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Decarbonising transport: is hydrogen the answer?

Alice LarkinAmanda Lea-Langton By Alice Larkin and Amanda Lea-Langton Filed Under: All posts, Cities and Environment, Energy and Environment, Environment, Growth and Inclusion, Renewables, Science and Technology Posted: February 25, 2025

The UK government has enshrined net zero into law, but if it is to meet its targets then big strides need to be made towards decarbonising land-based transport, aviation, and shipping. Unlike most land-based transport, aviation and shipping are considered ‘difficult to decarbonise’. Their long-lived infrastructure, ongoing reliance on energy dense fuels, and issues around […]

Tagged With: #OnHydrogen, carbon reduction, energy, environment, Hydrogen, infrastructure, net zero, sustainability, transport

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Climate change: navigating a clear route for UK shipping

Alice Larkin By Simon Bullock, Alice Larkin and James Mason Filed Under: Energy and Environment, Renewables, Science and Technology Posted: January 8, 2024

After a year of devastating climate disasters, nations at COP 28 in Dubai in December signalled the need for the “end of the fossil fuel era”. To meet that ambition, 2024 will need to see a major acceleration in global action to address climate change. Here, Simon Bullock, Alice Larkin, and James Mason from the […]

Tagged With: Business Energy & Industry, carbon reduction, climate change, energy, environment, sustainability, technology

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Is the shipping sector on a collision course on climate?

Alice Larkin By Alice Larkin and Simon Bullock Filed Under: All posts, Energy and Environment, Science and Engineering Posted: November 1, 2021

In the run-up to the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has strongly criticised the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) for not doing enough to cut carbon emissions from the shipping sector. He said the sector’s current commitments were consistent with global warming above 3 degrees, whereas the Paris Agreement sets […]

Tagged With: carbon reduction, climate change, environment, net zero, sustainability, Tyndall

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Tackling the twin crises of COVID-19 and climate change

Alice Larkin By Alice Larkin Filed Under: All posts, Energy and Environment, Renewables, Science and Engineering, Science and Technology Posted: November 24, 2020

The global pandemic of 2020 has meant massive changes to millions of people around the world. But as we look to adjust to life in the ‘new normal’, are there lessons to learn in how we can ‘build back better’? With less than a year to go until the postponed COP26, Professor Alice Larkin from the Tyndall Centre […]

Tagged With: climate change, consumption, COVID-19, energy, environment, Levelling Up, Pandemic, sustainability, Tyndall

Messy but meaningful – how to make interdisciplinary water-energy-food-environment research more influential

Alice LarkinClaire Hoolohan By Alice Larkin and Claire Hoolohan Filed Under: Cities and Environment, Digital Futures, Science and Technology Posted: November 19, 2018

UK academia is arguably at the forefront of the kind of inter-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary research needed to tackle global grand societal challenges. This distinctive mode of research aims to be policy-relevant and impactful, but by its nature is often messy, complex and difficult to communicate. Here, a group of academics from The University of Manchester […]

Tagged With: #SDG, #SDGLifeBelowWater, #SDGLifeOnLand, Cities and Environment, Digital Futures, environment, interdisciplinary, Life Below Water, Life on Land, nexus, sustainability, trans-disciplinary

Heathrow Expansion in light of the UK’s Climate Change Commitments

Alice LarkinJohn Broderick By Alice Larkin and John Broderick Filed Under: All posts, British Politics, Energy and Environment, Science and Engineering Posted: June 22, 2018

Alice Larkin, Professor of Climate Science and Energy Policy at The University of Manchester, along with Dr John Broderick consider if the level of emissions from the Heathrow expansion is in alignment with the UK’s legal commitments on climate change. They argue that the proposed expansion jeopardises these legal commitments, given the absence of a […]

Tagged With: #SDG, #SDG Affordable and Clean Energy, Business Energy & Industry, carbon reduction, climate change, consumption, energy, environment, net zero, sustainability, transport

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Expanding Heathrow flies in the face of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change

Alice Larkin By Alice Larkin Filed Under: All posts Posted: October 26, 2016

At a cabinet committee on Tuesday, the government approved plans to build a third runway at Heathrow, expanding UK airport capacity There will be a public consultation on the effects of the expansion before the government makes a final decision as part of a national policy statement on aviation. Here, Professor Alice Larkin urges the […]

Tagged With: airport, aviation, climate change, environment, heathrow

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A fair COP? Climate summit good for engagement, but progress was oh so slow

Alice Larkin By Alice Larkin Filed Under: Featured, Science and Technology Posted: November 27, 2013

At last week’s Conference of the Parties (COP) in Warsaw, key figures met to discuss the small matter of how to combat climate change by cutting carbon emissions. Dr Alice Bows-Larkin travelled there with colleagues, using research to highlight to policy players just how much carbon emissions need to be cut if catastrophic temperature rises […]

Tagged With: 2 degrees, 2°C, carbon, climate change, COP, Tyndall, Warsaw

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