New center to research climate change

SHANGHAI - Fudan University announced on Friday the start of the Fudan-Tyndall Centre, an institution dedicated to researching the causes and effects of climate change and exploring the potential solutions.

At the same time, Fudan University announced it will found a Research Institute for the Changing Global Environment. The institute will work with the Fudan-Tyndall Centre to bring about cooperation between the research and teaching on climate change conducted at both Fudan University and the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom.

The original Tyndall Centre was founded in 2000 in the United Kingdom and led by the University of East Anglia and was named after the 19th century British scientist John Tyndall, who speculated that fluctuations in the amounts of water vapor and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could be related to climate change. The center has gained an international reputation for its research into climate change, and for providing independent research results to policymakers in the United Kingdom and the European Union.