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The University of Exeter and Tsinghua University have launched a jointly-awarded PhD degree programme in climate and environmental sciences which supports six students to be co-supervised between Tsinghua's Department of Earth System Science and Colleges at Exeter that conduct research on earth systems and environmental sciences. Read more.

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Our strategic partnership with the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has established the Environmental Sustainability and Resilience (ENSURE) Joint Centre, supporting impactful research collaborations that address key SDGs and global climate challenges.

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Exeter & Paris-Saclay collaboratively deliver a series of double PhD degree projects. The universities offer joint funding to provide tuition, living, travel and research costs, and the opportunity to obtain two PhD awards from both Exeter and Paris-Saclay.

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The University of Exeter and The University of Queensland have partnered to establish the QUEX Institute, a new multi-million pound partnership designed to bolster their joint global research impact. Read more.

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How do we achieve a flourishing future for a projected 9 to 11 billion people as an integral part of a life-sustaining Earth system?

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Exeter is a world-leading centre in climate change research with more IPCC authors than any other city in the world.

The Global Systems Institute harnesses this expertise with other global change researchers in the University and beyond, bringing them together with industry, policymakers, students, NGOs, citizens and other stakeholders to tackle shared problems. We provide thought-leadership and action-orientated research to drive systems based solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises.

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Global Carbon Budget

Launched in 2006 and produced by 94 people from 70 organisations in 18 countries, the Global Carbon Budget is the critical annual update which reveals the latest trends in global carbon emissions and the ramifications for reaching the global climate goals.

Oppenheimer Programme in African Landscape Systems (OPALS)

OPALS is a six-year programme of foundational and applied research, launched in October 2021, which aims to support sustainable human-landscape interactions across Africa.

Tipping Points

Researchers at the Global Systems Institute have highlighted the growing threat of “tipping points” that could cause irreversible changes in the Earth system and accelerate the climate crisis. However, there is growing evidence that the same tipping point dynamics can occur in social and economic systems, triggering rapid positive change in our societies.
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Advancing Capacity for Climate and Environment Social Science (ACCESS)

This £6.25 million ACCESS programme, led by Professor Patrick Devine-Wright will ensure the UK's world-leading social science expertise plays a central role in interdisciplinary environmental science research.
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EEIST

This £4.8M project on the Economics of Energy Innovation and System Transition aims to transform the way science, economics and scholarship interacts with our way of informing and assessing the costs and benefits of important strategic innovation decisions in driving a sustainability transition.

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