Congratulations to Professor Nick Pidgeon who has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list for his services to climate change awareness and energy security policy.

Read about Nick's reaction here, and find out more about his work as part of IAGP here.

A new article published in the Climatic Change journal by IAGP researchers Adam Corner & Nick Pidgeon explores how the linguistic terms used to describe new technologies have powerful effects on the way in which they are perceived by the general public.

Andy Ridgwell (Professor of Earth System Modelling at the University of Bristol and IAGP member) comments on geoengineering as part of the BBC's coverage of the release of the new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on the mitigation of climate change.

Read the coverage here.

 

Piers Forster asks us to consider our place in fighting climate change, and suggests some methods of lowering our carbon footprint in The Yorkshire Post.

 

Jayne Windeatt discusses the possible benefits of integrating small scale biochar systems in the developing world in a Virgin Earth Challenge blog.

 

IAGP Affiliated Postgraduate Researcher Cat Scott has been awarded a Springer Thesis Prize for her PhD thesis "The biogeochemical impacts of forests and the implications for climate-change mitigation".

IAGP researcher Adam Corner examines the opportunities for communicating climate change in the aftermath of the recent floods across the UK in his recent article in the Guardian.

Presenter Gaia Vince interviews IAGP Project Manager Dr Naomi Vaughan for BBC Radio 4's Frontiers programme. In dialogue with leading geoengineering researchers, the programme explores the technical feasibility, as well as the social, political and governance issues surrounding solar radiation management.

IAGP Principal Investigator Professor Piers Forster is one of only three UK-based leading authors on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Summary for Policymakers, based on the IPCC’s Working Group I contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis.  The WGI AR5 Summary for Policymakers and final draft of the WGI report, released 30 September 2013 is available from the WGI website.  IPCC Report and geoengineering: See Nature article See New Scientist article, BBC coverage

New IAGP research article published with Global Environmental Change: ‘Opening up’ geoengineering appraisal: Multi-Criteria Mapping of options for tackling climate change. In response to the ‘closing down’ identified in the first systematic review of climate geoengineering appraisals, geoengineering appraisal is 'opened up' here for the first time to a diversity of framings, knowledges and pathways using a Multi-Criteria Mapping methodology.