What’s it like to present your research at a UN climate conference? Leeds Masters graduate Phellecitus Montana reflects on her experience at COP22 in Marrakech After completing my Masters in Environment and Development at the University of Leeds, my interest in climate change burgeoned. So, when my research project on...
Two worrying stories have dominated climate news this week. The first is President Elect Donald Trump’s alarming stance on climate change. Although in favour of urgent action before the 2009 UN climate summit in Copenhagen, he’s promised to pull out of the Paris Agreement immediately, claimed that climate science is a...
Greenhouse gas emissions are still rising. This year atmospheric carbon dioxide levels sailed past 400 parts per million and in January global temperatures were within touching distance of 1.5 deg C above their 1850-1900 levels – the ambitious warming limit set out in the Paris text. Why then am I...
Is the UK’s world-leading climate legislation as good as it should be? Priestley Centre member Kate Scott, winner of the Piers Sellers PhD Prize for exceptional climate research, and colleague Marco Sakai introduce a blog written for The Conversation that argues we need to up our game A major new climate...