carbon emissions

What does ‘net-zero’ emissions mean and what are the challenges – from technological to moral – to achieving it, in the UK and worldwide? Read more

Corporations are an important source of GHG emissions and important actors in mitigating climate change. This paper presents and analyses... Read more

A new article in ‘The Australian’ exposes once again the hypocrisy of the newspaper’s editor, John Lehmann, and the shameless... Read more

This report assesses the credibility of EU member states’ efforts to decarbonise the power sector – with credibility of policy commitments defined as ‘the likelihood that policymakers will keep their promises to implement the pledges or policies they announce’. Read more

The decision by the UK Treasury to continue its indefinite freeze of the Carbon Price Support Rate means the price is likely to be too weak to create enough shift from gas-fired power stations to low-carbon sources, such as renewables and nuclear - says Bob Ward, Policy and Communications Director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change. Read more

This report assesses what is known about potential co-benefits across multiple domains: environmental, economy-wide, and sector-specific. It then reports on empirical results on co-benefits, in particular the application of integrated assessment models (IAMs) to simulate co-benefits over the course of the century. Read more

Responding to the publication of the UN Emissions Gap report today (31 October 2017) Bob Ward, policy and communications director... Read more

On 4 March 2016, the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and the ESRC Centre for Climate... Read more