Explore Challenges
- 7 March 2012: Global health in the 21st Century
- Adapting to an urban future
- Educating for tomorrow
- Digital technology in Africa
- Persistent poverty in Britain
- Can the UK ever be sustainable?
- Plastic pollution in the oceans
- Natural disasters: how can we improve?
- Not In My Back Yard
- Digital Divide in the UK?
- Importing goods, exporting drought?
- Britain’s ageing population
- Engineering our climate
- The future shape of Capitalism
- Migration: skills and the job market
- Razing the Rainforest
- London under water
- Concreting the countryside
- Future of low carbon energy.
- Africa in the 21st Century
Pollution
Obama to regulate ‘pollutant’ CO2
The US government is to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, having decided that it and five other greenhouse gases may endanger human health and well-being. Future of low carbon energy. / In The News / Obama to regulate ‘pollutant’ CO2
Have your say - Engineering our climate
Tell us what you thought of 'Engineering our climate' event. Discuss the issues raised on the night by our panel.
Engineering our climate / Focus / Have your say - Engineering our climate
Scientists urges big push into geo-engineering
Speaking at London’s Royal Geographical Society, leading Canadian climate scientist Prof David Keith said the time had come to invest intensively in geo-engineering research instead of waiting to see if efforts to cut CO2 emissions in themselves would avert catastrophic climate change.
Meet our panel
Read about our panel for this event, David de Rothschild, Dr Simon Boxall, Peter Davis and David Shukman.
Plastic pollution in the oceans / Focus / Meet our panel