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
- Negron-Juarex, R., Holm, J.A., Marra, D.M., Rifai, S., Riley, W.,CBhambers, J., Koven, C., Knox, R.G., McGroddy, M. and Vittorio, A.V. (2018) Vulnerability of Amazon forests to storm-driven tree mortality. Environmental Research Letters.
- Schaller, N., Sparrow, S.N., Massey, N.R., Bowery, A., Miller, J., Wallom, D.C.H. and Otto, F.E.L. (2018) Ensemble of European regional climate simulations for the winter of 2013 and 2014 from HadAM3P-RM3P. Scientific Data, 5(180057).
- Pretis, F., Schwarz, M., Tang, K., Haustein, K. and Allen, M.R. (2018) Uncertain impacts on economic growth when stabilizing global temperatures at 1.5°C or 2°C warming..
- Millar, R.J. and Friedlingstein, P. (2018) The utility of the historical record for assessing the transient climate response to cumulative emissions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Soceity A, 376(2119).
- Fuglestvedt, J., Rogelj, J., Millar, R.J., Allen, M., Boucher, O., Cain, M., Forster, P.M., Kriegler, E. and Shindell, D. (2018) Implications of possible interpretations of ‘greenhouse gas balance’ in the Paris Agreement. Philisophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 376(2119).
- Mitchell, D., Allen, M., Hall, J.W., Muller, B., Rajamani, L. and Le Quere, C. (2018) The myriad challenges of the Paris Agreement. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 376(2119).
- Freire-Gonzalez, J., Decker, C.A. and Hall, J.W. (2018) A Linear Programming Approach to Water Allocation during a Drought. Water, 10(4), 363.
- Aerts, J.C.J.H., Botzen, W.J., Clarke, K.C., Cutter, S.L., Hall, J.W., Merz, B., Michel-Kerjan, E., Mysiak, J., Surminski, S. and Kunreuther, H. (2018) Integrating human behaviour dynamics into flood disaster risk assessment. Nature Climate Change, 8: 193-199.
