Interested in the diverse role of urban soils in carbon, water, food, biodiversity, & cultural outcomes in research or practice? Submit your abstracts for #EGU2024 Session: Advancing urban soil understanding and management for multifunctionality🌱🏙️ meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/session/…

Professor Mike Berners-Lee Lancaster Environment Centre talks about the environmental impact of chicken on BBC Radio 4 programme Fed with Chris van Tulleken. You can listen again here: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Excited for the launch of the Energy Demand Research Centre (EDRC) today!

So the North is now officially just north of the river...

Great news that Labour plans to use Citizens' Assemblies - but the 'bypass Whitehall' framing is not useful - our research on climate shows that they can strengthen political decision-making and the work of civil servants, not bypass them.

£1.75 in London: unlimited bus journeys (for an hour from when you touch in) The rest of England? £2 price cap (for one journey) is due to end in December 2024. After that, fares will go up! Please sign and share this important petition megaphone.org.uk/petitions/make…

🚨 Exciting news! We're hosting a panel exploring how we can build human-nature connections to foster more integrated, impactful, and collaborative action to tackle the climate & biodiversity crisis.🌍✨ Showcasing #SocialScience contributions. Register👉 bit.ly/4dQ5TJd

"This consultation presents planning as a technical delivery mechanism for self-evidently desirable outcomes. But profound political choices are made and implemented through planning.... Who gets a say in these choices is crucial." As is HOW they get a say #deliberativedemocracy

Mañana comienza la Cumbre de la Biodiversidad, la #COP16. Momento ideal para mirar "the big picture" y dejar de ver la crisis climática únicamente como un problema de exceso de emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero.

How can we plan, design and manage urban environments for the benefit of human health and nature? Our new paper brings together experts from different disciplines and real-world practitioners to explore key challenges and priorities doi.org/10.1016/j.heal… NOW WITH CORRECT LINK

🌳 New paper alert! 🌳 🌻 Was so fun to be part of QUENCH+talk big ideas+ project design with academics+practitioners from across disciplines. Learnt so much through this process+would love to do something similar again 🦋 Read about those ideas 👇 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Please take 10-mins to complete our nature connection research survey: qmunature.github.io/Survey Please also repost. Thanks! 🍃

We're all please to have published this #openaccess concept paper in Health & Place sciencedirect.com/science/articl…. Congratulations to lead author Andy Yuille and all the team.

We are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster. This is a global emergency beyond any doubt. Much of the very fabric of life on Earth is imperiled. We are stepping into a critical and unpredictable new phase of the climate crisis. Read report here doi.org/10.1093/biosci…

What would community-powered development look like? Our grid sets out the limits of the existing planning system that gives communities a narrow window for influence. And what the features of a better system could be - one that fully involves communities in decision-making.

Long, worthwhile thread on new report on where we are and where we need to be in carbon emissions. LT;DR: the gap is large and virtually unchanged from last year. NDCs are not adding up to a pathway in line with 1.5 or 2C

This is what climate collapse looks like in Europe.

More reasons why the new QUENCH paper is important...

New research-based report on priorities for public engagement on climate policy. Would have been useful and important 2 weeks ago, doubly so now!

Doing science with citizens at Lancaster university - on climate and many other things!