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Global Systems Institute

How do we achieve a flourishing future for a projected 9 to 11 billion people as an integral part of a life-sustaining Earth system?

黑料不打烊 is a world-leading centre in climate change research with more IPCC authors than any other city in the world.

The Global Systems Institute harnesses this expertise with other global change researchers in the University and beyond, bringing them together with industry, policymakers, students, NGOs, citizens and other stakeholders to tackle shared problems. We provide thought-leadership and action-orientated research to drive systems based solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises.

The 黑料不打烊 is winner of The Times Higher Education Award for 'Outstanding Contribution to Environmental Leadership' 2024

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Green and Blue Carbon

Climate Risk, Resilience and Adaptation

Sustainable Finance

Climate Justice

Responsible Climate Intervention

Research in focus

Global Carbon Budget

Launched in 2006 and produced by 94 people from 70 organisations in 18 countries, the is the critical annual update which reveals the latest trends in global carbon emissions and the ramifications for reaching the global climate goals.

Oppenheimer Programme in African Landscape Systems (OPALS)

OPALS is a six-year programme of foundational and applied research, launched in October 2021, which aims to support sustainable human-landscape interactions across Africa.

Tipping Points

Researchers at the Global Systems Institute have highlighted the growing threat of “tipping points” that could cause irreversible changes in the Earth system and accelerate the climate crisis. However, there is growing evidence that the same tipping point dynamics can occur in social and economic systems, triggering rapid positive change in our societies.

Advancing Capacity for Climate and Environment Social Science (ACCESS)

This £6.25 million ACCESS programme, led by will ensure the UK's world-leading social science expertise plays a central role in interdisciplinary environmental science research.
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EEIST

This £4.8M project on the Economics of Energy Innovation and System Transition aims to transform the way science, economics and scholarship interacts with our way of informing and assessing the costs and benefits of important strategic innovation decisions in driving a sustainability transition.

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The Global Systems Institute aims to train a new generation of leaders of change to work with global partners to implement the solutions we develop together.

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