Last month, Grantham Affiliates Dr Jeffrey Hardy and Dr Chris Mazur travelled to Chicago to run a ‘Decision Theatre’ workshop…
Category: Mitigation
Getting renewable electricity to Canada’s remote communities
Alvaro Lara, a student on the MSc Climate Change, Management & Finance programme, considers the challenges faced by off-grid communities in…
What to do with all the carbon dioxide?
Research Postgraduates Clara Heuberger and Clea Kolster, who recently attended the UNFCCC’s 23rd Conference of the Parties in Bonn, consider…
The Clean Growth Strategy – a turn in the right direction for a low carbon future
Alyssa Gilbert, Director of Policy and Translation at the Grantham Institute, mulls over the government’s Clean Growth Strategy and looks…
What does business-as-usual mean today?
Energy models are a vital tool to help predict what the future energy system could look like. Conventionally, such models…
China is entering a new era of climate change mitigation and environmental protection
Professor Yufeng Yang from the Energy Research Institute (ERI) of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) of China, joined the…
Could solar-thermal be the solution for low-carbon heating?
Well-established solar heat technologies could be playing a key role in creating a sustainable future energy system and meeting an…
5 ways to green the gas grid
The Sustainable Gas Institute, an international research hub based at Imperial College London, recently launched a new white paper entitled…
Why we need global leadership on pressing energy challenges, and why China has such an important role to play
Neil Hirst is a Senior Policy Fellow for Energy and Mitigation at the Grantham Institute. Over the next few months, he…
Energy Utopia: What stands in the way of smart, clean, affordable, customer-led energy?
Last year, Dr Jeffrey Hardy took a career break from his role as Head of Sustainable Energy Futures at Ofgem…