research

Study: Do businesses know how much power their AI systems are using?

Technology

Study: Do businesses know how much power their AI systems are using?

New survey highlights how only 13 per cent of firms are tracking their AI-related energy consumption

clock 16 January 2025 • 3 min read
Research: Global cost of climate change could be six times greater than thought

Climate change

Research: Global cost of climate change could be six times greater than thought

Paper by US economists claims a further 1C of global warming could trigger a 12 per cent hit to the world's GDP

clock 20 May 2024 • 5 min read
Study: Top UK firms aiming to ramp up net zero spending by over a third next year

Investment

Study: Top UK firms aiming to ramp up net zero spending by over a third next year

Fresh research shows world's largest companies plan to boost year-on-year spending to cut their CO2 by over a fifth on average

clock 12 September 2023 • 3 min read
Birmingham battery boost as latest wave of Faraday funding confirmed

R&D

Birmingham battery boost as latest wave of Faraday funding confirmed

Project led by Birmingham University backed as part of £29m funding package from the Faraday Institution to invest in 'the most promising and impactful' battery research

clock 31 March 2023 • 3 min read
That rocks: Study estimates novel rock crushing process could capture 0.5 per cent of global CO2

Technology

That rocks: Study estimates novel rock crushing process could capture 0.5 per cent of global CO2

Tweaking aggregates production in the construction and mining industries could permanently trap CO2, researchers claim

clock 16 March 2023 • 4 min read
Imperial College London and Hitachi launch new climate solutions research centre

R&D

Imperial College London and Hitachi launch new climate solutions research centre

Industrial technology giant and university team up to advance research and development of technologies and nature-based solutions required to reach climate goals

clock 12 July 2022 • 2 min read

Investment

'Moral need for action': University of Cambridge targets full fossil fuel divestment by 2030

The university outlined a staggered approach to divestment through to 2030, and said it will invest instead in renewable energy

clock 02 October 2020 • 2 min read

Marine

Making waves: EU-funded wave energy trial delivers cost and efficiency advances

Three-year trial led by wave energy specialist CorPower Ocean helps to drive technology cost and carbon savings

clock 09 April 2020 • 2 min read

Automotive

Study: Electric cars and heat pumps lead to much lower CO2 emissions in most of the world

Study by universities of Exeter, Cambridge, and Nijmegen assessed lifecycle impact of electric cars and heat pumps on CO2 compared to fossil fuel equivalents

clock 23 March 2020 • 3 min read

Climate change

Poll: Two-thirds of Britons support limiting air travel to address climate crisis

YouGov survey of 2,000 people finds more than 60 per cent believe tackling climate crisis requires high or extremely high urgency

clock 18 September 2019 • 3 min read