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Oxford’s ambitious Environmental Sustainability Strategy is approved

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Credit: Shutterstock. Governments have a unique chance to put their countries on sustainable trajectories that prioritise economic opportunity, poverty reduction and planetary health at once - Inger Andersen, UNEP's executive director.

Are we on track for a green recovery? Not Yet. Hundreds attend Oxford-UN eco event.

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The new UK Centre for Greening Finance & Investment (CGFI) will receive funding from the National Environment Research Council (NERC) and Innovate UK, both part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

UK launches new Oxford-led research centre to accelerate the ‘greening’ of the global financial system

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Technologies deriving from OXGAV will combat biodiversity loss, climate change, confront energy crises, promote human food security, and predict the implications of landscape change, among others. The Studio will also serve as a think-tank for thought lea

On a mission: Innovative solutions to pressing environmental problems

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Severe flood threat caused by climate change – landmark Oxford study

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a wide-range of well‐designed NbS can deliver multiple benefits for people and nature. For example, coastal mangroves or coral reefs can protect from storm surges, urban green spaces help to cool cities, and improving soil health can help farmers adapt to

Getting the message right on nature-based solutions to climate change

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There is a prominent narrative in the energy planning community that the continent will be able to take advantage of its vast renewable energy resources and rapidly decreasing clean technology prices to leapfrog to renewables by 2030

Africa’s electricity unlikely to go green this decade

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Aggressive emission reductions must be complemented by equally aggressive scale-up of safe and permanent greenhouse gas removal and disposal

Oxford Net Zero launches to tackle global carbon emissions

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Professor Nick Eyre, of Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute, has been appointed as Oxford City Council’s first scientific adviser

Professor Nick Eyre appointed Oxford City Council scientific adviser

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work has already improved water security for more than two million people, working with UNICEF and in partnership with government, private sector and academia in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Kenya

New funding to improve water security for 10 million people in Africa and Asia

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