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Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation

The Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation brings together researchers from a wide range of backgrounds to explore the potential of using enhanced rock weathering on croplands to remove CO2 from the atmosphere.

Welcome to LC3M

Members of the centre talk about the impact of climate change and how they are investigating enhanced rock weathering as a method of carbon capture and a more sustainable form of crop fertilisation.

Research

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Research themes 
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Externally funded research 
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Outputs

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Publications 
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News

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Read the 2024 LC3M Annual Newsletter

Missed our annual newsletter this year? Catch up on all our news by reading it online in your browser. We've captured all our activities, from theme updates across all of our work packages, to new papers and press engagement.

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Catch up with our Theme 1 Modelling progress since 2016

We're starting to summarise all of our Themes' work since we began LC3M in 2016. We're beginning with Theme 1, Earth System Science Modelling, by looking at our modelling research progress from 2016 up to 2023, split into 3 parts chronologically.
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LC3M milestones - a visual guide to 2024

In this visual guide, see our key points, including landmark papers, field trial firsts, press moments and external funding obtained from our Centre's launch in 2016 up to 2024.

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Enhanced weathering test fields of soybean at the Energy Farm, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign (image credit Dimitar Epihov, Leverhulme Centre, University of Sheffield)

New paper out! Field trials reveal crushed rock boosts carbon removal and improves crop yields

Read the press release for our new paper on CO2 removal and increased crop yields via Enhanced Rock Weathering, recently published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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