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A new open-access book, developed through the Priestley Climate Scholars programme at the University of Leeds, brings together diverse perspectives on one of society's greatest challenges: how to build fairer and more sustainable climate futures. Climate Futures Across Disciplines: A Next Generation Approach, co-edited by Professor Richard Beardsworth, Professor Viktoria Spaiser and Susan Ann Samuel,...
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...
Leading climate scientists are urging world governments to commission the first authoritative global climate‑risk assessment, warning that the world is dangerously unprepared for the accelerating and interacting threats posed by climate change. Their call follows a new commentary led by Met Office experts and published in Nature, highlighting a “critical gap” in how global climate...
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...
First published in Climate Home News - written by Professor Piers Forster The accord has become a key compass in climate policy-making in the past decade, steering the world away from dangerous global warming of 4C. Today marks the 10th anniversary of the landmark Paris Agreement, which has become a key compass in policymaking over...