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Net zero targets now cover two thirds of the global economy, according to a report today from Oxford Net Zero and the ECIU – even though it was only a decade ago that Oxford climate scientists first showed the need to reach net zero emissions

Net Zero pledges go global, now action needs to follow words - Oxford-ECIU report

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Environment
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Oxford’s ambitious Environmental Sustainability Strategy is approved

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Climate change
Environment
Policy
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A puffin on Røst in Norway bringing small herring larvae for its chick

Lack of prey is causing puffin chicks to starve leading to population declines

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Slashing research funding is a blow to Global Britain

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Funding
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Policy
Oxford coronavirus vaccine researcher Katie Ewer inspects samples in the lab

USA, Chile and Peru interim trial data show Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is safe and highly effective

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Credit: Shutterstock. One in five children in low-income countries lives in extreme poverty, while declining living standards over the last decade has resulted in a quarter of children in the UK now being affected by poverty.

Oxford awarded major funding to probe childhood poverty and social inequalities

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Research
Photo | Researcher working on immunology in the lab

Existing vaccines may protect against the Brazilian coronavirus variant

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COVID-19 vaccine
Credit: Shutterstock. The effects of this loss of contact and disruption to family relationships [between prisoners and their children] are likely to be long term and will affect family reunification and resettlement after imprisonment.

Thousands of children have not seen parents for a year: hidden impact of COVID on prisoners’ families

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Coronavirus
Credit: Shutterstock. In Sub-Saharan Africa many twins will lose their co-twin in the first year of life. That represents two to three hundred thousand lost twins, each one a personal tragedy - Professor Christiaan Monden.

Twin Peaks: Record international number of twin births

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Research
“L.Slater, 1-2 Feb 2018”

Major floods increased in temperate climates but decreased elsewhere: Oxford study

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