Dr Neil Grant
Senior Climate and Energy Analyst
Climate Policy Analysis
neil.grant@climateanalytics.org
Dr. Neil Grant is a Senior Climate and Energy Analyst at Climate Analytics, where his work focuses on producing and assessing decarbonisation scenarios at the global and national level. He assesses what individual countries need to do to deliver 1.5°C compatible action, and identifies opportunities to close the ambition gap and achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement.
Before joining Climate Analytics, Neil was a PhD candidate at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at Imperial College London. His PhD performed a critique of the representation of CCS and CDR in global integrated assessment models, exploring how this representation could be improved, and how this would change the narratives produced by these influential models. Neil has also worked closely with a range of organisations on UK climate policy, including the Climate Change Committee, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Climate Change, WWF-UK and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
Publications
- Petroni, Hare, Grant, Geffray, Waterton, Höhne, Jeffrey, Hecke. Decarbonising light-duty vehicle road transport. (2024)
- Emissions Gap Report 2024: No more hot air … please!
- Riany, Welder, Grant, Kellou, Klönne, Hare. The role of northern forests in limiting warming to 1.5°C. (2024)
- Schumer, Boehm, Jaeger, Fyson, Hecke, Jeffery, Levin, Collins, Daly, Nilsson, Thwaites, Waite, Lebling, Sims, Naimoli, Lee, Castellanos, Grier, Singh, Geffray, Petroni, Santo, Balehegn, Riaz, Grant. Methodology underpinning the State of Climate Action series: 2024 update. (2024) https://doi.org/10.46830/writn.23.00043.v2
- Setting 1.5°C compatible wind and solar targets
- Grant, N.G., Ellis, J.E., Heck, S.H., Hare, B.H. What good looks like: G7 climate policy 2024 update. (2024)
- Grant, N., Aboumahboub, T., Welder, L., Fyson, C. Tripling renewables by 2030: interpreting the global goal at the regional level
- Grant, N., Hare, B., Fekete, H., Höhne, N. COP28 initiatives will only reduce emissions if followed through. (2023)
- Grant, N., Fyson, C., Schleussner, C., Hare, B., Baxter, C.B. Unabated: the Carbon Capture and Storage 86 billion tonne carbon bomb aimed at derailing a fossil phase-out. (2023)
- Fyson, C., Grant, N., Das, N., Maxwell, V., Reynolds, C., Rogelj, J., Schleußner, C.F., Waterton, O. When will global greenhouse gas emissions peak?. (2023)
- Welder, L., Grant, N., Aboumahboub, T., Fyson, C., De Vivero, G., Lui, S., Daly, E., Hagemann, M., Missirliu, A. Wind and solar benchmarks for a 1.5°C world. (2023)
- Production Gap Report 2023. (2023) https://doi.org/10.51414/sei2023.050
- Gambhir, A., Mittal, S., Lamboll, R.D., Grant, N., Bernie, D., Gohar, L., Hawkes, A., Köberle, A., Rogelj, J., Lowe, J.A. Adjusting 1.5°C climate change mitigation pathways in light of adverse new information. Nature Communications. (2023) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40673-4
- Fyson, C., Grant, N., Hare, B. 2030 targets aligned to 1.5°C: evidence from the latest global pathways. (2023)
- Welder, L., Grant, N., Aboumhaboub, T., Hörsch, J., Maxwell, V., Fyson, C., Hare, B. Clean power in South Korea. (2023)
- Wilson, R., Hare, B., Grant, N., Houlie, T. Why offsets are not a viable alternative to cutting emissions. (2023)
- No room for new gas in South Korea
- Massive gas expansion risks overtaking positive climate policies
- Cumulative CO2 emissions in 1.5°C compatible pathways for Estonia
- 1.5°C pathways for the Council of Europe
- Transformative change to achieve 1.5°C: an EU member state assessment
- How can the EU transform its economy to meet the 1.5°C goal?
- Fossil gas: a bridge to nowhere
