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Lion numbers have disappeared from 92% of their historical range. The death of Cecil the lion in 2015 and the resulting global outcry brought this sobering fact into sharp focus.
Major academic-industry collaboration to tackle global challenges in sustainability
Chemistry Climate change Research
14 May 2021
The University of Oxford joins a major new collaboration with academia and industry to use sustainable chemical technologies to accelerate the UK’s transition to net zero carbon emissions.
Natural climate change solutions highly effective long term
Climate change Physics Research Zoology
13 May 2021
Nature-based solutions (NbS) can contribute to the fight against climate change up to the end of our century, according to new Oxford research in Nature. The analysis suggests that, to limit global temperature rise, we must slash emissions and increase NbS investment to protect, manage and restore ecosystems and land for the future.
Researchers find climate change impacts plankton – a key marine food source
Climate change Earth sciences Research
27 April 2021
A key type of zooplankton’s inability to adapt to climate change could have adverse implications for marine food chains across the world if a severe global warming event were to occur, researchers at Oxford University have found.
Researchers say we don’t know how most mammals will respond to climate change
Climate change Zoology
9 April 2021
Researchers at the University of Oxford, alongside international collaborators, have found that there is a significant knowledge gap in the risks posed by climate change to mammals.
Could South African mine wastes provide a feasible storage method for millions of tonnes of CO2?
Climate change Engineering Research
22 March 2021
An article written for the University's Science Blog by Liam Bullock (Engineering Science), Zakhele Nkosi and Maxwell Amponsah-Dacosta.
UK launches new £10M Research Centre to spur a greener Global Financial System
Climate change Engineering Funding
15 February 2021
The centre, led by Oxford, will transform the finance sector’s ability to invest differently to promote climate and environmental action. Researchers from the Oxford eResearch Centre in the Department of Engineering Science are contributing, alongside researchers from other University departments.
Getting the message right on nature-based solutions to climate change
Climate change Research Zoology
1 February 2021
Nature‐based solutions can play a key role in helping to tackle the climate and nature crises, while delivering other benefits for people, according to a new paper today from the Nature-based Solutions Initiative (NbSI) at the University of Oxford - but it is vital to get the message right about how to deliver successful NbS and avoid potential pitfalls.
Four Steps for Earth: a holistic approach to saving the planet
Climate change Zoology
25 January 2021
A global team of researchers have outlined a new framework for implementing global commitments to restoring nature, The Mitigation and Conservation Hierarchy - or, more snappily, Four Steps for the Earth.
Oxford Net Zero launches to tackle global carbon emissions
Climate change Earth sciences Physics Plant sciences Zoology
17 November 2020
The Oxford Net Zero initiative, launched this week, draws on the university’s world-leading expertise in climate science and policy, addressing the critical issue of how to reach global ‘net zero’ – limiting greenhouse gases – in time to halt global warming.
Global food system emissions alone threaten warming beyond 1.5°C – but we can act now to stop it
Climate change Physics The Conversation
6 November 2020
In an article from 'The Conversation', John Lynch in the Department of Physics discusses the necessary changes for bringing agriculture in line with a “net-zero” world.
Cooling: hidden threat for climate change and sustainable goals
Climate change Engineering
19 October 2020
A new study, led by the University of Oxford and published today in Nature Sustainability, sets out a framework for delivering sustainable cooling. It also examines cooling needs in the context of sustainable development, and finds that this is a global blind spot.
Oxford launches new principles for credible carbon offsetting
Climate change Research
29 September 2020
Launched today, The Oxford Principles for Net Zero Aligned Carbon Offsetting (‘The Oxford Offsetting Principles’), provide guidelines to help ensure offsetting actually helps to achieve a net zero society.
Researchers identify human influence as key agent of ocean warming patterns in the future
Climate change Physics Research
13 August 2020
Scientists from the Department of Physics at Oxford University have discovered that the influence of circulation changes on shaping ocean warming will diminish in the future.
SNAP-DRAGON project funded to study the changing subpolar North Atlantic Ocean
Climate change Earth sciences Funding Research
29 June 2020
The project, led by Oxford Earth Sciences Associate Professor Helen Johnson, will provide new knowledge of this critical region, which will help to improve predictions of ocean and climate variability in the North Atlantic and beyond.
Carbon capture and storage has stalled needlessly – three reasons why fears of CO₂ leakage are overblown
Climate change Earth sciences Research The Conversation
4 March 2020
Stephanie Flude (Department of Earth Sciences) and Juan Alcade (Earth Sciences, Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra Jaume Almera) discuss how to keep sequestered CO₂ locked away underground, in an article published on The Conversation.
Why protesters should be wary of ‘12 years to climate breakdown’ rhetoric
Climate change Physics The Conversation
23 April 2019
An article published in The Conversation by Professor Myles Allen of the Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, and the Department of Physics.