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« Back to NewsJoint appointment of Professor of Sustainable Energy Engineering and ZERO Institute Director
9 March 2023
Paul Shearing has been appointed as Professor of Sustainable Energy Engineering and will lead the new Zero-carbon Energy Research Oxford (ZERO) Institute.
Wellcome funding for multidisciplinary project to improve understanding about deadly disease outbreaks
3 February 2023
Climate Engineering Funding Medical science Research
DART (Dengue Advanced Readiness Tools) is a new, Oxford-led project involving scientists around the world, and one of 24 Wellcome-supported projects that will use climate data to better predict and prepare for infectious diseases outbreaks.
Climate goals can be achieved at affordable cost, if fossil fuel producers pay for carbon clear up
13 January 2023
Climate change could be constrained by implementation of policies to ensure fossil fuel producers pay for carbon clear-up, or capture, according to new Oxford-led research, published in Environmental Research Letters.
Oxford climate research excellence recognised by renewed Met Office partnership
15 December 2022
Climate Earth sciences Funding Maths Physics Research Statistics
The University of Oxford has been selected to help deliver the Met Office Academic Partnership (MOAP) for a further three years, as part of a multi-institutional agreement supporting cutting-edge research in the science of weather and climate prediction.
Oxford University delegation to champion nature at UN biodiversity conference
7 December 2022
Biology Climate Food security & biodiversity
Launching today, the United Nations Conference of the Parties for Biodiversity (COP15) will convene governments from nearly 200 countries to agree to a new set of goals to tackle the biodiversity crisis over the next decade.
Most Asian countries are unlikely to meet future biodiversity targets for protected areas
5 December 2022
Biology Climate Food security & biodiversity Sustainability & the environment
Ahead of COP15, researchers make key recommendations for policymakers to support Asian countries to meet 2030 biodiversity targets.
From The Conversation: Air pollution cools climate more than expected – this makes cutting carbon emissions more urgent
16 November 2022
Climate Physics The Conversation
Air pollutants in the form of tiny particles suspended in air kill around seven million people every year, but also have a buffering effect on climate change. By Peter Manshausen, Duncan Watson-Parris and Philip Stier from the Department of Physics.
Expert comments: COP27 Gender Day
15 November 2022
The power of women as key drivers of climate solutions yesterday took centre stage at the COP27 climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh.
We must stop fossil fuels causing global warming, before the world stops using fossil fuels - Prof Myles Allen
11 November 2022
Climate Energy Physics Sustainability & the environment
We have to stop fossil fuels from causing global warming, before the world stops using fossil fuels, insists physicist and Professor of Geosystem Science Myles Allen, as he outlines an approach to reaching net zero by 2050.
COP27 must deliver fast action, swift justice and protect nature – Oxford experts
2 November 2022
In a series of powerful 'hopes' for Egypt, 20 leading researchers from across the University have recorded wishes and warnings in videos and written messages for the delegates to COP27.
It’s perfectly possible to remove CO2 from the atmosphere - Professor Myles Allen, the physicist behind net zero
1 November 2022
In the run-up to COP27, Myles Allen, Department of Physics and Environmental Change Institute, discusses more than two decades of work on climate change.
MPLS researchers amongst four from Oxford to be awarded £100,000 Philip Leverhulme prizes
21 October 2022
Award Climate Engineering Materials science Research Sustainability & the environment
Four researchers from across the University of Oxford, including two from the Department of Materials and the Department of Engineering Science, have been awarded Philip Leverhulme prizes – the largest number awarded to researchers of any single UK university.
Noise in the brain enables us to make extraordinary leaps of imagination. It could transform the power of computers too
20 October 2022
Climate Physics The Conversation
Professor Tim Palmer, Royal Society Research Professor in the Department of Physics, discusses how noise can improve the accuracy of climate models, and how noise in the brain is the key to creativity, in an article first published on the Conversation.
Study reveals new insights into how fast-moving glaciers may contribute to sea-level rise
14 October 2022
Climate Earth sciences Research
A new study from researchers at the University of Oxford and Columbia University, USA, has found existing models of sea-level rise, based on our understanding of how Earth’s ice sheets respond to a warming atmosphere, could be incorrect. The team's findings could have significant implications for future predictions of global sea-level rise.
New analysis of shipping emissions reveals that air pollution has a larger effect on climate than previously thought
6 October 2022
A group of researchers based at Oxford University’s Climate Processes Group has used novel methods of analysing satellite data to more accurately quantify the effect of human aerosol emissions on climate change. The results are published today in the journal Nature.
Decarbonising the energy system by 2050 could save trillions
15 September 2022
The new study shows that a fast transition to clean energy is cheaper than slow or no transition. It was conducted by a team at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Oxford Martin School, led by Professor Doyne Farmer of the Mathematical Institute.
Oxford to host net zero technology summit
1 September 2022
Climate Engineering Innovation and Enterprise Materials science Physics
A summit today at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government will explore and map how innovation can help the world to net zero, faster.
Studying past climate fluctuations shows how human-generated atmospheric CO2 is impacting natural climate rhythms
20 July 2022
Professor Rosalind Rickaby, Chair of Geology in the Department of Earth Sciences, takes a look at the way climate has naturally fluctuated over geological time, and compares that with the situation we face today, where climate change is disrupting this natural order and posing significant challenges such as extreme heatwaves.
New scholarships established to help students from developing countries tackle climate change
19 July 2022
A gift of £110,000 from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is enabling the creation of two new scholarships for students from developing countries accepted onto the University’s Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) in Environmental Research.
MPLS staff recognised at 2022 Vice-Chancellor’s Environmental Sustainability Awards
14 July 2022
Award Biology Chemistry Climate MPLS Sustainability & the environment Women in science Zoology
Members of MPLS departments were amongst those recognised at the University's seventh Environmental Sustainability Awards today, hosted by Vice Chancellor, Dame Professor Louise Richardson.