by rrf105 | Nov 10, 2022 | COP, COP CAS, COP27, Front page news, Walker Academy
By Alex Moores, Chris Wyver, Rana Ozturk and Shammi Akhter We are approaching the halfway mark of this year’s COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, and the key discussion threads are still developing even as negotiations begin to get underway. While much of the first few...
by rrf105 | Nov 10, 2022 | COP, COP CAS, COP27, Front page news, Walker Academy
By Rana Ozturk, Alex Moores, Chris Wyver, Shammi Akhter “Justice will not be served up on a platter, we will have to take it.” -Yeb Saño This year at COP many people have spoken up about the issue of Climate Justice. We all live on this warming planet together...
by rrf105 | Nov 10, 2022 | COP, COP CAS, COP27, Front page news, Walker Academy
By Shammi Akhter, Alex Moores, Chris Wyver and Rana Ozturk The plastic industry is a carbon and fossil-fuel-intensive sector. People consume around 60 million plastic bottles every hour and only 9% is recycled1. More than half plastic produced ends up in waste....
by rrf105 | Nov 10, 2022 | Front page news, Walker Academy
Planet Partners: Tackling the Climate Crisis Together is a free access short online course hosted on FutureLearn. Learners will follow UoR students Emily and Nick as they interview experts to find out how climate change impacts our health, the food we eat,...
by rrf105 | Nov 9, 2022 | COP, COP CAS, COP27, Front page news, Walker Academy
By: Philippa Oppenheimer, Dannielle Roche, Fiona Spuler. The last IPCC AR6 working group two report states that 3.6 billion people worldwide live in contexts that are dangerously vulnerable to climate change impacts, particularly in the Global South. Huge investments...
by rrf105 | Nov 8, 2022 | COP, COP CAS, COP27, Front page news, Walker Academy
By Sharon Mandipe and Will Shields. Sitting here in Walker’s COP27 Climate Action Studio in Reading, the thought of spending an entire day covering the conference was always going to be a daunting task. With so many things going on within the conference, let alone...
