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By Cecilia Medupin Filed Under: All posts, Brexit, Energy and Environment Posted:
The UK faces huge challenges in protecting its environment post-Brexit given the amount of EU Directives that will need to be transposed into UK law. In this blog, Dr Cecilia Medupin discusses the ways in which Brexit can be used to review our environmental regulations to meet this challenge. Brexit marks a number of unprecedented […]
By Ian Plewis Filed Under: Energy and Environment Posted:
The debate over the safety and impact of pesticides – and especially the weedkiller glyphosate – is littered with ignorance of available statistics, conceptual confusion and misuse of statistical methods, writes Ian Plewis, Emeritus Professor of Social Statistics at The University of Manchester. The evidence indicates that the risks from glyphosate are small once typical […]
By Kevin Anderson and John Broderick Filed Under: All posts, Energy and Environment Posted:
Following on from the 23rd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 23) to the UN Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Professor Kevin Anderson and Dr John Broderick discuss their research into global carbon budgets and the carbon footprints of natural gas supplies. By 2035, the substantial use of all fossil fuels, including natural […]
By Juan Matthews Filed Under: All posts, Brexit, Energy and Environment Posted:
Earlier this year, Professor Juan Matthews contributed to a policy blog on the consequences of Britain’s planned withdrawal from Euratom as part of the Brexit process. Here, he gives us an update on the progress (or lack of it) around the issues of Euratom withdrawal and scientific collaboration with the European Union. In the months […]
By Richard Fields Filed Under: All posts, Energy and Environment, Science and Engineering Posted:
Last week, the Government announced that new diesel and petrol cars and vans will be banned in the UK from 2040 in a bid to tackle air pollution. In light of this, it was also announced that the Government would invest £246m in battery technology. Here, Richard Fields, a Research Associate at the National Graphene […]
By Mark Robinson Filed Under: All posts, Energy and Environment Posted:
Following the Rising Powers and Interdependent Futures conference in June, Dr Mark Robinson of the World Resources Institute looks to what needs to happen for China and India to be global leaders on addressing climate change and environmental protection. The US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement marks the culmination of a series of domestic policy […]
By Juan Matthews Filed Under: All posts, Energy and Environment Posted:
Professor Juan Matthews, from The University of Manchester’s Dalton Nuclear Institute, examines how committed the UK political parties are to nuclear power. The last six months have been worrying for the nuclear power industry and with the election coming up on 8 June he asks what does the industry need from the new government? The […]
By Ron Chan Filed Under: Energy and Environment Posted:
Doctor Ron Chan is Lecturer in Environmental Economics at The University of Manchester’s School of Social Sciences. Here, he introduces ‘ECOSTAR’ – an innovation and investment project that brings together universities, business, and the public sector to deliver ground-breaking, nature-based business initiatives. ECOSTAR promotes business ventures that can demonstrate a genuinely positive contribution to the […]
By Cameron Roberts Filed Under: Energy and Environment Posted:
Cameron Roberts, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Sustainable Consumption Institute at The University of Manchester explains that in order to tackle climate change governments should not be afraid to intervene directly in the market. To avoid the worst consequences of climate change, we need to de-carbonise our economy. Sustainable technologies such as renewable energy, electric vehicles, […]
By Claire Hoolohan Filed Under: All posts, British Politics, Energy and Environment Posted:
As the threat of drought rises in the UK, Claire Hoolohan Research Associate at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, considers how we might change the way society uses water. The UK is braced for drought, and though weather is part of drought, so is the amount of water used by people going about […]