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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.
Global water crisis: new book reveals struggles and strategies of families on the frontline
Dr Sonia Hoque and Professor Rob Hope interviewed 350 families living without water security in Kenya and Bangladesh. The Water Diaries tells their story, and makes an impassioned call for change.
Will Britain's AI revolution affect its net zero aims?
Sugandha Srivastav comments on the need to build new green energy infrastructure to support growing energy demand from AI in a climate-compatible way, in this article from the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Labour Could Save Its Green Reputation, But Will It?
Bloomberg's Lara Williams referenced an Oxford Smith School policy brief in this article on Labour's impending, and controversial, oilfield decision. The policy brief recommended six climate tests to align future production with net zero goals, including alignment with the Paris Agreement and UK net zero targets, clean energy investment requirements, and mandatory carbon storage.
Wider LA areas will be ‘more flammable’ due to climate change, study finds
Rupert Stuart-Smith, senior researcher in climate science and attribution at Oxford Sustainable Law Programme and the Smith School, comments on recent analysis that finds the LA fires were made more likely due to climate change.
US clean energy subsidies could be impossible to repeal
President Trump’s efforts to repeal clean energy subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) could be thwarted by up to 32 Republican Congressional Representatives, according to a new Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment policy brief.