Please save the date and join us for two days bringing together the UK climate impacts, risk and resilience communities to discuss the latest research from across the UK. Building on the Success of previous national meetings – including last year's meeting hosted by Professor Dann Mitchell in Bristol – the 2026 conference will provide an opportunity to hear about cutting-edge research on both the regional and national scale. The meeting will: offer...
Leeds University, School of POLIS & Priestley Centre for Climate Futures Panel event: 7th May 15.00-16.30, University of Leeds and online Please join climate experts from the University of Leeds for a panel event on the future of global climate governance. The dust has settled on the last climate summit COP30 in Belém (Brazil) but the path...
This webinar will examine projects about how police and partner agencies are preparing for, responding to, and adapting to climate change. It is widely accepted that human-induced climate change poses ‘severe, interconnected and irreversible risks’ to ecosystems, biodiversity, and human societies (IPCC, 2022). The increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather events have had significant...
A special screening of the documentary film Chasing Coral, directed by Jeff Orlowski (Chasing Ice) and produced by Larissa Rhodes. The film showing has been facilitated by the Priestley Centre's Dr Maria Beger, University Academic Fellow in marine conservation biology at the University of Leeds, and is followed by a discussion via Skype with Dr...
The Priestley International Centre for Climate will have its launch on Tuesday 14 June at the University of Leeds. The event is open to university staff, PhD students and invited stakeholders. It will include: Introduction by Vice Chancellor, Sir Alan Langlands. Presentation of the inaugural Piers Sellers Prizes for solution-facing climate research. Climate research highlights...
