Research highlights

View of Mumbai skyline with skyscrapers over slums in Bandra suburb.

How can cities learn from one another?

Researchers are taking a multitude of approaches to bring tangible solutions to urban challenges.

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

Urban wasteland being revamped with greenery

GALLANT

A project partnering with Glasgow City Council. It aims to move the city towards climate resilience while also addressing health, social and economic inequalities.

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

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THE Sustainable Development Goals Top 20 Logo 2022

THE Impact Rankings 2022

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
University and tower in sunlight

Our response to the climate emergency

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

3 students beneath our ancient university tower

Support sustainability

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

Two hands holding a reusable cup

GUEST working group

Empowering students to improve the environmental practice of the University.

view of the hills of skye

Sustainability in our College of Social Sciences

Study

Glasgow degrees related to sustainability and the environment

Representation of a train of mirrors reflecting sunlight to a photovoltaic farm on Earth: ground view. The mirror size is not to scale. Credits: Andrea Viale.

Sustainability in our College of Science & Engineering