Can online education really drive change? For the last 15 months, the Grantham Institute has been testing this question. Working…
Tag: Climate Action
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…
My life as a temporary vegan
Maggie Robertson shares her experiences of going vegan for lent. ‘Several Grantham staff doing vegan for lent. Fancy it?’ That…
#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)…
6 things we learned from the authors of the 1.5°C Report
Following the Europe-wide launch of the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C at Imperial, chapter lead-authors Professor Myles…
Pensions: Invest in our future, not the past
Dr Neil Jennings, Partnership Development Manager at the Grantham Institute, takes a look at the USS pensions scheme and considers…