Thom Wetzer

Are you in Baku for #COP29 and wondering whether/how regulation and policy aligns to climate goals? To answer that question we're launching the 🌍 Climate Policy Monitor 🌍 in Baku for #COP29. Come join us, see our events below:

Corporate Accountability and Liability for #ClimateChange edited by @elbert_jong Contributors incl' @ChristinaVoigt2 @FrediOtto @ColomEsmeralda @MRajavuori @mouetteobscure @RupertS_Smith @ThomWetzer More info ➡️ e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/9781… Free chapter ➡️ doi.org/10.4337/978103…

How can climate attribution science be used to evaluate legal claims that greenhouse gas emissions caused extreme weather and slow-onset climate impacts? Here @ThomWetzer @FrediOtto and I explore the nuances of scientific and legal aspects of causation elgaronline.com/edcollchap/boo…

2 BIG climate announcements this week 🇲🇽Mexico sets 2050 net zero target. Now every G20 member state has one. 🇮🇩Indonesia moves net zero target from 2060 to 2050, says it will close all (!) fossil fuel plants in 15 (!) years Need to see details. But this is big show of ambition.

🚀Launch 🚀 Introducing the 🌍 Climate Policy Monitor 📈 climatepolicymonitor.ox.ac.uk An open access tool that you can use to assess and compare the ambition, stringency, and comprehensiveness of net zero regulation across 3 domains and 30 jurisdictions

Oxford's Climate Policy Monitor reveals how economic rules globally are - or aren’t - supporting climate goals. At #COP29, the message is clear: voluntary targets alone won’t close the gap; strong regulations are crucial. Read more: oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/news/climate-p…

The Monitor is a partnership between @TheOxfordSLP and @BlavatnikSchool. Special thanks to @eklecavalier and Lucilla Dias for their leadership. Thanks for support from @UniofOxford: @OxfordLawFac, @TheSmithSchool, @OxfordNetZero — and our founding partner: @oxmartinschool.

We are thrilled to launch Oxford’s Climate Policy Monitor at #COP29 today. The Monitor assesses how policies and regulations align with climate goals, supported by detailed expertise from 230+ lawyers across 30 countries. @thomasnhale’s thread gives you the highlights 👇

Standing together, in solidarity for a green world. Let’s get to work. #COP29 #COP29Azerbaijan

Incredible new archival finds by @rebecca_John1: Big Oil was warned by its *own* front group about global warming in 1955, then told the group to shut up and buried the research. desmog.com/2024/11/12/rev…

On today's Shell ruling in the Netherlands: “Taking the long view, this might be a Pyrrhic victory that merely delays the inevitable,” said Thom Wetzer, director of the University of Oxford’s Sustainable Law Programme. wsj.com/business/energ…

Here is a link to the Shell ruling in English: uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/details?id=ECL…

Don't miss the opportunity to watch 2024 Pulitzer Prize Finalist John Valliant and Associate Professor in #ClimateLitigation Ben Franta discuss the implications of the continued use of fossil fuels - hosted by Dave Vetter! i.mtrbio.com/wjhnmwsjrm

#Autumn in #Amsterdam

Donald Trump was elected by Americans to defend the interests of Americans. The question we, as Europeans, must ask ourselves is, are we ready to defend the interests of Europeans?

We created SynthID, a robust digital watermarking technology to tag & identify AI-generated content. Now we’re open-sourcing SynthID-Text so developers can use it to embed & detect watermarks in text outputs from their own LLMs. Published today in @Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

Another year, another climate gap. 🌍🔥🌡️ It's the 15th time I joined the lead author team of the @UNEP #Emissionsgap report. How high are global emissions? What have countries pledged? And is this all aligned with the Paris Agreement? Let’s dig in with a 🧵/1

Winning the @NobelPrize is the honour of a lifetime and the realisation of a lifelong dream - it still hasn’t really sunk in yet. With AlphaFold2 we cracked the 50-year grand challenge of protein structure prediction: predicting the 3D structure of a protein purely from its amino acid sequence. Proteins are the building blocks of life, and knowing the structure of a protein is crucial for understanding the function it performs. We then folded all 200 million proteins known to science and made those structures freely available for anyone in the world to use, with the help of our wonderful collaborators at @emblebi. Over 2 million researchers have already used AlphaFold2 and its predictions to advance a huge range of important work - everything from enzyme design, to disease understanding, to drug discovery. But this is only the beginning. Over the next few years AI will help us make great strides towards developing new and more effective therapies for today's most prevalent diseases, and the fantastic team at @IsomorphicLabs are making rapid progress on this mission. I can’t think of a more important or beneficial use of AI. Then of course there is advancing AGI itself, the original and enduring goal, and the vision behind the founding of DeepMind nearly 15 years ago. If AI is built safely and responsibly, I believe it will be one of the most transformative and beneficial technologies ever. I’ve always thought of AI as the ultimate tool to help us accelerate scientific discovery. Congratulations to John Jumper (and David Baker!), the amazing AlphaFold team, and all our incredible colleagues at @GoogleDeepMind and @Google that supported and encouraged us along the way - this award is for all of us! It’s been such an honour and privilege to work with all of you to advance the frontiers of AI and science, and there is so much more to come!

The book is real! And in only two more weeks you too can line your bookshelves with dozens of copies! It's available for pre-order now: press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove… You will also be able to find it at Barnes & Noble, Target, Audible, Apple Books, and other fine establishments.

Escaping the New Gilded Age by ⁦@DAcemogluMIT⁩ - Project Syndicate project-syndicate.org/onpoint/wealth…