As the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24 to the UNFCCC)…
Tag: Climate Action
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…
8 ways to cut your carbon footprint
Liam Flanagan, Research Postgraduate on the Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet DTP (SSCP DTP), lists his top 8…
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…
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…
Eco-resolutions 2017 – have you kept yours?
It can be easy to wait for governments and businesses to face up to the challenges of climate change and…
Rwanda – the cleantech Silicon Valley of Africa?
Grantham PhD student Oliver Schmidt visited Africa to see two start-ups from Imperial College London that are trying to make the case for low-carbon ‘cleantech’ business in Africa, and compared them to a third operating across the continent.
California just signed a climate change agreement with Scotland, here are 5 things the UK can learn from the Golden State
While one is a state within the United States of America and the other a sovereign country or state made up of four “sub” countries, Clea Colster suggests that the UK could learn from California’s environmental policies.
Brexit, and an uncertain road for the European Emissions Trading Scheme
On the day Theresa May officially triggers Article 50 and begins the Brexit process, Grantham Institute writes about the value of a European scheme that aims to limit and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from more than 12,000 power and manufacturing plants in 31 countries, which together account for around 45% of the EU’s total emissions.