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New home for University’s climate research

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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...

Piers Sellers Prize Winners 2019 announced

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A human environment geographer who is a prominent thinker in the field of environmental justice has been named as the 2019 Piers Sellers Prize winner. Petra Tschakert, whose work focuses on understanding how climate change is experienced and responded to among marginalized communities in the global south, will receive the prize for a world leading...

Leeds collaborates on global learning platform for climate smart agriculture

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An international learning platform for a major research programme on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) is being hosted by the Priestley Centre at its new home at the University of Leeds. The cross cutting learning platform on Partnerships and Capacity for Scaling Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) is the central mechanism to bring cohesion between...

Leeds leads in the North for Green Great Britain Week

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In 2008 the UK government passed the Climate Change Act, the first legislation of its kind to introduce legally binding emissions reductions targets.  The ten year anniversary of the Act will be marked as part of Green Great Britain Week  and the Priestley International Centre for Climate is playing an active part in the national...

Putting people in the picture for a low carbon future

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Bioenergy students Nicola Wood and Samantha Sime accompanied James Mckay, manager of the CDT Bioenergy, to the British Science Festival in Hull on the evening of 12 September as part of the Royal Academy of Engineering INGENIOUS project ‘Low Carbon Technologies – the Art of a Sustainable Future’. The evening festival events were being held in...