New opportunity to work on global maritime decarbonisation has recently gone live. Applicants must hold a first-class undergrad degree and meet standard Master's entry requirements. For more info see here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🎧 New podcasts alert!
If you're curious about the future of the aviation industry, have a listen to the new BBC Sounds Rethink podcasts our co-director, Prof Alice Larkin, has contributed to:
Rethink: how can flying be less polluting?
lnkd.in/e-TFS_9d
Rethink: should we stop flying?
lnkd.in/erQGKqJ5
🎉 1 Month to Go! 🎉We’re counting down to Co-created Futures—our annual conference on 3 Dec at Sister, Manchester!
🌍 Theme: Co-produced research
🔬 Focus: Materials | Energy | Nature
🎓 Poster Comp for UoM ECRs & PhDs—submit by 21 Nov!
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🌍⚡ Discover the projects powering Greater Manchester’s energy transition!
From community-owned renewables to geothermal innovation, Co-Created Futures will showcase pioneering interdisciplinary research work.
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🔬 Co-created Futures Conference, Dec 3
Materials Session: Innovation for a Sustainable Future
👩 Dr Samira Malekmohammadi (Royce Institute / CEAMS)
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Has 'net zero' created space for 'anything goes'? Scrutiny of the physical realities of airport expansion is needed. This decision undermines efforts to transition the energy system in line with UNFCCC; makes it harder, more costly, more inequitable. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The UK has used less energy than almost anyone anticipated 20 years ago, but opportunities to act on this potential were largely missed, according to a new report published by @tyndallcentre.bsky.social.
Paper features @aliceclimate.bsky.social and Dr Gaurav Gharde.
doi.org/10.71535/483...
How can flying be less polluting? www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
@aliceclimate.bsky.social and others discuss this seemingly un-solvable question in the latest episode of Rethink from BBC Radio 4.
I’ve been reflecting on my own input into the climate debate over the past 2 decades - a @tyndallcentre.bsky.social report coming soon 👀 - & reading this reinforces my own sense of sadness that messages about equity, sufficiency&need for demand-side transformation are still failing to cut through.
New work published by @loispennington.bsky.social presents a first national-level estimate of the volume and climate impact of the waste generated from international flights....read on... www.linkedin.com/posts/lois-p...
How ‘net zero’ sidelines equity when it comes to flying by @aliceclimate.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
"The IMO has well and truly failed the most climate vulnerable" - a new blog about the latest development in tackling greenhouse gas emissions from shipping: theconversation.com/how-petrosta... Sadly an outcome completely at odds with stated ambitions & its 2023 strategy @uomscieng.bsky.social
The Sainsbury Centre and campus buildings of the University of East Anglia (UEA), in Norwich, UK, foregrounded by wildflower meadow
Explore the sessions at our upcoming Critical Decade for Climate Action Conference, this September 📜
Full agenda and registration info: tyndall.ac.uk/events/criti...
Speakers include @goneri76.bsky.social
@neiladger.bsky.social
@aliceclimate.bsky.social
#Tyndall25UEA
"The solution is simple but not easy" @jingyi-climate.bsky.social discusses the opportunity of using warm water from disused coal mines to heat homes in areas hit hard with job losses when mines were closed. She addresses barriers to implementation. theconversation.com/how-mine-wat...
This is a big week for the shipping sector & the IMO; a chance for a whole global sector to agree a carbon price. While waiting on news, have a listen to @theconversation.com's weekly podcast focused on why short-term decarbonisation - thinking 'beyond fuels' - is essential pod.link/1550643487/e...
🛳️ The UN shipping agency is on the cusp of introducing binding regulations to phase out fossil fuel use in global shipping — with the world’s first-ever global emissions levy on the table.
🗣️ "It would be an absolute game-changer."
✍️ Take a look at the full story:
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/09/c...
Did you know 3% of global emissions come from shipping? This is more than the 2.5% from aviation 🚢✈️
💬 Professor @aliceclimate.bsky.social was interviewed by @uk.theconversation.com to explore how shipping emissions can be reduced to meet Paris agreement targets.
theconversation.com/a-google-map...
It's all going on this week at the IMO in discussions on decarbonising shipping; issues include aligning intensity with absolute targets & the thorny issue of putting a price on carbon theconversation.com/at-a-pivotal... @simonclimate.bsky.social @uniofmanchester.bsky.social @uomscieng.bsky.social
Join The Critical Decade for Climate Action Conference to celebrate 25 years of the Tyndall Centre and evaluate opportunities & challenges for climate action NOW ⏳🌍
📅 8-10 September 📍 UEA, Norwich 💳 Early-bird cost at £350 opens soon
#ClimateResearch #Tyndall25UEA
tyndall.ac.uk/events/criti...
Some interesting shifts in language in the CCC's Seventh Carbon Budget report, compared to the Sixth.
- the emphasis on UK "leadership" has almost gone ⬇️
- references to "justice/fairness" have plummeted by 85% ⬇️⬇️⬇️
- references to "households" have skyrocketed by 400% ⬆️⬆️⬆️
A short 🧵
statistic of the day:
approving the expansion of Heathrow, Luton and Gatwick airports would wipe out ALL the benefits of the government’s 2030 "clean power" target within five years of expanded operation, according to analysis by the New Economics Foundation (NEF)
neweconomics.org/2025/01/airp....
Well this captures it unfortunately ..."we are not even moving in the right direction, let alone at the required pace".
There isn’t enough ‘sustainable’ aviation fuel to make a dent in our emissions – and there won’t be for years, says @benpurvis42.bsky.social
#climatecrisis
theconversation.com/there-isnt-e...
Interesting paper showing how safeguarding planetary boundaries such as freshwater or land system change reduces BECCS potential to close to zero - in contrast to huge potentials generated by IAMs.Picture would be even worse for low conversion efficiency biofuels for transport.
The gap between climate risk and response has never been wider than it is today on.ft.com/3COob0Y
A clear indication of increasing derailment risk theconversation.com/a-doom-loop-...
Lesson for us all: Climate warming has been particularly bad in Switzerland, where “a group of farmers turned to the Swiss courts to force the government to do more to act on climate change before their farms become unviable.”
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Encouraging growth in a sector with such limited opportunity for decarbonisation at present not only ends up cancelling out CO2 reductions made in other sectors, but also flies directly against the 'equity' framing enshrined in the Paris Climate Agreement journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
What would Heathrow third runway mean for carbon emissions, air pollution, and noise?
More, more, more ...
Analysis by me
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
And if this isn't sufficiently worrying, don't forget atmospheric CO2 concentrations over the past 800,000 years ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
