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ECI….Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute ……………..is i” for international? Inexplicable? Indulgent? Insolvent? International? Interdisciplinary? Inspiring? Innovative? igreen?

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Blake Lapthorn held its second green breakfast of the Autumn 2011 series with guest speaker Ian Curtis of the ECI on 19 October 2011.

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ECI….Oxford University’s  Environmental Change Institute

……………..is “i” for international?

Inexplicable?Indulgent? Insolvent?

International?Interdisciplinary?

Inspiring?Innovative?

i‐green?

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…created as ECU

in 1991

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Became ECI in  the late 1990’s

International Rescue

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Tag Cloud for ECI’s

home page  www.eci.ox.ac.uk

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1st

October 2011 …ECI’s

20th

anniversary

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“Oxford is on such a fast track to 

environmental excellence because…..”

ECI’s

birth (Oct 1991) …a “soccer‐style transfer”

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ECI’s Size now?

75 scientists60 graduate students£4m turnover

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ECI Mission  (from first Annual Report 1991‐92)

1.

ECU is an interdisciplinary unit dedicated to collaborative  research on the nature, causes and impacts of 

environmental change, and to the development of  strategies to manage future changes. 

2.

Environmental change refers to alterations of valued  resources that have significant social and economic 

implications. 3.

The Unit actively collaborates with a variety of institutions 

in Oxford, the UK and throughout the world, and  participates in major international programmes on the 

physical and human dimensions of global change. 4.

The Unit is active in research, education, and policy. 

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Fun bits of “international”: High Society (1)

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Fun bits of “international”: HighSociety

(2)

President of the Maldives HRH Duke of Edinburgh HRH Prince CharlesKofi Annan

‘Tropical  briefings for Sir Richard Branson & 

guests

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July 1993ECU Research Report No.3

NATO Workshop Climate Change & World Food Security ....still for sale on Amazon

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1992: a global story about climate change  impacts on food

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ECI: long history of international climate change,  agriculture, & food interactions

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…which continues today 

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“I”

is indeed for International

1.

300+ multi‐partner research projects  completed

across Africa, South America, 

Asia, Australasia, Europe

2.

Worked with 350+ Research Partner  organisations in more than 40 countries

3.

Supported by 100+ Funders across more  than 15 countries

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ECI’s current Research Focus 

1.

Climate Change: impacts, risk, adaptation, resilience

2.

Energy and Lower Carbon Futures: renewables,  technology/policy interactions, demand management

3.

Ecosystems & Ecosystem services: carbon dynamics,  natural resources and land use, food systems, tropical 

forests, conservation 

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Climate change…

the world’s largest climate  forecasting experiment, with over 350,000 

participants in over 150 countries

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And now  “Weatherathome”

…climate  prediction at more 

regional scales

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ECI is  regularly 

in the  climate 

media,  taking on 

both sides

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And also  studying the 

media, and  undertaking  huge global  opinion 

surveys

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Ecosystems: Tropical Forests  eg RAINFOR monitoring the biomass and carbon dynamics of  Amazonian rainforests  

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RAINFOR is an example of  one of the many very large  international consortia ECI  often (co‐)leads

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New work in Malaysian Borneo: one of the  world’s largest ecological experiments

Stability of Altered Forest Ecosystems  (SAFE) Project

How does forest modification impact  local ecosystems? 

One of the world’s largest ecological  experiments to understand the 

myriad ways in which logging,  deforestation and forest 

fragmentation modify the functioning  of tropical rainforest, affect their 

ability to deliver ecosystem services  and conservation value.

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Wide range of 100+ Funding Partners, including many  substantial international investors

UK Europe InternationalBritish National Space Centre, Carbon Trust, The Co-operative Bank, Darwin InitiativeEconomic and Social Research Council, EcoSecuritiesEngineering and Physical Sciences Research Council,Environment Agency, IBM United Kingdom TrustJackson FoundationJames Martin 21st Century School, University of OxfordLeverhulme Trust,National Trust, Natural Environment Research Council,Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Thames Water plc,UK Government Department for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsUK Government Department for International DevelopmentWorld Wide Fund for Nature – UK

Danish Energy Agency, Electrolux, European Commission ALTENER Programme,European Environment Agency, European Tropical Forest Research NetworkFrench Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME)

United StatesEnvironment Now FoundationFPL Energy, Andrew W Mellon FoundationMicrosoft Research, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Smithsonian Institution, US Government Environment Protection Agency

Food & Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU)International Energy Agency (IEA)International Geographical Union International Geosphere- Biosphere Programme (IGBP),International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP), North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)World Bank, World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), World Conservation Union- IUCN

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ECI’s

MSc Environmental Change & Management‘Oxford’s most sought after graduate science course’

• International postgraduate training in environmental science and policy

• 12 months intensive study

• Aims to produce confident and aware leaders and decision-makers

• Broad-based, cross-disciplinary

The students • 600+ graduates

• From 60+ countries

• Varied student backgrounds: agriculture, chemical engineers, lawyers, foresters, international relations, energy policy,

•Careers in government, business, NGOs, research

The course

Su Zang, Sustainable Agricultural

Development Programme,

BeijingECI 2005

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“I was astonished that 80% of my 

fellow students were lawyers, 

engineers, ex‐

McKinsey 

consultants, accountants, and 

from international relations..anelectrifying year.”Ayub Osman PricewaterhouseCoopers

“I owe immensely to 

the ECI.s excellent 

education and 

managementtraining . A turning 

point in my life.”Amin Aslam Former Minister of 

State for the 

Environment,Pakistan.

“The perfect means to 

make a career change, 

exposing me to thelatest thinking in 

environmentalmanagement and policy.”Craig HansonWorld Resources Institute, Green Power Market.

“Through the MSc I gained a 

deep understanding of 

complex scientific and socio‐

political systems. After the 

MSc I worked for 

McKinseys, before helping 

found a technology services 

company that attracted 

over $120 million in private 

equity”

Patrick Cheung

“A fantastic grounding 

in environmental 

matters”.Gareth Morgan MPDemocratic Alliance 

Environment 

Spokesman, South 

Africa, 

“I couldn’t find a better 

program than this MSc in 

Environmental Change and 

Management to prepare 

myself for future career 

advancement.”Lan Luan, (former) Chinese Ministry of 

Water Resources

Masters of  Science in 

“Environmental  Change & 

Management”Environmental 

Change Institute, 

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A few examples of International Businesses  and Governmental Organisations employing  ECI graduates

Business

Accenture Balfour Beatty plc AREVA Booz Allen HamiltonEricsson EnterpriseErnst & YoungHalcrow China LimitedHSBC plc Intel Corporation KPMGLloyds of LondonMcKinsey and Company Mott MacDonald India Limited Procter & Gamble plc Reuters Ltd Rio Tinto plcTokyo Electric Power Company

Government and International Organisations

Australian Government, Leader of the OppositionEuropean Commission Japanese Government, Ministry of EnvironmentPakistan Government, Ministry of Environment UK Govt Department for International DevelopmentUN Development Programme China UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative UN Framework Convention on Climate ChangeUN Institute for Training and Research US EmbassyWorld BankWorld Food Programme, UNWorld Resources Institute 

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And now:  Oxford’s International Graduate Environment School

in the School of Geography & Environment

• 230+ international students, more than 50 countries

• Doctoral research programme

• Master of Science (MSc) Courses in: 

– Environmental Change and Management

– Water Science, Policy, and Management

– Biodiversity, Conservation, and Management

– Nature, Society, and Environmental Policy

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“E”

is for Europe (inc. UK)

MACIS: What might 

be the impacts of 

climate change 

adaptation and 

mitigation policies on 

Europe’s 

biodiversity?

In the built 

environment, human 

health, energy, 

flooding, tourism, 

agriculture, forestry

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UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP)  An acknowledged global pioneer in its work with stakeholders

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One of UKCIP’s many legacies: regional  network of adaptation and risk management 

consortia 

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Energy & Lower Carbon Futures:  European energy labelling

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Energy & Lower Carbon Futures

Leading the UK Energy Research 

Centre’s theme on demand 

reduction

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The UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) ECI hosts the international  Meeting Place

ECI hosts a G8 conference on 

energy innovation  

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THE MOST IMPORTANT SLIDE? Is Ecosystem Services the emerging REALLY BIG  GAME? 

ECI wrote the England chapter

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“C”

is for creative ..even crazy…working with  “unusual partners”

on the ground

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“E”

is for elsewhere in the University:  environment research is growing very fast

(and Brookes)

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Oxford Martin School: Energy & Environment

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www.futureenergy.ox.ac.uk

Energy Research across Oxford

80+ lead researchers across 15+ departments

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..so, what’s in it for us?

FEAR! GREED!

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“CAMBRIDGE  SAVES PLANET”

FEAR!

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• 1st science conference on what 4 degree warming will mean for  the world

• Topics: food & water security, vulnerable populations, human  health, migration, wild fires, sea level rise, wildlife conservation, 

ecosystem services. 

• Regional case studies: Amazonia, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil,  Ethiopia, Finland, Mauritius, Siberia, Vietnam, and the monsoon 

region.

FEAR! ECI hosts first “4 degrees science conference”

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FEAR! The SUN reports on ECI

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44

Oxfordshire’s land area

260,500 ha

Oxfordshire’s ecological footprint area

3,539,358 gha

Our ecological footprint is terrible too: we need nearly 14 times Oxfordshire’s area to meet our demands

A

a

FEAR …. 1 : 13.5

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Opportunity: ECI Advisors to exotic places

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But missing words in ECI’s tag cloud!!  (business ..??)

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…but in 2020?

GREEN JOB SECTORA

A

A

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It is taking time for OU  to bring its 

environmental expertise  to the surface 

..something business  needs to see 

1999: ECI publishes the  first attempt to capture  the University’s cross‐

departmental  environmental expertise

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BUT NOW: New Oxford University  Networks

Oxford is on the point of establishing major new multi‐department 

environment networks:

•ENERGY, led by Professor Sir Christopher Llewellyn‐Smith, Vice‐

President of the Royal Society, (and President, Synchrotron Light 

for Experimental Science and its Applications in the Middle East)

•WATER, led by Professor David Grey, former World Bank Special 

Advisor

•CLIMATE, led by Professor Myles Allen, founder 

climateprediction.net, the world’s largest climate forecasting 

experiment for the 21st

Century 

•BIODIVERSITY, led by Tasso Leventis Professor Kathy Willis

•FOOD, led by Professor Charles Godfray, Chair of the UK Govt’s  Foresight Project on Food Security

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COMING SOON! Increasing flow of  major Oxford conferences

Energy and People: Futures, 

complexity and challengesInternational Conference Oxford20th/21st

September 2011 

(plus ECI has a key organising role in this 

huge international conference) 

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“With the joint working agreement between our 

organisations now coming into effect, we are 

determined to deliver a true health sciences 

partnership that provides high‐quality healthcare for 

patients backed by the latest in world‐leading medical 

research.”

It is hoped Oxford University’s global reputation 

should attract extra millions in grants and funding for 

clinical research, while boosting the trust’s ability to 

attract leading clinicians.

Meanwhile, it is claimed the merger would also 

provide more opportunities for joint training 

programmes and developing specialist services not 

widely available in the UK.

“Whether on the level of international government and business or that of individual human beings we are increasingly recognising that going it alone will not work. Instead, in our search for solutions, the most significant contributions will come from better, more innovative and more diverse partnerships between researchers, decision-makers, entrepreneurs, practitioners and ordinary people”

Vice‐Chancellor, Oxford University1999

TOWN/GOWN: It’s happening in health. How  about environment?  

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ITRC: UK Infrastructure Transition Research Consortium Breadth and scale in a new ECI national 

research/business/government consortium

UniversitiesCardiff UniversityNewcastle UniversityUniversity of CambridgeUniversity of LeedsUniversity of OxfordUniversity of SouthamptonUniversity of Sussex

ContractorsBam NuttalCostain

Engineering & multi‐

disciplinary consultantsAEA TechnologyArupAtkinsBlack & VeatchHalcrowJBA ConsultingMott MacDonaldMWHParsons BrinckerhoffRoyal HaskoningSwanbarton

Engineering InstitutionsInst. of Civil EngineersInst. of Engineering and TechnologyInst. of Mechanical Engineers

Government Depts, agencies, and 

local authoritiesAssociation of North East CouncilsCABE – the Commission for 

Architecture and the Built 

EnvironmentCabinet OfficeDepartment for Communities and 

Local Government� (DCLG)Department of Energy & Climate 

Change� (DECC)Department for Evnironment, Food 

and Rural Affairs (Defra)Department for Transport� (DfT)Environment AgencyHampshire County CouncilHighways AgencyInfrastructure UKTransport Scotland

InsurersWillis

NGOsLocal Government AssocnTown and Country Planning Assocn

Research organisations & 

data providersMet OfficeOrdnance Survey

UtilitiesBP GlobalBTE.ONNational GridNetwork RailNorthumbrian WaterScottish and Southern EnergyUnited UtilitiesVeoliaYorkshire Water

Project Leader: ECI Budget: £5m+ Object: The future of national infrastructure systems (energy, 

transport, water, waste and ICT) in response to risk and uncertainty 

BUSINESS

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Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests a model of international green enterprise on our doorstep

“Town”BioDiversity

International LtdC‐QuestorCentre for Ecology and Hydrology 

(CEH)EarthwatchEcoPlanet

BambooEcoSecuritiesEnvironment and Development GroupGlobal Canopy ProgramHelvetaThe Living RainforestOxford BiocharProforestThe Rainforest ClubSe‐PerúStockholm Environment InstituteSumatran Orangutan

SocietyTrack Record

Oxford University – “Gown”Environmental Change Institute (ECI)Institute of Social and Cultural 

AnthropologyOxford Martin SchoolPlant SciencesSaid Business SchoolSchool of Geography and the 

EnvironmentPro‐NaturaWildCRU

Wildlife Conservation 

Research UnitZoology

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What  might be  the proposition with  Oxon plc?

C is for …crazy…