Posted 24 Jun 2020 in Commentary
The declaration today of an official Level 3 heat-health alert by the Met Office and Public Health England may have come too late for many of the people who are most vulnerable to the potentially lethal effects of hot weather, including patients suffering from COVID-19. An official review of the Government’s ‘Heatwave Plan for England’ has […]
Posted 1 Jun 2020 in Announcements
Adapting forest restoration and conservation projects by engaging with local communities can help deliver social and environmental benefits, according to research in Madagascar by the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP). When projects are managed collaboratively they can increase the capacity of communities to adapt to climate change, enhance carbon storage and […]
Posted 15 May 2020 in
Careful implementation of carbon pricing with reductions in fossil fuel subsidies can raise revenues to support the COVID-19 recovery and make society less vulnerable to future climate, ecological or public … read more »
Posted 9 Mar 2020 in Press releases
The UK government should consider a broader-based carbon tax that is distributionally fair and consistent with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions as the current economic framework for decarbonisation in the UK … read more »
Posted 13 Feb 2020 in Press releases
Zero-emission and autonomous vehicles present significant growth potential for the UK, and diverse employment opportunities across future supply chains for a range of goods and services, according to a new report published today (13 February 2020). read more »
Posted 15 Jan 2020 in
Commenting on the publication today (15 January 2019) by the World Meteorological Organization of the estimated global mean surface temperature in 2019, Bob Ward, policy and communications director of the … read more »
Posted 8 Jan 2020 in Commentary
Bob Ward asserts that the spread of misinformation about the causes of Australia’s current bushfires – which experts link explicitly to climate change – is a threat to lives and livelihoods. read more »
Posted 7 Jan 2020 in Press releases
Commenting on the publication today (Tuesday 7 January 2020) by Public Health England of ‘PHE heatwave mortality monitoring: Summer 2019’, Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research … read more »
Posted 4 Jan 2020 in Commentary
Climate change ‘sceptics’ in the UK were very vocal over the holiday period complaining that they do not receive enough attention from the media. They argued that freedom of expression … read more »
Posted 15 Dec 2019 in Press releases
Commenting on the outcome of the COP25 United Nations climate change summit in Madrid, Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment … read more »
