News

In February, one of our Sprint teams held a webinar to present the findings on future scenarios of global ammonia production and ship fuelling. The recording and presentation slides are now online.

Natalie Duffus shares the challenges and learnings from working as a researcher on the Agile Sprint investigating how we account for biodiversity.

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).

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.

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.

The Agile Initiative welcomes Expressions of Interest for new Sprint research projects from Oxford University researchers.

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.

Almost all infrastructural developments in England now have to deliver a mandatory minimum 10% Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) lasting at least 30 years.

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.