ECI's climate research focuses on climate prediction, detection and attribution, as well as climate risk assessment and modelling of climate impacts. ECI hosts UKCIP (the UK Climate Impacts Programme), which promotes and enables adaptation in government and business.
RESEARCH THEMES
Global Science Programme
The Global Climate Science programme looks at the attribution of climate change, climate model uncertainties, and the carbon cycle.
Projects +Impacts and Adaptation
The Impacts and Adaption work focuses on climate impacts on flooding risks and infrastructure systems, and adaptation strategies in the the UK and globally.
Projects +Mitigation
The Mitigation research investigates how to reduce energy demand and decarbonise the UK energy infrastructure.
Projects +International Climate Policy
The ECI manages the formal UNFCCC registration process on behalf of the University of Oxford. Opportunities are open to all member of the University of Oxford.
Find out more +Climate news
In order to adapt to, or address loss and damage from, the changing risks of extreme events occurring we need to understand the effect of climate change on such events.
Friederike Otto, et al (2015) Attribution of extreme weather events in Africa: a preliminary exploration of the science and policy implications Climatic ChangeProf. Myles Allen on why #fossilfuel companies should invest in #carboncapturestorage #CCS https://t.co/DgdPgV4HHg via @audioBoom
— Share Radio (@ShareRadioUK) July 7, 2015- July 2015
Base greenhouse gas targets on science not expediency, says leading climate scientist
A policy paper by Professor Myles Allen urges policy-makers to base greenhouse gas emissions priorities on science and not expediency ahead of the 2015 climate negotiations.
- May 2015
Latest publications
- Fuckar, N.S., Guemas, V., Johnson, N.C. and Doblas-Reyes, F.J. (2018) Dynamical prediction of Arctic sea ice modes of variability. Climate Dynamics: 1-17.
- Lim, W.H., Yamazaki, D., Koirala, S., Hirabayashi, Y., Kanae, S., Dadson, S.J., Hall, J.W. and Sun, F. (2018) Long‐term changes in global socioeconomic benefits of flood defenses and residual risk based on CMIP5 climate models. Earth's Future: 1-17.
- Mitchell, D., Heaviside, C., Schaller, N., Allen, M., Ebi, K.L., Fischer, E.M., Gasparrini, A., Harrington, L., Kharin, V., Shiogama, H., Sillmann, J., Sippel, S. and Vardoulakis, S. (2018) Extreme heat-related mortality avoided under Paris Agreement goals. Nature Climate Change, 8: 551-553.
- Ma, Y., Lan, J., Thornton, T., Mangalagiu, D. and Zhu, D. (2018) Challenges of Collaborative Governance in the Sharing Economy: The case of free-floating bike sharing in Shanghai. Journal of Cleaner Production.
- Harrington, L.J., Frame, D., King, A.D. and Otto, F.E.L. (2018) How uneven are changes to impact‐relevant climate hazards in a 1.5°C world and beyond? Geophysical Research Letters, 0(ja).
- Baker, H.S., Millar, R.J., Karoly, D.J., Beyerle, U., Guillod, B.P., Mitchell, D., Shiogama, H., Sparrow, S., Woolings, T. and Allen, M. (2018) Higher CO2 concentrations increase extreme event risk in a 1.5 °C world. Nature Climate Change.
- Lao, X., Zhao, X., Hall, J. and Guan, D. (2018) Categorising virtual water transfers through China’s electric power sector. Applied Energy, 226: 252-260.
- Allen, M.R., Shine, K.P., Fuglestvedt, J.S., Millar, R.J., Cain, M. and Frame, D.J. (2018) A solution to the misrepresentations of CO2-equivalent emissions of short-lived climate pollutants under ambitious mitigation. Climate and Atmospheric Science.
