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Dr Tina Fawcett is the new Oxford Energy Network Convenor

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We are pleased to welcome Dr Tina Fawcett, Acting Energy Programme Lead and Associate Professor Energy Programme in the Environmental Change Institute as the new Oxford Energy Network Convenor with immediate effect. Tina’s research focusses mainly on energy use by households and organisat...

Ofgem’s Consumer Vulnerability strategy refresh

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The Centre for Sustainable Energy responds to Ofgem’s consultation and emphasises the critical importance of ensuring the transition to a green, smart and net zero energy system doesn’t leave people in vulnerable circumstances behind.

Why big oil and gas firms might want the Paris agreement to survive

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ExxonMobil chief executive Darren Woods has urged president-elect Donald Trump to not take the US out of the Paris agreement on climate change. “We need a global system for managing emissions”, he said in an interview at the annual UN climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Redefining net zero will not stop global warming – scientists say

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A new study, led by Professor Myles Allen, Department of Physics and co-authored by a University of Bristol scientist was published on 18th November in Nature. An international group of authors, who developed the science behind net zero, demonstrate that relying on ‘natural carbon sinks’ like...