Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment

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What we do

The Grantham Institute sits at the heart of Imperial College London's work on climate change and the environment. We drive forward discovery, convert innovations into applications, train future leaders and communicate academic knowledge to businesses, industry and policymakers to help shape their decisions.

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Train

We aim to create future leaders, with training provision including an MSc programme, the SSCP Doctoral Training Programme, open online courses & more.
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Innovate

The Centre for climate change innovation supports startups to develop successful solutions for a sustainable, resilient, low-carbon future.
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Research

Harnessing tremendous research strengths across Imperial, the Grantham Institute drives highly collaborative climate and environment-related research.
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Inform

Our briefings, based on world-leading Imperial research, provide background and advice on key climate change and environment issues.

Connect

Our events explore how the latest evidence from climate and environment science, and how collaboration can lead to action and tangible outcomes.

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Read Grantham Institute publications, which provide background and advice on key climate change and environment issues.

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Read our blog for insights from staff and students across Imperial College London working in climate and environment-related areas.

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From reaching our emission goals, to climate and social justice, to solar geoengineering, tune in to our podcasts to hear some of the latest thinking on climate and environmental issues.

Academic expertise

Explore our Grantham Affiliates directory to find Imperial staff associated with the Institute who are driving forward research in climate change and the environment. 

Meet our Affiliates

Featured projects

Explore our projects spanning scientific research, policy and business.

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Plastic pollution in the ocean

At the Grantham Institute, we study the sources, impact and solutions to plastic in the ocean.
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Limiting global warming to 1.5°C

Important work is being done at universities like Imperial to broaden and strengthen the knowledge base to guide climate policymaking.

Greening Imperial

The Grantham Institute is leading Greening Imperial, a cross-campus and community initiative calling for action on climate change and sustainability.
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Climate impact of electric vehicles

This infographic shows how much of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide is produced by driving an electric car one kilometre.
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Next-generation climate mitigation technologies

This infographic shows 18 early-stage technologies that all have the potential to make significant contributions to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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Centre for Cleantech Innovation

The Centre for Cleantech Innovation supports innovators and entrepreneurs to develop solutions for a sustainable and resilient low-carbon future.
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Energy storage technologies

Explore our work on energy storage technologies.
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China and Global Energy Governance

A joint project with China’s Energy Research Institute (ERI) and the NDRC on the role of China in global energy governance.
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Imperial College London at COP25

Find out about our activities at the UN Climate Change Conference 2019 (COP25) in Madrid.
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Ring of Fire Project

The study is the first to characterise the impacts of climate change on multi-species systems at such an unprecedented scale.
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AVOID 2

AVOID 2 is a research programme that provides key advice to the UK Government on climate change issues
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Sustainable water resources management

Wouter Buytaert and his team are developing water resources models and tools.