Christiana Figueres at the Oxford Martin School - ‘Welcome to the family of stubborn optimism’

Christiana Figueres, former UNFCCC Executive Secretary and member of The Rockefeller Foundation Economic Council on Planetary Health at the Oxford Martin School lit up Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre with passion, logic and optimism as she delivered the 2018 James Martin Memorial Lecture.

New methane emissions metric proposed for climate change policy

A new paper published today has outlined a better way to think about how methane and other gases contribute to greenhouse gas emissions budgets. This is an important step towards evaluating the warming from methane emissions when developing strategies to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement.

Plant-based diets could save millions of lives and dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions

A global switch to diets that rely less on meat and more on fruit and vegetables could save up to 8 million lives by 2050, reduce greenhouse gas emissions by two thirds, and lead to healthcare-related savings and avoided climate damages of $1.5 trillion (US) , Oxford Martin School researchers have found.