Environmental migrants as a concern for the European Union? Not anymore.

Posted by Lucia Wirthová on 2024-05-23

With my article titled “Environmentally driven migration in EU discourse: norms, policies, and realities” published by UCL Open: Environment I hope to contribute to the understanding about a disputed phenomenon, i.e. environmental migration, that has been linked to the consequences of climate change and environmental degradation, and which has been said to threaten the EU by influxes of millions [...]

1.5 degrees looks to be inevitable in the next few years – weren’t we supposed to stay below it?

Posted by Prof Dan Osborn, Editor-in-Chief, UCL Open: Environment on 2024-02-06

Posted on June 15, 2023How does the media read climate science and present it to the public and consequently to decision-makers? In this post, UCL Open: Environment Editor-in-Chief, Prof Dan Osborn highlights the way scientific climate research is disseminated for public consumption through the media. Why 1.5°C mattersThe BBC recently issued a climate-related story and [...]

Expected or not? The UK’s exceptional record-breaking weather

Posted by Prof Dan Osborn, Editor-in-Chief, UCL Open Environment on 2024-02-06

Posted on July 25, 2022Post by Professor Dan Osborn, Chair of Human Ecology, Earth Sciences, at UCL (University College London, UK) and Editor-in-Chief of the UCL Press journal UCL Open: EnvironmentIn June 2021, when the evidence report for the 3rd UK climate risk assessment (CCRA3) was released, talk was of southern England summer temperatures over 40°C being experienced sometime [...]

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