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Air quality success - but how will Brexit impact?

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  At a seminar in Brussels later today [Tuesday, 11 October], the role of EU policy in improving air quality will be praised, at a time when such policies face an uncertain future because of the result of Britain's European referendum. Professor Piers Forster, Director of the Priestley International Centre for Climate at the University...

Record June temperatures raise climate change concerns

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June 2016 was the hottest June worldwide in history, prompting the BBC to report on the impact of dangerous climate change. Records are being smashed month on month, with June the latest in a 14-month run of consecutive record-breaking global temperatures. Priestley Centre director Piers Forster, who is Professor of Physical Climate Change at the University of Leeds, tells the Yorkshire...

Optimistic response to Climate Question Time

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A Climate Question held at the University of Leeds to mark the launch of the Priestley International Centre for Climate produced an optimistic response to the question, 'Are there achievable solutions for limiting climate impacts at 1.5C level?' By the conclusion of the panel debate, 96 people (60% of the audience) voted 'yes' to the...

Climate centres link to focus research strength on solutions

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A decade-long "fruitful cooperation" between researchers at the University of Leeds and a long-established climate centre in Norway was formalised at the Priestley Centre launch on 14 June. Kristin Halvorsen, director of the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo (CICERO) signed a Memorandum of Understanding on joint research with Priestley Centre director Piers Forster...

Speeches launch Priestley International Centre for Climate

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Two hundred people - University of Leeds staff, PhD students and stakeholders - attended the launch of the Priestley International Centre for Climate on Tuesday 14 June at Leeds University Business School. The event saw the presentation of the first international prize for a world-leading contribution to solution focused climate research as well as the formalising of...