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Science, policy and economics meet here on our way to the 2015 climate conference in Paris.

Road to Paris

Science for Smart Policy

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Alice Bell (@alicebell)

Alice Bell is a researcher and writer based in London who specializes in the politics of science, technology and the environment.

She is a science policy blogger for the Guardian, has a monthly column in Popular Science UK, is contributing editor for New Humanist and has written for the Observer, BBC, Times, Times Higher, Al Jazeera, China Dialogue, Research Fortnight and more. She's lectured in science media and policy as well coordinating teaching on global challenges at Imperial College, UCL, City University and the University of Sussex. Alice also has degrees in history of science, sociology of education and a PhD in science communication and spent several years working in the children's galleries at the Science Museum.

Politics
October 12, 2015 Jellyfish in flight

Oceans and the UN talks: are we in danger of missing the “blue lung” of the planet?

Politics
August 22, 2015 President Obama and solar panel. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Senior Airman Brian Ybarbo, released)

100 days before the UN climate talks. Reasons to be cheerful. And reasons not to.

Culture
May 21, 2015 Street Art

Ten great writers to follow on Twitter for climate change news

Science
May 18, 2015 Matusevich Glacier

Everything you need to know about climate change in five minutes

Politics
March 6, 2015 2004 tsunami

Disaster risk is not shared equally, says new UN report

Politics
March 4, 2015

There’s more to tackling climate change than ending coal

Politics
February 16, 2015 Kyoto International Conference Centre

Happy Birthday, Kyoto Protocol

Science
February 12, 2015 Engineering students working with coal

7 things you should think about before funding research with fossil fuel money

Science
February 11, 2015 UCL's iconic quad in the snow. Photo: Steve Cadman/ CC BY-SA 2.0

Should mining money fund sustainability research? The UCL and BHP Billiton, Part II

Science
February 11, 2015 Colombian coal mining activists with People & Planet, FoE Scotland, and WAHLI (FoE Indonesia). Photo: Rick Lander/ CC CC BY-NC-SA 2.0/

Does the end justify the means? The UCL/BHP Billiton Institute for Sustainable Resources

Politics
February 4, 2015 Dictionary Fail. Photo: Ella Phillips/ CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

Acronyms climate wonks really need to stop using

Science
January 23, 2015 The sun sets over oil rigs. Photo: Kentucky Photo anthony_goto/ CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

Keep it in the ground: How we went from peak oil to too much oil

Economics
January 20, 2015 World Economic Forum Logo. Photo: World Economic Forum/ CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Oxfam and the Pharrell and Al Show: Inequality and climate change at Davos

Economics
January 16, 2015 Bulldozer pushing coal

What is Carbon Pricing and why is everyone talking about it?

Culture
December 29, 2014 Behind the scenes at the UN climate summit, John Gillespie/ CC BY-SA 2.0

Five slightly awkward moments in celebrity climate activism

Culture
December 22, 2014 "Red Polar Bear" by Bjargey Ólafsdóttir -- Langjökull Glacier, Iceland/ CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Seven polar bears who really care what you think about climate change

Politics
December 15, 2014 Ban Ki-moon smiling at the Lima climate talks. Photo: UN Climate Change/CC BY 2.0.

After Lima: Ten Climate Questions for the New Year

Politics
December 10, 2014 Meeting au Bourget

From Lima to Paris: 10 stepping stones to a climate agreement

Politics
December 9, 2014 Day one of COP 15. Will Paris be built on a more bottom-up approach to avoid dissapointment? Photo: Andrew Revkin / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

What are INDCs, and how will they help us tackle climate change?

Politics
December 5, 2014 Vigil for the Climate On, held on the eve of the first day of COP20. Christiana Figueres and Manuel Pulgar-Vidal both addressed the crowd, and lit candles. v

Five things we’ve spotted during five days of Lima climate talks

Science
December 4, 2014 Wave breaking

Resilience to Extreme Weather: It’s the Economics, Stupid?

Politics
December 1, 2014

Three things you need to know about the UN climate talks in Lima

Politics
November 25, 2014

Eight things to remember from 20 years of climate negotiations

Economics
October 30, 2014 Garzweiler lignite mine

Does your bank invest in coal?

Economics
October 13, 2014 People's Climate March New York

Go Fossil Free? Five things you need to know about divestment campaigns

Politics
September 24, 2014

10 things we learnt from the New York climate talks

Politics
September 23, 2014 The debate is over? Scientists protest at the People's Climate March

Is the climate debate over then?

Politics
September 22, 2014 Back Off. Scientists at the People's Climate March.

Scientists march on New York, and offer much more than a consensus

Politics
September 21, 2014 Carbon 'bubbles' at the Campaigners give bottles of carbon bubbles to shareholders at the London Stock Exchange.

2014 Carbon Budget: The time for quiet evolution is over

Culture
September 19, 2014 Turtles against climate change - Melbourne rally for Climate Action, 2013.

Help us showcase #PeopleofClimate

Politics
September 18, 2014 Ban Ki-Moon

Five things you need to know about the UN climate talks in New York on Tuesday

Culture
September 18, 2014 Spring flowers

The New Climate Optimists: Can we be rationally hopeful about the environment?

Culture
September 9, 2014 Copenhagen Energy Duck

Copenhagen’s solar duck and other renewable energy fairytales

Science
September 5, 2014 John Tyndall

A very short history of climate change research

Culture
August 19, 2014 A dancer at the 2013 Notting Hill Carnival

What the Notting Hill Carnival can teach the climate change movement

Science
August 11, 2014 Cryosat ground team

Q&A with Liz Morris: work of glaciologists in Canada “utterly disrupted”

Politics
August 4, 2014 Canadian Coast Guard ships in the Arctic

Q&A with Klaus Dodds: the geopolitics of the Arctic

Politics
July 31, 2014 Jacobshaven Glacier

Q&A with Greenpeace’s Ben Ayliffe: “The Arctic is the defining environmental battleground of our age”

Politics
July 29, 2014 Anne Glover

European NGOs fight about the future of science advice to the EU

Economics
July 2, 2014 Divestment rally in New York

Divesting from fossil fuels, one university at a time

Founded in 1931, the International Council for Science (ICSU) is a non-governmental organization representing a global membership that includes both national scientific bodies (121 National Members representing 141 countries) and International Scientific Unions (30 Members).

Road to Paris is where science, policy and economics meet on our way to the 2015 climate conference in Paris.

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