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Course on ‘Reaching Net Zero’ for India to be launched by Oxford Smith School and CEEW
The Oxford Smith School and independent think tank Council on Energy, Environment, and Water (CEEW) are jointly set to launch a first-of-its-kind course, ‘Reaching Net Zero for India’.
Business schools’ transatlantic divide over ESG
An increasing backlash against ESG investing in the United States is driving a divide between the country's business schools and their European counterparts. Professor Mette Morsing, Director of the Oxford Smith School, told the FT that many institutions still teach "outdated economic models and management frameworks that do not align with today’s sustainability challenges."
Dr Steve Smith appointed Arnell Associate Professor of Greenhouse Gas Removal
Dr Steve Smith, researcher at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford, has been appointed Arnell Associate Professor of Greenhouse Gas Removal.
Here’s how Big Oil guides global climate negotiations
The links between COP and fossil fuel companies have been “embedded from the beginning,” stated Rolling Stone, with efforts led by the International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association, or IPIECA. Ben Franta said that IPIECA is “probably one of the most important organizations in the history of climate obstruction, as it looks like it played a key coordinating role for literally hundreds of fossil fuel companies…”
Big firms are being pulled two ways by Trump
Oxford Smith School Business Fellow, Ranjita Rajan, spoke to Tortoise Media about ESG in the wake of the re-election of President Donald Trump.
Cop29’s new carbon market rules offer hope after scandal and deadlock
Injy Johnstone said that new rules around carbon credits, agreed upon at COP29, we're a start, "but the risk of abuse still remains alive and well."
Kick-start for carbon credit market after loose rules agreed at COP29
Rules on carbon trading negotiated at COP29 leave "a lot of trust in the hands of countries" and may cause problems later down the line, Injy Johnston told the Financial Times.
The Nature-Climate nexus at COP29
Dr Hassan Aftab Sheikh writes on the emergence of nature finance as a critical topic in global policy discussions.
“More work to do”: Oxford academics and students at the UN climate conference
The Oxford Student interviews researchers and students attending COP29 as part of the University of Oxford delegation.
Q&A: The evolving science of ‘extreme weather attribution’
Rupert Stuart-Smith from the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme explains a new frontier of attribution science which seeks to attribute the impacts of climate change - such as heatwave mortality - and be used to hold high emitters to account in court.
The climate and biodiversity crises are entwined, but we risk pitting one against the other
With COP16 and COP29 happening in quick succession, the world has an important opportunity to align climate and biodiversity agendas, write Professor Nathalie Seddon and Audrey Wagner in The Conversation. “In our race to cool the planet, we must ensure we don’t compromise the health of the biosphere on which we depend.”
Beyond COP29: How Higher Ed Can Drive Year-Round Climate Action
MSc student and COP veteran Valery Salas Flores explores the role of students, universities and researchers in the climate negotiations process and shares practical tips for getting involved.