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In a year’s time, inside an exhibition centre in Glasgow, heads of state, climate experts and campaigners from around the world will come together to agree coordinated action to tackle the climate crisis.
As the countdown begins to the rescheduled negotiations, known as COP26, UEA launches an exciting new campaign – Climate of Change – highlighting the University’s role as a key participant in the UK’s climate emergency conversation.
And it is a conversation that has become even more urgent, with climate change reaching a critical decade. Pioneers of climate research for more than 50 years, we use our expertise to tackle the unprecedented environmental and social challenges facing the human and natural worlds.
In the coming months we will be telling our climate story, starting with a new video that you may have seen on UEA’s social media channels this week. Drawing on our climate heritage and current projects, our climate experts and community, Climate of Change aims to inspire debate and instigate action both in the run up to COP26 and beyond.
From the creation of the School of Environmental Sciences in 1967 and the setting up of the Climatic Research Unit in 1972, through to the launch of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in 2000, and most recently their role in the new Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations, UEA researchers have broken new ground in understanding the global climate system and its implications for society - and continue to do so.
We have been instrumental in the construction of global temperature records and carbon budgets, provided data underpinning international agreements to limit global warming, and advise governments on climate policy.
Under the umbrella research theme of ClimateUEA, our work spans faculties and schools, bringing together the diverse range of research taking place across the university, from arts and humanities, to social, health and environmental sciences.
Whether it’s studying humankind’s impact on the environment, developing climate simulations, or devising adaptation and mitigation solutions, together we collaborate with other world-leading organisations, producing the latest knowledge and solutions to the climate and biodiversity emergency.
Our students, graduates and campus staff are playing their part too, from setting up businesses to tackle issues such as the plastic waste in our oceans, to saving water in our labs and reducing our carbon emissions.
Prof Fiona Lettice, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation, said: “We are proud of our long history of pioneering climate research here at UEA. Now, more than ever, we need to use our expertise and leverage our global networks to develop and implement solutions to the pressing climate change and biodiversity challenges our planet faces. That is why we created ClimateUEA – to bring together our staff, students and partners, from different disciplines and with multiple perspectives, to really understand the issues and co-create solutions that solve local, national and global problems.
“There is much to do, and no time to waste. Together we can and will make a positive difference. Join us to create a Climate of Change.”
At UEA we come together from different fields to innovate, collaborate and make a difference. We all need to play our part…Are you with us?
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