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Clearing up cloudy climate predictions
UK scientists are taking to the skies as part of a major international research campaign to better understand the behaviour...
University of Leeds academics to advise the UK’s first nationwide citizens’ assembly on climate change
As the UK’s first citizens’ assembly on climate change prepares to meet for the first time at the end of...
Priestley PhD Scholarships available
The Priestley International Centre for Climate is now advertising its fifth cohort of Priestley PhD scholarships to commence October 2020....
Greenland ice losses rising faster than expected
Greenland is losing ice seven times faster than in the 1990s and is tracking the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s...
Findings of the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land as they apply to Africa
Joint GCRF-AFRICAP / Global Food & Environment Institute (GFEI) knowledge-sharing seminar Abstract Released in August 2019, the IPCC Special Report...
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...
Climate + Culture + Collaboration
This event will explore how collaboration across the education and cultural sectors has been used to expand climate change knowledge,...
A framework to assess the quality of regional climate information for adaptation
Joint SRI-CCCEP-Priestley Centre seminar Abstract: There are now a plethora of data, models and approaches available to produce regional climate...
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...
The important role for researchers in achieving net-zero emissions
‘Net-zero’ has become an increasingly familiar term over the past few months, appearing in policy announcements, conference titles and opinion...
Building a UK climate impacts and risk assessment community
In this post, Emily Vosper offers an overview of the UK’s 1st National Meeting for Climate Impact and Risk Assessment...
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