Briefing papers and notes
Grantham Briefings analyse climate change and environmental research linked to work at Imperial, setting it in the context of national and international policy and the future research agenda.

Using futures analysis to develop resilient climate change mitigation strategies
Topics: Energy and Low-Carbon Futures, Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper, Collaborative publications
Publication date: November 2019

Climate change and the human-made water cycle: Implications for the UK water sector
Topics: Resources and Pollution, Impacts and adaptation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: October 2019

Integrating green and blue spaces into our cities: Making it happen
Topics: Impacts and adaptation, Health, Resources and Pollution, Energy and Low-Carbon Futures
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: July 2019

The Antarctic Peninsula under a 1.5°C global warming scenario - what change is it locked into?
Topics: Earth and Life Sciences, Climate Science
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: April 2019

The challenges of implementing global policy: the ecosystem approach and forests
Topics: Earth and Life Sciences
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: April 2019

Experiences and lessons in managing water from Cape Town
Topics: Impacts and adaptation, Health, Resources and Pollution
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: February 2019

Co-benefits of climate change mitigation in the UK: What issues are the UK public concerned about and how can action on climate change help to address them?
Topics: Mitigation, Energy and Low-Carbon Futures
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: March 2019

BECCS deployment: a reality check
Topics: Mitigation, Energy and Low-Carbon Futures
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: December 2018

Multiple stressors in freshwater ecosystems: biocides and climate change
Topics: Impacts and adaptation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: November 2018

Towards a just and equitable low-carbon energy transition
Topics: Impacts and adaptation, Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: September 2018

The role of nuclear electricity in a low-carbon world
Topics: Impacts and adaptation, Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: March 2018

Climate change, low-carbon transitions and security
Topics: Impacts and adaptation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: March 2018

Evaluating the EU Emissions Trading System - Take it or leave it? An assessment of the data after ten years - Grantham Briefing Paper 21
Topics: Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: October 2016

Aviation biofuels: strategically important, technically achievable, tough to deliver
Topics: Impacts and adaptation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: November 2017

Adaptation of freshwater species to climate change
Topics: Impacts and adaptation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: November 2017

The changing costs of technology and the optimal investment timing in the power sector
Topics: Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: June 2017

Society-led low carbon transformation
Topics: Mitigation
Type: Infographic
Publication date: June 2017

Supporting rural electrification in developing countries
Topics: Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: April 2017

Solar-thermal and hybrid photovoltaic-thermal systems for renewable heating
Topics: Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: May 2017

Climate change impacts on the water resources of the Ganges basin - Grantham Briefing Note 6
Topics: Earth systems science
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: April 2017

Novel policy tools to assess the environmental impacts of air pollutants - Grantham Briefing note 5
Topics: Impacts and adaptation, Earth systems science
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: April 2017

Citizen science and web-based modelling tools for managing freshwater - Grantham Briefing note 4
Topics: Impacts and adaptation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: March 2017

Satellite observations to support monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions
Topics: Earth systems science, Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: March 2016

What is meant by ‘balancing sources and sinks of greenhouse gases’ to limit global temperature rise? - Grantham Briefing note 3
Topics: Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: September 2016

Electrical energy storage for mitigating climate change - Grantham Briefing Paper 20
Topics: Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: July 2016

The ocean plastic pollution challenge: towards solutions in the UK - Grantham Briefing Paper 19
Topics: Earth systems science, Impacts and adaptation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: July 2016

Towards a unifying narrative for climate change - Grantham Briefing Paper 18
Topics: Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: April 2016

New solutions to air pollution challenges in the UK - Grantham LFSP Briefing Paper
Topics: Mitigation, Impacts and adaptation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: April 2016

Land use futures in Europe - Grantham Briefing Paper 17
Topics: Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: March 2016

The cost of capital and how it affects climate change mitigation investment - Grantham Briefing Paper 15
Topics: Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: January 2016

Ocean heat uptake and the global surface temperature record - Grantham Briefing Paper 14
Topics: Earth systems science
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: September 2015

Using Game Theory to Address Modern Resource Management Problems - Grantham Briefing note 2
Topics: Impacts and adaptation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: September 2015

Sea Level Change- Grantham Briefing note 1
Topics: Earth systems science
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: July 2015

Climate change and challenges for conservation - Grantham Briefing Paper 13
Topics: Impacts and adaptation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: July 2015

Biosphere feedbacks and climate change - Grantham Briefing Paper 12
Topics: Earth systems science
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: July 2015

Solar power for CO2 mitigation - Grantham Briefing Paper 11
Topics: Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: January 2014

Shale gas and climate change - Grantham Briefing Paper 10
Topics: Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: October 2013

Monitoring the climate system from space - Grantham Briefing Paper 9
Topics: Earth systems science
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: February 2013

Negative emissions technologies - Grantham Briefing Paper 8
Topics: Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: 2012

Reducing CO2 emissions from heavy industry: a review of technologies and considerations for policy makers - Grantham Briefing Paper 7
Topics: Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: February 2012

Low carbon residential heating - Grantham Briefing Paper 6
Topics: Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: September 2011

Solar influences on climate - Grantham Briefing Paper 5
Topics: Earth systems science
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: March 2011

Carbon dioxide storage - Grantham Briefing Paper 4
Topics: Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: December 2010

Carbon capture technology: future fossil fuel use and mitigating climate change - Grantham Briefing Paper 3
Topics: Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: November 2010

Road transport technology and climate change mitigation - Grantham Briefing Paper 2
Topics: Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: October 2010

Solar energy for heat and electricity - Grantham Briefing Paper 1
Topics: Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: June 2009