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Designing coal retirement for ambition and scale

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Greenhouse gas emissions need to be reduced by 60% by 2035 to preserve the 1.5°C goals of the Paris Agreement. But global coal power capacity continues to grow. Countries must use this critical year to accelerate the global exit from coal. While the OECD has made progress in phasing out exist...

How is the University of Oxford addressing the climate crisis?

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On Earth Day 2025, Oxford launched its Climate and the Environment campaign. From now through to COP30, the campaign will showcase cutting-edge work through explainers, news stories, global events, social media, video, insights, expert profiles, policy briefings and more.

Is the UK’s energy storage growing fast enough?

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Britain’s booming green energy generation has a costly side-effect: the national electricity system operator has had to compensate wind turbine operators that could have produced more clean electricity than the grid could take.

Can digital technologies help sustainable consumption?

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Felippa Amanta, DPhil student, along with Dr Emilie Vrain and Dr Marina Topouzi, both researchers at the Environmental Change Institute (ECI), recently explored this question at the SCORAI (Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative) European Union Conference in Lund, Sweden. The even...