CPOM’s work around improving scientists ability to accurately quantify and predict sea level contributions from polar ice sheets is vital for planning for a future in a warming planet. This knowledge and understanding helps inform future planning and mitigation strategies for climate changes and sea level rise in a variety of ways.

• In 2014 CPOM Director Professor Andrew Shepherd and CPOM PI Professor Danny Feltham gave evidence at The House of Lords as part of The Select Committee on the Arctic.
• In 2018 CPOM acted as lead author on the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5’C
• CPOM also sit on the steering committees of the WCRP’s Grand Challenge of Sea Level Rise and it’s Ice Sheet Model Inter-comparison for CMIP6.
• In 2020 CPOM scientists, alongside colleagues from other institutions signed a joint letter raising concerns about potential gaps in polar altimetry capability.
• In 2020 CPOM contributed evidence to The Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill.
• In 2023 the CPOM team contributed to The Environment Audit Committee’s report What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic. with CPOM Director Andrew Shepherd giving evidence in Parliament as part of the Inquiry. This report calls for better focus on Arctic issues in Whitehall and a funding boost for research.
• In March 2024, CPOM’s Dr In’s Otosaka (Northumbria University) gave evidence to the Environmental Audit Sub-Committee on Polar Research as part of The UK and Antarctic Environment Inquiry, exploring the effects of climate change in Antarctica and how UK science can play a role in understanding this change and protect the region.