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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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Our team is hiring - University of Exeter/OU applicaton closes 31st July

We're looking for someone with modelling experience and an interest in climate policy and agriculture to join our team at the University of Exeter.

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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.

Enhanced weathering test fields of soybean at the Energy Farm, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign
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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Managing UK agriculture with rock dust could absorb up to 45 per cent of the atmospheric carbon dioxide needed for net-zero, research shows

Adding rock dust to UK agricultural soils could absorb up to 45 per cent of the atmospheric carbon dioxide needed to reach net zero, according to a major new study led by scientists at the University of Sheffield.
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Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change. Working Group III Contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report

An updated global assessment of climate change mitigation progress and pledges, and examination of the sources of global emissions. The report explains developments in emission reduction and mitigation efforts, with further impact assessment.

| IPCC
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BBC World Follow the Food: ‘Turn back the climate clock on food production’

Researchers from LC3M, Carl Bernacchi and Lisa Ainsworth at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, discuss with BBC World Follow the Food how basalt could “turn back the climate clock on food production.”

| BBC
Our journey to net zero. Farming's 2040 goal.

NFU report ‘Our journey to net zero’

The NFU pledged an ambition for British agriculture to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040. Their report sets out the further action needed to achieve this. In the report’s PILLAR 3 section, see Professor David Beerling's contribution.

| NFU online
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Pop-Up University: Solving Earth’s climate emergency by farming with rocks!

A series of live experiments showing how rock dissolution (weathering) can help remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Rock dissolution occurs naturally when rocks interact with water and this is important to help slow climate change.