mar Advancing Diversity and Inclusion at Agile Friday 01 Mar 2024 The Agile Programme Team is pleased to share our new Diversity and Inclusion Plan. Developing and publishing this plan provided an opportunity for us to reflect on the connections between equality, diversity and inclusion and the environmental sciences. Here, we offer some of the challenges, thinking, and goals that have informed our D&I Plan.
29 Feb Nature-based Solutions: New knowledge hub for policy-makers and practitioners Thursday 29 Feb 2024 The new Nature-based Solutions Knowledge Hub will help practitioners and policymakers to plan, design, implement and monitor NbS with multiple long-term benefits, by taking an integrated approach that blends ecological, social and economic considerations.
15 Feb CLOSED New Call for Agile Sprints Thursday 15 Feb 2024 The Agile Initiative welcomes Expressions of Interest for new Sprint research projects from Oxford University researchers.
15 Feb The story behind our new call for Sprints Thursday 15 Feb 2024 This week, we launched a new call for policy-led Agile Sprints. This represents a key milestone in the Agile Initiative’s process of experimentation in developing novel ways of doing and enabling the impact of applied environmental policy relevant research. Here, we share some of the thinking and activity that has gone on behind-the-scenes.
12 Feb Ambitious new Biodiversity Net Gain policy goes live in England Monday 12 Feb 2024 Almost all infrastructural developments in England now have to deliver a mandatory minimum 10% Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) lasting at least 30 years.
02 Feb Recovering nutrients: a holistic approach to organic waste Friday 02 Feb 2024 NEW REPORT: Using Leicestershire as a case study, the team produced quantitative mapping of organic waste and nutrient flows (in particular nitrogen and phosphorus) and identified the economic and environmental benefits of improving nutrient management.
02 Feb Decarbonising shipping by 2050 requires rigorous change in green fuel supply-chains Friday 02 Feb 2024 A new paper outlines a comprehensive global picture of fuel supply and demand for the future green ammonia economy.