The listings below are for climate-related events across the University of Leeds.
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The University of Leeds published its Climate Plan in December 2021, setting out the pathway to an ambitious goal of delivering net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. It also maps out how the University will achieve its other climate commitments, including supporting a net zero city, achieving sustainable travel, enabling responsible investment, shaping institutional...
The latest report from IPCC Working Group III was published on 4 April 2022. The report, which has been developed by hundreds of authors from around the world over a period of four years, focuses on climate change mitigation. It assesses methods for reducing emissions and removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, considering all aspects...
The end of 2021 saw significant climate ambitions set out at both global and regional scales: at COP26, and in the Yorkshire & Humber Climate Action Plan. We are now at a pivotal moment both in terms of climate action and ensuring a fair, prosperous, and sustainable future for West Yorkshire and its surrounds. As the...
This multi-media roundtable event foregrounds the voices and experiences of transgender communities living in Indonesia. It explores how climate change, environmental injustice and the COVID-19 pandemic intersect with deep-seated inequalities rooted in a lack of understanding about gender and sexual diversity. It focuses on the everyday lives and livelihoods of transgender women and men, as...
This seminar will explore the potential intersection of climate change and anti-microbial resistance (AMR), an area that has received little attention. Both AMR and climate change are considered major global health challenges, sharing similar complex, interdisciplinary, and multi-scalar policy constraints. Yet there are a range of additional linkages between climate change and AMR that remain...