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Emma Howard Boyd to chair new National Heat Risk Commission tasked with providing policy recommendations for boosting UK's resilience to extreme heat

The launch of the Just Transition Mechanism at COP30 provides political momentum - but momentum alone will not deliver the financing required, writes LSE's Sangeeth Selvaraju

Latest national climate action plans come as COP30 expert advisors set out 'entirely feasible' roadmap for meeting annual climate finance goal of $1.3tr by 2035

Academic research paper from makes the economic case for meeting the Global Methane Pledge to collectively slash emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas my almost a third this decade

Evidence overwhelmingly shows adaptation and nature matter financially - the challenge now is making these risks and opportunities calculable, comparable, and actionable, writes Robert Spacey Martin from LSE's Earth Capital Nexus

Carbon pricing is a powerful tool, but only if it delivers the intended signal, writes Misato Sato from LSE's Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment

The UK has too often failed to capitalise on the opportunities presented by emerging high-innovation, high-productivity sectors - it should ensure it avoids doing the same with carbon removals, writes Josh Burke from LSE's Grantham Research Institute...

LSE report warns banks need to act now ahead of anticipated worldwide workforce disruption, as soaring global temperatures threaten to make it too hot to work in many sectors

Experts warn that it companies and investors fail to urgently address disregard for the human rights in the renewable energy value chain, 'we are likely to see a derailing of the much-needed clean energy transition'

New report examines how AI could reduce global emissions, arguing it could be 'a catalyst for the net zero transition'