Michael Wilkins, Professor of Practice and Executive Director at Imperial’s Centre for Climate Finance & Investment (CCFI) and Hanyuan Wang…
Category: IPCC
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…
Has climate change been exaggerated? Fact-checking Owen Paterson’s comments
By Dr Flora Whitmarsh, Grantham Institute In a lecture to the Global Warming Policy Foundation, the former UK Environment Secretary Owen Paterson…
Grantham Institute welcomes results of Energy and Climate Change Committee review of IPCC WG1 report
The House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee report on the Working Group 1 contribution to the IPCC Fifth…
7 Frightening Findings from the IPCC Report
By Helena Wright, Research Postgraduate, Centre for Environmental Policy Helena Wright, an Imperial PhD student, looks at worst possible scenarios…
Temperature and rainfall extremes in a warming world
By Dr Flora MacTavish Governments, planning authorities, companies and individuals all need information about the impact of climate change on extreme…