Marta Koch, PhD Researcher, Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, shares her experience as UN Side Event Chair &…
Category: IPCC
Who is responsible for overshooting the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C warming limit and minimising the harm this causes?
The world is on course to exceed the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C warming limit within a decade. The increasing likelihood of…
Carbon capture technology is key to deliver on the UAE Consensus
For Earth Day 2024, Elsy Milan, Postgraduate Researcher for the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London, reflects on her experience at COP28 in Dubai, the UAE Consensus and the increasingly central role of carbon capture usage and storage (CCUS) for many countries to achieve the Paris Climate Agreement.
COP reflections, Part 1: Economics and Policy
Dr Anastasiya Ostrovnaya, of Imperial College Business School‘s Centre for Climate Finance & Investment, writes on the economic challenges at…
Success of COP27 hangs on a ‘loss and damage’ thread
Michael Wilkins, Professor of Practice and Executive Director at Imperial’s Centre for Climate Finance & Investment (CCFI) and Hanyuan Wang…
Reducing carbon emissions: don’t wait until tomorrow
Neil Grant, Research Postgraduate on the Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet DTP, blogs on why avoiding a tonne of carbon dioxide today…
6 things we learned from the authors of the 1.5°C Report
Following the Europe-wide launch of the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C at Imperial, chapter lead-authors Professor Myles…
Leading ladies in climate and environmental science, and why their profile counts
To mark International Women’s Day, archivist Anne Barrett, author of “Women At Imperial College Past Present and Future”, and Alice…
The lower the climate sensitivity the better – but what we need is zero carbon
Following the publication of a paper presenting a new narrower estimate of “equilibrium climate sensitivity” – a measure of how…
How will Antartica’s ice-sheet contribute to 21st century sea level rise?
by Professor Martin Siegert, Co-director, Grantham Institute On 27th October I convened a meeting at the Royal Society of London…