ECI in the news

UKERC highlights alarming omissions and inconsistencies in Green Deal consultation: ECI researchers respond to the Department of Energy and Climate Change’s consultation on the Green Deal.

Buildings don't use energy - people do! Energy-efficient buildings will reduce carbon emissions faster if we can become energy conscious citizens explains Katy Janda in NERC’s Planet Earth and Britain in 2012.

"Citizen scientists' climate-impact survey wraps up": Read full account of this ECI partnered project in Nature.

The ECI's 20th anniversary year is celebrated in the latest edition of Oxford University's Blueprint magazine with the article: We need to talk about climate.

Front page of the Guardian: Fuel poverty affects a quarter of UK's households as bills soar and pay freezes. Fuel poverty expert, Dr Brenda Boardman, is interviewed by the Guardian and cited in The Telegraph.

Seventeen ECI led papers/posters and four convened sessions have been accepted for the Planet Under Pressure conference. See full details.

Two appearences for Myles Allen in New Scientist: A chance to blame extreme weather on climate change and Climate blame: send for the lawyers

ECI researcher Matthias Fripp is taking part in a live debate on The Economist website, defending the motion: This house believes that subsidising renewable energy is a good way to wean the world off fossil fuels. Join in the debate online.

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Research outputs

New report proposing a road-map for reducing carbon emissions in the UK building sector Achieving zero: delivering future-friendly buildings.

First ITRC output, the Fast Track Analysis report is now available to download. Download press release; executive summary; full report.

Dr Nick Eyre co-authors report for the Green Alliance: Demanding less: why we need a new politics of energy. See coverage in The Guardian.

Hall, J.W., How safe is safe enough? Editorial, Journal of Flood Risk Management, 4(4) (2011): 271-272.

Download podcasts and powerpoint presentation slides from Energy and people: futures, complexity and challenges conference. Oxford, 20-21 September 2011.

The second national iConnect research seminar was hosted at the University of Cambridge, organised by researcher Christian Brand and colleagues September 2011.

Professor Jim Hall publishes Policy: A changing climate for insurance in Nature Climate Change. July 2011.

Hidden value of nature revealed in groundbreaking study: UK National Ecosystem Assessment.

Special issue on Governing and Implementing REDD+ is published in Environmental Science and Policy journal.

Special edition from the "4degrees and beyond" conference is published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

Events

Registration open: Beyond Carbon, Ensuring Justice and Equity in REDD+ conference
St Anne's College, Oxford, 23-24 March 2012.

Registration open: Water Security, Risk and Society international conference
Oxford, 16-18 April 2012. Call for papers now closed.

Water Security Risk and Society Seminars 2012
Starts 5pm, Wed 25 Jan, Lincoln College View full details.

The Future of African Rainforests conference
Oriel College, Oxford, 4-6 January 2012. View slides and download presentations.

Please see Oxford Environment for a list of environment related events across Oxford University.

Studentships

DPhil Studentship available for 2012: Water resources adaptation decisions in the context of climatic non-stationarity and variability. Application deadline: 7 January 2012.

Further DPhil opportunities for 2012. See full list of available topics and links to possible funding sources.

Podcast highlights

Watch a short film on the JACARE, Joint Amazon Carnegie RAINFOR expedition, 2011, led by Professor Yadvinder Malhi.

Professor Yadvinder Malhi discusses the issues of forests and climate change with Virgin Unite.

Dr Brenda Boardman talks about the ECI's energy research and her own focus on fuel poverty.