Events
The listings below are for climate-related events across the University of Leeds.
If you have an event that you’d like us to promote, email the details to climate@leeds.ac.uk
From COP27 to COP28: What went well, what went badly and what comes next?
COP27, the annual United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, took place in November 2022. Thousands of delegates gathered in the Egyptian city of Sharm El-Sheikh to discuss action on climate change. The delegates have now returned to their home countries and organisations, bringing with them the final outcomes of the negotiations. Now it is…
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Protecting the Amazon Rainforest
Executive Director of ACTO, Carlos Alfredo Lazary Teixeira, will be joined by Dr. Maria Antonia Tigre, Global Climate Litigation Fellow at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at the Columbia Law School and Deputy Director of the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment, and Dr Markus Fraundorfer, Lecturer in Global Governance at POLIS.
Priority global water-research questions for the looming climate crisis
water@leeds recently published an article in the One Earth Journal showcasing a list of six priority global water research themes for the coming decade, outputs from a global scoping exercise. These six thematic domains include water and sanitation for human settlements; water and sanitation safety risk management; water security and scarcity; hydroclimate-ecosystem-Anthropocene dynamics; multi-level governance;…
WHO YA GONNA CALL? (in event of emergency)
A new one-person performance by Steve Scott-Bottoms, which attempts to kick-start a conversation about how we are adapting to climate change. Drawing on interview research with sustainability officers, flood risk managers, and others, this participatory theatre piece asks why more hasn’t already been done to prepare us for extreme weather, and whose job it is…
Ask A Climate Researcher
Come and speak to Leeds climate experts and ask them your questions about climate change at the Zero Carbon Future Leeds mural at Tetley Garden as part of Campus Live. Taking place at various times: Wednesday 2 November, 11:00 – 13:00 Thursday 3 November, 13:00 – 15:00 Friday 4 November, 10:00 – 12:00
Climate and Justice
The impacts of climate change will be experienced differently across the globe, with some of the world’s most vulnerable people hit the hardest. Many of these communities and individuals will also be denied the opportunity to participate in the development of plans to address and mitigate climate change. Climate justice seeks to address these inequalities…
Ask A Climate Researcher
Come and speak to Leeds climate experts and ask them your questions about climate change at the Zero Carbon Future Leeds mural at Tetley Garden as part of Campus Live. Taking place at various times: Wednesday 2 November, 11:00 – 13:00 Thursday 3 November, 13:00 – 15:00 Friday 4 November, 10:00 – 12:00
Climate and Justice
The impacts of climate change will be experienced differently across the globe, with some of the world’s most vulnerable people hit the hardest. Many of these communities and individuals will also be denied the opportunity to participate in the development of plans to address and mitigate climate change. Climate justice seeks to address these inequalities…
Ask a Climate Researcher
Come and speak to Leeds climate experts and ask them your questions about climate change at the Zero Carbon Future Leeds mural at Tetley Garden as part of Campus Live. Taking place at various times: Wednesday 2 November, 11:00 – 13:00 Thursday 3 November, 13:00 – 15:00 Friday 4 November, 10:00 – 12:00
University of Leeds at COP27
In a few weeks’ time, all eyes will turn to Sharm El-Sheikh, as Egypt is host to COP27. At the annual United Nations climate negotiations, people from across the world will gather to discuss and demand action on climate change. Among those people will be around 200 presidents and prime ministers and thousands of delegates,…
Regional collaboration for climate action: a leadership discussion
Working together to secure a safe climate and prosperous future for the region, and the world. Significant climate ambitions have been set out over the past twelve months, on both a global and regional scale: at COP26, and in the Yorkshire & Humber Climate Action Plan. We are at a pivotal moment both in terms of…