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have made no meaningful progress whatsoever on limiting the climate impacts themselves going forward, despite being tilted as the “implementation COP”. This inaction is incompatible with reaching the 1.5-degree target

Expert Comment - Climate justice and credible targets..or will COP27 be remembered as a 'lame duck'?

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Rising pollution on the Delhi-Jaipur expressway. Credit: Sudarshan Jha/Shutterstock

Expert Comment: Air pollution cools climate more than expected – making cutting carbon emissions more urgent

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Think of the woman fetching water for her family or cooking over a woodstove…she suffers more from the degradation of our natural biomass and water resources than anyone else

Expert comments: COP27 Gender Day

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Professor Myles Allen: Speaking last weekend on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Professor Allen used lumps of coal to illustrate how much fossil fuel the world has already burned – and continues to burn, despite efforts to reduce emissions. He said, ‘Calls

We must stop fossil fuels causing global warming, before the world stops using fossil fuels - Prof Myles Allen

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What is going on now, where Democrats and Republicans are coming from seemingly implacably opposed positions, could really be described as a ‘cold civil war’ – and a far bigger threat than there has been in 150 years

Expert Comment. American midterms: Is compromise possible amid the 'cold civil war'?

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Politicisation is a problem for climate policymakers

Expert Comment: European public opinion on climate change has become politicised

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In a series of powerful ‘hopes’ for Egypt, 20 leading researchers from across the university, have recorded wishes and warnings in videos and written messages for the delegates to COP27. Credit: Shutterstock

COP27 must deliver fast action, swift justice and protect nature – Oxford experts

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During its hold on the World Heritage Site of Palmyra, for instance, Daesh routinely used the ancient architecture publicly to execute prisoners and otherwise terrorise locals. With time being a dimension of power, the site was mobilised to intimidate and

Cultural Heritage on the Frontline: the destruction of peoples and identities in war

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temperatures were very much higher in the past. The whole world was hotter, about 50 million years ago with average temperatures a massive 14° hotter than pre-industrial levels.

When hippos roamed, past temperatures were much higher - expert comment

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More than 1,000 people in the public and third sectors around the world have taken the online Oxford course: There is no doubt about the interest and appetite for this essential training. Credit: Shutterstock

How to mobilise $100 trillion wisely: Oxford course on sustainable finance

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