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Image description: a sign at a climate change protest On 2nd August 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a landmark report on the planet’s current environmental state, and as ever, it was not good news. In the first report of its kind since 1990, 234 scientists collaborated to reach the same damning […]
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Image Description: A picture of crowds of people in front of Hertford College buildings. Hertford College has today announced that it is committing to net-zero carbon emissions and a biodiversity net gain by 2030. The college has already embarked on short-term changes, and plans to imminently develop a long-term strategy. Short-term changes include reducing unnecessary […]
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Image Description: a picture of a silhouetted man wheeling a bike across Port Meadow on a hot day The Oxford Campaign for Climate Justice has launched a petition, and demanded that the University cut ties with the fossil fuel industry. A report, published by the campaign group today claims that the University of Oxford has received […]
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Image Description: A picture of the top of the Radcliffe Camera Oxford University will be participating in Fairtrade Fortnight from the 22nd of February to the 7th of March, an annual event across the country. Oxford University is a Fairtrade institution and many central university and college catering services provide and use Fairtrade products. This […]
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From mythology to modern scientific expeditions, the ocean has always been a source of both mystery and knowledge. Research has begun looking to the ocean more often to answer our toughest questions, from utilizing marine animals in medicinal breakthroughs to the newest point of focus: floating cities. Otherwise known as ‘Seasteading’, the concept of sustainable […]
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Oxford University has passed an ‘historic’ motion requiring its endowment fund to divest from all direct investments in fossil fuel companies. The move comes after sustained campaigning from student activists. The motion also bans future investment in funds that primarily hold stock in fossil fuel companies, and requires endowment managers to request evidence of plans […]
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Since 2pm on Wednesday, the Front Quad of St. John’s college has been occupied by University students, protesting the College’s investment of around £8.1 million in fossil fuels companies – including BP and Shell. Yesterday evening, I was able to gain access to the college, and spent time with the students demonstrating on the Quad, […]
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Image description: scenes from the protest on Monday evening The Oxford Climate Justice Campaign disrupted a recruitment event held by Glencore on Monday night. Glencore is one of the world’s largest natural resource companies and the Climate Justice Campaign described them as “climate criminals”. The official event, organised and advertised by the University careers service, […]
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The city council has revealed that 80% of Oxford’s emissions comes from buildings, with the University being the biggest contributor. The findings came from the council’s Climate Emergency Strategy Support report, released in September 2019. Among the buildings sector, the institutional buildings sub-sector is responsible for over 25% of the city’s total emissions. This is […]
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Oxford City Council is to become the first UK local authority to establish a citizen’s assembly with the aim of helping address the issue of climate change, by considering the measures that should be taken in Oxford. This follows the unanimous declaration by Oxford City Council members of a ‘climate emergency’, in a decision that […]
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It is estimated that between 1000-1500 young people marched through Oxford’s streets to demand more action be taken against climate change. The rally was a part of a series of demonstrations that have taken place up and down the country as part of the ‘Youth Strike 4 climate’ movement. Climate change has become an increasingly […]
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The widespread Gilets Jaunes, or “Yellow Vests” protests in France have entered their fifth week with no sign of ending. And with Macron’s approval rating having fallen to 18%, their success seems only to be accelerating. What started as a spontaneous appearance of protests by ordinary people across the country, furious about a regressive fuel […]
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Image Credit: 2 Degrees Institute/http://www.methanelevels.org Since the target to limit global temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius was set in the Paris Climate agreement, those in politics have focused their attention on the notorious and vilified CO2. But what about Methane? There is no doubt that those in the scientific community have known about the […]
Continue ReadingIn his famous allegory of the cave Plato suggests that there are a group of people, prisoners, facing a wall, unable to direct their vision at anything else. Behind them lies reality, which has its true form projected onto the wall the prisoners are doomed to watch indefinitely. The prisoners only see the shadows and […]
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The most powerful man in the world, as of next January, thinks climate change is a ‘hoax’. Scary, isn’t it? But will his four year tenure as President of the United States give Donald Trump the muscle to hold back the green surge? For the majority of world leaders in developed or developing countries, the […]
Continue ReadingAccording to climate scientists at Oxford University, heavy storms, such as the one that caused devastating flooding in the South of England in the winter of 2013/2014, are heavily facilitated by climate change. Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions increase the risk of extreme floods by more than 40 per cent, the researchers found. As temperatures keep […]
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At the Paris Climate Conference Cameron declared “we should be taking action against climate change today”, but this virtue is not reflected in his domestic policy. In the eight months since their election the Tories have made drastic changes to the energy sector with far-reaching consequences. These changes are troubling for any hopes of a […]
Continue ReadingA group of Oxford dons has found that media coverage of climate change has little effect on the public’s views. The study, carried out between the Oxford group and staff at Princeton University in the United States, compared the number of searches for climate change-related issues on popular search engine Google over a period of […]
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