Green Templeton Lectures on Planetary Health
The annual flagship college lecture series in 2024 aims to break new ground in the topical and emerging paradigm area of Planetary Health. The series will consider intersections with the stability of financial systems, economics beyond growth, and the legal process. The lectures will be convened by Research Fellow Dr SanYuMay Tun together with Governing Body Fellow Dr Marc Thompson and Research Fellow Dr Laurence Wainwright.
Planetary Health is a young discipline that is gaining ground. Global environmental changes caused by human activities are already causing deaths and ill health. To safeguard a liveable planet for humanity and the rest of nature, realms of governance beyond the pervasive, adverse health impacts of climate change must be addressed. For instance, Planetary Health is becoming part of horizon scanning for systemic risk in the financial sector, economic thinking has developed beyond growth, and legal challenges to the destruction of life-supporting ecosystems are aimed at holding governments to account.
The series will be delivered across three in-person lectures within college. Each lecture will be moderated by one of the convening fellows.
Full lecture programme
Lecture 1 – Planetary Health and global financial stability
Jo Paisley, GARP Risk Institute President
Professor Richard Barker, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Moderator: Dr Marc Thompson
Thursday 8 February at 17:00 in the EP Abraham Lecture Theatre
Lecture 2 – Planetary Health beyond growth
Catherine Howarth, ShareAction Chief Executive
Kate Raworth, Senior Associate, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford
Moderator: Dr SanYuMay Tun
Thursday 15 February at 17:00 in the EP Abraham Lecture Theatre
Lecture 3 – Planetary Health and legal ramifications
Jojo Mehta, Stop Ecocide co-founder and Executive Director
Thom Wetzer, Associate Professor of Law and Finance, University of Oxford
Moderator: Dr Laurence Wainwright
Thursday 22 February at 17:00 in the EP Abraham Lecture Theatre
For more information about the series contact naomi.benson@gtc.ox.ac.uk.
