The world’s biggest environmental challenges demand long‑term thinking.
Discover how deep histories held in Reading’s museums and special collections are being activated to unlock new discoveries, using innovative research, partnerships and digitisation to shape the future of our planet.
The University of Reading is home to one of the world’s largest communities of climate scientists, shaping global understanding of climate change through our work with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and others. In 2026, we hosted major IPCC workshops with the UK government and the Met Office.
Created by Reading climate scientists, The Real Scoreline offers a different kind of scoreboard as 48 nations compete this summer. Ranking each country on key climate indicators, it turns complex data into simple scores, putting the planet’s biggest challenge on the scoresheet.