A group of Imperial College delegates visited a rainy Manchester last week (2-8 February) to attend the 12th Plenary session…
Category: Policy
When the forest burns: climate change, wildfires, and Indigenous adaptation in the Amazon
Following fieldwork in the Capoto/Jarina Indigenous territory in Brazil and a recent co-authored article in Communications Earth & Environment during COP30, Michel Valette, Research…
Mountain Mirrors: How climate change is reshaping water quality in the Andes
Mountain Mirrors is the ambitious postdoctoral project of Estefania Quenta at Imperial College London, founded by the Schlumberger Foundation. She…
Digitalisation for smarter, greener and more inclusive sustainable development
Marta Koch, PhD Researcher, Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, shares her experience as UN Side Event Chair &…
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…
Negotiating for nature: the biodiversity conference and key themes
Ben Parker, PhD researcher at Imperial College London, and Bethan Laughlin, Senior Policy Specialist at the Zoological Society of London,…
Biodiversity credits: key principles and UK strengths
Ben Parker and Rhys Preston-Allen, PhD researchers at Imperial’s Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet Doctoral Training Partnership (SSCP…
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…
Overconfidence in overshoot
Professor Joeri Rogelj, Director of Research at the Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment, argues that the risks…