Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation

The Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation brings together researchers from a wide range of backgrounds to explore the potential of using enhanced rock weathering on croplands to remove CO2 from the atmosphere.

Welcome to LC3M

Members of the centre talk about the impact of climate change and how they are investigating enhanced rock weathering as a method of carbon capture and a more sustainable form of crop fertilisation.

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Leverhulme Trust and LC3M

Find out about how funding from the Leverhulme Trust has helped LC3M's work on enhanced rock weathering for carbon dioxide removal.

News

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29 May 2025

ERW discussion meeting at the Royal Society, 17-18 November 2025

This meeting will discuss advances and uncertainties in terrestrial enhanced weathering, a key carbon dioxide removal strategy for climate change mitigation. Find out more and register now on the Royal Society's webpage for our event.

Published on the Royal Society website

Workshop in Kota Kinabalu Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, conducted by researchers from the Cardiff University and SEARRP (Photo: Nick Pidgeon)

14 May 2025

New on the blog - Malaysian Borneo field trials update 2016-2025

Continuing our series of theme summaries and concluding our field site updates until next year, here we're recapping of the progress and findings from our field trials in Malaysian Borneo, from 2016 to 2025.

Basalt is applied to harvested soybean fields at the University of Illinois Energy Farm in November 2019. 2019 was the first year of soybean production in basalt-treated fields in Illinois

10 April 2025

New on the blog - Illinois field trials update 2016-2025

Continuing our series of theme summaries, here we're recapping of the progress and findings from our Energy Farm field trial in Illinois in the US, from 2016 to 2025.

13 March 2025

New on the blog - Australian field sites recap 2016-2025

As part of our series of theme summaries, we're catching up with each key aspect each theme. Kicking off our Theme 3 field sites series is our recap of the progress and findings from our Australian field trials, Hesp and Howe.

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