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Helping the steel industry reach net-zero
Scientists have secured funding to investigate ways the UK steel industry can be decarbonised within 30 years. Steel manufacturing is...
Home Truths: How climate change is impacting UK homes
Households in the UK are at increasing risk of flooding and drought due changes in the climate according to a...
Priestley Centre e-news December 2019
The Priestley Centre’s December 2019 e-newsletter is available to read here. Highlights include: Latest research from Priestley Chair in Climate...
New map grapples with rapid growth of climate change literature
Researchers have analysed more than 400,000 studies using big data technology, providing a new way of dealing with the rapid...
Communicating Climate Research: engaging with policymakers
Communicating effectively with policymakers is essential if climate research is to be translated into climate policy and result in change...
Migration, Climate Change and Voluntariness
The specific challenges that climate change may pose to individuals have been the subject of recent political theory and political...
Climate + Culture + Collaboration
This event will explore how collaboration across the education and cultural sectors has been used to expand climate change knowledge,...
Forecasting Our Future: A conversation with Dr Katharine Hayhoe
Increasingly, the impacts of climate change are never far from the headlines. Calls for climate action are getting steadily louder but global alignment is far from...
Three things historical literature can teach us about the climate crisis
A blog by David Higgins and Tess Somervell New novels about climate change – climate fiction, or cli-fi – are...
The role of climate in the exceptional Eastern African 2019 short rains
The 2019 Eastern African short rains (October-December) was one of the wettest in recent decades, with many places seeing more...
Gearing up for Glasgow: reflections on COP25
The 25th Conference of the Parties (COP) took place from 2-13 December 2019 in Madrid. For a relative newcomer to...
Reducing uncertainty in Nationally Determined Contributions
Under the Paris Agreement, which aims to limit the increase in global mean temperature to well below 2°C, countries make...
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