UK Systemic Resilience to International Climate and Nature Risks

Date, Time & Venue

Date: Friday, May 2, 2025
Time: 2 – 3:30pm GMT+1
Venue: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford) 34 Broad Street Oxford OX1 3BD

Key messages

This event will explore how the UK can strengthen systemic resilience to international, cascading climate and nature-related shocks. As climate finance evolves, global trade systems shift, and geopolitical and fiscal pressures mount, both the UK and the international community face heightened risks that threaten supply chains, macroeconomic stability, and environmental sustainability.

The event will launch the new report Towards UK Systemic Resilience to International Cascading Climate Risks, developed by the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford with support from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) under the Oxford Martin Systemic Resilience Initiative. The report presents new research using high-frequency trade data to assess how systemic shocks affect UK trade and competitiveness, while outlining key policy and financial levers to boost resilience domestically and internationally.

Agenda

14:00 – 14:05 – Welcome and Introduction to the Systemic Resilience Initiative (Sir Charles Godfray)
14:05 – 14:25 – Keynote: UK Systemic Resilience to International Climate and Nature Risks (Dr Nicola Ranger and Dr Jasper Verschuur)
14:25 – 15:10 – Panel Discussion and Audience Q&A (Prof Rachel Kyte, Prof Jim Hall, Dr Nicola Ranger)
15:10 – 15:15 – Concluding remarks (Prof Michael Obersteiner)

Speakers

Rachel Kyte, UK Special Representative for Climate, Professor of Practice in Climate Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government.

Jim Hall, Professor of Climate and Environmental Risks in the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford.

Nicola Ranger, Executive Director of the Oxford Martin Systemic Resilience Initiative, Senior Research Fellow at the Environmental Change Institute.

Jasper Verschuur, Assistant Professor in Engineering Systems and Climate Security at Delft University of Technology (Netherlands).

Sir Charles Godfray, Professor of Population Biology at the Universisty of Oxford, Director of the Oxford Martin School.

Michael Obersteiner, Professor of Global Change and Sustainability at the Univeristy of Oxford, Director of the Environmental Change Institute

Registration details

The event is free for all.