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There has been a short-term reduction in greenhouse gas emissions as a consequence of measures aimed at limiting the spread of Covid-19. However, after recovery from the current crisis we will still be facing the same policy challenges for meeting our climate targets, and there is real danger that climate action might be delayed, explains Dr Linus Mattauch to Argus media.

The University of Oxford's #TruePlanet campaign, which featured researchers from across the School of Geography and the Environment, has been selected as a finalist in the Guardian's annual awards. The campaign, which highlighted Oxford's global research on climate, energy, food, water, waste and biodiversity, is shortlisted in the category of marketing and communications.

As schools have closed in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, many families are finding themselves thrust into homeschooling. William Finnegan, PhD candidate in the Environmental Change Institute's Energy program, offers lessons from the emerging field of climate change education on how to teach learners of all ages.

ECI researchers Kaya Axelsson and Eli Mitchell-Larson provide a perspective on climate change and Covid-19 in the Independent. "Mitigating the effects of the coronavirus pandemic should unequivocally be our top priority right now. But as we emerge from the pandemic, we have the opportunity to begin preparing in earnest for a larger threat: climate change."

Dr Radhika Khosla and colleagues explore the unprecedented expansion of India's light emitting diode (LED) bulb market in a guest post for Carbon Brief. Three lessons emerge for future low-carbon technology innovation and market expansion in India and other developing countries.

On BBC Radio 4's 'Start the Week' Professor Danny Dorling talks to Amol Rajan and Nick Timothy about the coronavirus pandemic, and what the fallout will be.

Professor Danny Dorling looks at the spread of coronavirus, and how it has affected the mortality rate in the UK so far this year compared to the last decade.

Water scarcity is spreading around the world and incentives to improve efficiency and sustainability have failed to scale up as hoped. A global initiative from The Nature Conservancy and the University of Oxford (led by Dustin Garrick) aims to coordinate innovations in governance, data and finance and link research with implementation to identify the regions where investments could make the biggest difference.

Cop26 is a chance to see how 'unicorn' technologies can take greenhouse gas emissions to near zero, writes Dr Mike Mason, fellow of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. The UK has an opportunity to build coalitions of the willing to invest in technology clusters with the potential to unlock multiple benefits across whole energy ecosystems.

Anyone setting a net zero target - and the citizens, activists, consumers, and investors holding them to account - should be considering these 5 key challenges, explain physical and social scientists Myles Allen, Thomas Hale, Tim Kruger, Stephen Smith and Kaya Axelsson in the Independent.