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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 ...
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 ...