GSI Seminar: Audrey Wagner - Nature-based Solutions for the climate change and biodiversity nexus

Nature-based solutions (NbS) involve working with nature to address societal challenges, providing benefits for both human well-being and biodiversity. In this talk, Audrey Wagner will present an overview of what nature-based solutions are, how they are defined, what their potential is for climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and biodiversity conservation, as well as what safeguards must be in place to ensure they are carried out effectively and equitably. In our complex world filled with interlinkages and interdependencies, how can NbS provide multiple benefits while minimising trade-offs? 

Audrey Wagner is the programme co-ordinator for the Nature-based Solutions Initiative, Department of Biology at the University of Oxford. Her interdisciplinary background blends nature-based solutions, plant ecology and biology with sustainable food systems expertise. She holds an MSc. in Environmental Change and Management from the University of Oxford, and a BSc. in Environment and Food Production, with a minor in International Agriculture from McGill University in Canada. 

Particularly interested in Latin America, she focused her Masters dissertation research on payments for ecosystems services and indigenous sovereignty in the Peruvian Amazon. She has completed research and internships in Panama, Cuba, Belize, and India, among others, with organizations such as the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD).

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