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Compare the moody atmosphere of a well-lit heritage district with the bright flood-lighting of a council estate: light codes the city, telling a story of unequal treatment and divided expectations.

Leading global experts discuss how Africa can best adapt to climate change.

Why did Colombia and Chile experience bouts of social unrest and street violence recently? What are the roots of this discontent and what can be done about it? Might a new social contract in those countries provide a way out?

Technological change is reshaping economic geography, raising profound challenges for economic development.

How much is economics to blame for crises like the financial crash, inequality or even climate change?

Can we imagine what life was like for the thousands of young women who lived as prostitutes, servants and migrants in eighteenth-century London?

This event brings together speakers who have researched and organised around climate change loss and damage to discuss the potential and limitations of existing policy frameworks, and to examine how climate justice might inform a global response.

This talk introduces the new e-book edited by Kevin Featherstone and George Alogoskoufis.

From his experience as UK Ambassador to Washington, Kim Darroch considers the new challenges facing the transatlantic relationship and draws on the lessons of the past for current decision-makers.

Just days ahead of the start of the COP26 summit, US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry delivers remarks before taking audience questions.