Tyndall Manchester on Shale Gas

Geoengineering

Amidst insufficient mitigation efforts deliberate large-scale interventions in the Earth’s climate system, known collectively as ‘geoengineering’, have been proposed in order to moderate anthropogenic climate change. Geoengineering proposals can be broadly classified amongst Solar Radiation Management (SRM) and Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) variants. +

The Radical Emission Reduction Conference

This conference will bring together academics and practitioners, engineers and economists, policy-makers and civil society to detail evidenced-based opportunities for delivering urgent and deep reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases. Deadline for Abstracts 28th June 2013
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Postgraduate Research Project Available at UEA

A fully-funded PhD Studentship on drivers of trends in CO2 emissions in the worlds cities is available at the University of East Anglia. For more information, please visit the UEA Postgraduate Study Page.
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Olivier Boucher on Categorizing Geoengineering

Olivier Boucher (Director of Research, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)) discusses the categorization of geoengineering in the context of climate research. +

Tim Krueger on The Termination Effect

Tim Krueger (James Martin Fellow, Oxford Geoengineering Programme) discusses the 'Termination Effect' and the relevance of it to discussions of geoengineering. +

Mark Lawrence on Ocean Iron Fertilization

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Gregor Betz describes the EuTRACE Project

Gregor Betz of the Karlsruher Institut fur Technologie (philosophie.kit.edu/mitarbeiter_betz_gregor.php) explains the EuTRACE Project, in which the Tyndall Centre is a partner. +

Green Deal must ‘sell’ energy efficiency as way of improving domestic life – or take up won’t happen

Call for clearer ‘value proposition’ ahead of Monday launch - as findings reveal no great appetite for energy efficiency
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Low carbon energy controversies

This new book from Routledge brings together ten years of research led by the Tyndall Centre at Manchester University that explores the complex nature of disputes about balancing local environmental protection and the need for low carbon energy. +

Aviation and shipping privileged – again?

The ongoing exclusion of aviation and shipping emissions from UK carbon budgets further tests the veracity of the Coalition’s claim to be the “greenest government ever” claim the authors of this new Tyndall Centre Briefing Note.
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