The Conduit Presents: The People’s Emergency Briefing

In November 2025, the National Emergency Briefing brought an audience of 1,200 to Westminster where ten leading experts set out the implications of climate and nature breakdown for health, food systems, national security and the economy. The briefing presented the latest evidence and called for the Government to stage a televised emergency briefing, much like those we saw during the COVID-19 pandemic: the essential first step towards the scale of response required.

Now, a documentary made up of footage from November is being shown across the UK. The People’s Emergency Briefing brings together the science and national implications in one compelling film, and it’s coming to The Conduit.

To close our London Climate Action Week programme, we will be screening the documentary and hearing from the team behind it, including co-founders Nick and Simon Oldridge, and creative director Ben Carey. Two of the experts featured in the film will provide updates on how their research has progressed since November. Focusing on nature will be Professor Nathalie Seddon, Conduit member and Professor of Biodiversity at the University of Oxford. Focusing on food systems will be renowned sustainability scientist Professor Paul Behrens, alongside Conduit member Daniel J Hudson.

Climate & nature crisis threatens all aspects of British life from national security to food supply, but solutions exist, and many of them are being developed by members of The Conduit. Join us for this energising, urgent event to build on the momentum of London Climate Action Week, make connections and celebrate solutions.

Event Schedule

3:00pm: Pre-event socialising and networking
A cash bar will be available for refreshments.

3:15pm: Event begins, Expert Presentations followed by Q&A

5:00pm: Event ends

Speakers

Paul Behrens is a renowned sustainability scientist and British Academy Global Professor at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, where he leads research on the intersection of climate, energy, and food systems.

Nathalie Seddon is Professor of Biodiversity at the University of Oxford. A former Royal Society University Research Fellow and recent recipient of a prestigious Marsh Award for Ecology, she trained as an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Cambridge and has over 25 years’ experience working across ecosystems worldwide.

Daniel J Hudson is Executive Chair of Proposition, a board member of Wakelyns Agroforestry CCBS, and Chief Executive of a new organisation The Centre for Biodiverse Carbon Farming – which has been setup to facilitate the en masse adoption of biodiverse agroforestry. For the past 13 years he has been working for Food Systems Change in the UK. This has included learning from pioneers like Prof. Martin Wolfe, Prof. Steve Newman, Martin Crawford, Joel Salatin and Darren Doherty, and working with The Real Farming Trust, Fund for Enlightened Agriculture, Conservative Rural Affairs Group, The Landworkers Alliance, Ecological Land Co-Operative, and Wakelyns Agroforestry.

Full Panel of Speakers to be announced.