This Roundtable Session brings together parliamentarians, stakeholders and academics to discuss policy and science issues on what it will mean, and what it will take, to achieve Net Zero. Three University of Oxford academics will lead the debate:

• “Nature-based Solutions – Promise, Evidence, Challenges”
  • Nathalie Seddon – Professor of Biodiversity and Director of the Nature-based Solutions Initiative, University of Oxford
• “Agriculture’s impact on climate: the science, not the headlines”
  • Michelle Cain – Science and Policy Research Associate on the climate impacts of agriculture, University of Oxford
• “Land use and Climate”
  • Michael Obersteiner – Director of the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford and Senior Research Scholar in Ecosystems Services and Management, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Presentation slides:

• Briefing Paper – The Role of the Land in Achieving Net Zero
• NbSforUKMPs – Seddon
• Land use and Climate – Obersteiner
• Agriculture on climate – Cain