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.
Category: Climate negotiations
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…
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…
Doctors, academics, faith leaders representing millions of people and MPs demand Boris Johnson comes up with a climate plan
Today, Prime Minister Boris Johnson received what the i newspaper calls a “flurry of letters” from doctors, academics, religious leaders,…
Antarctica at 200: why the ‘climate decade’ must secure the future for Antarctica
Following an Imperial Lates event focused on what the future may hold for Antarctica, Richard Knight, former student on Imperial’s MSc Environmental Technology course, blogs on how vulnerable the continent…
COP25 – the world must wake up to environmental inequality
People protesting in Santiago with colourful flags and political slogan. Credit: Carolina Cuadros Karina Corada Perez, Research Postgraduate at Imperial’s Centre for…
Have I got the Bonn blues? Time to look forwards to COP25 in Chile
Carolina Schmidt, Minister of Environment, Chile and Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary, UNFCCC at the Host Country Agreement signing ceremony (c)…
Why should the UK host the COP26 climate summit in 2020?
Grantham Institute lecturer Dr Joeri Rogelj, member of the United Nations’ Climate Science Advisory Group, blogs on why hosting the…
Is Brazil losing the chance to become a climate leader?
Dr Alexandre Koberle, Research Associate at Imperial’s Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment, considers Brazil’s potential to be…