Great day at All Energy & Dcarbonise 2024 at Glasgow SEC

What's the economic cost of climate change? Here's the open-access link to our recent nature paper w/Maximilian Kotz Prof Anders Levermann, PhD and - finally - my own short summary below: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Finally out in ACS Nano:
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Exploring hybrids of conjugated polymer with bacteria for photocatalytic hydrogen production.

Led by Ying Yang, with Martijn Zwijnenburg, Sustainable and solar fuels @ UoL research group LiuLab and Andy Cooper.

inews.co.uk/news/business/…

Why are some metal oxides fundamentally more efficient photocatalysts than others? Led by Michael Sachs, we evaluate the ultrafast dynamics of oxides across the periodic table and find that the electronic configuration of their metal centres is key:
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doi.org/10.26434/chemr…

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla…

Lots of people asking about Scotland's climate targets today (understandably).

We won't comment before we see what the Scottish Government is planning, but our position on the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿2030 target is already very clear. It was in two key bits of advice, published already.
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Your regular reminder that solar farms take up less of the UK than golf courses - even on a pathway to net-zero

carbonbrief.org/factcheck-is-s…

🚨Check out our recent article in
ChemElectroChem

We used a diaphragm with optimised components and conditions to lower the voltage for acidic CO2 #electrolysis !

Link: …mistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

We have funding available for a PhD position (UK/home student) to develop phthalocyanine PDT photosensitizers in collaboration with Aura Biosciences, Susan Quinn, and Karen Faulds (she/her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺. Advert to follow but feel free to get in touch now to find out more.

🚨BREAKING🚨

Election victory for Trump could add 4bn tonnes to US emissions by 2030 – new Carbon Brief analysis

🎯US would blow past climate goals
😳would wipe out impact – twice over – from 5yrs of global clean energy growth
🥵would likely end 1.5C hopes

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ScotChem Polymer & Soft Materials Conference is back!

13-14 June, University of Strathclyde
Book your tickets now

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📰New research by Prof. Lorraine Whitmarsh MBE, Neil Jennings, Candice Howarth & Pauline Paterson reveals high levels of public concern for #ClimateChange , alongside issues connected to the co-benefits of #ClimateAction ♻️such as the #NHS ⚕️& cost of living💰(1/4)

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Thoroughly enjoyed the ECR Net Zero conference in Birmingham the past two days. Excellent sessions and nice to present a poster on our solar fuels work at Strathclyde ☀️👨🏻‍🔬

Also, my local tour guides and photographers were great (my aunt and uncle) 😁

#ECRnzconf2024

NEW ANALYSIS

UK emissions could 🚨rise by 15%🚨 if govt uses 'surplus' to weaken next carbon budget, CCC warns

Wld make next budget much easier to meet – but put future goals at 'very serious risk', says CCC

Its 'unequivocal' advice? Don't do it.

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carbonbrief.org/uk-emissions-c…

Fantastic first day at the ECR Net Zero Conference hearing from all 14 consortium partners, interesting EDI session and #skills based workshops on public engagement, multidisciplinary #research and CV writing! #ecrNZconf2024
UKCCSRC IGNITE Network+ Industrial Decarbonisation Research & Innovation HI-ACT UKERC

📣 We're hiring! 1 year PDRA to work on synthetic catalysts inspired by CO2 reducing metalloenzymes in a collaborative project @leicesterchem funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Get in touch for informal enquiries. Closing date 12th Mar. Please share! jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/9647… #chempostdoc

📢Our #Copernicus Climate Change Service has recently released the ' #Copernicus Interactive Climate Atlas' (C3S Atlas)

It allows to explore 30 climate variables through 8 state-of-the-art datasets

More at climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-int…

Excellent.

And here is why the Energy Charter Treaty is such an important issue (from our progress report in 2023)

Climate Change Committee
Claire Coutinho MP