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The UN climate summit in Glasgow is less than a month away. To help you understand what’s at stake and what might be achieved in this global meeting to address the climate crisis, The Conversation has launched Climate fight: the world’s
biggest negotiation on the Anthill podcast. In each weekly episode, you’ll hear from the academic experts whose work is helping craft climate policy, and what the outcome of the negotiations will mean for people around the world.
In the first episode, we dive into the fractious debate around climate finance – the money that rich countries have promised the poorest parts of the world to help them cope with mounting droughts, floods and storms. We hear how this money is spent, why it can often backfire, and how some communities are losing faith in the UN negotiations and taking matters into their own hands.
You can keep up to speed with academic insight on COP26 from around our global network here. And don’t forget to subscribe to our Imagine newsletter, in which I’ll be sharing expert analysis of climate solutions and the biggest
factors influencing a successful outcome at the summit.
Meanwhile, UK prime minister Boris Johnson delivered his keynote speech to the Conservative Party conference yesterday, and according to Matthew Flinders, it failed a key test. Plus, researchers have a rather odd recommendation for keeping fit that you might want to try: standing on one leg.
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Jack Marley
Environment + Energy Editor
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Listen to the first episode of a new series from The Anthill Podcast ahead of the COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow.
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Matthew Flinders, University of Sheffield
Billed as a speech from a leader making daring decisions to fix the nation, the prime minister’s conference appearance rapidly descended into jokes about beavers.
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Standing on one leg regularly can improve your health, research shows.
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Dawn Skelton, Glasgow Caledonian University
Practising standing on one leg has also sorts of benefits, research shows
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Politics + Society
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Jack Newman, University of Surrey
Boris Johnson’s party were aiming to show what they actually mean by this ubiquitous mantra. Was it a success?
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Ruth Patrick, University of York
The temporary increase to benefits was a lifeline for families during the pandemic.
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Rick Lines, Swansea University; Niamh Eastwood, Middlesex University
The Misuse of Drugs act started decades of criminalisation-centred drug policy that hasn’t worked.
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Filip Kostelka, University of Essex
The ‘illiberal democracy’ model being followed in Hungary may appear all the more appealing following a very important election.
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Wen-Ti Sung, Australian National University
Many Taiwanese see the Chinese military display as more of a show than a preparation for an all-out invasion. So, what is Beijing’s ultimate plan?
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Environment + Energy
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Harpreet Kaur Paul, University of Warwick
Rich countries have promised to compensate poor ones for the impacts of climate change.
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Federica Genovese, University of Essex; Patrick Bayer, University of Strathclyde
Countries are expected to commit to more ambitious targets for 2030, but how they will achieve them is still up for debate.
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Philip Donkersley, Lancaster University
British countryside management needs a new co-ordinated approach, a researcher argues.
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William Nuttall, The Open University
The UK government sees a reliable and low-carbon solution to future energy crises in nuclear power.
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Science + Technology
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Ramon Rios, University of Southampton
The discovery has boosted the pharmaceutical industry and made research greener and cheaper.
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Calli Tzani, University of Huddersfield; John Synnott, University of Huddersfield; Maria Ioannou, University of Huddersfield
We explored experiences of cyberbullying among young people in the UK. This is what we found.
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Arts + Culture
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Chris Pak, Swansea University
Attending, debating or simply following COP26? Here’s why you should be reading science fiction.
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Jessica Gibson, University of York
A sign of evil? A look at the use of facial disfigurement in James Bond films.
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Business + Economy
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Matthew Shillito, University of Liverpool
Five years after David Cameron was pushing for tighter rules around disclosure of beneficial owners, nothing much has changed.
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Matthew Farrow, University of Bradford
Exercise – alongside standard treatments – may help improve strength and flexibility, and other symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis.
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