Nature Positive Pledge
Nature Positive Pledge is a global network of universities in to support the prioritisation of nature restoration within the higher education sector; in operations and supply chains, on campuses, and within our cities
APRU hosts university workshops to promote UNFCCC University Partnership Programme
To help facilitate greater adoption of the UNFCCC University Partnership Programme, APRU hosted several information workshops with member universities, including UNSW Sydney and the University of Auckland. The UNFCCC University Partnership Programme aims to provide master students with the opportunity to focus their thesis/ cap stone projects on areas that address adaption knowledge gaps at sub-regional, national or local level.
Climate advisors for schools in new education scheme
New scheme offering crash courses in climate change for teachers; helping schools, colleges and nurseries transition to net zero; and supporting them in making their buildings resilient to extreme weather.
Spoonful of sugar – lithium-sulfur batteries
Monash Energy Institute explain how sugar adds longevity to lithium-sulfur batteries
Major German Corporate Group Partners With EIT Climate-KIC On Carbon Removal Program
Supporting solutions via the newly launched EIT Climate-KIC ClimAccelerator program.
Researchers to attend COP26 negotiations
Nine researchers from Manchester University to attend the Blue Zone at COP26.
Climate change education rethink needed to ‘avoid failing next generation’
Surveys of teachers by climate education campaign group Teach the Future showed that 9 out of 10 teachers agree that climate change should be compulsory in schools, yet only 3 out of 10 feel equipped to teach it. Through their Mock COP Declaration, young people around the world are demanding up-to-date teaching on environmental impacts…
University of Edinburgh develops innovative online education
Taught by instructors with decades of experience in climate change and online learning, this empowering course is a collaboration between leading experts in the University of Edinburgh and the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. You’ll learn about the solutions needed from governments and big business, how you can help to make them do more, and what…