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Response to the IPCC 1.5°C Special Report

Kevin Anderson By Filed Under: All posts, Energy and Environment, Science and Engineering Posted:

The University of Manchester’s Professor Kevin Anderson responds to today’s report from the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change. The IPCC report meticulously lays out how the serious climate impacts of 1.5°C of warming are still far less destructive than those for 2°C. Sadly, the IPCC then fails, again, to address the profound implications of reducing […]

Expert reaction – Environmental Audit Committee report

Claire Hoolohan By Filed Under: Cities and Environment, Digital Futures, Energy and Environment, Science and Technology, Urban Posted:

The Environmental Audit Committee launched its report on heat-related deaths and included a series of recommendations for the Government. Dr Claire Hoolohan Research Fellow at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, considers how suitable recommendations in this report around water use are, and what additions she’d like to see. Claire’s current project, working with […]

We need creative responses to water stress and climate change, and we need them now.

Claire Hoolohan By Filed Under: Cities and Environment, Digital Futures, Energy and Environment Posted:

As the threat of drought becomes a reality in the UK, Claire Hoolohan Research Fellow at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, considers how we might change the way society uses water. With hosepipe bans being introduced how do we look at future water supplies Water shortage, or water scarcity, is about how much […]

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

Alice LarkinJohn Broderick By and Filed Under: All posts, British Politics, Energy and Environment, Science and Engineering Posted:

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 […]

Zero-carbon UK? Let’s make zero mean something

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The UK’s minister for energy and clean growth wants to set the UK on a path to a ‘zero-carbon economy’. Marc Hudson and Joe Blakey from The University of Manchester’s Sustainable Consumption Institute ask whether ‘zero-carbon’ will give zero-thought to the emissions from the international supply chains that underpin our economy. What does a ‘zero-carbon […]

New approaches needed for nuclear

By and Filed Under: All posts, Digital Futures, Energy and Environment, Industry 4.0, Science and Technology Posted:

Nuclear power is an essential part of the low carbon energy mix and in this piece for Policy@Manchester Professor Juan Matthews and Dr Neil Irvine explain why new approaches are needed to reduce its cost. Nuclear power needs to become cheaper, safer and more flexible. It needs to contribute to a wider usage of energy […]

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Natural gas beyond 2035 is not compatible with our climate commitments

Kevin AndersonJohn Broderick By and 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 […]

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Keeping us charged- addressing energy storage related issues

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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 […]

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Will China and India lead on global climate action and environmental protection?

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 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 […]

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The road map to renewable energy

By Filed Under: All posts, British Politics, Energy and Environment Posted:

Patricia Thornley, Director of The University of Manchester’s SUPERGEN Bioenergy Hub, comments on the UKs desperate need for a road map to renewable energy implementation. In the UK around a third of our energy consumption is used for heating – the next government should mandate energy efficient building design in all new housing developments. Low […]

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