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No room for drought: Steps to improve the UK agricultural sector’s resilience to drought and water security

By Tim Foster Filed Under: Energy and Environment, Environment Posted: January 10, 2024

In 2022, the UK experienced its fifth driest summer since 1836. Combined with record-breaking temperatures, this led to severe drought conditions across the country, with key agricultural regions as some of the worst affected areas. The drought resulted in widespread reductions in crop yields and harvested areas, as dwindling water supplies in soils, rivers, and […]

Tagged With: climate change, environment, food & agriculture, infrastructure, irrigation, sustainability

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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

Freedom energy: minimising geopolitical risks to reach net zero

Prof Matthew Paterson By Matthew Paterson Filed Under: Energy and Environment, Environment, Renewables, Science and Technology Posted: November 30, 2023

Geopolitical dynamics are crucial to our thinking about the future of energy and the pursuit of net zero. In this article from our publication On Resilience, Professor Matthew Paterson explores the complexity of alternatives to fossil fuels, the impact of renewables on our energy security, and how policymakers can reduce exposure to the geopolitical risks of the […]

Tagged With: Business Energy & Industry, energy, environment, net zero

Strengthening the UK’s energy resilience and security

Maria Sharmina By Maria Sharmina and Timothy Capper Filed Under: All posts, Energy and Environment, Renewables, Science and Engineering Posted: November 13, 2023

Energy is a key resource enabling the functioning of modern societies. Arguably, the fast-paced technological advances in the past 200 years have been based on plentiful supply of cheap energy. But cheap and plentiful are no more. In this article, from our publication On Resilience, Professor Maria Sharmina and Timothy Capper explore how to strengthen the […]

Tagged With: energy, environment, science & engineering

Game changers, a new approach to tackling sportswear garment waste

Headshot of AuthorAuthor photographAuthor Headshot By Lindsay Pressdee, Amy Benstead and Jo Conlon Filed Under: Energy and Environment, Environment, Renewables, Science and Engineering Posted: October 16, 2023

The UK disposes of one million tonnes of textiles every year, 300,000 tonnes of which end up in landfill or incineration and figures suggest 10% of global CO2 emissions could come from the fashion industry. The football sector is a huge contributor to this – approximately 2.45 million Liverpool and 1.95 million Manchester United sports shirts […]

Tagged With: consumption, environment, fashion, science & engineering, sustainability

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Artificial Intelligence and future transport and mobility: What do cities want and how can urban planning respond?

By Ransford A. Acheampong Filed Under: All posts, Cities and Environment, Digital Futures, Energy and Environment, Environment, Inclusive Growth, Science and Engineering, Science and Technology, Urban Posted: September 14, 2023

Experts agree that automated driving technologies constitute perhaps the most significant transformation in urban and transport planning since the invention of the private motor vehicle. In this article, Dr Ransford A. Acheampong assesses how policy-makers have an urgent responsibility to create alternative urban futures in which we are able to meet our everyday mobility needs […]

Tagged With: carbon reduction, communities, environment, infrastructure, sustainability, technology

A critical question: what should we do with the UK’s plutonium stockpile?

By William Bodel Filed Under: All posts, Energy and Environment, Science and Engineering Posted: August 30, 2023

The UK is currently storing around 140 tonnes of plutonium, mostly arising from its civil nuclear programme over the past 60 years. What should we, as a nation, do with it? Should we use it as fuel for future reactors, or dispose of it as waste? The latest position paper from the Dalton Nuclear Institute […]

Tagged With: Business Energy & Industry, carbon reduction, Dalton, energy, environment, infrastructure, nuclear, science & engineering

using data for traffic planning

Data and Decision Making: how AI and data tools can help influence evidence-based policy change.

David Topping By David Topping Filed Under: Cities and Environment, Digital Futures, Environment, Science and Technology, Urban Posted: July 6, 2023

It is crucial that policymakers have access to the increasing collection of datasets across our natural environment and other sectors such as health and economics. Currently, much of this data is spread across a variety of platforms which work in silo, making it difficult for users to analyse, assess and ultimately deliver improved policy outcomes. […]

Tagged With: AI, Air pollution, data, digital, Digital Solutions Hub, environment, machine learning, NERC

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Delivering on climate commitments: restricting global warming to 1.5C

Angela Mae Minas Headshot By Angela Mae Minas Filed Under: All posts, Cities and Environment, Energy and Environment, Environment, Science and Technology Posted: June 27, 2023

In 2015, world leaders committed to holding global warming to well below 2C whilst pursuing efforts to limit warming to 1.5C as part of The Paris Agreement at COP21. It is now expected that the world is likely to hit this level of warming within the next five years. In this article, Dr Angela Minas […]

Tagged With: carbon reduction, climate change, energy, environment, local government, net zero, sustainability, Tyndall Centre

firefighter tackling fire in field

Spreading like wildfire: the need for a UK Fire Danger Rating System (FDRS)

Dr Gareth Clay By Gareth Clay Filed Under: Cities and Environment, Environment Posted: June 26, 2023

In a rapidly changing world under pressure from climate change we are seeing alterations in the pattern of fires, especially in places where wildfires have not been viewed as a major threat such as the UK. Fire Danger Rating Systems (FDRS) provide a measure of the threat posed by wildfires, and are informed by fuel […]

Tagged With: climate change, environment, Gorse, Heather, sustainable future, vegetation, weather resilience, Wildfires

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