The UK GGR Event starts 1 week from today! Anyone interested in greenhouse gas removal is welcome to join us on 30 Sept (Impact Day) & 1 Oct (Innovation Day). Not sure which day to choose? Come to both! The whole event is completely free to attend. Read more & sign up: co2re.org/events/the-u...

🎧 In a new episode of the Energy Futures podcast, Dr Anastasiya Ostrovnaya sits down with Matthew Lipson, Deputy Director at @undaunted-hq.bsky.social, to discuss the major challenges around decarbonising our homes. Listen now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iEy...

💡Do you work for an organisation developing an ambitious environmental solution? Imperial is an official nominator for the Earthshot Prize, a global environmental prize providing five £1 million grants to help scale solutions to repair our planet.  📅Deadline 31 October Apply:

We are delighted to announce the keynote speaker for the Grantham Institute Annual Lecture 2025 is Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway & the “godmother” of sustainable development 🌍 📅 29 Oct 🕠 17:30–20:30 📍 Imperial College London + livestream 🔗 Register now: ow.ly/ASQc50WY0Xv

📈Climate change-driven summer heat led to an additional 16,500 deaths in 854 European cities, a new study led by the Grantham Institute and the @lshtm.bsky.social estimates 🧵 Watch Dr @clairbarnes.bsky.social from @ic-cep.bsky.social & @gkonstantinoudis.bsky.social explain the findings.

❓Climate reports for the IPCC and others have become increasingly complex, it’s also getting harder to capture & present relevant research to decision-makers. @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social's Dr @dralaaclimate.bsky.social's new paper explores how artificial intelligence could tackle this problem 🧵

Imperial College London academics, this one's for you! Keen to get hands-on w/ your own deep tech business concept? Join Undaunted & Ben Mumby-Croft for a workshop exploring how to apply the scientific method to developing a business idea: www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19810... @granthamicl.bsky.social

🔬 New paper alert: "The role of artificial intelligence in climate change scientific assessments" @plosclimate.org As #AI adoption accelerates, should @ipcc.bsky.social integrate these tools? Can LLMs (chatbots) communicate findings while maintaining scientific rigour? doi.org/10.1371/jour... 1/9

🔥Drawing insights from the digital health surge, a new paper by Maria Daniel Loureiro, @neiljennings.bsky.social, @emlawrance.bsky.social, Daniela Ferreira-Santos & Ana Luísa Neves identifies response gaps & suggest strategies to strengthen heat-health action plans in Europe. 📰 ow.ly/lLFZ50WVE4u

@jessnlv.bsky.social talks about the psychological challenges for those working to combat climate change in a world where climate scepticism is rising on the Sensemaker podcast with @theobserveruk.bsky.social Listen to the Sensemaker here👇 lnk.to/uaivKE #ClimateChange #MentalHealth

Great event on next week's climate innovation calendar at @cam.ac.uk! Join Undaunted's Climate Solutions Catalyst team to connect w/ brilliant minds across deep tech, academia, investment & IP, spark new collaborations & help shape the future of climate innovation: www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19718...

Despite the centrality of equity in the Paris Agreement, no framework exists to allocate responsibilities for carbon dioxide removals among countries. A new paper, co-authored by Imperial's Professor ​@joerirogelj.bsky.social​, presents a framework for allocating CDR globally 🧵

📣 UK GGR startups: this is your LAST CHANCE to apply to pitch at Innovation Day on 1 October! TOMORROW is the deadline! If you're selected, you'll pitch for a place on the UK's first dedicated CO2 removal accelerator. Apply now: airtable.com/appbsB2aWP1H...

♻️ As part of our series on women in cleantech innovation, we meet Safia Qureshi, Founder and CEO of pioneering and award-winning reusable packaging company, CLUBZERØ. Learn her journey, how to attract green investment & handle tough pitch questions: ow.ly/3Rso50WV0V8

Our next Growth in a Changing Climate event series will examine the impact of climate change on workers & productivity. How might rising temperatures affect safety & performance? Why aren’t more businesses taking action to protect their employees? 📅24 September Sign-up: buff.ly/NwLl22W

🎧In a new episode of Climate Conversations, Millie Cave spoke to the Chair of the Grantham Institute, member of the IPCC & eminent meteorologist, Sir Brian Hoskins. In it, they discuss weather vs climate, improving climate resilience and how to inspire political change: buff.ly/jcoxfMI

👉 UK GGR startups: you have 4 days left to apply to pitch at Innovation Day on 1 October! Successful applicants will pitch for the chance to join the UK's 1st dedicated CO2 removal accelerator, supported by @undaunted-hq.bsky.social & @innovateuk.bsky.social. More info: airtable.com/appbsB2aWP1H...

⚖️Climate litigation is entering a new era 🌏 Thanks to attribution science, courts now have the tools to link climate impacts, such as floods, wildfires and extreme heat to major polluters — and assign legal responsibility. 🧵 📒 imperial.ac.uk/stories/polluters-on-trial

🌡️Following a scorching summer, where millions of homes across were at risk of overheating, squeezed households now face rising energy prices this October as temperatures drop 🧵

⚠️Climate change made the hot, dry and windy weather that fueled the deadly July wildfires in Spain and Portugal 40 times more likely 🧵 📝 ow.ly/SoRo50WPvih

⚠️Safe underground carbon storage could reduce warming by 10 times less than previously thought. New research by @iiasa.ac.at with scientists from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social mapped safe areas that can be used for underground carbon storage 🧵

💻AI enters the grant game, levelling the playing field to find innovative climate research. The innovative work of the Climate Solutions Catalyst team at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social has developed an artificial intelligence tool to spot climate-related research with high commercial potential 🧵

As a new assessment cycle begins for the IPCC Seventh Assessment Report and it is announced that Imperial has more authors contributing than any other organisation in the world, our AR7 workshop report highlights the key priority areas for researchers to address 🧵 Learn more: ow.ly/lvQT50WxkMu

🚨 UK GGR start-ups: apply to pitch at Innovation Day on 1 October! Part of the UK GGR Event, Innovation Day is where you can pitch for the chance join the UK's 1st dedicated CO2 removal accelerator, a programme from @undaunted-hq.bsky.social & Innovate UK. Apply by 12 Sept! co2re.org/events/the-u...

Meet the CSC team and its first cohort in Cambridge on 18 Sept! Info and register: www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19718... @granthamicl.bsky.social

Want to hear from some of the most inspiring innovators around the world? Join @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social for the Capstone Showcase 2025 to hear 19 pioneering and inspiring startups from across the Commonwealth nations pitch. www.imperialenterpriselab.com/events/commo...

New research suggests conservation should move beyond saving species from extinction and instead focus on restoring ecosystems. The study, led by Life Sciences' Professor Joe Tobias, argues that preserving functioning ecosystems is key to long-term biodiversity 🧵 buff.ly/5aq5Eyr

🔥Climate change made the weather that drove deadly wildfires in Türkiye, Greece and Cyprus 22% more intense. The study, by @wwattribution.bsky.social, examined weather conditions in the months and days leading up to and during the worst blazes in June and July this year 🧵

Our next Growth in a Changing Climate event series will examine the impact of climate change on workers & productivity. How might rising temperatures affect safety & performance? Why aren’t more businesses taking action to protect their employees? 📅24 September Sign-up: buff.ly/NwLl22W

Do you want to be part of our amazing team @wwattribution.bsky.social team? If you are a science/comms expert, you can! Please do consider applying - www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

Scientifically attributing extreme weather events to climate change versus other natural processes or human activities is tricky. The World Weather Attribution has pioneered methods that allow them to understand the role of human-induced climate change in current extreme weather events, if at all.

📯New vacancy: Media Relations Manager The role will involve providing communications support to Grantham Institute researchers and leading on media relations for Grantham outputs and the innovative @wwattribution.bsky.social project. 📅 5 Sept Apply: ow.ly/CwAm50WLZ6w

🚀 Find out how to how to catapult your green business into the future with Alyssa Gilbert, our Director of Innovation. Read more to learn about: 📈 Challenges of scaling a green start-up ✅Why universities are key to scaling green innovation 🌍The Earthscale programme ow.ly/q26050WLWNM

🍷🪴Greening vineyards – exploring the experiences of winegrowers Winegrowing is one of the fastest growing sectors in the UK, however it is traditionally associated with intensive management practices and there is a need for sustainability in the industry🧵

For the next blog in our series of insights from women in cleantech innovation, the Grantham Institute’s Linsey Wynton meets Carmel Rafaeli, an angel investor and venture partner who supports climate-positive startups with female founders 🧵 Read it here: ow.ly/Bf6M50WJ3wS

🔍 Survey Call - We Need Your Voice! 🔍 The @ignitenetplus.bsky.social survey to advance Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in #STEM and #Energy #research sector is live 👥STEM Researchers 🔗https://tinyurl.com/yx8u6uyx 📢 Please share to help us reach a wide audience #EDI #Inclusion #YourVoice

🙌Imperial has more authors contributing to a crucial climate report than any other organisation in the world. Once finished, the IPCC Assessment Report 7 (AR7) report will help shape policies to tackle climate change throughout the 2030s 🧵 📰 ow.ly/BlYz50WIMpk

🛩️Planning a late summer getaway? Consider cutting back on flying to reduce your carbon emissions 🧵

Climate change isn’t a future problem - it’s a present reality. But even without increasing climate chaos, research shows human health is weather-dependent.🌡️ A new paper for @pnas.org by Nick Obradovich, @emlawrance.bsky.social and @keltonminor.bsky.social: ow.ly/SApH50WHnGW #Climate #Health

“Even if climate change plays a big role in the weather event, what turns weather into a disaster is always strongly shaped by vulnerability and exposure". Read @wwattribution.bsky.social Dr @frediotto.bsky.social's comments for @grist.org on the Texas Floods: grist.org/extreme-weat...

Our Senior Scientist @fahadiii.bsky.social speaks to BBC News about how the fatal floods in Pakistan were made 15% more intense due to climate change. "If you consider that Pakistan's role in total emissions is less than 1%, it's a big case of climate injustice," he says @wwattribution.bsky.social

In the midst of a sweltering summer, our research published last year shows people are highly concerned about climate change and support policies that address both climate and health. ✅ The UK public are highly supportive of the government target to reach NetZero by 2050 🧵

Kate Hofman, Founder of GrowUp Farms & CEO & Co-Founder of Pesto, shares top tips for early-stage startups on raising investment! ⤵️ www.youtube.com/shorts/q-t1w... Learn more ➡️ granthaminstitute.com/2025/08/05/v... @ic-cep.bsky.social @granthamicl.bsky.social @imperialenterprise.bsky.social

In July Fennoscandia was hit by a heatwave similar to one that hit the region in 2018. In just seven years, similar events have become almost twice as likely due to increased global temperatures from 1.1 to 1.3°C. Every fraction of a degree matters! www.worldweatherattribution.org/intense-two-...

📱➡️🗑️60 million tonnes of electronics are thrown away each year. Now an Imperial College London start-up is changing that through an innovative circular business that teaches kids to fix electrical products, from remote-controlled cars to game consoles 🧵

🌡️Climate change made ‘relentless’ Nordic heatwave at least ten times more likely, according to research by @wwattribution.bsky.social. The two-week heatwave led to sightings of reindeer in urban areas in Norway, Sweden and Finland, alongside wildfires, overcrowded hospitals and algal blooms 🧵

The 3rd installment of our Growth in a Changing Climate event series will examine the impact of climate change on workers & productivity. How might rising temperatures affect safety & performance? Why aren’t more businesses taking action to protect their employees? Sign-up today: buff.ly/NwLl22W

There is growing evidence that climate change can have direct and indirect effects on mental health. This is especially true for extreme heat. 🌡️ The literature shows a clear relationship between increased temperatures and number of suicides and severe distress following extreme weather events🧵

Yet again, temperatures are pushing past 30°C in parts of the UK. This is the fourth heatwave of the year and climate change is making today's temperatures about 2-4°C hotter, says scientists at @wwattribution.bsky.social 🧵

📹 Imperial College London welcomed YouTube science superstars Veritasium to learn more about the future of battery technology. 📺 Watch their visit in full: buff.ly/09psHhw