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Transformative Change for Biodiversity and Equity

Stacy Banwell

Professor Banwell is a Co-Investigator on the EU Horizon/UKRI project ‘Transformative Change for Biodiversity and Equity’ (TC4BE)


People


Co-Investigator

  • Professor Stacy Banwell


Background


TC4BE responds to the biodiversity emergency associated with globalised agro-food systems by targeting the EU’s telecoupled commodity chains with producer countries such as Cameroon, Colombia and Kenya. It brings together social and environmental scientists and diverse stakeholders to understand how political economies, governance arrangements, values and social norms can be shifted to support regenerative, biodiversity-positive and equitable agro-food futures.


Aims/Objectives


To assess the nexus between extraction, production, consumption, trade, behaviour patterns and climate change action, and their combined impacts on biodiversity in the context of transformative change.


To co-generate knowledge, tools and stakeholder engagement on transformative change pathways for telecoupled agro-food systems that improve biodiversity and equity outcomes between the EU and producer countries.


To evaluate sustainability transitions through legal pathways, including rights of nature, ecocide and restorative justice, as mechanisms for advancing transformative governance for biodiversity and equity.


Outcomes


Publications:

  • Banwell, S., Nelson, V. & Dehbi, F. (2025). Transformative legal pathways for biodiversity conservation and sustainability: toward multi-species justice. TCforBE Project Policy Brief No. 1. London, UK

  • Banwell, Nelson and Dehbi. (2025). Achieving sustainability transformations for multi species justice: assessing the potential of diverse legal pathways and societal struggles. Sustainability Science.

Presentations:

  • Banwell, S. (2025). Keynote: An Intersectional Analysis of the Impact of Anthropogenic Climate Change: Should we Introduce the Crime of Animal Ecocide? The Politics of Not Eating Meat conference, Amsterdam.

  • Nelson, V. Pablo, P. and Banwell, S. (2024, June). Exploring relational, political ecology, Indigenous and arts-based perspectives on socionature justice. DSA 2024 conference: Crisis in the Anthropocene: rethinking connection and agency for development. [Panel convenor]. London, UK.

  • Banwell, S. (2024, June). Listing ecocide as an atrocity crime: what, if any, are the benefits for reducing deforestation for animal agriculture? Climate Justice through Climate Litigation, CAJI Workshop 2024 Centre for Access to Justice and Inclusion (CAJI), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

  • Banwell, S. and Nelson, V. (2023, December). Listing ecocide as an atrocity crime: what, if any, are the benefits for reducing deforestation for animal agriculture?’ Greening Justice conference. [Paper Presentation]. Online Liverpool Hope University.


Get Involved


If you would like to learn more about the project and its outcomes, please contact Dr Stacy Banwell at bs80@gre.ac.uk.

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