October 9, 2025: IRES Student Seminar with Mauricio Carvallo
How can cities adapt to rising seas and uncertain futures? IRES’s Mauricio Carvallo uses Surrey’s climate planning as a case study to show how flexible, cost-aware strategies can help protect farms, homes, and infrastructure from coastal flooding.
October 2, 2025: IRES Faculty Seminar with Dr. Juliet Lu
How is the EU’s anti-deforestation law landing in Southeast Asia?
This talk explores the backlash against the EUDR in rubber-producing countries and what it reveals about global power imbalances in sustainability policy.
September 11, 2025: IRES Student Seminar with Victor Cardenas (First Seminar in Term 1)
Exploring how climate change impacts the lending capacity of microfinance institutions (MFIs) to smallholder farmers (SHFs), this talk will analyze global trends in physical climate risk—particularly tropical storms and floods—and their effects on 4,500 MFIs under various climate scenarios.