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China’s 2030 peak-emissions target likely to be met within the next 10 years

Posted 7 Mar 2016 in Press releases

China’s annual carbon dioxide emissions will likely peak before 2025, and may have peaked in 2014, according to a new paper published today (7 March 2016) by the Grantham Research Institute. read more »

The great land rush (on ig.ft.com)

Posted 1 Mar 2016 in In the news

Financial Times, 1 March

Energy savings to eclipse EU fossil imports by 2030 (on eandt.theiet.org)

Posted 26 Feb 2016 in In the news

E&T magazine, 26 February

Confusion reigns as UK scientists face government ‘gagging’ clause (on www.nature.com)

Posted 26 Feb 2016 in In the news

Nature, 26 February

Taking a risk on the weather (on eprints.lse.ac.uk)

Posted 26 Feb 2016 in In the news

Financial World , Feb 2016 . pp. 49-51

Low-carbon future could save Brazilian city billions

Posted 25 Feb 2016 in Announcements

A new CCCEP-led report on the Brazilian city of Recife has led to the city adopting ambitious targets for low-carbon development.

Energy use in the rapidly-growing metropolis is forecast to almost double by 2030 compared to 2014, with emissions set to increase by 80 per cent in the same period.

Nicholas Stern: World deserves better and more robust economic models of climate change

Posted 24 Feb 2016 in Press releases

Nicholas Stern has called on researchers to improve radically the models used to estimate the costs of acting on climate change in an article published in the journal ‘Nature’ today (24 February 2016).