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Prof Charlotte Williams elected to Royal Society

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Professor Charlotte Williams, Lead Researcher on the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Plastics, is among six University of Oxford Academics to have joined the Royal Society as Fellows. The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world’s most eminent scientists, living and worki...

Thirty years of UK climate mitigation

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In April 1989, the UK Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, convened a full cabinet meeting on climate change addressed by leading scientists. The presentation on mitigation of carbon dioxide emissions was made by the Head of the Energy Technology Support Unit (ETSU), Ken Currie. It identified the k...