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Informing effective climate solutions for achieving net zero with the best available research from the @universityofoxford.bsky.social & international partners. https://netzeroclimate.org/.
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Hope amidst disappointment 🌎 Dr Aline Soterroni shares key takeaways from #COP30, where she has been sharing her research showing that "there is no net zero climate solution in Brazil without nature-based solutions..."

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November 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Launched today at COP30 in the Ukraine Pavilion: "Enabling and Ensuring a Net-Zero Aligned Carbon Market for Ukraine", by Kaya Axelsson, Ievgeniia Kopytsia, Injy Johnstone, Sindi Kuci & Bhavya Gupta.
November 18, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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“There is no net zero in Brazil without nature” -Dr Aline Soterroni at our #COP30 side event yesterday in Belém

A collaboration for biodiversity-climate synergies with @greenpeace.org @wwfbrasil.bsky.social @sosmataatlantica.bsky.social

Read the summary by @iisd.org ⬇️
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From Trade-offs to Synergies: Aligning Climate and Biodiversity Policies
What would it take to unite climate and biodiversity agendas? Speakers from science and policy stress that neither can succeed alone, urging collaboration, better data, and funding to bridge divides a...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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In the heart of the Amazon at COP30, Nathalie Seddon answers the question: 'If trees could talk, what would they say?'

Watch the full interview on WaterBear! For every minute spent watching the new series, a tree will be planted and protected 🌳
www.waterbear.com/title/watch-...
WaterBear: Nathalie Seddon
Live from COP30 in the heart of the Amazon, Professor Nathalie Seddon of Oxford University shares what the trees would say if they could speak: slow down, listen, and honor the...
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November 18, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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In the run-up to @cop30brazil.bsky.social, our Research Fellow Kaya Axelsson joined the Banzeiro da Esperança, or Boat of Hope, on its journey from Manaus to Belém. The boat brought indigenous people from all over the Amazon to present their community-based adaptation plans at COP.
November 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Our Directors Steve Smith & @samfankhauser.bsky.social have recently published great reports on CDR & renewables, respectively. Watch the video below for a short summary! To read the reports, go to www.stateofcdr.org/insight-repo... (CDR) & www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/sites/defaul... (renewables)
New report highlights the economic benefits of renewables and shows how community funds, co-ownership and inclusive consultation can transform the clean energy transition into a just transition. 
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November 17, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Cooling is vital — but emissions are soaring.
The Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Cooling has been turning evidence into action, shaping policy and piloting solutions for a more resilient future.

20 years of impact. Read one of our impact stories: www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/impact/impac...
November 14, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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🌍 The State of Net Zero 2025: From Commitments to Credibility 🌍

Join the Net Zero Tracker at COP30 for a high-impact discussion on what the latest 2025 Net Zero Stocktake reveals about global progress — and where credibility still falls short.
November 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Amazon researchers Dr Erika Berenguer (ECI) & Ane Alencar: “Putting out fires without prevention is a losing battle.”

They discuss Amazon fire impacts and gender barriers in this Sumaúma interview: tinyurl.com/bdhnjfmy

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November 14, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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UK will take a "fresh look" at contributing to Brazil TFFF fund to protect the world's rainforests, says top climate envoy
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UK to reconsider paying into Brazil TFFF fund to protect the world's rainforests
Britain’s climate envoy has said that the government will take a “fresh look” at paying into a new fund to protect the world’s rainforests, in a sign that a decision not to contribute could be reverse...
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November 14, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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COP30 kicks off in Belém! 🌎
From pledges to practice: why COP30 could mark a turning point towards justice, reciprocity and regeneration

Our team is on the ground working to connect research with policy and practice

Our hopes for COP30➡️ www.naturebasedsolutionsinitiative.org/news/belem-c...
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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As world leaders meet at #COP30 in the Amazon, can climate policy stay on track amid pushback in the US & Europe? 🌍

A new Oxford Climate Policy Monitor study – from the School & the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme – shows how nations’ laws align with climate goals. 👇
https://ow.ly/48Qi50XnUSY
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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🌍 🇧🇷 Brazil: clean power hero or fossil-fuel laggard?

A new FT piece highlights how Brazil, despite its world-leading clean electricity mix, is doubling down on oil exploration.

🔗 www.ft.com/content/f85a...
📑 For full trade-and-climate data see below:
zerotracker.net/analysis/bra...
November 7, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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🌎🇧🇷 Brazil can trade oil dependence for a clean export era

Brazil’s world-leading clean power mix anchors a once-in-a-generation opportunity to lead the low-carbon export economy — but rising oil dependence and deforestation risks could derail that progress.
zerotracker.net/analysis
November 6, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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🌍 The State of #NetZero 2025

Are you attending COP30 in Belem? If so please join us at our side event on what’s advancing — and what’s stalling — in the global race to net zero.

📅 15 November 2025
🕦 11:30–13:00 (Brasilia Standard Time)
📍 Side Event Room 3, Area C, Blue Zone
November 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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We are halfway through the Michaelmas term Oxford Energy Seminar Series. You can see the slides and recordings so far www.energy.ox.ac.uk/events/revie... and for our upcoming seminars for the rest of Michaelmas term 25, see our term card. www.energy.ox.ac.uk/about/
Slides & recordings | Oxford Energy
Oxford is addressing the major technical, social, economic and policy challenges of providing secure, affordable and sustainable energy for all. Work on different aspects of the energy challenge, whi...
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November 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Climate policy has proliferated globally:

- #ClimateFrameworkLaws have tripled since 2015.

- Climate councils have also tripled. @climatecouncils.bsky.social

- National climate policy tools are up seven-fold

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October 31, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Join us this Friday for a talk and book signing from local writer and ecologist, @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social

You can join us in person in the School of Geography or online. Reserve your place now: bookwhen.com/oxfordbiodiv...

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October 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Exclusive opportunity to hear from leading researchers, policymakers and civil society on: 🌳Enabling Opportunities for Forest Protection and Climate Action at COP30🌳
>>Tuesday 28th October

Limited places remaining, book here: bookwhen.com/oxfordbiodiv...
October 23, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Join us for a high-level science-to-policy dialogue ahead of #COP30, hosted by @ox.ac.uk & Embassy of Brazil. With Amb. Antonio Patriota, we'll explore forest conservation, climate, & the upcoming Tropical Forest Forever Facility launching soon. Don’t miss it! oxfordbiodiversitynetwork.bookwhen.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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NEW: Just 28% of nations have released plans for reversing nature loss a year after UN deadline

🐝8/17 megadiverse yet to produce their plans, called "NBSAPs"
🪲Includes Brazil, most biodiverse nation and COP30 host
🐜All G7 nations now have a plan, except for US

www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-jus...
October 22, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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ECI’s Myles Allen joins Brian Cox to ask: Will we survive climate change?

🎥 Will We Survive Climate Change? – A Question of Science with Brian Cox: www.youtube.com/watch?v=57x_...

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Will We Survive Climate Change? - A Question of Science with Brian Cox
YouTube video by The Francis Crick Institute
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October 16, 2025 at 9:01 AM
In recent years, carbon market laws, guidance & policies have proliferated. These are often ad-hoc, not harmonised & not net-zero aligned. In "Roadmap to Net-Zero Aligned Carbon Market Regulation", authors from Oxford & Climate Asset Management offer a framework for carbon market design & reform.
October 16, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Don't forget! This webinar is happening tomorrow at 12pm. If you're interested in CO2 removal, engagement & activism, come learn about a recent marine CO2 trial in St Ives & hear from people involved in the community response. Info below. ⬇️ @smithschool.ox.ac.uk @oxpolicyengaged.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM