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A new framework provides a robust scientific tool for researchers, policymakers and industry to calculate remaining global carbon budgets. This work will help define carbon emission reduction targets more clearly as part of urgent attempts to tackle climate change. The 2015 Paris Agreement set the reduction of greenhouse emissions as a critical step in achieving...
Research by University of Leeds academics underpins the groundbreaking commitment from the UK government to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2050. Following a request from governments of the UK, Wales and Scotland, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), made their net-zero recommendation in May. Professor Piers Forster, Director of the Priestley International Centre...
The Priestley Building will provide a base on the University’s main campus for leading climate-related research. Launched in 2016, the Priestley International Centre for Climate has already brought together world-leading expertise in all the key strands of climate change research. The centre has more than 300 members from across the University covering a broad range of research...
Seven areas of fast-flowing ice on the Antarctic Peninsula have been formally named after Earth observation satellites, following a request by a University of Leeds scientist. Dramatic changes in the shape of the Antarctic ice sheet have become emblematic of the climate crisis. Reports of iceberg calving, changes in ice-sheet speed, thickness and mass have...
Researchers from the School of Chemistry were invited to participate in a joint field campaign in Tibet with Peking University, to measure concentrations of the OH radical at Nam Co. With an atmospheric pressure of only ~ 0.55 Atm, Nam Co is representative of the Tibetan Plateau, a much understudied part of the atmosphere, yet...