🌍⚖️ In NatureClimate, we argue that we have reached the limits of voluntary climate action and need to move towards rigorous, cohesive, and fair ground rules to overcome the obstructionism that holds back a just climate transition.🧵

👉 Paper: rdcu.be/dD5T3

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New publication finds achieving net zero requires turning voluntary action into rigorous, cohesive, and fair ground rules for the economy.

Read the paper: nature.com/articles/s4155…

Learn about the Net Zero Regulation and Policy programme: oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/net-zero-regul…

Academics at #OxfordSmithSchool Oxford Martin School Oxford Net Zero called for rigorous netzero ‘ground rules’ – encompassing laws, regulation & policy – to be implemented and enforced across the world, in an article published in nature
#ClimateChange  today.
smithschool.ox.ac.uk/oxford-sustain…

Moving towards a #netzero future, the role of governments and regulators becomes increasingly crucial. With companies voluntarily pledging net-zero targets, there’s an ‘implementation gap’ where the limits of voluntary action become clear. 1/2
ox.ac.uk/news/2024-04-0…

Grateful to Andrew Tuch for his reflections in Jotwell on the joint paper with Luca Enriques and John Armour (@OxfordLawFac) about firms' commitment mechanisms to climate targets. [1/2]

corp.jotwell.com/climate-consci…..

'This important report highlights what should have been obvious long ago: nature-related risks are not distinct from other financial risks, and should therefore be considered by directors in furtherance of their legal duties.' -@thomwetzer (@UniofOxford Oxford Sustainable Law Programme)

A few more days left to apply (deadline: noon UK time, March 8)!

We are delighted to share an interview with Dr Benjamin Franta, Founding Head of the Climate Litigation Lab and Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Sustainable Law Programme, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford.

Watch the full interview: cityandfinancialglobal.com/climate-change…

#ClimateRisks

🚨 A little over a week left to apply to become Oxford Sustainable Law Programme's Programme Manager!

🌍⚖️ This is a key leadership role in our rapidly-expanding programme, which offers significant opportunity for impact in the global law and sustainability space.

👇 Details in the 🧵 below:

We are hiring our first-ever Programme Manager!

We are looking for a transformative leader and operator to take our work to the next level. You will work with a phenomenal, genuinely global team at the University of Oxford and beyond on fascinating and high-impact questions. Details 👇

🌍⚖️ We are hiring an entrepreneurial leader and operator to become the first-ever Programme Manager for the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme, helping our dynamic team to scale and deepen its global impact through its research, teaching, and engagement. Details below! [1/7]

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' #oliandgas companies could be on the hook for trillions of dollars in payouts from climate lawsuits — but few investors or regulators are accounting for that risk, according to a new study.' POLITICO Oxford Sustainable Law Programme Faculty of Law @thomwetzer Rupert Stuart-Smith
subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews…

Our new Oxford Sustainable Law Programme research in Science Magazine with Thom Wetzer and Arjuna Dibley - science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

More here: twitter.com/RupertS_Smith/…

and twitter.com/ThomWetzer/sta…

Companies could be liable for trillions in damages from climate lawsuits but few investors and regulators are taking these risks into account, according to research in Science Magazine by Sustainable Finance Hub Head Arjuna Dibley and Oxford Sustainable Law Programme.

go.unimelb.edu.au/mi68

Polluting companies could be liable for trillions in damages from climate lawsuits. But few investors and regulators are taking these risks into account when evaluating companies' climate-related financial risks, according to new Oxford Sustainable Law Programme research. phys.org/news/2024-01-i…

NEW: Investors are 'flying blind' to risk of climate lawsuits, according to research from the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme research.

The study calls for an overhaul in how climate litigation risks are assessed & provides a new framework for doing so.
ox.ac.uk/news/2024-01-1…

2400+ climate lawsuits have been filed worldwide, but how do these cases affect companies' financial risk exposure? Existing assessments barely account for legal action.

In Science Magazine Thom Wetzer Arjuna Dibley and I explain how this can be done.

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Polluting companies could be liable for trillions in damages from #climatelawsuits . But few investors and regulators are taking these risks into account when evaluating companies’ climate-related financial risks.
smithschool.ox.ac.uk/news/investors…

'Flying blind': Investors are underestimating their exposure to climate lawsuits, study warns
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🌍⚖️ Our latest research, out in Science Magazine, highlights the critical role of legal analysis to understanding climate-related financial risk.

🎉 Congratulations to Thom Wetzer, Rupert Stuart-Smith, and Arjuna Dibley.

👇 More information below!