by Konstantina Pratta | Nov 29, 2023 | COP, COP CAS, COP28, Front page news, Uncategorized, Walker Academy
Written by PhD student Emmeline Smith from SCENARIO DTP For the 8th year running, farms around the world are facing the same devastating problem of global temperature change. There has been mass media coverage of farmers battling disasters like floods and...
by Konstantina Pratta | Nov 29, 2023 | COP, COP CAS, COP28, Front page news, Uncategorized, Walker Academy
Written by PhD student Philippa Oppenheimer from SCENARIO DTP The impact of humans on the world is becoming increasingly clear. Excessive carbon emissions are resulting in climate change defined by unprecedented wildfires, floods, storms, and droughts. However,...
by Konstantina Pratta | Nov 29, 2023 | COP, COP CAS, COP28, Front page news, Uncategorized, Walker Academy
Written by PhD student Megan Sherlock from SCENARIO DTP. Research is being done to determine what plants the public should grow in their gardens in the face of climate change, as more urban gardens are being lost than ever before. More and more gardens and...
by Konstantina Pratta | Nov 11, 2023 | Front page news, Uncategorized
The “Cross-border climate change impacts and systemic risks in Europe and beyond” conference was an inspiring forum to explore cross-border climate impacts and systemic risks. The conference themes ranged from trade and value chains to...
by Konstantina Pratta | Oct 31, 2023 | Front page news, Uncategorized
Sightsavers and the Walker Institute at the University of Reading have teamed up on a new research project that will look at how climate change could affect the reach of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in Malawi. Professor Rosalind Cornforth and Dr Cathie Wells...
by Konstantina Pratta | Sep 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
What does climate science, in its epistemology, methodology and practice, have to do with colonialism? While climate impacts clearly reveal the vulnerability of colonized and formerly colonized nations and spaces, what about the science itself? This first event in the...
