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Mitigating damage

Carbon neutral and net zero targets play a key role in limiting the effects of climate change. The research gathered below explores how we achieve those goals and other things we need to understand and do to prevent further damage.  

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Professor Aoife Nolan explains why social sciences research, law, and her work on international law in particular, are essential to create a sustainable future.  

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  1. SUMMARY: Developing the world's first biodiversity credit standards
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    This short article summarises a new £1 million project, led by University of Nottingham researchers, on the development of the world's first biodiversity credit standards. This framework will enable businesses and governments to quantify their impacts on the natural world.
  2. Podcast: The Ethics of Climate Finance
    Description
    Matthew Rendall joins Ben to talk about the ethics of financing climate change solutions. Is it justifiable to fund greenhouse gas mitigation through deficit spending? Matthew brings Ben up to speed on his latest research.
  3. SHORT ARTICLE: The great outdoors – reimagining teaching and learning
    Description
    After the world started opening up again post-Covid, and our relationship with the outdoors had been reimagined, Dr Jenny Elliott started working with a small group of colleagues from within the School of Education to think about the potential for developing an outdoor learning and community space on Jubilee Campus.
  4. SHORT ARTICLE: Paying for the transition to sustainable energy
    Description
    Energy security, climate change, sustainable energy and the transition to renewable energy are linked topics. Increasingly, the preferred policy direction across the globe is to promote renewable energy options, in order to tackle climate change and create a sustainable economy while maintaining energy security.
  5. SUMMARY: Understanding how to conserve plant diversity
    Description
    This short article summarises research discovering new patterns of plant diversity. The study produced, for the first time, global maps of local plant biodiversity, based on field surveys around the world, transforming our understanding of how to conserve this vital resource.
  6. SHORT ARTICLE: Exploring the Rights of Children and Future Generations
    Description
    This short article examines the importance of the relationship between children's rights and future generations' rights for International Human Rights Law.
  7. Video: Discounting, climate change and the ecological fallacy
    Description
    Does the assumption that future generations will be overall better off justify discounting future damages away? In this video, Matthew Rendall discusses the implications of ignoring the costs on climate change.
  8. SHORT ARTICLE: We need to talk about haze
    Description
    The recent IPCC Working Group 1 report has made it clear that the climate crisis is not fundamentally a challenge of science but a challenge of our beliefs, commitments and actions. The UN Secretary General commented that "the evidence is irrefutable" and that the report sets out "a clear moral … imperative to protect the lives and livelihoods of those on the front lines of the climate crisis". With morality at the heart of the crisis, the question then arises: which organisations can help direct such action at the scale and speed required to avert climate catastrophe?
  9. SHORT ARTICLE: Addressing Modern Slavery
    Description
    Modern slavery has increasingly been linked to the environment; in particular environmental degradation and climate change. Modern slavery can be a driver of environmental change as well an outcome – changes in the environment can push people into situations where they may become vulnerable to modern slavery and vice versa. To address climate change, the impacts of modern slavery must be accounted for.
  10. SHORT ARTICLE: Faith for a Safe Climate Future
    Description
    The recent IPCC Working Group 1 report has made it clear that the climate crisis is not fundamentally a challenge of science but a challenge of our beliefs, commitments and actions. The UN Secretary General commented that "the evidence is irrefutable" and that the report sets out "a clear moral … imperative to protect the lives and livelihoods of those on the front lines of the climate crisis". With morality at the heart of the crisis, the question then arises: which organisations can help direct such action at the scale and speed required to avert climate catastrophe?
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