This book sets out the building blocks of an economic approach to biodiversity, and in particular brings together conceptual and empirical work on valuation, international agreements, the policy instruments, and the institutions. The objective is to provide a comprehensive overview of the issues and evidence, and to suggest how this very urgent problem should be addressed.
A team of Oxford MBA graduates have secured $20m in follow-on funding for their social venture M-KOPA Solar, whose solar home systems are sold to off-grid households in Kenya on an affordable 12-month mobile money payment plan.
Oxford Institute for Energy Studies has been named the top Energy and Resource Policy Think Tank in the world by the University of Pennsylvania’s annual think tank report.
Chancellor George Osborne has announced £30m of Government funding as part of a total investment of £67m in four innovation centres across Oxfordshire.
A gathering of senior representatives of the oil and gas industry, energy companies, finance, parliament, government, and other organi- sations and stakeholders, is cautious about direct comparisons with US shale gas developments and about the impact of UK shale on gas prices. Participants warned that the impacts of fracking need to be communicated openly, to dampen overblown expectations and avoid brand damage to the industry.
Oxford’s Solar PV researcher Henry Snaith is among the top 10 of Nature’s 2013 Most Important People of the Year.
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Oxford University is set to benefit from a £10 million investment in a new environmental science training programme, leading one of 15 Doctoral Training Partnerships (DTPs) across the country.
Following a 2012 ‘breakthrough for perovskite cells’ by Oxford physicist Henry Snaith and colleagues, Science (11/9/13) reported that Henry and his team ‘have delivered another surprise…the cells are just as efficient if constructed using the same method as cheap thin-film silicon cells. What’s more, the simple layered cell converts more than 15% of sunlight to electricity – equal to the record for perovskite cells, set just two months ago for a nanostructured device’.