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(Not) addressing the elephant in the room – COP CAS student blog
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 ...
Get lost…in the climate data – COP CAS student blog
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 ...
“We are on a highway to climate hell” – COP CAS student blog
By: Ben Hutchins, Rosie Mammatt & Hette Houtman.
After an interesting start to the 27th Conference of the Parties the overarching theme at the COP27 World Leaders Summit was abundantly clear. Something needs to be done, and fast. As UN ...
Setting the scene for COP27 – COP CAS student blog
By: Ben Hutchins, Hette Houtman and Rosie Mammatt
The 27th Conference of Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, has gotten underway today. The conference comes at a time when ...
Gearing up for COP27 – Climate Action Studio 2022
We are fast approaching November and that means COP27 is almost upon us! The 27th UNFCCC Conference of Parties (COP) is arguably the most significant yearly event in the climate policy calendar. The stakes are high and the situation urgent if ...
Community-centred advocacy using visual methods
Introduction
Dr Grady Walker, Walker Institute Interdisciplinary Research Fellow ran training workshops for farmers in Mukono, Uganda. The workshops provided training for the participants in visual storytelling using video. Participants ...
Food Systems Thinking Training at the Foodbiosystems Doctoral Training Partnership
Dr Harley Pope from Walker designed and delivered three workshops for the Summer School at Queen’s University, Belfast, assisted by Konstantina Pratta, also from Walker. Their aim was to help PhD students from across the UK to structure and ...
Walker Update 21 July 2022
Welcome to the Walker Update, bringing you up to speed with the latest developments from the Walker Institute and the wider climate science field.
Tackling climate risks to the historic environment.
Alongside Historic England, the National ...
New Participatory Photography Paper Published by Dr Grady Walker and Team
Thursday, February 18, 2021
Dr Grady Walker, Senior Research Officer at the Walker Institute, recently published a paper in the International Journal of Qualitative Methods (IJQM) with colleagues from the School of ...
Walker Institute Partners with Historic England to Protect Thousands Year Old Wetland Archaeology Threatened by Climate Change
Heritage is at risk from climate change: a fact well known to those who gathered at the beautiful Henley Business School’s Greenlands campus from 19 to 20 May for a participatory workshop on “Climate Adaptation Options for Drought-Vulnerable ...