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If the proposed policy were adopted, emitters would be subject to a ‘Carbon Removal Obligation’. Interest could be added, establishing a legal responsibility for carbon debt repayment. CROs would be tradeable, by treating carbon debt like financial debt,

Future generations will face crippling costs without action now on carbon debt

Professor Louise Richardson, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford and Hubert Keller, Co-Senior Partner of the banking group Lombard Odier have officially signed a multi-year partnership to foster sustainable finance and investment research, with a

Lombard Odier and Oxford in landmark research collaboration on sustainable finance and investment

Is simply planting more trees the easy way out? The answers do not look straightforward. It is all about right trees, right spots, and the right science. Credit: Shutterstock.

Rewilding cities: grow back greener, cleaner and healthier

It is exciting that the genetics underlying these reproductive behaviours may help us understand later life disease

Genetics plays important role in age at first sex and birth with links to dis-inhibition, longevity and disease

Climate change makes hot extreme events [such as heatwaves in Europe] 100 times more likely.’ ‘And we’re not talking about a bit of nice weather either,’ says Dr Otto. ‘The last heatwave in the UK caused 2,500 excess deaths.’

Deadly heat: the pleasantly terrifying Dr Fredi Otto talks extreme climate events

Dr Friederike Otto could not be more self-effacing and pleasant, answering obvious questions politely with patience and apparent interest. And yet the young Oxford professor of climate research is frankly...terrifying.
limiting free-trade agreements to fruits, vegetables, beans, pulses and nuts, could avoid the risks to diets and health that are linked to opening Britain to increased imports of cheap meats and high-calorie foods

Post-Brexit trade agreements could lead to unhealthier diets - Oxford study

Losing work can scar a person’s trust in the political system. But if you lose your job and almost everyone else around you is in work, your self-confidence takes a big knock. You consider yourself more alone and withdraw from the collective electoral pro

Previous unemployment influences voter turnout, says Oxford study

cutting-edge, peer-reviewed attribution would allow lawyers to ascertain the prospects of successful litigation before cases reach court

Poor use of science jeopardises climate lawsuits, finds Oxford research

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