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Global Environmental Outlook 6 report wins PROSE award
The Global Environmental Outlook Report (GEO-6), co-chaired by Prof. Paul Ekins, has won the Association of American Publishers PROSE award for Environmental Science.…
UCL Inst. for Sustainable Resources
UCL-Energy-led centre to investigate challenges of net zero future
New funding for the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC), hosted by UCL Energy Institute, will enable engineers, social scientists and natural scientists to conduct vital research into the challenges of a net zero emissions future.…
UCL Energy Institute|UCL Inst. for Sustainable Resources
EPEE MSc student co-authors Routledge Handbook on the history, politics and economics of OPEC
Postgraduate student Greg Muttitt contributed to the Handbook of OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) and the Global Energy Order.…
UCL Energy Institute|UCL Inst. for Sustainable Resources
European Green Deal: combining emergency action and systemic transformation
Join UCL ISR for our first public seminar of 2020 with Club of Rome Co-President Sandrine Dixson-Declѐve.…
UCL Inst. for Sustainable Resources
ISR researchers contribute to Ofgem report: The Value of International Electricity Trading
A tax on carbon dioxide emissions in Great Britain, introduced in 2013, has led to the proportion of electricity generated from coal falling from 40% to 3% over six years, according to research led by UCL ISR researchers.…
UCL Inst. for Sustainable Resources
ISR Professors working on expert team to advise Citizens’ Assembly on climate change
The UK’s first citizens’ assembly on climate change, Climate Assembly UK, will hold its first meeting in January 2020 to discuss how the UK should reach its new legally-binding climate change target of net zero emissions by 2050.…
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Transition to renewable energy needs to consider global threat to species
A new study from the UK Energy Research Centre has shown the extent to which countries drive biodiversity loss overseas through their demand for electric power.…
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London students call for climate change action integrated with the Sustainable Development Goals
A group of London Summer School students have called for “a re-stitching of the fabric of our global economies”, through greater integration of action on climate change with the broader agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).…
UCL Inst. for Sustainable Resources
Climate crisis will profoundly affect lifelong health, especially for children, report suggests
We are already seeing damage to our health from the climate crisis and it will only worsen without change says Lancet Countdown Report, released yesterday.…
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Universities must act now to tackle climate crisis – open letter
Open letter to higher education sector leaders calling for universities to act swiftly and independently on the climate crisis signed by Director of UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources and Deputy Director of the UCL Energy Institute and several…
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