New: UK electricity bills must be fairer, not just lower.
Households already face big differences in what they pay 👉by region, payment type & housing quality. With new reforms coming, low-income homes could be hit hardest unless protections are introduced.
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"When colleagues & I interviewed people (...) about the act a few years ago, they emphasised the predictable process, the clear rules on accountability & the evidence-based discourse it has enabled." @samfankhauser.bsky.social @theconversation.com theconversation.com/tory-plan-to...
From today's #DailyNewsDigest📰: "Badenoch’s announcement that the Conservatives will repeal the 2008 Climate Change Act if they win the next general election has the potential to be a major own goal..." – @samfankhauser.bsky.social | @theconversation.com
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📣 The deadline for applications to our Associate Editor role has been extended to 14th September 🕑 ❗
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We’re thrilled that @samfankhauser.bsky.social from @smithschool.ox.ac.uk has joined the Advisory Board of our Centre for Private Finance in Development!
Sam will help us shape new thinking about how to mobilise more private capital for development & close the development financing gap.
What share of new car sales are electric?
Here are a selection of countries for 2024 👇
Explore more here: ourworldindata.org/grapher/elec...
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What's current in REEP (@ReepAere.bsky.social)?
"Climate Change Mitigation Policies for Developing Countries" by Juliette Caucheteux, Sam Fankhauser (@samfankhauser.bsky.social), & Sugandha Srivastav
Read article from the Winter '25 issue: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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The unequivocal case for net zero green growth by @samfankhauser.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
In their latest article, @samfankhauser.bsky.social & Gita Briel highlight the crucial shift needed in the approach to LMICs #ClimateFinance
Article sponsor: @ccgprogramme.bsky.social
The Tony Blair Institute has now issued a statement (pic) saying the UK govt is "already pursuing" the solutions it highlights – CCS, new nuclear, etc – and that "we support the govt's 2050 net-zero targets"
The wildly inaccurate media coverage will now be corrected, right?
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🚨Job alert! The amazing Oxford Net Zero Engagement Team is recruiting for a Serviced Emissions Research & Engagement Manager! Deadline: 12pm on May 16th. Read more: netzeroclimate.org/job-opening-... @oxfordsmithschool.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social @samfankhauser.bsky.social
It cannot be said often enough. Clean energy makes both economic and environmental sense. @oxfordsmithschool.bsky.social
The Oxford EARTH programme (Ensuring equitable Access to sustainable Resources for a Thriving Habitat) aims to address the challenges in natural resources underpinning the net zero energy transition.
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The University of Oxford has secured the top place in the QS World University Rankings 2025 in three subjects: English Language and Literature, and Anatomy and Physiology and Geography.
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The UK’s net zero economy now generates £83.1 billion in GVA and has grown 10% in the past year, new report has found.
Commenting on findings, Louise Hellem, Chief Economist at the CBI Economics said: “It is clear, you can’t have growth without green."
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Keynote event coming up on Tuesday 11th March 2025 @ 17:00 GMT ➤ Sustainability, prosperity & global decision-making in the age of ecological scarcity with visiting fellow Ed Barbier
🛜Hybrid event at @oxmartinschool.bsky.social
🔗Registration link ➤ www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/ecolo...
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If you're an early career researcher - perhaps based in a fledgling authoritarian state - and want an out, @britishacademy.bsky.social offer 2-year fellowships to come to a UK university (including relocation costs and research funds).
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...
This new policy brief co-authored by @samfankhauser.bsky.social and Noah Mihan, identifies 32 key GOP Members of the US House of Representatives who are most likely to oppose a full-scale repeal of the IRA's #CleanEnergy subsidies. www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/sites/defaul...
Most low and middle-income countries have climate targets, but what climate policies are best suited to their socio-economic and institutional contexts? A new paper in Review of Environmental Economics and Policy reviews the state of knowledge.
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Join ONZ Research Director @samfankhauser.bsky.social, Co-Investigator @thomasnhale.bsky.social & Fellow Injy Johnstone, along with other Oxford colleagues, for this lunchtime COP29 debrief on 21 Jan. Sign up to attend in person or online. ⬇️
Great to see @samfankhauser.bsky.social interview with @economictimes.bsky.social about his latest work on the #EnergyTransition in the #GlobalSouth, soon to be launched at #COP29:
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@samfankhauser.bsky.social talks about what is COP | And he will be in person, launching The #RenewableEnergy entrepreneurs of the #GlobalSouth report during #COP29 - are you around? Register for our in-person event below 👇
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Labour’s first budget is promoting UK industry as much as net zero. It’s a bold bet. Joint commentary with Anupama Sen in @uk.theconversation.com
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Super-rapid @wwattribution.bsky.social rapid attribution study on Hurricane Milton shows that poor Floridans and US taxpayers are footing the bill for the failure to stop burning coal, oil and gas. Again. www.worldweatherattribution.org/yet-another-...
We will hear from Rachel Kyte, @samfankhauser.bsky.social, Thomas Hale and Alexis McGivern. This live virtual event is a must for media professionals, policymakers, business leaders and others interested to hear from thought leaders and experts in the field. #greensky #climatesky
Climate change was a key driver of Hurricane Helene, and is for Milton, and was for all other recent hurricanes - the US needs to prepare for previously unimaginable disasters (not just storm-related). New @wwattribution.bsky.social study: www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...
