Expert comment: Urbanisation’s role in the climate crisis is being overlooked

Published on January 26, 2024
A global advisory body that joins up science with the management of cities is urgently needed, writes Michael Keith, a Professor at Oxford University's Centre on Migration, Policy and Society and Director of the PEAK Urban Research programme. This opinion piece was originally published in the Financial Times.
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Fixing the broken food system would unlock trillions of dollars in benefits, study finds

January 26, 2024
A new economic analysis published today involving researchers at the University of Oxford and London School of Economics has found that transforming the global food system could realise benefits of up to 10 trillion USD per year, and that the costs of achieving this would be relatively small in comparison. The findings are the result of the most ambitious study of food system economics so far, und