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Oxford and Cambridge Colleges urgently need to step up their ambition in taking climate action. They need to be bolder and more transparent.
So we ranked them. They are pioneers of climate research. But on the climate impact of their own finances and estates, they're lagging well behind. They’re failing to put their global influence and huge reserves of wealth towards securing a liveable future. It's time to wake up. The CLOC's ticking. |
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Most colleges have received a U, and the best only a C in our ranking, showing that their climate ambition ranges from poor to non-existent. This is not only unacceptable, but deeply hypocritical. To the outside world, Oxford and Cambridge University pretend to be leaders in the fight against the climate crisis. Yet on the inside, many of their own colleges are lagging far behind, with no strategies to reach net zero and continued ties to the fossil fuel industry. |
Rivalry between Oxbridge Colleges has existed for centuries. We hope that the CLOC Tables will channel this competitive spirit towards ambitious - and urgently needed - climate action. Oxbridge Colleges claim to be world-leading institutions at the forefront of solving global problems. But when we applied the same high standards they use to judge students academically to their responses to the climate emergency, they failed spectacularly. |