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New on the blog - Theme 4 macroeconomics update 2016-2025

Continuing our series of theme summaries, here we're recapping the progress and findings from our integrated systems modelling and macroeconomics strand within Theme 4, led chiefly by Prof Neil Edwards at the Open University.
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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.
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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.

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This solution to runaway emissions starts with crushed rocks

Enhanced rock weathering (ERW) is gaining traction as the world struggles to lower greenhouse gases. The idea: grinding up certain types of rock and spreading them across a large land area can accelerate the Earth's natural rate of carbon absorption.

| Bloomberg
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Farming Today: Green recovery and the budget, Rock dust and soil, clean river swimming

Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Professor David Beerling on BBC Radio Four’s Farming Today programme discusses the potential for large-scale CO2 removal via enhanced rock weathering with croplands. Listen in at 03:40.

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News and Views: Removal of atmospheric CO2 by rock weathering holds promise for mitigating climate change

Large-scale removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere might be achieved through enhanced rock weathering. It now seems that this approach is as promising as other strategies, in terms of cost and CO2-removal potential.

| Nature.com
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Applying rock dust to farmlands could suck up 2 billion tons of CO2

“Carbon dioxide drawdown strategies that can scale up and are compatible with existing land uses are urgently required to combat climate change, alongside deep and sustained emissions cuts,” said Professor David Beerling

| The Telegraph
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A sprinkle of rock dust could help avoid catastrophic climate change

Spreading rock dust on cropland around the world could save around a tenth of humanity’s ‘carbon budget’, the amount of carbon dioxide we can afford to emit without triggering catastrophic levels of global warming.

| New Scientist