The food industry will go to great lengths (and spend a fortune) to lobby policymakers, confuse the public and politicise scientific findings. When scientific evidence indicates the need to phase down environmentally harmful or unhealthy products, the responsible industry pushes back. In an article for The Conversation, Stephanie Walton, DPhil candidate in the School, explores how stranded assets may be motivating this resistance and examines the possible solutions.
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SoGE MSc student Tabina Manzoor gives opening address at Right Here, Right Now climate summit
Tabina Manzoor, a Kashmiri student, researcher, and environmentalist currently pursuing an MSc in Water Science, Policy, and Management at SoGE, served as a student co-moderator at Oxford’s recently concluded Right Here Right Now Global Climate Summit, where she also gave an opening address at the Sheldonian Theatre.
Lauren Neville is the University's Sustainability Photographer of the Year
Congratulations to Lauren Neville, DPhil Candidate in Geography and the Environment, whose winning picture, 'A Sweet Future' has won the University's Sustainability Photographer of the Year 2021 competition.
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Vance Tan wins Oxford SU Impact Award
Vance Tan Zong Hao, a Bruneian doctoral student at the School of Geography and the Environment, was awarded the prestigious Impact Award from Oxford University Student Union (Oxford SU) on 20th June.
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Splendid Isolation or Fish out of Water?
With Brexit, British fishing grew from a tool of the political class to a determinant of constitutional and political affairs, suggests a new interdisciplinary paper by Aadil Siddiqi, current MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation and Management student.
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China and the UK: Making an international collaboration work
Working with colleagues on the other side of the world can mean a lot of challenges. There are differences in language, in time zone, in culture, even in the practise of doing science. But scientific collaborations, such as the one between Hong Zhang, Jenny Richards and Heather Viles at SoGE and Qinglin Guo's team at Dunhuang Academy in China, can also provide a wealth of benefits. In a new documentary by Nature, the two teams reflect on making this ambitious project work and how other teams could do the same.
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Obsessing over electric cars is impeding the race to net zero: More active travel is essential
Dr Christian Brand, Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor at the Environmental Change Institute and Transport Studies Unit, offers his expert opinion on electric vehicles and net zero in an article for the University.
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G7: last chance to board the green pandemic recovery ship before it sails, say Oxford experts
Climate pledges at this week's G7 meeting of the world's major economies in Cornwall represent positive action, according to top environmental researchers at the University of Oxford. But, in response to the summit agenda, the climate experts call for strong leadership from the leading economies and insist the world needs to stop using fossil fuels now - if global warming is to be tackled effectively.
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Enhancing urban life and heritage: Nature-based solutions in the city
'Nature' is currently widely considered a threat to built heritage. But a new paper from Oxford, by renowned heritage expert Professor Heather Viles and colleague Dr Martin Coombes, maintains that both the real and perceived risks can be overcome and nature-based solutions (NbS) adapted to bring the benefits of nature into urban heritage environments.
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Evolutionary winners are ecological losers among oceanic island plants
Evolution of multiple species from a single colonizer is something that has happened repeatedly on oceanic islands. Such radiations, can lead to tens or even hundreds of distinct species, often occupying a range of very different habitats with the expectation that these 'evolutionary winners' will be species so well-tuned to their island environments that they should also be locally successful and abundant. In a new study in Journal of Biogeography, an international team including Prof Rob Whittaker, has shown that it may not be so simple.
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New independent group to help tackle 'greenwashing'
Dr Ben Caldecott will contribute to a new independent group set up by HM Treasury to help tackle greenwashing in financial services. The expert group will support investors, consumers and businesses to make green financial decisions.
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Dr Edward Oughton runner up in prestigious Lloyd's 2021 Science of Risk awards (Cyber category)
Dr Edward Oughton was awarded Runner Up in Lloyd's 2021 Science of Risk awards (Cyber category). The prize was for Dr Oughton's research quantifying the vulnerability of electricity networks from cyberattacks. The prestigious Lloyd's Science of Risk prizes are awarded to esteemed academics and PhD students who, through their published scientific work, further the understanding of risk and insurance.
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