Professor Sir Brian Hoskins, Chair of the Grantham Institute and member of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), considers the…
Category: Policy
The energy conundrum: Bringing carbon under control and reversing rising emissions
Neil Hirst, Senior Policy Fellow at the Grantham Institute and author of The Energy Conundrum, Climate Change, Global Prosperity, and…
It is time be more ambitious – the UK’s Climate Change Act needs strengthening
Joanna Haigh, co-director of the Grantham Institute — Climate Change and the Environment, and John Krebs, emeritus professor of zoology…
Canada and climate change: the transition to a low-carbon economy is a golden opportunity
Alyssa Gilbert, Director of Policy and Translation at the Grantham Institute, heads to the “energy engine” of Canada to talk…
Leading ladies in climate and environmental science, and why their profile counts
To mark International Women’s Day, archivist Anne Barrett, author of “Women At Imperial College Past Present and Future”, and Alice…
Creative, critical and charged – the young voices of COP23
Earlier this month, just before the 23rd Conference of the Parties (COP23) kicked off in Bonn, Research Postgraduate Luciana Miu…
Now we can have a genuinely global energy body
While the 23rd Conference of the Parties (COP23) has been going on in Bonn, another international meeting – also significant…
COP23: The Fijian approach, the ‘Paris Rulebook’, and a potential showdown…
Alyssa Gilbert, Director of Policy and Translation at the Grantham Institute, anticipates the comings and goings of the COP23. Representatives…
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…
When it rains it pours: How can cities save the ocean from plastic pollution during heavy rainfall?
Charles Axelsson, a PhD researcher at Italy’s Ca ‘Foscari University, studied his Master’s at Imperial College London, where he worked…