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

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