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A Climate Plan for everyone
Addressing climate change is not just about reducing emissions or conserving resources, it is about ensuring that the steps we take are fair, inclusive, and...
Bridging climate science and finance to tackle industry challenges
The UK Centre for Greening Finance and Investment (CGFI) Internship Programme develops the next generation of physical climate risk analysts while addressing skills gaps and...
A new global initiative for climate, food, and health resilience
The Indigenous Peoples Observatory Network (IPON) was officially inaugurated last week in the Peruvian Amazon. The Network focuses on understanding and responding to the unprecedented...
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What Can We Do to Address Climate Change?
Written by Priestley Centre researchers, especially for young people. Reviewed by kids, for kids!
Climate researchers answer your questions
Answers to questions we hear at our 'Ask a Climate Researcher' stand at the Leeds climate strikes
Empower the eco-anxious
A group of students evaluate what the University of Leeds is doing to address eco-anxiety in young people
Climate careers advice
Podcasts
The 'Ask A Climate Researcher' project
Three of our researchers discuss the 'Ask A Climate Researcher' project and climate communication.
Moving society to net-zero
Simon Moore talks to a variety of people at the University of Leeds who are working to bring about a net-zero, socially just future.
Towards a net-zero university: how to change an institution
Professor Anna Mdee and Dr Katy Roelich talk about studying the University of Leeds’ transition to net-zero carbon emissions by 2030.
Stabilising Earth’s Climate: Key Social Dynamics
Dr Viktoria Spaiser and Dr Nicole Nisbett discuss the importance of social dynamics in finding solutions to the climate crisis.
Climate poetry
Featured reports
Community Municipal Investments and Local Climate Bonds
Community Municipal Investments (CMIs) have the potential to ensure local net-zero strategies are delivered more efficiently. This report presents key findings from two case studies and evaluates the scalability of CMIs as a simple, low-risk mechanism for diversifying borrowing sources.
Carbon Footprint: Exploring the UK’s contribution to climate change
Nearly half the UK’s carbon footprint comes from emissions released overseas to satisfy UK-based consumption, according to a new report from WWF that University of Leeds researchers were involved in authoring.
Decarbonising the Foundation Industries: implications for workers
This report focuses on the energy-intensive industries in the UK, the prospects for decarbonisation, and related employment and skills issues.
Leeds Carbon Roadmap
A team led by Andy Gouldson, Chair of Leeds Climate Commission and Professor of Environmental Policy at the University, sets out carbon targets and a roadmap for reducing Leeds’ emissions in line with the global targets set out by the United Nations recommendations.
Featured journal papers
Importance of species translocations under rapid climate change
A paradigm shift is needed for assisted migration to become a standard conservation response to climate change threats and impacts. Dr Maria Beger contributes to this paper that explores the barriers to using this conservation tool in practice.
Contributions of scale
Neither scientific, Indigenous, nor local knowledge systems alone will be able to contribute the breadth and depth of information necessary to detect, attribute, and inform action along pathways of climate-health impact. Priestley PhD researcher Bianca van Bavel et al. explore how to shift the existing patterns of inclusion into balance.
A just transition to Net Zero
This research led by Professor Lucie Middlemiss and colleagues offers a socially inclusive approach to a net zero transition, rooted in a social policy framework which conceives of social inclusion as the ability to fully participate in society. They characterise what will change for people under net zero, and who stands to lose out in the transition.
Discourses of delay: arguments used to avoid climate action
Too expensive, pointless, and others should do more: a new study sheds light on the excuses for doing nothing that circulate in the public debate on climate change. Leeds researchers and colleagues in Berlin examined a range of sources to identify twelve forms of argument that lead to deadlock.
Featured policy briefings and responses to calls for evidence
Who pays for greenhouse gas removal in the UK?
This brief examines four policy options for funding greenhouse gas removal technologies and assesses their distributional impact – i.e. how the costs fall to UK households across income levels.
Using the underground to fight climate change
This policy brief introduces a suite of technologies which use underground assets to store heat and energy, or provide a low carbon means of energy generation. These present regional authorities with an opportunity for low carbon economic regeneration which is sympathetic to local industrial heritage.
Achieving net-zero infrastructure
A policy briefing by Dr Katy Roelich and Prof Greg Marsden on how decision makers can achieve net-zero infrastructure, which meets citizens' social needs and hits climate targets.
Decarbonising transport
University of Leeds researchers worked with the Local Government Association to develop a series of briefing notes to provide councils with a practical set of actions they can take forward for decarbonisation.