The Institute has worked on aspects of climate, energy and ecosystems and is developing expertise with food and water.
Staff of the institute have led EU consortium programmes including Impressions, studying the impacts and risks of extreme climate change;[2] and co-ordinated GEM, a global ecological monitoring programme across remote forest locations in South America, Africa and Asia.
[3] The ECI also runs an MSc in Environmental Change and Management (ECM).
[5] It was originally called the Environmental Change Unit, and the first director was Martin Parry, who was in post from 1991 to 1994.
[9] The ECI's research is organised around five main themes in climate, ecosystems, energy, food and water.