News & commentaries

Will UK reshuffle boost science and environment?
Bob Ward of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment reflects on the potential impact of the new intake of ministers on future policy. read more »

Mike Stonard speaks to Matthew Agarwala, Senior Research Associate on the Global Enviroment at UEA, about Natural Capital
Matthew Agarwala speaks to Mike Stonard about a recently release study of Natural Capital. Matthew is the lead researcher behind the study read more »

Correspondence between Bob Ward and Congressman Lamar Smith – Chair of House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
Correspondence between Bob Ward and Congressman Lamar Smith read more »

Climate change policies ‘can increase UK competitiveness’
Grantham Institute study says climate legislation has not harmed UK businesses and there is no case for weakening carbon targets read more »

UK climate change policies have not harmed economy, report says
Grantham Institute study says climate legislation has not harmed UK businesses read more »

The Costs of Climate Change
A new study projects the economic damage caused by global warming will be significantly higher than previous models predict. read more »

New review of economic evidence finds UK climate change targets have not damaged business competitiveness
Current policies to tackle climate change by reducing UK annual emissions of greenhouse gases, including the Fourth Carbon Budget for the period 2023-2027, have not damaged the competitiveness of businesses, … read more »

Climate engineering offers little hope of mitigation
Injecting particles into the stratosphere to shade and cool the Earth will never stop climate change. This is the shocking claim made in the July issue of Nature Climate Change by an international group of prominent scientists read more »

The trouble with climate change denial
Over the past few months, the Global Warming Policy Foundation has been strongly pushing a campaign pamphlet on ‘The trouble with climate change’, written by Lord Lawson of Blaby. It provides a fascinating demonstration of the trouble with climate change denial. read more »

Today programme criticised for giving platform to climate sceptic Lord Lawson
Lord Lawson was given undue prominence, BBC complaints unit rules read more »


