Course: Learning for a Sustainable Future: Live at COP27

This course aims to offer, share and generate knowledge from within our learning community but it is also about provoking and inspiring action! We are keen for everyone to feel …

Last year in response to COP, the ‘Climate Sisters’ – a group of 13 women in Glasgow from diverse communities – took part in a series of climate leadership workshops. …

The work ahead is immense… no country and no economy is immune from the climate crisis. Science and citizens are demanding ambitious and transformative climate action, but many governments are …

The last step invited you to individually reflect on what your own global ‘call to action’ would be. Now, we would like to consider how some international frameworks are actually …

This is an additional video, hosted on YouTube. In this video Dr Beth Christie, Senior Lecturer in Moray House School of Education at the University of Edinburgh, shares her reflections …

Moving to Action at COP27 A new Draft Agreement was published early this morning. You can read a detailed analysis of the emerging text in this overview from Carbon Brief. …

Negotiations continued on 19 November, with negotiators continuing to work into the night debating the details. The closing plenary started at 04.00 Egypt time. A decision establishing a loss and …

COP26 was the first where Ministers of Education and Environment met to set out commitments to include educational strategies in their national plans for reaching climate targets. Youth demands for …

Moving to Action at COP27 Today, November 17th, is ‘Solutions Day’ at COP27 and a draft document has been published that will form the basis of the final negotiations taking …

The Role of Tertiary Education in finding solutions Colleges and Universities have a key role to play in helping to solve global issues: including the climate crisis. In this video, …

This is an additional video, hosted on YouTube. During COP27, convened by the international networks Future Earth, The Earth League, World Climate Research Programme(WCRP), scientists from around the world released …

Beth Christie is a Senior Lecturer in Moray House School of Education and Sport at the University of Edinburgh and one of the University of Edinburgh Observer delegates at COP27, …

COP is a process and not an event. Much work happens before a COP ‘begins’. One of the initial steps is the setting of the agenda. In the days preceding …

Reactions to the COP27 Final Agreement Speaking immediately after the announcement, Professor Dave Reay, Policy Director at ClimateXChange, Executive Director at Edinburgh Climate Change Institute and Professor of Carbon Management …

In this update we look back at the origins of the UN climate negotiations and look forward to what we can expect over the next few weeks at COP27. Thirty …