Meet Preethi Jayakumar, who is leading clean tech solutions at Anzen Smart Walls with co-founder Dhruv Shah. Anzen is revolutionising…
Tag: Climate
Getting to the roots of healthy soil
PES Technologies have developed a sensor that performs a full assessment of soil health to inform land management decisions for…
How to create a climate action mural: Meet art prize winner, Julia de Korab Skulska
Julia de Korab Skulska, a second year biology student at Imperial, was one of the winners of the Grantham Institute…
The Paris Agreement: are we raising climate ambition fast enough?
Neil Grant, Research Postgraduate on the Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet Doctoral Training Partnership, blogs on his latest…
The knock-on impacts of the climate crisis on Kenyans
Increased temperature and sea-level rises are just two of the well-known impacts of climate change on countries like Kenya, however there are several less well-known knock-on effects, such as the increased risk of ‘jiggers’ and decreased tourism that need to be discussed and mitigated in order to ensure a resilient society.
Turning climate commitments into climate action – are lawsuits the answer?
Siobhán Stack-Maddox considers what legal action involving states means in the context of net zero carbon pledges and commitments to reduce emissions.
Arctic climate change: An Indigenous perspective
Martina Beshparova, an Imperial student studying MSc Climate Change, Management and Finance , discusses the socio-economic implications of rising temperatures…
COVID-19 and planetary change: The food system is sick
Professor Paolo Vineis, Chair of Environmental Epidemiology at Imperial’s School of Public Health, blogs on why the food system must…
Why Black Lives Matter for the Grantham Institute, climate change and the environment
On 2 June, the Grantham Institute endorsed a statement made by Imperial College London on Twitter, supporting the Black staff, students, alumni and others in our community. The statement was made during global protests at the death of a Black man, George Floyd, in police custody in Minneapolis in the United States. We stand, alongside Imperial, in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and its aims to end racism and violence against Black people everywhere.
Antarctica at 200: why the ‘climate decade’ must secure the future for Antarctica
Following an Imperial Lates event focused on what the future may hold for Antarctica, Richard Knight, former student on Imperial’s MSc Environmental Technology course, blogs on how vulnerable the continent…