COP29 concluded with a last-minute deal decried as inadequate by developing nations.

From finance to carbon markets to youth demands, was any progress made in pushing forward international climate action at COP29? Or was it all “too little too late”?

In this panel discussion, members of Oxford University's COP29 delegation will share their perspectives on the summit and what the outcome means for the future of global action on climate change.

Panel:

• Professor Sam Fankhauser (Chair), Professor of Climate Change and Economic Policy, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment & School of Geography and the Environment
• Professor Thomas Hale, Professor of Global Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government
• Dr Injy Johnstone, Research Fellow in Net Zero Aligned Offsetting, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment
• Jodi-Ann Wang, DPhil Candidate in International Development, University of Oxford & Policy Fellow, LSE Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
• Ushika Kidd and Flora Prideaux, Co-Presidents, Oxford Climate Society

This talk is in conjunction with Oxford Climate Research Network

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Professor Sam Fankhauser (Chair)
Professor of Climate Change and Economic Policy, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment & School of Geography and the Environment

Sam Fankhauser is Professor of Climate Economics and Policy at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford, and Research Director of Oxford Net Zero. He is also an Official Fellow of Reuben College, where he leads the college’s environmental change theme, and a Research Director for the Oxford Martin Initiative on a Net Zero Recovery.

Before moving to Oxford, Sam was Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics. He has also worked at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the World Bank and the Global Environment Facility. He was an inaugural member of the UK Climate Change Committee and a Non-Executive Director of CDC Group (now British International Investment), the UK’s development finance institution.

Professor Thomas Hale
Professor of Global Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government

Professor Thomas Hale is Professor of Global Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, and Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Net Zero Regulation and Policy. His research explores how we can manage transnational problems effectively and fairly. He seeks to explain how political institutions evolve – or not – to face the challenges raised by globalisation and interdependence, with a particular emphasis on environmental, economic and health issues.

Professor Hale leads the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker and co-leads the Net Zero Tracker.

Dr Injy Johnstone
Research Fellow in Net Zero Aligned Offsetting, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment

Injy is a Research Fellow in Net-Zero Aligned Offsetting at the University of Oxford and an Associate Member of St Antony’s College. She is a Stripe Climate Fellow, sits on the UNFCCC’s Article 6.4 Expert Roster, the GRI’s technical sub-group on carbon credits, the GHG Protocol’s Actions and Market Instruments Technical Working Group and the advisory boards of the Carbon Coalition and C-Naught. In 2024 she was a lead author of the second version of the State of CDR Report & the revised Oxford Offsetting Principles.

Jodi-Ann Wang
DPhil Candidate in International Development, University of Oxford & Policy Fellow, LSE Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.

Jodi-Ann Wang is a PhD candidate at the Oxford Department of International Development, researching financialisation and climate justice. She is also a Policy Fellow at the LSE Grantham Research Institute, where she leads a work program on global just transition policies. She is a contact point for climate finance for the children and youth constituency to the UNFCCC this year.

Ushika Kidd
Co-President, Oxford Climate Society

Ushika is a third-year undergraduate Human Scientist focusing on the interface between the climate crisis and health, and co-President of Oxford Climate Society, where she actions her beliefs in interdisciplinary education and grassroots-level collaboration

Flora Prideaux
Co-President, Oxford Climate Society

Flora is one of the co-presidents of the Oxford Climate Society and a third-year history student at Somerville College. As a 20-year-old undergraduate, she was honored to represent young people and coordinate with other youth delegates at COP. She focused on organising meetings with UK ministers to discuss domestic climate policies and UK involvement in COP negotiations. She also worked to ‘demystify’ COP through videos, social media, and written pieces.

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