Research highlights

Modern solar farm panoramic at sunrise on a summers day

Enhancing solar power generation from space

Space-based reflectors could shine additional sunlight towards solar power farms

Powillimount beach coastline in Dumfries and Galloway, South West Scotland

Climate change and our changing coastline

Dynamic Coast: a project informing policy around coastal flood and erosion management

Collection of vinyl records

The Cost of Music

The price of listening to recorded music has never been lower, while the environmental cost has never been higher

All research highlights

University and tower in sunlight

Our response to the climate emergency

Glasgow Green: the University's action plan to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030.

an inland windfarm in scotland

Centre for Sustainable Solutions

Our climate commitments

  • 2014: the first UK university to declare it would divest from fossil fuels within a decade
  • 2017: signed the Sustainable Development Goals Accord
  • 2019: first University in Scotland to declare a climate emergency
  • 2020: opened the Centre for Sustainable Solutions
  • 2020: published our response to the Climate Emergency 'Glasgow Green'
  • 2021: launched new plan to cut carbon emissions from business travel by 7.5% each year
3 students beneath our ancient university tower

Support sustainability

Make a donation to the sustainable projects of our Chancellor’s Fund

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GUEST working group

Empowering students to improve the environmental practice of the University.

the dear green bothy

the Dear Green Bothy

view of the hills of skye

Sustainability in our College of Social Sciences

UK fusion energy plant

Sustainability in our College of Science & Engineering

Study

Glasgow degrees related to sustainability and the environment

Upskilling courses