Postgraduate students are invited to apply for a new British Council programme aimed at helping businesses in the UK and China fight climate change. Students will be selected from the Tyndall Centre partner Universities and the Chinese Universities of Fudan, Peking, Tongji and Tsinghua.

Researchers in the Tyndall Centre are playing an important role in leading a new €7 million EU-wide Network of Excellence, which aims to provide a focus for international research on the use of evidence, science and assessment tools in policy-making.

Professor Andrew Jordan and Dr John Turnpenny are leading a critical area of work on understanding the needs of those producing and using policy analysis tools such as cost benefit analysis and computer models.

A podcast panel discussion from Oxford with Professor Diana Liverman, Professor Yadvinder Malhi, freelance writer Mark Lynas, and BBC correspondent James Painter. Listen to the podcast

Applications are invited for the above post at The Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of Manchester.

Professor Neil Adger of UEA discusses on Tyndall TV why adaptation to climate change may be more costly and harder to achieve than researchers and policymakers perceive