Dr Linda Speight featured on Radio 4's You and Yours, discussing flood risk decision-making. Listen from 29:53 or full segment from 22:53.
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Current policies cannot stabilise the Colorado River in face of ongoing megadrought
An ongoing megadrought, impacts of climate change and systematic overuse have created a crisis for the Colorado River, an essential water source for 40 million inhabitants of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.
IN THE MEDIA
SoGE winners at the Vice Chancellor's Environmental Sustainability Awards 2022
Congratulations to our Facilities Manager, Alex Black, for winning a Special Environmental Sustainability Staff Award, and to our graduate students Josh Ettinger, Alexis McGivern and Marcus Spiegel for coming runner-up in the Environmental Sustainability Students Awards.
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Scholarships that are helping to change the world
MSc alumnus Allwin Jesudasan, shares his story of educating communities on snake bites, the joy of spotting tigers in the wild and how Oxford changed his ambitions.
IN THE MEDIA
The value of water
In a recent interview with T La Revue the French business newspaper La Tribune's magazine, Kevin Grecksch, Departmental Lecturer and Course Director for the MSc in Water Science, Policy and Management, stressed the notion that people in developed countries have lost touch with water.
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SoGE holds inaugural Engagement and Impact Award Ceremony
SoGE's Inaugural Engagement and Impact Award Ceremony was held on 30th June 2022 in the new East Wing of the Dyson Perrins Building. Head of School, Professor Gillian Rose announced the winners and highly commended entries in two categories: Main Award and Early Career Researcher.
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How to mobilise $100 trillion wisely: Oxford course on sustainable finance
Well over $100 trillion dollars needs to be invested internationally to tackle climate change and this requires the global financial system to be aligned with environmental sustainability. Dr Ben Caldecott, Director of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group, and the Lombard Odier Associate Professor of Sustainable Finance, writes about the establishment of the P3S Academy.
IN THE MEDIA
Climate change and the urgency to transform food systems
Without rapid changes to agriculture and food systems, the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change will not be met says a new study out today in the journal Science.
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Professor Linda McDowell awarded honorary DSc
Congratulations to Professor Linda McDowell, Emerita Professor of SoGE, who has been awarded an honorary degree by the University of St Andrews.
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ECI researchers win IMF's Climate Innovation Challenge
A team of ECI researchers, alongside IMF colleagues, have won the Climate Innovation Challenge of the International Monetary Funds, an initiative to advance ideas to better integrate climate change into economic analysis.
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Dr Neil Hart awarded UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship
Dr Neil Hart is one of five Oxford University academics who have been awarded a Future Leaders Fellowship. Neil will lead a team of researchers in SoGE, in collaboration with project partners across southern Africa and the UK, to develop the predictions of rainfall season characteristics needed to manage the growing climate risk caused by delayed first rains. Neil's research programme, First Rains, will make use of cutting-edge climate prediction modelling tools pioneered in the UK paired with novel application of machine-learning approaches.
IN THE MEDIA
