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The Oxford Martin School brings together the best minds from different fields to tackle the most pressing issues of the 21st century.
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This century, specifically the next few decades, is a critical turning point for humanity. Our community of more than 200 academics, work across more than 30 programmes of solutions-focused, pioneering research. We support novel and high-risk projects that often do not fit within conventional funding channels, with the belief that breaking boundaries and innovative collaborations can help to solve the most pressing global challenges of our time.
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All NewsPolicy action from world leaders can accelerate a Just energy transition
The 2022 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report insists that we have options in all sectors to at least halve emissions by 2030, but the aim to limit global warming to less than 1.5 degrees is not going to happen unless radical steps are taken.
African Governance: economic, social and political governance challenges explored in new event series.
The economic, social and political governance challenges for sub-Saharan Africa remain immense. In 2018 40% of the population were living below the US$1.90-a-day poverty line, a situation which will have only become worse due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, the area is expecting to experience a youth bulge, in the face of growing economic uncertainties.
Can news help? New evidence on the links between news use and misinformation
"Our findings challenge the notion that, by drawing attention to false content, news leave people more misinformed," writes Rasmus Nielsen
Open letter calls for enforcement so that “toothless” Environment Act protects the English countryside
Leading ecologists, conservationists and biodiversity specialists from the Universities of Oxford, Kent, Exeter and Bangor have today published an open letter calling on the government to close gaps in the Environment Act 2021 that could undermine its ability to protect and restore nature, and reverse wildlife loss in England.
Events
All Events"The competitive disadvantages facing British assetless electricity retailers" with Lawrence Haar
From the outset of deregulation and privatisation of UK electricity markets, the desired extent of vertical integration has been debated.
"The Great Carbon Arbitrage" with Alissa Kleinnijenhuis
We measure the gains from phasing out coal as the social cost of carbon times the quantity of avoided emissions.
'Tropical plant diversity, biogeography and conservation: a multi-biome approach' with Prof Toby Pennington
When addressing what is special about species diversity in the tropics, the gaze of science, conservation and the general public is on tropical rain forests.
COVID-19: our research
Many of the Oxford Martin School’s researchers are involved in the urgent global effort to understand novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and its health, economic and social impacts. Some of our leading researchers are also involved in the UK government response to the pandemic.
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Wildlife Trade
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Technological & Economic Change
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Deep Medicine
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Misinformation, Science and Media
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Pandemic Genomics
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Future of Plastics
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Informal Cities
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Agile Initiative
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