COP29 Blogs

Erika Moranduzzo, PhD researcher from the School of Law highlights how we cannot get a truly 'just' transition regarding climate change without addressing current inequalities in the workforce.

James Wallace, PhD researcher from the School of Civil Engineering, discusses the huge increase in urbanisation over the past 100 years and how it intersects with climate change conversations.

The team at water@leeds discuss their work creating the first ever global guidelines for climate-resilient sanitation launched by the Global Climate Fund (GCF) and other Leeds research improving global sanitation.

Susan Ann Samuel shares her thoughts on what she has dubbed 'The Moana effect', where small island developing states and youth activists push for climate action.

PhD Researcher, Susan Ann Samuel, from the School of Politics and International Studies explains how incorporating the perspectives of and from children, youth and the future generations in building pathways for climate finance is important.

Yuanyuan Dong, Postgraduate Researcher in Nutritional Epidemiology Group, discusses the carbon footprint of our current healthcare system and the impacts of climate change on global health.

PhD researcher, Catriona Flesher, discusses Loss and Damage and the effects of extreme weather events caused by climate change.

Susan Ann Samuel argues that a human-rights approach is key to uniting climate finance with global solidarity.

Human-caused global warming has just nudged past 1.5°C, according to a new method we have developed. That’s approaching 0.2°C higher than previously thought. Article written by Piers Forster and Andrew Jarvis.

Professor Piers Forster discusses the latest scientific assessment by an international team of climate scientists, showing how human activity is warming the world more rapidly than ever before, and we are now perilously close to the Paris agreement’s 1.5°C guardrail.

Humans may have already caused 1.5 °C of global warming when measured from a time genuinely before the industrial revolution and the start of large-scale carbon emissions, according to new research led by Professor Piers Forster and Dr Andrew Jarvis (from Lancaster University).

Richard Beardsworth, Head of the School of Politics and International Studies, and Co-Chair of the University of Leeds UNFCCC Task Force, considers the politics going into this year’s COP29 Climate Conference and what that means for climate action.

Researchers and students from the Faculty of Social Sciences will attend COP-29 (either in-person or remotely), which is this year hosted in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Professor of International Relations, Richard Beardsworth, looks with concern to this November’s COP29 and the US elections. The issue is climate leadership.