Charlotte Maddinson

Despite the intimate connections between climate change and biodiversity loss, these joint crises are largely addressed in their own domains. Functional separation of climate and biodiversity strategies risks incompletely identifying, understanding and managing the connections between climate and biodiversity; in worst-case scenarios, this could lead to actions which inadvertently prevent the solution of one, the other, or both issues. 

My research therefore explores the relationship between Net Zero and Net Positive approaches through the lens of Wadham College, a large organisation with extensive land and building holdings. Using established footprinting methodologies, I will identify and quantitatively characterise the trajectories by which Wadham could achieve integrated climate and biodiversity ‘Net Outcomes’