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2 Feb, 5 tweets, 4 min read
🚨 OPPORTUNITY KLAXON 🚨

Do you want to join @OxfordNetZero? We're hiring! Be a key part of our new @oxforduni initiative to research and engage on how we end #globalwarming

jobs.ac.uk/enhanced/linki…

We have seven exciting roles to fill... 🧵
Core to @OxfordNetZero will be four #ONZ Fellows - emerging research leaders & team players in these areas:

* Net Zero Politics in the Global South🌏👨‍👨‍👦‍👦
* Geological Carbon Storage 🪨🌊
* Law & Governance of Net Zero🏦
* Nature-based Solutions🌳🐒

jobs.ac.uk/enhanced/linki…

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Also vital will be a skilled and enthusiastic Programme Manager (it's not all about the academics!). You will work closely with me, @SamFankahuser and Myles Allen, and I will consider you to be THE most important person in @OxfordNetZero 💪

jobs.ac.uk/enhanced/linki…

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And currently two other roles to research #NetZero topics with the @OxfordNetZero team:

* The carbon cycle and net zero
* Scenarios and business models for negative emissions

There will be more...

jobs.ac.uk/enhanced/linki…

(4/5)
Please share these far and wide. We are keen to welcome talented people who may not consider themselves "Oxford types", and we will support flexible working.

jobs.ac.uk/enhanced/linki…

Deadline 1 March 12:00 UK time ⏰

(5/5)

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4 Feb
How to manage the inclusion of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) measures in climate targets? I have a comment on it out today in @CommsEarth:

nature.com/articles/s4324…

It's open access, but here's the Twitter-friendly version...🧵
Several papers and reports have flagged that "net-zero" targets allow some level of CDR to balance out residual emissions, and worry that this could dilute action in various ways. They propose that the way to fix this is to keep separate targets for emissions and removals.
This isn't a theoretical argument, it's live now. The UK and other have set net zero targets; the EU is actively thinking about whether/how to include CDR.

nature.com/articles/d4158…
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29 Sep 20
Today we @UniofOxford have published some principles for #netzero aligned carbon offsetting: smithschool.ox.ac.uk/publications/r…

Here's a summary...

[THREAD]
First, some background:

Carbon offsetting is the reduction of your own balance of emissions by gaining credit for certified emission reduction or removal carried out by another actor.
It's not for everyone. Objections exist, both on grounds of ethics (is it right?) and practice (does it work?). But offsetting is widespread and set to grow as countries, cities and businesses all strive to set and meet #netzero targets...
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25 Jun 20
A key @theCCCuk chart on whether the UK is on track.

They may not want to say this, but might the 5th Carbon Budget be in the bag despite the lack of policy progress? (1/n)

theccc.org.uk/publication/re… Image
The projection on the above chart was made in 2018. Very much pre-lockdown. The CCC report notes that estimates for UK 2020 emissions now range from a 2% to a 13% decline on 2019.

(2/n)
If we start from a 2 or 13% reduction in 2020 and continue the 2018 projections forward, you get the range within the dark blue dotted lines here:

(3/n) Image
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1 Jun 20
Good overview of government's announcement on emissions trading here 👇
Some interesting stuff about removal technologies in there - government realising they will likely be important for net zero. Not in scope for now but name checked as a topic to come back to in review (as soon as 2023).
It's an intriguing question how to include removals in an emissions scheme - is it the best way to get them to scale up, or will it lead to unexpected bad things? Responses to the consultation are divided. Would be a good topic for some clever researchers to look at.
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3 Jan 20
Today seems a great day to mention that I, a climate scientist, am leaving the civil service!

(And no, clearly not top 20 😅)
In February I am joining Oxford University to start up an exciting new research effort in greenhouse gas removals (#GGR #NETs #CDR...). And no doubt other things around #NetZero, science & policy, etc. @TheSmithSchool @oxmartinschool
@TheSmithSchool @oxmartinschool While I am very much looking forward to getting back into academia, it's been a real pleasure working with the climate scientists and others in @beisgovuk (many lurk on Twitter - you know who you are!)
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14 Jun 19
It seems you can now buy carbon credits based on directly capturing CO2 in air and then mineralising it in the ground:

climeworks.shop
Obviously people have very different views about "offsetting" your carbon emissions, so YMMV. But this seems about as close to a gold standard offset as one can get.
Works out at just over 80 EUR per tonne of CO2 removed, if I haven't completely forgotten how to do maths...
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