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The Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment is a leading interdisciplinary academic hub at the University of Oxford focused upon teaching, research, and engagement with enterprise on climate change and long-term environmental sustainability.
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How will recent and forthcoming #Elections affect global #ClimatePolicy? This exciting debate, a few days after elections in the UK & France, will feature experts Rachel Kyte @blavatnikschool.bsky.social, Sugandha Srivastav & Sam Fankhauser. 8 July | Online: www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/event/electi...
Elections 2024: New Routes to Climate Resiliencewww.smithschool.ox.ac.uk Elections 2024: New Routes to Climate Resilience
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📢NEW from me: Carbon dioxide removal is "stuck between a rock and a hard place": on the one hand, there are concerns that companies could use it to delay cutting their emissions. On the other, every pathway to zero carbon requires CDR. So what should we do? @oxfordsmithschool.bsky.social
Do We Really Need Carbon Removal? 5 Insights From World’s Top Expertswww.forbes.com Global efforts to reduce emissions have failed to stop CO2 levels from rising. Now, a major new report looks at the ups and downs of taking that carbon out of the air.
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On #WorldEnvironmentDay we highlight the importance of land restoration initiatives, one of the conventional methods for capturing & storing CO2, that also offers a large mitigation potential. Read the #TheStateofCDR & learn more on #CarbonDioxideRemoval: www.stateofcdr.org
The State of Carbon Dioxide Removalwww.stateofcdr.org
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As #GreenhouseGasEmissions continue to grow it’s crucial to reduce emissions to help mitigate the most devastating effects of #climatechange & reduce its impact on land degradation, desertification & drought resilience. #WorldEnvironmentDay #TheStateofCDR www.stateofcdr.org
The State of Carbon Dioxide Removalwww.stateofcdr.org
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NEW EPISODE: From Fibs to Fines-Climate Disinformation, Lawsuits & Their Ripple Effects David, @shastingssimon.bsky.social, and Ed talk to Dr. Benjamin Franta from @oxfordsmithschool.bsky.social Podcast: www.buzzsprout.com/1850047/1512... YouTube: youtu.be/C-zThsYL78Q #Climate #law
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We're delighted to share that Laurence Wainwright has been presented with a Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Oxford’s Social Sciences Division, University of Oxford. Dr Wainwright is a Departmental Lecturer at the #OxfordSmithSchool. www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/news/dr-laur...
Dr Laurence Wainwright wins Teaching Excellence Awardwww.smithschool.ox.ac.uk Dr Laurence Wainwright wins Teaching Excellence Award
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NEW Live Show-Climate Disinformation, Lawsuits & Their Ripple Effects @shastingssimon.bsky.social, David & Ed, chat with Benjamin Franta, Sr Research Fellow in Climate Litigation @ Oxford Sustainable Law Programme & @oxfordsmithschool.bsky.social Register @ www.energyvsclimate.com/from-fibs-to...
You're Invited - From Fibs to Fineswww.energyvsclimate.com Climate Disinformation, Lawsuits & Their Ripple Effects
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"Benjamin Franta said enforcement has never been international courts’ forte. “It’s a well-known challenge [with] international courts: Because they don’t have independent police power, they must persuade member states to comply with their orders.” www.thedailyupside.com/industries/e...
Can We Solve Climate Change by Suing Polluters?www.thedailyupside.com Climate litigation is rapidly transforming to offer the promise of big victories and big cash prizes for lawyers.
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What a fantastic day for the #OxfordSmithSchool yesterday was! We were delighted to have won the Environmental Sustainability Award at the #VCAwards @uniofoxford.bsky.social ceremony, thanks to the delivery of the Global Youth Climate Training! @oxfordgeography.bsky.social
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Planting trees is not the same as preserving the complex ecosystems that are fully grown & have been absorbing carbon from the atmosphere for years. In the latest BBC Panorama documentary, Kaya Axelsson highlighted the importance of preserving these ecosystems. 1/2 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Panorama - Big Brands’ Green Claims Uncoveredwww.bbc.co.uk Investigation of green projects claiming to help brands cancel out their carbon emissions.
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There is a very limited but critical role for the use of high-quality credits to balance the hardest to abate residual emissions to meet #netzero targets. & these credits have to meet a very high bar to sustain net zero. Last night, Kaya clarified on BBC: 1/4 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Panorama - Big Brands’ Green Claims Uncoveredwww.bbc.co.uk Investigation of green projects claiming to help brands cancel out their carbon emissions.
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Didn't manage to make it to the launch event for @doynefarmer.bsky.social's Making Sense of Chaos yesterday? You can now watch the discussion online. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRZH...
'Making sense of chaos: a better economics for a better world' with Prof Doyne Farmerwww.youtube.com We live in an age of increasing complexity, where accelerating technology and global interconnection hold more promise – and more peril – than any other time in human history. The fossil fuels that have powered global wealth creation now threaten to destroy the world they helped build. Automation and digitisation promise prosperity for some, unemployment for others. Financial crises fuel growing inequality, polarisation and the retreat of democracy. At heart, all these problems are rooted in the economy, yet the guidance provided by economic models has often failed. Using big data and ever more powerful computers, we are now able for the first time to apply complex systems science to economic activity, building realistic models of the global economy. The resulting simulations and the emergent behaviour we observe form the cornerstone of the science of complexity economics, allowing us to test ideas and make significantly better economic predictions – to better address the hard problems facing the world. In this talk Doyne Farmer, author of Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World presents a manifesto for how to do economics better. He will fuse his profound knowledge and expertise with stories from his life to explain how we can bring a scientific revolution to bear on the economic conundrums facing society. This is a joint event with INET Oxford.
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"Dr Radhika Khosla who acted as specialist adviser for the EAC’s inquiry, said: “The Government’s response is a positive start – it demonstrates a recognition of the threat of extreme heat and details the existing steps in place to mitigate it." www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
Government leaves ‘serious unanswered questions’ on heatwave resilience planswww.independent.co.uk MPs said the Government’s response to their report on heat resilience and sustainable cooling is “lacking clarity” on certain points.
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Listen to “Solving Energy Poverty Will Boost Health & Climate Goals" where Sugandha Srivastav highlights the impact of energy access & quality on development, health & climate change, emphasising the need for investments in clean energy & infrastructure. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDvL...
Solving Energy Poverty Will Boost Health and Climate Goalswww.youtube.com Energy Insights speaks with Sugandha Srivastav about all things energy poverty and developmental and energy economics.Sugandha is a British Academy Postdocto...
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It’s not enough to call for the end of #PlasticUse to achieve reduction in plastic production & build a plastic free future, we need to: - Decrease the plastics we use - Manage plastic waste - Improve product design - Use sustainable materials #EarthDay www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/news/how-kee...
How to keep using (some) plastic without trashing the planetwww.smithschool.ox.ac.uk How to keep using (some) plastic without trashing the planet