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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.
Find out moreCOVID-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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COP26: successes, lessons and what’s next explored in new event series
Many people believed that the 26th meeting of the UN’s global climate summit (COP26) hosted in Glasgow in November 2021 was the world’s last best chance to get runaway climate change under control.
UK encourages UN Member States to undertake national cybersecurity capacity assessment
The call was made in a statement by the UK delegation to the United Nations Open Ended Working Group on Developments in the Field of ICTs in the Context of International Security at its first substantive session at the UN headquarters in New York.
Taxing meat can protect the environment
Taxing meat could be an important lever for aligning Western diets with environmental goals and can be designed such that low-income households and farmers are compensated.
Meat and dairy gobble up farming subsidies worldwide; it's bad for your health and the planet
The global food system is in disarray. Animal agriculture is a major driver of global heating, and as many as 12 million deaths from heart disease, stroke, cancers and diabetes are each year connected to eating the wrong things, like too much red and processed meat and too few fruits and vegetables.
Events
All EventsClimate, migration and cities
Due to expanding populations, including the influx of migrant from climate-affected regions, cities’ residents, infrastructure and services are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Indeed, many cities are already suffering from climate-related hazards including flooding, coastal erosion, heatwaves and landslides, and many more will have to face these risks in the future. Informal cities are at the forefront of these challenges.
Panel Discussion: "Fleshing out a future COP"
The food system generates around a third of human-made greenhouse gas emissions.
Tim Palmer and Charles Godfray in conversation: “Modelling climate change: predicting the future”
About The Oxford Martin School
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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Global Development
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Wildlife Trade
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Technological & Economic Change
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Deep Medicine
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Climate Pollutants
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Misinformation, Science and Media
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Pandemic Genomics
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Planetary Health
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