As we enter the hottest months of the year, Cynthia Wang discusses the impact of extreme heat on vulnerable populations…
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Summer temperatures 2018 – the ‘new normal’?
There can be no doubt that the summer of 2018 has been remarkable both in the UK and across the…
Feeling the heat? So is our economy!
Tarek Cheaib, former student on the Grantham Institute and Imperial College Business School MSc in Climate Change, Management and Finance,…
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…
The lower the climate sensitivity the better – but what we need is zero carbon
Following the publication of a paper presenting a new narrower estimate of “equilibrium climate sensitivity” – a measure of how…