Dr Steve Smith, Arnell Associate Professor of Greenhouse Gas Removal at the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment, has been appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to Climate Science.
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Going vegan with BBC Good Food
This in-depth article explores how a vegan diet can be better for the environment and investigates the impact of 'Veganuary'. Featuring research from Joseph Poore and comment from Helen Beecham of the Food Climate Research Network (FCRN).
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MIT Tech Review 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2020
Climate change attribution, a growing area of research that allows scientists to understand climate change's role in extreme weather, has been named one of Tech Review's top breakthroughs of 2020. This research is led by World Weather Attribution, based in the Environmental Change Institute and led by acting director Dr Fredi Otto.
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When will the Amazon hit a tipping point?
Scientists say climate change, deforestation and fires could cause the world's largest rainforest to dry out and change to savannah. Erika Berenguer comments on the impact of fire on the Amazon ecosystem in this news article from Nature.
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Why A New Wave Of Economists Are Championing Slow Economic Growth
Kate Raworth, ecological economist at the Environmental Change Institute, joined On Point (Boston Radio) with Meghna Chakrabarti to discuss society's 'obsession' with economic growth, and what alternatives we could turn to for signs that our economy, society and planet are healthy.
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'Natural' flood management would be overwhelmed by Britain's winter super-floods
Work undertaken by Professor Simon Dadson and colleagues on the most comprehensive meta-analysis of natural flood management to date has concluded that while 'natural solutions' are useful for reducing nuisance floods they would be overwhelmed by the types of super-floods seen in the UK this winter.
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Satellites Are Helping the Municipal-Bond Market Assess Climate Risk
The potential financial applications for satellite technology led researchers at the Oxford Sustainable Finance Programme to coin the term "spatial finance" and to launch an initiative last year with groups like the Green Finance Institute to foster the use of geospatial data in markets.
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What Jeff Bezos could do with his $10bn climate change fund
The Earth Fund will need to pick investments carefully to identify technologies where modest changes can have a snowball effect. "10 billion from a single person is hugely generous, but it's tiny compared to the need to redirect $1-2 trillion a year away from fossil fuels," explains Cameron Hepburn in the Telegraph.
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Prof Myles Allen's scientific life profiled on BBC Radio 4
On 'The Life Scientific' Myles Allen tells Jim Al-Khalili how our ability to predict climate change has evolved from the early days, when scientists had to rely on the combined computing power of hundreds of thousands of personal computers. He sheds light on how the IPCC works and explains why, he believes, fossil fuel industries must be forced to clean up the carbon dioxide that they emit - a plausible solution, he says, to the "deeply solvable problem" of human-induced climate change.
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New public information film to address conditions facing Bangalore's auto-rickshaw drivers
TSU researcher Lucy Barker has been awarded a grant from the University of Oxford's Public Engagement with Research (PER) Seed Fund. The grant will support Lucy to make a short public information film on the auto-rickshaws in Bangalore, an idea that came to her during her recent PEAK Urban research.
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Climate Assembly UK
Nick Eyre joined the UK's first nationwide citizens' assembly on climate change to provide expert information on heat and energy use in the home. Five other members of the Oxford-led Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions (CREDs) also provided advice. Climate Assembly UK brings together over 100 members from all walks of life and of all shades of opinion to discuss how the UK should achieve net zero.
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