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The latest updates from the Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation.
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ERW discussion meeting at the Royal Society, 17-18 November 2025

This meeting will discuss advances and uncertainties in terrestrial enhanced weathering, a key carbon dioxide removal strategy for climate change mitigation. Find out more and register now on the Royal Society's webpage for our event.

Published on the Royal Society website
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New on the blog - Theme 4 life cycle analysis (LCA) update 2016-2025

Continuing our series of theme summaries, here we're recapping the progress and findings from our LCA strand within Theme 4, led chiefly by Prof Lenny Koh at Sheffield.

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LC3M social science lead Prof Nick Pidgeon joins new Science and Technology Advisory Council

Our social science partner, Prof Nick Pidgeon, joins new Science and Technology Advisory Council at the UK Department of Energy Security and Net Zero.
Workshop in Kota Kinabalu Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, conducted by researchers from the Cardiff University and SEARRP (Photo: Nick Pidgeon)
Workshop in Kota Kinabalu Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, conducted by researchers from the Cardiff University and SEARRP (Photo: Nick Pidgeon)

New on the blog - Malaysian Borneo field trials update 2016-2025

Continuing our series of theme summaries and concluding our field site updates until next year, here we're recapping of the progress and findings from our field trials in Malaysian Borneo, from 2016 to 2025.

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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.”

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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.
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Can rock dust be a climate fix for agriculture?

Scientists are dusting crop fields with pulverized rocks to supercharge the chemical process that grabs carbon from the air and sequesters it in the soil. All while increasing crop yields.

| Food and Environment Reporting Network
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How adding rock dust to soil can help get carbon into the ground

Researchers are finding that when pulverised rock is applied to agricultural fields, the soil pulls far more carbon from the air and crop yields increase. Some scientists say this method shows significant benefits for farmers and the climate.

| Yale Environment 360