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The Agile Initiative is pleased to announce the launch of three new Sprints. These projects demonstrate the breadth of our research portfolio and the potential for impact on policy across the environmental sciences.

We are proud to announce that Professor Nathalie Seddon has been awarded the Marsh Award for Ecology in the 2024 British Ecological Society awards.

Research shows what peatland restoration is happening across the Wildlife Trusts, and what contribution this could already have made to climate change mitigation.

Oxford University and Imperial College held workshops to facilitate conversations amongst researchers regarding the proposed updates to SBTi's Net Zero Standard.

In this post we hear reflections from three people who attended the recent Nature-based Solutions conference "Growing Positive Change".

The Agile Initiative is offering non-staff funding of up to £10,000 to researchers at Oxford University who are working on topics relevant to Agile’s mission.

Agile’s next round of Sprint Funding will be open for expressions of interest from late September to late November 2024.

By combining measurements of radiocarbon produced by nuclear bomb tests with model simulations, new research reveals that existing models might be underestimating how much carbon plants store.

Andrew Wilson is a Research Software Engineer on the Sprint investigating, "Can we solve the “spin-up” problem in Earth System Modelling?"