COP26 Talks: Cécile Girardin PhD, Science Lead, Oxford Biodiversity Network

Cécile Girardin, PhD combines years of experience in climate change policy analysis, a background in tropical ecology, and a thorough understanding of forest ecosystem functioning to provide a unique multidisciplinary approach to her work. Girardin is the science lead of the Oxford Biodiversity Network and an Oxford Martin School Fellow. She is also the technical director of Nature-Based Solutions Initiative and the director of Nature-based Insetting. Girardin is here in Glasgow painting a COP26 mural with her son that captures the main outcomes of the negotiations. (For a deeper dive on nature-based solutions read the op-ed that Girardin wrote for World War Zero last month.)

WW0 COP26 Talks: Dr. Cécile Girardin, Science Lead, Oxford Biodiversity Network, November 10, 2021.

COP26 Mural (in the Blue Zone), courtesy Cécile Girardin PhD.

Oxford Martin School: Value and limits of working with nature to address climate change, January 25, 2021.

Kyle Lemle is a Masters in Forestry candidate at Yale School of the Environment, focusing on the power of forests to mitigate climate change, solve the biodiversity crisis, and secure Indigenous land tenure. He is a Wyss Scholar for Conservation in the American West, and a Kerry Fellow. As a leader of RISE for Climate, Lemle has inspired thousands to take to the streets of San Francisco, and made international headlines through his historic actions at the UN Climate Talks as a US People's Delegate and SustainUS youth delegate. His work has been featured across numerous TV, radio, and print media outlets, including the New York Times, Huffington Post, and Democracy Now.