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today’s data from Oxford’s Net Zero Tracker shows, in the 25 highest emitting regions: 60% of companies and over 80% of cities and regions still do not have a net zero target

UN report calls for non-state emissions action: as new data shows 60% of top businesses have no net zero target

Climate change
Environment
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What is going on now, where Democrats and Republicans are coming from seemingly implacably opposed positions, could really be described as a ‘cold civil war’ – and a far bigger threat than there has been in 150 years

Expert Comment. American midterms: Is compromise possible amid the 'cold civil war'?

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Politicisation is a problem for climate policymakers

Expert Comment: European public opinion on climate change has become politicised

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Research
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In a series of powerful ‘hopes’ for Egypt, 20 leading researchers from across the university, have recorded wishes and warnings in videos and written messages for the delegates to COP27. Credit: Shutterstock

COP27 must deliver fast action, swift justice and protect nature – Oxford experts

Climate change
Environment
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Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
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Pathways to get to clean energy systems depend a lot on how feasible they are in each African country

Africa needs country-specific narratives for a clean energy future - study

Climate
Environment
Research
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Terracotta in the first emperor mausoleum china

Horse Power: €10 million for project in which Terracotta warriors meet the ancient Mongolian state

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Radcliffe Square, Oxford. Credit: Shutterstock

Four Oxford researchers win £100,000 Philip Leverhulme prizes

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Remote work flows to urban centres. These are the places where highly skilled labour is concentrated. The economic tale of the ’booming metropolis’ and the ’broken provincial city’ plays out fully in the platform economy. Credit: Shutterstock

Remote digital platform working is great, if you live in a city - Oxford study

Social Sciences
Girls in India: The report shows there were major reductions in poverty in India. In 15 years, the numbers of MPI poor reduced from 55% of the population to some 16%. Credit: Shutterstock.

Poverty rate in India was slashed, says report, but globally 1.2bn still poor

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Social Sciences
The scale of life expectancy losses during the COVID-19 pandemic in Eastern Europe were akin to those last seen at the break-up of the Soviet Union, according to the research

COVID-19 continued to hit life expectancy in 2021 in unvaccinated populations and Eastern Europe

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Social Sciences

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