Category Archives: Climate

Alix Dietzel, University of Bristol and Katharina Richter, University of Bristol Every year, the official UN climate summits are getting bigger. In 2021 at COP26 in Glasgow there were around 40,000 participants, COP27 in 2022 in Sharm el-Sheikh had 50,000. … Continue reading →

Mark Maslin, UCL; Priti Parikh, UCL, and Simon Chin-Yee, UCL The latest UN climate summit, COP28, was always going to be controversial. It was held in a state whose economy is heavily dependent on oil and gas – the United … Continue reading →

Anneleen Kenis, Brunel University London and Barbara Van Dyck, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) The European Commission launched a proposal in July 2023 to deregulate a large number of plants manufactured using new genetic techniques. Despite extraordinary attempts by the … Continue reading →

Alaa Al Khourdajie, Imperial College London; Chris Bataille, Columbia University, and Lars J Nilsson, Lund University The COP28 climate summit in Dubai has adjourned. The result is “The UAE consensus” on fossil fuels. This text, agreed upon by delegates from … Continue reading →

Saikat Paul/Shutterstock Radhika Khosla, University of Oxford Cast your eyes over the statistics in a new report I helped author on staying cool in a warming climate and the urgency becomes clear: 1 billion people, mostly in Africa and Asia, … Continue reading →

Sadi-Santos/Shutterstock Alain Naef, ESSEC There is “no science” behind demands to phase out fossil fuels, according to the current COP president. This level of cynicism at the top of the annual climate summit makes it less surprising that the conference … Continue reading →

fran_kie / shutterstock Steven R. Smith, University of Surrey; Caroline Zimm, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), and Tim Lenton, University of Exeter A young boy is forced to sit at a dinner table with grown-ups talking endlessly about … Continue reading →

Carole Roberts, UCL; Mark Maslin, UCL, and Priti Parikh, UCL Rishi Sunak, David Cameron and King Charles are just three of the more than 70,000 delegates from nearly 200 countries at the latest UN climate summit in Dubai, COP28. But … Continue reading →

Scharfsinn/Shutterstock Nicholas Beuret, University of Essex Climate change is overwhelmingly a problem of wealthy people. The wealthiest 1% of humanity produce over 1,000 times the emissions of the poorest 1%. In fact, these 77 million people are responsible for more … Continue reading →

Olga Gordeeva/Shutterstock Piers Forster, University of Leeds As the latest UN climate change summit (COP28) gets underway in Dubai, conversations around limiting global warming to 1.5°C will confront a harsh reality. Global temperatures have surged over the past year, with … Continue reading →