Climate change and energy

SGR produces a range of outputs on the issue of 'Climate change and energy'. This covers climate change science, technological and policy responses to climate change, energy supply technologies (especially renewable energy and nuclear power), energy use and energy efficiency (including in transport and buildings), and related policy and lifestyle issues.

It's Time to Get Tough with the US Over Climate, say Scientists and Technologists

Press release, 5 July 2005
 

Climate change, the Kyoto Protocol and civil engineering

Lecture by Dr Stuart Parkinson at the Institution of Civil Engineers, London, May 2005
 

Public inquiry on Whinash wind farm: SGR response

Written Evidence in support of the application by Dr Stuart Parkinson, SGR; 18 April 2005
 

UK Climate Change Strategy: SGR/AESR response

Main text of SGR/AESR Response to the Consultation on the UK Climate Change Programme, 1 March 2005
 

Letter to UK Government on Climate Change Programme

Letter to Margaret Beckett (Environment Minister) re: Consultation on the Review of the UK Climate Change Programme, 1 March 2005
 

Energy, CO2 stabilisation and economic growth

Peter Smith, Nottingham University, looks at the scale of changes that are needed in energy production to tackle climate change.

Article from joint SGR/ AESR Newsletter, February 2005
 

Stormy Times for Climate Research

Clare Goodess, University of East Anglia, explains the circumstances behind the resignation of half of the editorial board of the journal Climate Research

Article from SGR Newsletter no. 28, November 2003

 

Tackling Climate Change - the role of the engineer

Edited version of a paper given by Dr Stuart Parkinson, SGR, at Women's Engineering Society annual conference, 'Proper Practice: Professionalism and Ethics in Engineering and Science' 12th Sept, 2003 at the Earth Centre, Doncaster, UK.
 

Does anybody remember the Nuclear Winter?

Stuart Parkinson looks into why the climatic disaster which would follow a potential nuclear war has been forgotten.

Article from SGR Newsletter 27, July 2003
 

 

The Environmental Dimensions of the ‘War on Terror’

Notes for a Lecture by Stuart Parkinson, SGR, for CCE seminar ‘The War on Terror’, Sussex University on 5 July 2003