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Big increase in economic costs if emissions cuts are delayed

January 1, 2018

Stronger efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions should be undertaken to avoid global warming of more than 1.5˚C - without relying on potentially more expensive or risky technologies to remove CO2 from the atmosphere or reduce the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth’s surface.

All EU Cities face a worsening of heatwaves

January 1, 2018

The research by Newcastle University has for the first time analysed changes in flooding, droughts and heatwaves for all European cities using all climate models.

World's first book about BECCS

January 1, 2018

Our Tyndall Centre UEA and Manchester authors bring together in one volume the technical, scientific, social, economic and governance issues relating to the potential deployment of Biomass Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) as a key approach to climate change mitigation.

City-level action is the right way to tackle emissions, study shows

January 1, 2018

Countries seeking to meet Paris Agreement targets on CO2 emissions must get a grip on the amount of pollution produced at city level, according to researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA).

Realising local energy systems – co-benefits and infrastructure challenges

January 1, 2018

PhD opportunity at the University of Manchester. Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

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

January 1, 2018

Alice Larkin and John Broderick of Tyndall Manchester write for Policy @ Manchester to consider if the level of emissions from the Heathrow expansion is in alignment with the UK’s legal commitments on climate change, and argue that the expansion jeopardises these commitments.

Control or be controlled: the tension of a smart home future

January 1, 2018

"In our new book, Smart Homes and Their Users, we use the home as a locus of smartness as it's where potential and promise is most sharply confronted by the messy practicalities of everyday life. And it's also where energy-efficient smartness rubs up against energy-intensive domestic routines."

Policy and models over reliant on Negative Emissions Technologies

January 1, 2018

Global mitigation policy is overreliant on models predicting widespread deployment of Negative Emission Technologies (NETs)