Climate change

Graphic rendering of a big city with high-rise buildings in vivid colours. In the centre, you see an illustration of the Earth pictured in the streets among the buildings.

“Financial climate data needs to be shaped, it needs to be curated – but by who?”: An interview with Dr Julius Kob

Asli Ates (University of Sussex) and Robert Bergsvik (Wageningen University) interview our seminar speaker, Dr Julius Kob (Warwick Business School), about his recent work on financial climate data.

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Carbon Emissions and Pharmaceuticals

Net-Zero, Industrial Decarbonisation, and the ‘Non-Technical’ Dimensions of Transformative Change

Decarbonisation, Brexit and the “Foundation Industries”: How to make stuff in a Net-Zero-oriented Britain

Sofie Illemann Jaeger

On 23 March, we welcome our Co-Director Steve Yearley (University of Edinburgh) to SKAPE as part of our seminar series.

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Sign from climate demonstration of a blindfolded person labelled "climate change deniers" who is surrounded by the words "evidence".

“Unite behind the Science!” Climate movements’ relations to science in narratives on environmental futures

Sofie Illemann Jaeger

On 9 February, we welcome Simone Rödder (Universität Hamburg) to SKAPE as part of our seminar series.

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Front cover of Expertise and Participation by Eva Krick

Ignorant rule of the masses or elitist rule of a knowing few? How to organise the knowledge-democracy-nexus

Blog post, Seminar series post / Sofie Illemann Jaeger

Following her talk for the SKAPE seminar series, Eva Krick introduces her new book ‘Expertise & Participation – Institutional designs for policy-development in Europe’, which examines the relationship between expertise and public participation in modern governance.

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Image of a climate protester holding a sign reading 'Planet over Profit'.

Targets for climate change policy: a special case?

Blog post / SKAPE editor

A recent report by the CCC (the Committee on Climate Change) made its low-key way to Parliament (‘The compatibility of UK onshore petroleum with meeting the UK’s carbon budgets’). In it, a key message: shale gas exploitation, commonly known as ‘fracking’, if it is carried out on a significant scale, will be incompatible with the UK’s climate change targets. To be clear, this means for instance that both the UK carbon budgets, and the 2050 commitment to reducing emissions by at least 80% would be compromised.

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