Dr Gabriele Messori, Imperial physics alumnus and climate scientist writes about the contentious issue of the loss and damage caused…
Category: Paris 2015
World leaders are not the only champions for low-carbon living
Grantham Institute co-director Professor Martin Siegert on the inspiring role for innovation and entrepreneurship, and a new public exhibition of…
How climate-smart soil management increases resilience and helps mitigate climate change
As we mark World Soil Day, and with COP21 well into its first week, Dr Katrin Glatzel of Agriculture for…
COP21: The last chance for Small Island Developing States
Grantham Lecturer Dr Erik van Sebille reports back from the second day of the COP21 climate negotiations in Paris. For a group…
Tackling peat fires in Indonesia: Haze events and a call to COP21
Grantham Affiliate Dr Guillermo Rein (Department of Mechanical Engineering) explains why Indonesia’s peat fires are a global problem, and what…
UK climate and energy policy at a crossroads
Energy Secretary Amber Rudd announced today that UK coal power stations will be phased out by 2025, favouring new…
Why I support the #EarthStatement
Earlier this year, the Earth League, a consortium of 17 world-leading scientists, drew up a wish list of the essential…
There is no Planet B: Why I decided to run 3,000 kilometres
Erlend Moster Knudsen is part of the climate awareness campaign Pole to Paris. He is speaking at a seminar at…
Do cities need COP21 to cut down on carbon?
Dr Karl M. Smith, Manager of the Blue Green Dream Project, proposes that empowered cities can hold their own and…
African smallholder farmers responding to an uncertain climate future
by Dr Katrin Glatzel and Alice Marks, Agriculture for Impact With just a couple of months left till the world’s…