Children are particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts and will face intensifying effects of climate change during their lifetimes, according to a new study co-authored by Dr Rupert Stuart-Smith, Deputy Director & Senior Researcher in Climate Science and the Law. The study was covered by Argentinian publication Carbono. “This summer’s unrelenting heat across the UK and Europe illuminates the dangers of our weather after a century and a half of industrial emissions and will leave younger generations exposed to many similar summers in the years to come... Acting now and limiting global warming to as close as possible to 1.5°C would prevent these conditions from worsening; failing to do so means imposing a legacy of growing heat stress that today’s children will bear the brunt of," commented Dr Stuart-Smith. 

Maud Sarliève examines a recent landmark ruling by the Tribunal judiciaire de Paris against Total Energies, where the court ruled that Total Energies surveillance plan was legally deficient for excluding 'downstream' emissions. However, she cautions it remains to be seen whether the necessary regulatory, political and corporate action follows. Maud leads the Climate Research Forum at the Oxford Sustainable Law Program.

Dr Mireia Ginesta told Politico that climate change may not have directly caused the "heat dome" over Western Europe this week, but it raises the background temperature on which weather systems operate. "In a cooler climate, this heatwave would have been less intense," she said.