The COVID-19 pandemic required health responses beyond the normal functioning of cities.
Achieving net zero emissions also requires significant action on city and national scales which can also be justified by health impacts. Given these potential impacts, modelling pathways to net-zero emissions could benefit from accounting for learnings from the pandemic.
Seven opportunities have been highlighted to build a positive legacy from COVID-19 [1]. In addition, multi-sectorial modelling has assessed pathways to net zero emissions in electricity supply, transport, housing, food and diet [2] using life tables.
European Natural Gas through the 2020s
This working paper looks at a decade of extremes, contradictions and continuing uncertainties for the European gas system
14 May 2025
Valuing the reciprocating services that humans can provide to ecosystems
A new article co-authored by colleagues from the UCL Institute for Global Prosperity examines not only what ecosystems can do for humankind, but also how humans can ‘give back’ or reciprocate.
07 May 2025
Inheritance without the heritage: fig trees, ecology and imaginative attachments to fetih (conquest)
A new article by Sertaç Sehlikoglu examines fig trees and the ecological effects of imaginative attachments to fetih (conquest)
06 May 2025