Carolina Schmidt, Minister of Environment, Chile and Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary, UNFCCC at the Host Country Agreement signing ceremony (c)…
Category: Policy
Direct air capture: could this new technology save us from climate change?
FEATURE: A promising technology that sucks carbon dioxide from the air could help, but not replace, climate action, say experts. Simon Levey explores what is Direct Air Capture and what are the chances of it taking off in time to help avert the climate crisis.
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…
Legacy on climate change – “make a powerful statement of global leadership”
A group of leading climate scientists, coordinated by Professor Joanna Haigh, former Co-Director of the Grantham Institute, have written to…
Let’s embrace this fighting chance to reach net zero
Dr Ajay Gambhir, Senior Research Fellow at the Grantham Institute and contributor to the Committee on Climate Change’s Net Zero…
#fridaysforfuture: Rising to the challenge of the Youth Strike 4 Climate
On Friday 15 February 2019, more than 10,000 students in the UK walked out of their classrooms and onto the…
2019: the year citizens speak up and governments act to protect our long-term prosperity
At the end of January, the Night of Ideas, an international event staged simultaneously in Paris, London, Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh…
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…
Behind the scenes at the UNFCCC: Imperial students on internships ahead of COP24
Albertine Pegrum-Haram and Goodwin Gibbins, Research Postgraduates at Imperial College London, are more at home with chemistry and climate models…
3 key ingredients could combine at COP24 to deliver real action on climate change
As the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24 to the UNFCCC)…