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COP27’s first ever official water day was a drought event – COP CAS student blog
By Sharon Mandipe and Sarah Watson
It has been argued by the United Nations that climate change is primarily a water crisis (UN Water n.d.).
We all felt the effects of the relationship between climate change and water when temperatures ...
Decarbonisation through an African lens – COP CAS student blog
By Chris Pesso
The Oil and Gas Industry, over the past decades, has significantly contributed to the rise of CO2 emissions. The time has arrived for these companies to start funding the development of new technologies towards renewable ...
Daraja: The weather bridge for early action in urban communities – COP CAS student blog
By Laura Reeves and Nerea Ferrando Jorge
DARAJA means bridge in Swahili which is fitting as this project aims to bridge the gap between urban communities and weather agencies, in order to make 1 billion people safer from climate disasters by ...
Bringing nature onto the table at COP27 – COP CAS student blog
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. ...
No climate justice without human rights – COP CAS student blog
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 ...
Regulation of plastic industry to combat climate crisis – COP CAS student blog
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 ...
Planet Partners: Tackling the Climate Crisis Together – Free access online course
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 ...
(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 ...