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Monthly Archives: December 2023
Climate summits are too big and key voices are being crowded out – here’s a better solution
Alix Dietzel, University of Bristol and Katharina Richter, University of Bristol Every year, the official UN climate summits are getting bigger. In 2021 at COP26 in Glasgow there were around 40,000 participants, COP27 in 2022 in Sharm el-Sheikh had 50,000. … Continue reading
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Five major outcomes from the latest UN climate summit
Mark Maslin, UCL; Priti Parikh, UCL, and Simon Chin-Yee, UCL The latest UN climate summit, COP28, was always going to be controversial. It was held in a state whose economy is heavily dependent on oil and gas – the United … Continue reading
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Genetically modified crops aren’t a solution to climate change, despite what the biotech industry says
Anneleen Kenis, Brunel University London and Barbara Van Dyck, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) The European Commission launched a proposal in July 2023 to deregulate a large number of plants manufactured using new genetic techniques. Despite extraordinary attempts by the … Continue reading
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The COP28 climate agreement is a step backwards on fossil fuels
Alaa Al Khourdajie, Imperial College London; Chris Bataille, Columbia University, and Lars J Nilsson, Lund University The COP28 climate summit in Dubai has adjourned. The result is “The UAE consensus” on fossil fuels. This text, agreed upon by delegates from … Continue reading
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COP28: countries have pledged to cut emissions from cooling – here’s how to make it happen
Saikat Paul/Shutterstock Radhika Khosla, University of Oxford Cast your eyes over the statistics in a new report I helped author on staying cool in a warming climate and the urgency becomes clear: 1 billion people, mostly in Africa and Asia, … Continue reading
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From the Paris agreement to COP28, how oil and gas giants try to influence the global climate agenda
Sadi-Santos/Shutterstock Alain Naef, ESSEC There is “no science” behind demands to phase out fossil fuels, according to the current COP president. This level of cynicism at the top of the annual climate summit makes it less surprising that the conference … Continue reading
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How bird feeders help small species fight infection
Great tits are familiar visitors to gardens. allanw/Shutterstock Hannah Watson, Lund University Every day, throughout the world, people put huge quantities of food out at feeding stations for birds and other wild animals. Although we know that connecting with nature … Continue reading
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Climate ‘tipping points’ can be positive too – our report sets out how to engineer a domino effect of rapid changes
fran_kie / shutterstock Steven R. Smith, University of Surrey; Caroline Zimm, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), and Tim Lenton, University of Exeter A young boy is forced to sit at a dinner table with grown-ups talking endlessly about … Continue reading
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Why are people still flying to climate conferences by private jet?
Carole Roberts, UCL; Mark Maslin, UCL, and Priti Parikh, UCL Rishi Sunak, David Cameron and King Charles are just three of the more than 70,000 delegates from nearly 200 countries at the latest UN climate summit in Dubai, COP28. But … Continue reading
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Why iconic trees are so important to us – and how replacing those that fall is often complicated
The Sycamore Gap tree on Hadrian’s Wall, UK. Mark Godden/Shutterstock Helen Parish, University of Reading and Ewan Macdonald, University of Oxford An ancient kola tree has been cut down in southern Ghana. Local tradition held that the tree had grown … Continue reading
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