In May 2025 Reform UK won majorities in 10 of 23 councils up for election in England. Among the party’s election promises were to “scrap net zero to cut your energy bills”. With the party likely to ...

Many of the climate change impacts that the UK faces have the potential to create serious socioeconomic consequences. This report and accompanying policy brief provide improved estimates of the likely ...

The COP26 and COP27 Presidencies, together with the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions, extended the mandate of the Independent High-Level Expert Group on Climate Finance (IHLEG) in July 2022, to ...

This article reports on reaction from environmental experts to comments made by Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice that it is “absolute garbage” to claim that human activity is the main cause of ...

The world’s oceans cover most of the Earth’s surface and represent about 95% of the planet’s biosphere. They contribute to climate regulation by absorbing over a quarter of human-caused carbon ...

Training AI models requires vast computational resources, with computing power usage increasing tenfold between 2018 and 2022. With fossil fuels still providing over 60% of total global electricity ...

LSE has announced a new partnership with leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) safety and research company Anthropic, to provide all LSE students with access to its Claude AI technology. From next ...

This report reviews key global developments in climate change litigation, with a focus on the period May 2022 to May 2023, drawing primarily on the Climate Change Litigation databases maintained by ...

This report focuses on key trends and evolutions in global climate change litigation from the calendar year 2024, while also highlighting important new developments through to May 2025. It provides a ...

Climate change is an inherently intergenerational issue: its adverse impacts, driven by human activity, pose serious implications for justice and equity between present and future generations. An ...

Nearly 60% of Bangladesh’s population is exposed to high flood risk, a higher proportion of the population than in any other country in the world other than the Netherlands, and around 45% are exposed ...

This short research briefing presents the results of a rapid analysis of a nationally-representative survey of nearly 2,000 working adults across the UK that sought to find out how the heatwave in ...