The University of Oxford’s Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment has identified the coal companies that breach Norway’s recently announced 30% divestment threshold. Norway was criticized by many for not actually divesting from coal companies, despite its 2014 promise. However, within days of such criticism, the Norwegian Parliament announced its … [continued]
The global push towards fossil fuel divestment continues, especially on university campuses, with the University of Oxford set to rule on whether to divest from fossil fuel investments. With an endowment worth approximately £3.8 billion, the University of Oxford is the second richest university in the UK (after the University of … [continued]
Physicist Robert Davies started out his science career working on quantum optics at the University of Oxford in England. His interest in climate change began when he noticed the Environmental Change Institute, right down the road from his lab. Seeing a broad gap between what science knows and what the public … [continued]
In a world where the renewable energy solution to climate change is a problem bogged down in politics and economics, geoengineering can sometimes look like the perfect solution. As the University of Leeds puts it, “deliberate, large-scale intervention in the Earth’s climate system” sounds wonderful — especially if it bypasses … [continued]
Originally published on CleanTechnica sister site Ecopreneurist. An easy-to-manufacture, thin-film solar cell with a higher than 15% conversion efficiency was recently created by researchers at the University of Oxford through the use of a newly emerging type of semiconductor referred to as “perovskites.” The new devices are simple enough that … [continued]
