Tag: the National Trust

Knepp Accord: A call to action to unite history and nature for a climate resilient future

Stuart Mitchell

On Friday 17 July, the National Trust, Oxford Archaeology and Knepp Castle Estate officially launch the ‘Knepp Accord’ – a bold new framework that urges experts in archaeology, historic landscape knowledge and nature conservation to unite to tackle the nature and climate crisis. The Knepp Accord has been agreed by 50 specialists from across archaeology, farming, heritage and nature recovery at a workshop at the Knepp Castle Estate in West Sussex. This was convened to create a shared framework for using deep-time evidence – from buried plant remains to historic…

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New £10m centre to tackle the health impacts of climate change

Stuart Mitchell

A new Centre focused on delivering research on climate change and its impacts on health that will address climate-environment-health inequalities across each life stage is being created by the University of Exeter. Together with the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), the National Trust, Forest Research, the Met Office and other partner organisations, the £10m Centre for Net Positive Health and Climate Solutions is funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The centre will focus on finding net positive solutions to the well-established negative impacts of the climate crisis and associated…

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