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NbS Foundation Course kicks off: Meet the Scholars
We are delighted to welcome the newest cohort to the NbS Foundation Course and congratulate the scholars who have been selected for several highly competitive full and partial scholarships! Over the following weeks participants will explore the interdisciplinary landscape of NbS, from their role in climate mitigation and adaptation, to economics and sustainable development, and how they can be embedded in policy, finance and business. -
How to Save the Amazon
In honour of journalist Dom Philips and indigenista Bruno Pereira, a gathering of Indigenous leaders, human rights and environmental defenders, researchers and practitioners came together on Earth Day to celebrate their lives and build hope for 'How to Save the Amazon.' The new book uncovers drivers of deforestation and searches for solutions; it explores how we can fight ecological destruction and stand in solidarity with the frontline defenders of the Amazon. -
MSPO–Oxford INnovation for Sustainable Palm oIl Regenerative Economy (INSPIRE) Lab
Malaysian Sustainable Palm Oil (MSPO) and the University of Oxford Smith School of Enterprise and Environment have joined together to start an exciting new interdisciplinary research initiative focused on advancing sustainability and regenerative economy approaches within the palm oil sector. -
Join the Nature-based Solutions Symposium: Who benefits, who decides, who pays?
Despite their potential, the adoption of Nature-based Solutions has been piecemeal and nowhere near the scale needed to address the societal challenges we face. Join researchers, practitioners and policymakers at the Nature-based Solutions Symposium June 2026 to explore four crucial questions for enabling NbS to tackle pressing societal and environmental challenges: Who benefits? Who decides? Who pays? What’s missing? Earlybird registration open until 27th May 2026. -
A roadmap for UK pulses: nature, net zero and nutrition
Beans and pulses have the potential to support soil health, lower-carbon diets, and human nutrition - but despite these benefits, consumption and production in the UK remains low. A new Science-Policy project built a roadmap towards realising the benefits of pulses - for nature, net zero and nutrition - in practice in the UK. -
From Risk to Resilience: How Scaling Nature-Based Solutions Across Production Landscapes Can Future-Proof Business
The opportunity is clear: businesses that invest early in high integrity NbS will secure supply, reduce risk, build co-benefits for carbon and economic value, and capture growing market and investor demand for credible nature-positive action. -
Science vs politics: Why the Soy Moratorium is critical for protecting the Amazon
The Soy Moratorium is a landmark agreement between soybean traders, governments and civil society to avoid the purchase of soy produced on land deforested in the Amazon. In early 2026 the Brazilian Association of Vegetable Oil Industries (ABIOVE) announced its withdrawal from the Moratorium. NbSI Research Fellow Aline Soterroni explains why this decision goes against the science. -
At the interface of science and policy: IPBES12 Plenary on Business and Biodiversity
Following a week of negotiations in Manchester, more than 150 governments have approved the Summary for Policymakers of the new Assessment: Impact and Dependence of Business on Biodiversity and Nature’s Contributions to People. The BizBiodiversity Assessment makes it unequivocally clear that all businesses depend on and impact biodiversity and can be agents of positive change. -
Apply for our next NbS Foundation Course – Earlybird discount available
Limited earlybird discount places available for our next NbS to Global Challenges Foundation Course (April 2026). Apply now to gain a solid foundation in the science, policy, practice, finance, and governance of nature-based solutions -
Building Agricultural Resilience Together: AGRIIH at Oxford Real Farming Conference
AGRIIH had a busy start to the year, working to bridge research and practice for agricultural resilience, with a successful Research Showcase, a panel at the Oxford Real Farming Conference and live-mural painting. -
Nature, Food, and Farming Research
Co-created by AGRIIH and Agile, this catalogue brings together a wide range of programmes, projects, and researchers across the University of Oxford whose work engages with key challenges in food, farming, and nature. It has been developed to support new conversations, connections, and collaborations between practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and organisations working across sustainable food, farming, land stewardship and rural futures. -
Addressing the challenges of managing and monitoring biodiversity in High Conservation Value areas and High Carbon Stock forests within oil palm landscapes
Protecting areas of natural habitat is an approach that is used to help conserve biodiversity in oil palm plantations. Their size and location affect the biodiversity of these sites and the management of sites is vital for ensuring their natural ecosystems remain in good condition and for maintaining forest canopy cover. -
Pathways to strengthen biodiversity protection in oil palm landscapes
A new study published today in Ecological Solutions and Evidence examines the challenges and solutions for protecting biodiversity within oil palm landscapes. Palm oil is a major global commodity, yet its production can come at significant environmental and social costs. Drawing on practitioner interviews, the study proposes recommendations to strengthen biodiversity protection and social safeguards in oil palm landscapes. -
The AGRIIH Showcase
The AGRIIH Showcase brings together interdisciplinary research and dialogue at University of Oxford around agricultural resilience, exploring how research, practice, and collaboration can address challenges across nature, food, and farming systems. The exhibition highlights key themes including working with nature, technology and innovation, governance and values, and co-creating resilient futures. Explore the exhibition panels to learn more about the questions, approaches, and research areas featured at the Showcase. -
Ecosystem collapse recognised as a critical national security issue by UK government
The UK Government has just released a report that, if taken seriously, should transform how we think about climate, nature and security. 'Global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security' is an official national security assessment that applies the same analytical tools used for high-impact security threats - structured uncertainty judgements, confidence levels, and “reasonable worst-case” planning - to the ecological crisis. Its conclusions align closely with the evidence presented at the recent National Emergency Briefing and with the World Economic Forum's latest Global Risks Report. -
Nature-based Solutions for Climate Adaptation in Small Island Developing States
A first-of-its-kind review provides valuable evidence that NbS can be effective climate adaptation strategies in SIDS, with broadly positive social, ecological, and economic outcomes. Just published by Zoe Brown in Frontiers in Environmental Science, the study shows the potential of NbS to provide triple-win outcomes and synergies across the ocean-climate-biodiversity nexus, and to address critical threats facing SIDS globally, including coastal risks, economic instability, and food insecurity. -
Scholars complete NbS to Global Challenges Foundation Course
Congratulations to the October 2025 cohort who have just completed our Nature-based Solutions to Global Challenges Foundation Course! -
Nature-based solutions in England’s new Environmental Improvement Plan
England’s revised Environmental Improvement Plan 2025 makes a clearer case for nature recovery as something that underpins, rather than competes with, economic security, climate resilience, public health and food production. But the plan still leaves open a central question: will the scale, pace and cross-government backing be strong enough to reverse ecological decline in time? -
Oxford AGRIIH Showcase: Building Agricultural Resilience Together
Join us for the Oxford AGRIIH Showcase - a free fringe event to the Oxford Real Farming Conference and Oxford Farming Conference which will bring together researchers, farmers, and agricultural stakeholders to explore how research and action can work together to build agricultural resilience. -
The role of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage in the UK’s sustainable future
Report of workshop hosted by the Royal Society and the Nature-based Solutions Initiative focusing on the sustainability of biomass supply. -
The role of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage in the UK’s sustainable future
New report explores the role of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) in the UK's sustainable future including the 6th and 7th Carbon Budgets, focussing on feedstock sustainability. The report summarises discussions from a workshop hosted by the Royal Society and the Nature-based Solutions Initiative with a diverse mix of experts. -
When Nature Fails, So Do We: Inside the UK’s National Emergency Briefing
On Thursday 27 November, over a thousand MPs, peers, senior civil servants, mayors, faith leaders, journalists, artists, activists, business and community leaders filled Central Hall Westminster for the UK’s first National Emergency Briefing on the Climate and Nature Crisis - delivered by ten of the UK's leading experts including NbSI Director Nathalie Seddon. -
Reflections from Belém at the end of Week 1: Climate, Nature and Justice in a Living Landscape
Week one of COP30 saw key developments on climate, nature and justice including the welcome announcement that Colombia's entire Amazonian biome will be off-limits from new oil and large-scale mining. Three threads shaped NbSI's first week: cooperation across the Rio Conventions, the evolving Global Goal on Adaptation; and the centrality of Indigenous rights and land relations. -
From Belém to the World: Climate, Nature, and the Global Ethical Stocktake at COP30
Ten years after the Paris Agreement, COP30 Belém - the first Climate COP in the Amazon - offers a pivotal opportunity to spotlight the critical role of tropical ecosystems and the Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) who care for them. Our team are on the ground in Belém, where Brazil’s ‘Mutirão’ spirit and Global Ethical Stocktake are laying the foundations for a global shift towards justice, reciprocity and regeneration. -
Tropical Forest Forever Facility launched at COP30 Belém
COP30 Belém saw the launch of the Tropical Forest Forever Facility - an ambitious new investment mechanism designed to channel long-term public and private funding to keep tropical forests standing. The TFFF could mark a paradigm shift for climate finance, strengthening agency for tropical forest nations and the Indigenous Peoples and local communities leading tropical forest protection.