Leading researchers, including University of Leeds academics, want to see a decade of “global action” to restore the world’s lost and depleted forests. They argue that with the right policies, forest restoration can benefit both nature and the people who live and work in the forests. A landmark edition of the academic journal, Philosophical Transactions…
The 2020s have been described as the critical decade for climate change. The COP27 climate talks in Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt will help determine whether global warming can be kept within the critical 1.5 degree centigrade target set in Paris in 2015. Even keeping within an average of 1.5 degrees centigrade rise in warming…
Policy analysts and planners will be able to “communicate smarter” about climate change action by using a new online decision-support tool which has been launched at COP27. Developed by researchers at the University of Leeds and the Met Office, it synthesises the latest scientific evidence on the broader effects of climate change initiatives. This will enable…
The world’s largest tropical peatland turned from being a major store of carbon to a source of carbon dioxide emissions as a result of climate change thousands of years ago, new research has revealed. Around the time that Stonehenge was built, 5,000 years ago, the climate of central Congo began to dry, leading to the…
Colleagues at the University of Leeds are embarking on a sector-leading review initiative as part of its ambition to achieve net zero by 2030. A group of experts, including an external advisor, will undertake a progress review of the Climate Plan, one year on from its publication. The Priestley International Centre for Climate has been…
