A blog by Dr Clare Richardson-Barlow, Dr Andrew Pimm, and Dr Pepa Ambrosio-Albala Steel is essential for making many of the technologies that will end fossil fuel combustion, including electric vehicles, wind turbines and solar panels. Unfortunately, to produce a lot of steel, manufacturers need to burn a lot of fossil...
A blog by Professor Alice Owen from the School of Earth & Environment and Dr Faye Wade from the University of Edinburgh. The UK aims to replace 1.7 million gas boilers a year by the mid-2030s, as part of its plan to reach net zero. This will require rapidly scaling...
Professor Sarah Irwin from the School of Sociology and Social Policy, and Dr Lone Sorensen from the School of Media and Communication, report on a small pilot research project examining public views of the cost of living crisis and climate policies. We wanted to explore how the public interpret and...
A blog by Professor Piers Forster, Director of the Priestley Centre The environmental impact of carbon dioxide emissions will be the same irrespective of where the emissions take place. Carbon emitted in one part of the world can be cancelled out if the same amount is removed elsewhere. Carbon offsetting...
When it comes to climate change the science is very clear: to limit global warming we must rapidly cut our emissions of greenhouse gases. But that’s not all that’s required. The planet has already warmed by more than a degree since the mid nineteenth century, leading to rising seas and...