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
- Boyd, E., James, R.A., Jones, R.G., Young, H.R. and Otto, F. (2017) A typology of loss and damage perspectives. Nature Climate Change.
- Otto, F.E.L. (2017) Attribution of Weather and Climate Events. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 42.
- Millar, R.J., Fuglestvedt, J.S., Friedlingstein, P., Rogeli, J., Grubb, M.J., Matthews, H.D., Skeie, R.B., Forster, P.M., Frame, D.J. and Allen, M.R. (2017) Emission budgets and pathways consistent with limiting warming to 1.5 °C. Nature geoscience.
- Jenkins, K., Surminski, S., Hall, J.W. and Crick, F. (2017) Assessing surface water flood risk and management strategies under future climate change: Insights from an Agent-Based Model. Science of the Total Environmental, 595: 159-168.
- Samuels, P., Hall, J.W., Montz, B., Schanze, J., Simonovic, S. and Takara, K. (2017) Editorial: Looking back and looking forward. Journal of Flood Risk Management, 10(1).
- James, R., Washington, R., Abiodun, B., Kay, G., Mutemi, J., Pokam, W., Hart, N., Artan, G. and Senior, C. (2017) Evaluating climate models with an African lens. American Meteorological Society.
- Hall, J.W., Thacker, S., Ives, M.C., Cao, Y., Chaudry, M., Blainey, S.P. and Oughton, E.J. (2017) Strategic analysis of the future of national infrastructure. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Civil Engineering, 170(1): 39-47.
- Payo, A., Favis-Mortlock, D., Dickson, M., Hall, J.W., Hurst, M., Walkden, M.J.A., Townend, I., Ives, M.C., Nicholls, R.J. and Ellis, M.A. (2017) Coastal Modelling Environment version 1.0: a framework for integrating landform-specific component models in order to simulate decadal to centennial morphological changes on complex coasts. Geoscientific Model Development, 10: 2715-2740.
