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The Right to Strike: A Menace to Hardworking People or Fundamental Human Rights?

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Oxford Human Rights Hub Seminars
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A webcast from the Oxford Human Rights Hub delivered by Professor Alan Bogg (Oxford University) at SCR Parlour, Pembroke College on 30 June 2015 at 2pm.

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Oxford Human Rights Hub Seminars
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Alan Boggs
Keywords
law
human rights
workers rights
strike
industrial action
collective bargaining
Department: Faculty of Law
Date Added: 21/08/2015
Duration: 01:02:36

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Climate change: what science and the IPCC report has to say

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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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Nick Eyre and Myles Allen give a talk for the Oxford Martin School on climate change and the IPCC report.
One of the key objectives of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), completed in 2014, was to provide a comprehensive description of the science of climate change and options for adaptation and mitigation for negotiators preparing for the Paris Conference in 2015.
IPCC authors Myles Allen and Nick Eyre will explain the IPCC process, and ask whether this model of a technical panel giving “policy relevant, not policy prescriptive” advice to governments is still working. They will highlight some key findings, such as the increased level of confidence that human influence is the dominant cause of the warming observed since the mid-20th-century, the importance of cumulative carbon dioxide emissions, the challenges of emission reductions, but also the multiple mitigation pathways still open for achieving the goal of limiting warming to 2oC.
They will also discuss some of the things the IPCC does not do, such as specifically attributing blame for observed climate change impacts, and ask what the options are for the IPCC going forward.
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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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Myles Allen
Nick Eyre
Keywords
climate change
Environment
global warming
IPCC
Department: Oxford Martin School
Date Added: 18/08/2015
Duration: 01:24:40

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Biodiversity and climate change: what happens when we turn up the heat on nature?

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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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Dr Nathalie Seddon, Director of the Biodiversity Institute, gives a talk for the Oxford Martin School.
The future of biodiversity conservation is under increasing threat from both climate change and human impact. Dr Nathalie Seddon, Director of the Biodiversity Institute, will look at how rapid growth of climate change affects our ecosystems, how species’ will be forced to adapt to survive, and how we can reduce the effects of climate change on our planet.
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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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Nathalie Seddon
Keywords
climate change
biodiversity
ecology
Environment
Department: Oxford Martin School
Date Added: 18/08/2015
Duration: 01:07:08

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The ‘perfect storm’ revisited: food, energy and water security in the context of climate change

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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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Sir John Beddington, Senior Adviser at the Oxford Martin School, gives a talk on climate change
Some five years ago Sir John Beddington, Senior Adviser at the Oxford Martin School, raised the concept of 'The Perfect Storm' in which the issues of food, water and energy security needed to be addressed at the same time as mitigating and adapting to climate change. In this seminar he highlights changes that have occurred since then and the progress made and challenges that are currently faced.
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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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John Beddingham
Keywords
climate change
food
Energy
ecology
Environment
water
water security
Department: Oxford Martin School
Date Added: 18/08/2015
Duration: 01:27:45

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Climate change and our oceans

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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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Professor Gideon Henderson, Professor of Earth Sciences, and Professor David Marshall, Professor of Physical Oceanography, will explore the role of oceans in climate change.
How are oceans affected by our rapidly changing climate? What can they tell us about the processes controlling climate change? And what role do they play in driving climate?
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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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Gideon Henderson
David Marshall
Keywords
climate change
ocean
water
ecology
Environment
Department: Oxford Martin School
Date Added: 18/08/2015
Duration: 01:22:01

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Hopes and fears: why people disagree about how to tackle climate

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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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In this seminar Dr Rob Bellamy, James Martin Fellow at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, will explore how and why people disagree about how to tackle climate change. What hope then is there for a global political agreement in Paris 2015?
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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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David Marshall
Keywords
climate change
ecology
Environment
Department: Oxford Martin School
Date Added: 18/08/2015
Duration: 01:09:38

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Climate change: dealing with uncertainty

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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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In this talk Professor Tim Palmer CBE, Co-Director of the Programme on Modelling and Predicting Climate, gives a talk for the Oxford Martin School.
Tim Palmer will address three related questions. Firstly, what are the physical reasons why predictions of climate change are necessarily uncertain? Secondly, how can we communicate this uncertainty in a simple but rigorous way to those policy makers for whom uncertainty quantification may seem an unnecessary complication. Finally, what is needed to reduce uncertainty about future climate change? For the latter, I will argue that the sort of inspiration and ambition that led to the Large Hadron Collider is now needed for the development of climate-change science.
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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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Tim Palmer
Keywords
climate change
ecology
uncertainty
Department: Oxford Martin School
Date Added: 18/08/2015
Duration: 01:18:01

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Rich and poor: a cause for social unrest? at the Oxford Literary Festival 2015

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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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John Kampfner and Katrine Marçal discuss the growing gap between rich and poor and its implications for society, chaired by Professor Ian Goldin.
This roundtable is part of the FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival 2015, the Oxford Martin School is the Festival Ideas Partner
Is it morally justified to allow the creation of a 'super rich' that leave the rest behind? Is the growing gap between rich and poor actually holding back wider economic growth and financial wellbeing? Could it be a cause of social unrest? And what can we do to address the gap between rich and poor?
This panel event is one of a series of roundtable talks and audience question time hosted by the Oxford Martin School.
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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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John Kampfner
Ian Goldin
Katrine Marcal
Keywords
economics
civil unrest
wealth
inequality
rich
poor
Department: Oxford Martin School
Date Added: 18/08/2015
Duration: 01:00:29

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The future of Africa at the Oxford Literary Festival 2015

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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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Three authors with recent books on Africa discuss the future of the continent and answer questions from the audience under the watchful eye of the director of the Oxford Martin School, Professor Ian Goldin.
Martin Meredith, Jonny Steinberg and Tom Burgis will discuss what the future holds for African states. How can the continent deal with failing government and corruption and with war and a constant flow of refugees? How far is Africa a victim of its past, and is there a new financial colonialism holding it back? What can the rest of the world do to help Africa to grow and prosper in peace?
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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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Martin Meredith
Jonny Steinberg
Tom Burgis
Keywords
Africa
politics
refugees
humanitarianism
Department: Oxford Martin School
Date Added: 18/08/2015
Duration: 00:59:20

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The limits of human performance and artificial intelligence

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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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In this new Oxford talk, Garry Kasparov, Senior Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Martin School, turns his attention to the rapidly evolving relationship between humans and technology.
In this new talk, Garry Kasparov turns his attention to the rapidly evolving relationship between humans and technology. He will explore the impact of technology on human development – how it can enhance, limit or possibly even endanger the human race. Kasparov will consider the possibilities, limitations and risks of this ever-changing field of potential, looking at a wide range of developments, from nano-sensors to the prospect of artificial intelligence.
He will also address the issues surrounding data and privacy, offering his perspective on whether potential breakthroughs and advantages are worth the risk to privacy. He will examine the opposing views of those who fear the risks and those who seem only to embrace the upside of new generations of technology.
In what promises to be a lively and wide-ranging talk, Garry Kasparov brings his unique perspective to a set of issues that are hotly debated and constantly in the headlines
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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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Garry Kasparov
Keywords
technology
artificial intelligence
computing
Department: Oxford Martin School
Date Added: 18/08/2015
Duration: 01:21:12

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