We initiate, develop and support multidisciplinary climate and environmental research at Imperial College London, attracting world class talent. Through our work, we seek to understand our planetary environment, how the human-environment interacts with the natural world, and how the translation of research to inform policy and innovation can help create a sustainable, resilient, healthy future for the planet.
Fostering research
Research Foresight Meetings
The institute convenes quarterly meetings to develop a view of the upcoming policy landscape, consider strategic research that can inform these discussions over the next year and years, and look for opportunities for the Grantham Institute and its affiliates to respond to them.
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Attribution science
Advancing the field of event impact attribution will improve our understanding of the true costs of climate change. While hundreds of hazard attribution studies have shown how extreme weather events are becoming more intense around the world, how these changes translate to greater impacts is still not well understood. Extreme event impact attribution combines information from hazard attribution with socio-economic impact data to quantify how much climate change increases damage caused by extreme weather events.
Find out more about the Climate Damage Tracker, and read our feature exploring how this research is being employed to uncover the true costs of climate disasters.
Modelling tropical cyclones
Tropical cyclones, hurricanes or typhoons are one of the deadliest natural hazards, with nearly a billion people exposed to them. However, calculating the risk of tropical cyclones at a global scale is difficult because of a lack of data. Globally there are only about six very damaging tropical cyclones every year, and most countries only have reliable observations for the less than 40 years. To build resilience to these storms, communities need to better understand how likely they are to occur. The Imperial College Storm Model (IRIS) project aims to help scientists and the public understand and predict the likelihood of a damaging storm.
Climate and mental health
Climate Cares is a collaboration between the Grantham Institute and the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London, dedicated to understanding and supporting mental health in the face of the climate and ecological crises.
Greenhouse Gas Removal (GGR)
The CO2RE Hub, the UK’s national research hub on GGR, is a UKRI-funded, multi-institution consortium. It is conducting cross-cutting research on the environmental, economic, social and governance issues surrounding sustainable routes for large-scale Greenhouse Gas Removal (GGR) and supporting the development of early-stage GGR technologies.
Parasiticides & Pollution: PREPP
The PREPP (Producing Rational Evidence for Parasiticide Prescription) group is a multidisciplinary partnership which unites experts from Imperial College London, collaborating institutions and individuals to explore and evaluate the environmental risks posed by veterinary medicine pollution and gauge its ecological impacts, alongside exploring possible solutions.