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The Climate Change Committee (CCC) recently published the Fourth Climate Change Risk Assessment – Independent Assessment (CCRA4‑IA), a comprehensive evidence base on the risks climate change poses to the UK and the actions needed to strengthen resilience. CCRA4‑IA consists of a Met Office‑led Technical Report and a CCC‑led Well-Adapted UK Report. The assessment combines up‑to‑date...
Professor Piers Forster, Director of the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), in recognition of his outstanding contribution to climate science. Professor Forster is a Professor of Physical Climate Change at the University of Leeds and has made major advances in understanding the causes of...
watch the video version of the roadmap's executive summary here Draft roadmap with Colombia presented at Santa Marta conference as first collaborative case study Researchers at the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures at the University of Leeds have launched a new approach to national fossil fuel phase-out and transition planning, centred on the development of...
The Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) has recently published its new report examining the Climate Change Committee’s (CCC) recommendations for the UK’s Seventh Carbon Budget (CB7), the legally binding limits on UK greenhouse gas emissions for 2038 to 2042, and a key milestone on the pathway to net zero by 2050. Evidence submitted by Professor John Barrett and the Priestley Centre’s Climate Evidence Unit (CEU) helped to shape the Committee’s conclusions, with the Priestley Centre...
In late 2025, the Climate Evidence Unit at the Priestley Centre was commissioned to work on a report capturing and synthesising the key messages emerging from the Embodied Carbon Summit. The newly published Embodied Carbon Summit Evidence Report draws on the expertise of developers, engineers, architects, local authorities, insurers and academics who contributed to the...