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Living with the planet

September-December 2025

Delve into some of today's most urgent challenges and explore the latest research around biodiversity loss, nature recovery, the future of food and environmental justice. Living with the Planet will examine the hurdles facing climate action and inspire fresh ideas on more connected, sustainable ways of living.

Food systems

10-Minute Talk

Who invented the potato? And why should we care?

blog

Reimagining urban food systems after COVID-19

Sustainability

Video

Meet the researchers | Energy access for Pacific Island communities

blog

Can a digital society ever be ecologically sustainable?

Climate change

report

Situating climate change: understanding the importance of climate, place and community

video

Let us be heard: young people and climate change

video

Meet the researchers | Climate justice in Japan

video

10-Minute Talks: Climate and war

Long reads

article

Climate, disaster and risk: introduction

report

Indigenous thinking about nature-based solutions and climate justice

article

The Russian War against Ukraine: a case study in climate, conflict, and green recovery

article

Loss and recovery of diversity in the Anthropocene

Policy programmes

Sustainable Futures

Explore the environmental sustainability challenges and implications of the social, political, and economic systems we live in.

Governance for Net Zero

Discover how good democratic governance can effectively direct, oversee and create accountability for net zero.

Where We Live Next

Find out more about sustainability through the lens of place and place-sensitive policy.

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