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Greenwashing And What To Do Instead: Lessons From The Oxford Ad Archive
"Clarity about how corporate claims connect to strategy is not nice-to-have. It’s an imperative," writes Mary Johnstone-Louis for Forbes. She references the launch Oxford Carbon and Climate Advertising Library (OxCCAL) by the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme, which is a searchable database of over 1,700 fossil fuel industry ads.
Republicans want to repeal Biden’s climate legacy. Good luck with that.
A repeal of the inflation reduction act by the Trump administration is "hardly a fait accompli," write Noah Mihan and Dr Stephen Lezak. The article references a policy brief by Mihan and Professor Sam Fankhauser, which identified 32 republican representatives who are likely to rebel against such a measure.
With more collaboration, export credit agencies could supercharge climate finance
Professor Andreas Klasen and Noah Mihan write on how Export Credit Agencies can unleash huge sums of climate finance to developing countries - if they work together.
Oxford to help establish safe drinking water for schools and clinics in Zambia
Guided by a Presidential Decree in 2022, the Government of Zambia is focused on delivering safe drinking water to all public facilities. The University of Oxford’s water programme is supporting this work with the pilot of a results-based contract in Mumbwa District, with the goal to deliver a national model to all public facilities by 2030.
Is Nature’s code just a commodity to be traded?
Reflections on Digital Sequence Information (DSI) and benefit sharing, which stem from genetic sequencing and were a key part of the COP16 agenda.
Researchers can explore 1700 fossil fuel ads through the Oxford Carbon and Climate Advertising Library
After more than a year of research by a team of ten researchers, the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme’s Climate Litigation Lab, led by Associate Professor of Climate Litigation Benjamin Franta, has launched the Oxford Carbon and Climate Advertising Library (OxCCAL).
Changing the world, one woman engineer at a time
Mia Fahey McCarthy, Head of Sustainability at SSE Ireland, writes on gender parity in the clean energy transition for the Oxford Smith School's Community Insights series.
Countries seal critical $200 billion deal to save nature
Audrey Wagner was quoted in The National News on the outcome of the COP16 negotiations in Rome, and the broader political environment surrounding them. "The US pulling funding internationally not only from environment initiatives but development funding more broadly, including the defunding and shutting down of USAID, is very unhelpful and certainly hinders progress on biodiversity and climate issues," she said.
The Clean Energy Revolution Is Unstoppable
Doyne Farmer and Eric Beinhocker outline the technological and economic forces driving renewable energy globally - and why these will prove unstoppable even in the current political climate.
Environmental crimes: joint comment calls for further strengthening of ICC policy
On 21 February, the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme, the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, and the International Nuremberg Principles Academy submitted a second joint comment to the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) urging it to strengthen its draft policy on environmental crimes.
Sustainability ideals are often crushed by corporate demands. Here’s how businesses can let them flourish
New research from Mette Morsing, Smith School Director, explores the 'calling' of corporate sustainability managers to drive change - even when the very system that hires them often stifles social and environmental aspirations.
Senate Democrats could be locked out of power for a very long time
Climate Economics Researcher Noah Mihan writes on the uphill battle that U.S. Democrats face to re-gain the senate.