Grantham Briefings and Discussion Papers analyse climate change and environmental research linked to work at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø, setting it in the context of national and international policy and the future research agenda.
Building the evidence base for regional water planning
Topics: Impacts and adaptation, Resources and Pollution
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: February 2026
Climate change and its impact on the Antarctic Peninsula
Topics: Climate Science, Impacts and adaptation, Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: February 2026
Accelerating innovation in building retrofit for a net zero future
Topics: Energy and Low-Carbon Futures, General, Impacts and adaptation, Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: September 2025
UK and European heatwave 2025
Topics: Impacts and adaptation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: July 2025
Sustainable aviation fuel: what does it mean for airport expansion?
Topics: Energy and Low-Carbon Futures, Mitigation, Resources and Pollution
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: June 2025
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Pledges and policies: are we on track to meet climate goals?
Topics: Climate Science, Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: November 2025, first published November 2024.
Transitioning away from fossil fuels in low- and lower middle-income fossil fuel producing countries
Topics: Energy and Low-Carbon Futures, Resources and Pollution
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: October 2024
Spotlight on COP29: Scaling up private climate finance in developing countries
Topics: Economics and Finance
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: October 2024
Can we adapt to all current and future climate impacts?
Topics: Impacts and adaptation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: October 2024
What do the UK public think about policies that can deliver for climate and health?
Topics: Health
Type: Discussion papers
Publication date: October 2024
Fusion before 2050: a net zero future powered by fusion? New possibilities for realising nuclear fusion before 2050
Topics: Energy and Low-Carbon Futures
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: September 2024
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How can action to tackle climate change improve people’s health and save the NHS money?
Topics: Economics and Finance, Health, Resources and Pollution
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: July 2024
General Election 2024: climate change priorities for the next UK government
Topics: General
Type: Discussion papers
Publication date: June 2024
The truth about climate action in the UK: dispelling common myths to underline the importance of acting on net zero
Topics: Climate Science, Earth and Life Sciences, Economics and Finance, Energy and Low-Carbon Futures, General, Health, Resources and Pollution
Type: Collaborative publications
Publication date: June 2024
Autumn and winter storms in the UK 2023-24
Topics: Impacts and adaptation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: May 2024
What do the UK public think about the co-benefits that climate action can bring?
Topics: Economics and Finance, Energy and Low-Carbon Futures, General, Health, Impacts and adaptation, Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: March 2024
The potential for enhanced soil carbon sequestration to mitigate climate change
Topics: Earth and Life Sciences
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: January 2024
How do UK citizens perceive the co-benefits of climate action?
Topics: Energy and Low-Carbon Futures, Health
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: October 2023
Systems thinking for the transition to zero pollution
Topics: Resources and Pollution
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: May 2023
Are urban areas hotspots for pollution from pet parasiticides?
Topics: Resources and Pollution
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: March 2023
The interactions between biodiversity and climate change and the actions required to tackle both issues simultaneously and synergistically
Topics: Earth and Life Sciences, Energy and Low-Carbon Futures, Resources and Pollution
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: October 2022
New strategies for sustainable fisheries management: A case study of Atlantic salmon
Topics: Earth and Life Sciences, Resources and Pollution
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: March 2022
Research pathways for net zero transport
Topics: Energy and Low-Carbon Futures, Impacts and adaptation, Mitigation, Resources and Pollution
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: October 2021
The impact of climate change on mental health and emotional wellbeing: current evidence and implications for policy and practice
Topics: Health
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: May 2021
Paying for UK Net Zero: principles for a cost-effective and fair transition
Topics: Economics and Finance
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: March 2021
A guide to building climate-financial scenarios for financial institutions
Topics: Economics and Finance
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: January 2021
Tools to encourage low-carbon travel
Topics: Energy and Low-Carbon Futures
Type: Discussion papers
Publication date: October 2020
The contribution of coastal blue carbon ecosystems to climate change mitigation and adaptation
Topics: Earth and Life Sciences
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: December 2020
What role can forests play in tackling climate change?
Topics: Energy and Low-Carbon Futures
Type: Discussion papers
Publication date: July 2020
The Arctic and the UK: climate, research and engagement
Topics: Earth and Life Sciences
Type: Discussion papers
Publication date: June 2020
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What ancient climates tell us about high carbon dioxide concentrations in Earth’s atmosphere
Topics: Earth and Life Sciences
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: May 2020
A net-zero emissions economic recovery from COVID-19
Topics: Economics and Finance, Energy and Low-Carbon Futures, Health
Type: Collaborative publications
Publication date: April 2020
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Paying for net-zero – The fiscal framework for the UK’s transition to low-carbon energy
Topics: Mitigation, Economics and Finance
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: April 2020
Sustainable mini-grid systems in refugee camps: A case study of Rwanda
Topics: Energy and Low-Carbon Futures, Health, Impacts and adaptation, Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: March 2020
Climate sensitivity: What is it, and why is it important?
Topics: Climate Science
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: February 2020
Drivers in solar deployment in India: A state-level analysis
Topics: Energy and Low-Carbon Futures, Mitigation
Type: Collaborative publications
Publication date: December 2019
Climate change and the human-made water cycle: Implications for the UK water sector
Topics: Resources and Pollution, Impacts and adaptation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: October 2019
Using futures analysis to develop resilient climate change mitigation strategies
Topics: Energy and Low-Carbon Futures, Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper, Collaborative publications
Publication date: November 2019
Integrating green and blue spaces into our cities: Making it happen
Topics: Impacts and adaptation, Health, Resources and Pollution, Energy and Low-Carbon Futures
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: July 2019
The Antarctic Peninsula under a 1.5°C global warming scenario - what change is it locked into?
Topics: Earth and Life Sciences, Climate Science
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: April 2019
The challenges of implementing global policy: the ecosystem approach and forests
Topics: Earth and Life Sciences
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: April 2019
Co-benefits of climate change mitigation in the UK: What issues are the UK public concerned about and how can action on climate change help to address them?
Topics: Mitigation, Energy and Low-Carbon Futures
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: March 2019
Experiences and lessons in managing water from Cape Town
Topics: Impacts and adaptation, Health, Resources and Pollution
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: February 2019
Greenhouse gas removal technologies: A focus on the commercial opportunity
Topics: Mitigation, Energy and Low-Carbon Futures
Type: Discussion papers
Publication date: February 2019
Redesigning Regulation: Powering from the future
Topics: Energy and Low-Carbon Futures, Mitigation
Type: Collaborative publications
Publication date: December 2018
BECCS deployment: a reality check
Topics: Mitigation, Energy and Low-Carbon Futures
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: December 2018
Consultation response: Environmental principles and governance after EU exit
Topics: General
Type: Evidence & submission papers
Publication date: August 2018
Keeping global warming to 1.5°C - Challenges and opportunities for the UK
Topics: Mitigation, Energy and Low-Carbon Futures
Type: Collaborative publications
Publication date: November 2018
Multiple stressors in freshwater ecosystems: biocides and climate change
Topics: Impacts and adaptation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: November 2018
Towards a just and equitable low-carbon energy transition
Topics: Impacts and adaptation, Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: September 2018
The role of nuclear electricity in a low-carbon world
Topics: Impacts and adaptation, Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: March 2018
Climate change, low-carbon transitions and security
Topics: Impacts and adaptation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: March 2018
Aviation biofuels: strategically important, technically achievable, tough to deliver
Topics: Impacts and adaptation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: November 2017
Adaptation of freshwater species to climate change
Topics: Impacts and adaptation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: November 2017
Supporting rural electrification in developing countries
Topics: Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: April 2017
Solar-thermal and hybrid photovoltaic-thermal systems for renewable heating
Topics: Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: May 2017
Climate change impacts on the water resources of the Ganges basin - Grantham Briefing Note 6
Topics: Earth systems science
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: April 2017
Novel policy tools to assess the environmental impacts of air pollutants - Grantham Briefing note 5
Topics: Impacts and adaptation, Earth systems science
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: April 2017
Expect the unexpected: The disruptive power of low-carbon technology‌
Topics: Mitigation
Type: Collaborative publications
Publication date: February 2017
Industry Engagement Innovation Lab
Topics: Mitigation
Type: Collaborative publications
Publication date: December 2017
Community Renewables Innovation Lab
Topics: Mitigation
Type: Collaborative publications
Publication date: December 2017
Energy Efficiency Innovation Lab
Topics: Mitigation
Type: Collaborative publications
Publication date: December 2017
Reshaping Regulation: Powering from the future
Topics: Mitigation
Type: Collaborative publications
Publication date: October 2017
Strategic narratives in climate change roundtable report
Topics: Impacts and adaptation, General
Type: Collaborative publications
Publication date: 2017
Evaluating the EU Emissions Trading System - Take it or leave it? An assessment of the data after ten years - Grantham Briefing Paper 21
Topics: Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: October 2016
Satellite observations to support monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions
Topics: Earth systems science, Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: March 2016
What is meant by ‘balancing sources and sinks of greenhouse gases’ to limit global temperature rise? - Grantham Briefing note 3
Topics: Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: September 2016
The ocean plastic pollution challenge: towards solutions in the UK - Grantham Briefing Paper 19
Topics: Earth systems science, Impacts and adaptation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: July 2016
Towards a unifying narrative for climate change - Grantham Briefing Paper 18
Topics: Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: April 2016
The cost of capital and how it affects climate change mitigation investment - Grantham Briefing Paper 15
Topics: Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: January 2016
Global energy governance reform and China's participation - Final report
Topics: Mitigation
Type: Collaborative publications
Publication date: 2016
Ocean heat uptake and the global surface temperature record - Grantham Briefing Paper 14
Topics: Earth systems science
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: September 2015
Using Game Theory to Address Modern Resource Management Problems - Grantham Briefing note 2
Topics: Impacts and adaptation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: September 2015
Sea Level Change- Grantham Briefing note 1
Topics: Earth systems science
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: July 2015
Biosphere feedbacks and climate change - Grantham Briefing Paper 12
Topics: Earth systems science
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: July 2015
Bridging the gap: improving the economic and policy framework for carbon capture and storage in the European Union
Topics: Mitigation
Type: Collaborative publications
Publication date: June 2015
Climate change priorities for the next UK government
Topics: Mitigation, Impacts and adaptation, General
Type: Collaborative publications
Publication date: March 2015
Monitoring the climate system from space - Grantham Briefing Paper 9
Topics: Earth systems science
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: February 2013
Negative emissions technologies - Grantham Briefing Paper 8
Topics: Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: 2012
Reducing CO2 emissions from heavy industry: a review of technologies and considerations for policy makers - Grantham Briefing Paper 7
Topics: Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: February 2012
Solar influences on climate - Grantham Briefing Paper 5
Topics: Earth systems science
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: March 2011
Low carbon residential heating - Grantham Briefing Paper 6
Topics: Mitigation
Type: Briefing paper
Publication date: September 2011
Climate Science Explained: A Climate Leadership Programme briefing
Topics: Earth systems science, General
Type: Collaborative publications
Publication date: 2011
The consequences of delayed action on climate change
Topics: Impacts and adaptation
Type: Collaborative publications
Publication date: 2008
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