Sustainability at Glasgow

Taking a Strategic Approach to Diversity and Inclusion

Date: Tuesday 19 October 2021
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: Online
Speaker: Uzma Hamid-Dizier

During her talk, Uzma Hamid-Dizier will explore the pressure being put on employers to address how they will tackle a lack of diversity within their organisation and make suggestions on how progressing diversity and inclusion can be done in a strategic way.

Revisiting consumption for a climate friendly future. In conversation with Professor Tim Jackson

Date: Wednesday 18 August 2021 - Thursday 18 August 2022
Time: 09:00
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: Available on Google Podcasts, Spotify, Breaker, Anchor, Pocketcasts, Radio Public and Youtube
Speaker: Professor Tim Jackson

Join Deirdre Shaw, Co-Director of the Centre for Sustainable Solutions and Professor of Marketing and Consumer Research, University of Glasgow as she discusses this important topic with Tim Jackson*, Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity and Professor of Sustainable Development at the University of Surrey.. Over three “bite-size” Podcasts they will explore key questions, including: How can we transform current consumption behaviours? What do climate friendly consumption lifestyles look like? How can we support and embed behavioural transformation?

Bright Edge Deep | Online Exhibition

Date: Monday 20 September 2021 - Monday 03 January 2022
Time: 10:00
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: online

Bright Edge Deep: peatlands in history, cultural heritage, and climate | Online Exhibition

ÚNA Podcast

Date: Friday 24 September 2021 - Sunday 24 October 2021
Time: 10:00
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: online

ÚNA Festival presents a podcast series featuring artists, creatives and representatives of Indigenous and BME communities to nurture our knowledge of sustainability and community.

Terrestrial Archaeology Seminar Series: Archaeology for a Changing Planet

Date: Wednesday 29 September 2021 - Wednesday 08 December 2021
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: Seminars will be held on Zoom. Register on eventbrite for your free ticket to attend.

In November 2021 the COP26 Meeting will be held in Glasgow. This year the University of Glasgow Archaeology seminar series highlights the diverse contributions of archaeological and heritage researchers through their work relevant to the central concerns of COP26 including: impacts of climate change, human – environment interactions, landscape change, social responses to environmental and climate change, activist scholarship to promote sustainability, and an overarching commitment to social justice. This seminar series aims to engage a broad research and public community with this work.

Carbon Cost Calculathon

Date: Tuesday 05 October 2021 - Monday 10 January 2022
Time: 10:00
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: online

An online calculathon activity involving students, local schools, and you - the public! - aiming to crowdsource the environmental costs and illustrate the elusive carbon footprint of gaming.

Climate change and the challenge of a green economy: Scotland/UK & China

Date: Wednesday 20 October 2021 - Thursday 21 October 2021
Time: 11:00
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: Online (Zoom webinar)
Speaker: Ronald MacDonald, Jinny Yan, Xu He, ZhongXiang Zhang, Mike Danson, etc

This public online forum will be an opportunity to consider some of the economic imperatives that form part of the puzzle for achieving meaningful climate action. It will focus on the economies of Scotland/UK and China. The forum will bring together experts from around the UK and China over two days.

Climate change & the challenge of a green economy - Scotland/UK & China: Session 1 Climate change & the economy

Date: Wednesday 20 October 2021
Time: 11:00 - 12:30
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VWvLq_fQSbGO0jZ3dwhHUw
Speaker: Professor Ronald MacDonald, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow; Jinny Yan, Managing Director & Chief China Economist, ICBC Standard Ba

This online forum brings together experts in various fields of economics from around the UK and China over two days. In each session, presentations by the speakers will be followed by discussion and Q&A.

Climate change & the challenge of a green economy - Scotland/UK & China: Session 2 Energy policy

Date: Wednesday 20 October 2021
Time: 12:40 - 14:00
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: https://policyscotland.gla.ac.uk/events/climate-change-the-challenge-of-a-green-economy-scotland-uk-china/
Speaker: Professor Zhong Xiang Zhang, Founding Dean and Distinguished University Professor, Ma Yinchu School of Economics, Tianjin University; Professor Mike

This online forum brings together experts in various fields of economics from around the UK and China over two days. In each session, presentations by the speakers will be followed by discussion and Q&A.

COP26 and the Post-Anthropocene: Rival Conceptions of Nature and the Perils of Anti-humanism

Date: Wednesday 20 October 2021
Time: 13:00 - 15:00
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: Online

This presentation offers a series of philosophical reflections on certain trends within the environmental and especially XR movements which critique the supposed elevation of human exceptionalism within the ecological order.

Climate change & the challenge of a green economy - Scotland/UK & China: Session 3 Green Finance

Date: Thursday 21 October 2021
Time: 11:00 - 12:20
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VWvLq_fQSbGO0jZ3dwhHUw
Speaker: Professor Li Zeguang, Acting Head of Department of Finance, Nankai University; Professor David Dickinson, Department of Economics, University of Bir

This online forum brings together experts in various fields of economics from around the UK and China over two days. In each session, presentations by the speakers will be followed by discussion and Q&A.

A’ Chailleach – The Cailleach

Date: Thursday 21 October 2021
Time: 19:00 - 20:15
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: online

Visual-artist Judith Parrott and singer-songwriter Gillebride MacMillan collaborate to present a creative response to A' Chailleach – The Cailleach - goddess of the weather, creator of Scotland and maker of mountains.

Kitchen Life: Learning sustainability through kitchen Life

Date: Friday 22 October 2021
Time: 13:00 - 15:00
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: Online

A kitchen is an essential unit of any household. It regulates not only everyday cooking activities but also family interactions, gender dynamics and determines food choices, fuel and quality of health. The kitchen is a space where the energy of life, i.e. food, is prepared but is also a space that can take lives if there is no access to clean and reliable energy. In this interactive session, the Kitchen Life research team will explore sustainability through the social life of the kitchen and biography of kitchen material.

Programmable Nature: Conversations with Artists

Date: Tuesday 26 October 2021
Time: 10:00
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: online

A series of video interviews presented by the Digital Departures Lab profiling the work of three of the most exciting artists working at the cross section of art, science and technology, exploring the condition of ‘programmable nature’.

Can psychology help us solve the climate emergency?

Date: Tuesday 26 October 2021
Time: 13:00 - 15:00
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: Online

In this session we will discuss what tools psychology can offer to empower individuals, groups and organisations to make a positive behaviour change and live more sustainably. We will discuss recent research evidence on how we can adopt a sustainable behaviour change and present tips on how to influence sustainable behaviour in our everyday life.

Global Environmental History and Climate Change

Date: Wednesday 27 October 2021
Time: 14:00 - 17:00
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: online

Two panels of leading experts in global environment history will introduce their work how historical research is important to the struggle against climate change.

Pluriversal Literacies: Towards a literacy education that can sustain the world

Date: Wednesday 27 October 2021
Time: 16:00 - 17:00
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: Online

The presentation will introduce alternative perspectives and possible approaches to literacy that shift what it means to be literate in the many places and practices of our vulnerable world. As a mainstay of education and tool of social change, literacy is inseparable from policy and practices of sustainability and equity – at local and international levels. This session is grounded in the question, what literacies do our learners need today?

Building resilience with equity - Perspectives from cities and neighbourhoods in the Global South

Date: Thursday 28 October 2021
Time: 10:00 - 11:30
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: Online

The event is co hosted by UN-Habitat and the Centre for Healthy and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods (University of Glasgow). The panel will bring together SHLC researchers, policy makers and neighbourhood residents to explore innovative approaches to build resilience in cities and neighbourhoods in the Global South.

Gender, sustainability and research capacity building in India, Rwanda and Nepal

Date: Thursday 28 October 2021
Time: 13:00 - 15:00
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: Online

Why the world needs more female scientists: panel on how gender and sustainability relate to building research capacity in the Global South. This is a panel event featuring academic/activist speakers from India, Rwanda and Nepal, discussing to what extent gender and sustainability are part of initiatives related to building research capacity in these contexts; and to what extent achieving gender equality and sustainability are part of the wider development landscape in these contexts.

Business of Sustainability: ING & their Net Zero Commitments

Date: Thursday 28 October 2021
Time: 16:30 - 17:30
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: online

What role do banks play in fighting climate change? Hear how ING are moving towards Net Zero.

So help me, cabbage

Date: Thursday 28 October 2021
Time: 17:00 - 18:20
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: online

A conversation, illustrated with newly commissioned short films, between a sustainable food expert, a contemporary artist working with cabbage motifs, and a classicist researching the ancient roots of ecological materialism.

More or less meat? Building a dialogue to reduce meat consumption

Date: Friday 29 October 2021
Time: 16:30 - 17:30
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: Online

This interactive event will highlight the advantages of reducing meat-eating or going meat-free for the individual, society as a whole and the planet. It will create a space to briefly discuss the arguments and open up a dialogue.

Hope against Hope: Spirituality & Climate Change Vodcasts for COP26

Date: Sunday 31 October 2021
Time: 10:00
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: online

Hosted by Theology & Religious Studies, this series will feature scholars, religious leaders & climate activists reflecting on spiritual challenges of the climate crisis.

COP26: Climate change: Corporate reporting and lobbying

Date: Monday 01 November 2021
Time: 09:30 - 12:30
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: Online

Programme will be announced shortly. 

Sustainability in Healthcare and Education: Global Challenges and Solutions

Date: Tuesday 02 November 2021 - Thursday 04 November 2021
Time: 08:30 - 17:00
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: Online

Climate change impacts on health in multiple ways. This meeting will focus on three different but related areas that highlight challenges, stress the importance of the youth voice and, importantly, suggest positive ways forward.

Net zero & the economic future of cities

Date: Tuesday 02 November 2021
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: Online
Speaker: Jim Coleman

Jim Coleman will explore how far Net Zero pathways and low carbon transitions can be utilised as mechanisms for inclusive economic development in cities and can this be sustained for the whole cross section of urban communities into the future?

Mobilising the rule of law in climate change

Date: Tuesday 02 November 2021
Time: 14:00 - 17:00
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: Senate Room, Gilmorehill Building, University of Glasgow; Online
Speaker: Mary Robinson and Vanessa Nakate

Follow up to summer Hausfeld-BIICL conference on climate litigation. It will feature a keynote address by Mary Robinson and Vanessa Nakate and two panel discussions.

COP 26: The Aftermath of the Post-Covid Era: Embracing the Net Zero Global Economy

Date: Thursday 04 November 2021
Time: 09:00
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: Online

A University of Glasgow-Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee Series on the Reconstruction of the Global Economic Order in the Post-Covid Era.

Finance, governance and sustainability

Date: Thursday 04 November 2021
Time: 09:00 - 13:00
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: Senate Room, Gilmorehill Building, University of Glasgow; Online

The role of ‘green bonds’ and fiduciary duty in green finance.

COP26: Smart and connected services for CO2 emission monitoring and optimisation: Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) Panel Discussion

Date: Thursday 04 November 2021
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: Online

Full event details announced shortly.

‘What’s Going On’ at 50: Marvin Gaye, Music & Politics

Date: Thursday 04 November 2021
Time: 19:00 - 20:00
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: Online
Speaker: Led by DJ & broadcaster Trevor Nelson, four expert panelists – musicians Emeli Sandé & Corinne Bailey Rae, and writers Nelson George & Stuart Cosgrove

A panel discussion around Marvin Gaye’s album ‘What’s Going On’ and its ground-breaking social and ecological politics.

ESG and Climate Finance Conference— A University of Glasgow ASBS COP26 Event

Date: Friday 05 November 2021
Time: 09:00
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: Online

As part of our COP-26 programme of events the ESG and Climate Finance Conference event takes place online on Friday 5th November (GMT). Full event programme will be announced shortly.

Climate Law and Governance Day

Date: Friday 05 November 2021
Time: 09:00 - 17:30
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: Kelvin Gallery, Gilmorehill Building University of Glasgow; online

A convening of international experts to increase ambition, harness knowledge, and advance insights in climate law and governance.

Eco Echoes: Tinderbox Music and Game Jam

Date: Saturday 06 November 2021
Time: 09:00 - 20:00
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: online

Join a day-long creative jam where we'll write songs & make games around an environmental theme, with a songwriting workshop, live play-through, and open-mic session to share the games and songs!

COP26: Introducing the Global Soil Health Programme - Restoring the health of the world's soil at scale and on time

Date: Monday 08 November 2021
Time: 09:00 - 10:30
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: Kelvin Gallery, University of Glasgow & Online
Speaker: Professor Rattan Lal, Ronald Vargas, Arlene Cotie, Leigh Ann Winowiecki plus more TBA

Taking place on Monday 8 November, this event will outline the vision and activities of the Global Soil Health Programme and will include guest speaker presentations and a panel discussion.

COP26: Agriculture to deliver on Net Zero

Date: Monday 08 November 2021
Time: 11:30 - 13:00
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: Kelvin Gallery, University of Glasgow & Online

How to make a net-zero, nature-positive agriculture a reality.

Choral Contemplations III: Singing for the Environment

Date: Tuesday 09 November 2021
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel, Glasgow G12 8QQ

Join the Chapel Choir for a concert of music inspired by COP26 and the environment, featuring a new commission by recent graduate, Harold Thalange.

Built Environment and Net Zero Conference

Date: Thursday 11 November 2021
Time: 09:00 - 16:30
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: Online
Speaker: Opening Address from Patrick Harvie MSP, Scottish Minister for Net Zero Buildings, Active Travel and Tenants' Rights, and Co-Leader of the Scottish Gr

Centre for Sustainable Solutions Built Environment and Net Zero Conference, including UofG colleagues from across the University, and external partners such as Glasgow City Council. Will coincide with the Cities, Regions and Built Environment Day at COP26 itself.

Built Environment and Net Zero - A COP26 Conference from the Centre for Sustainable Solutions

Date: Thursday 11 November 2021
Time: 09:00 - 16:30
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/built-environment-and-net-zero-conference-tickets-189947797977
Speaker: Patrick Harvie Scottish Green Party MSP for Glasgow (Region), Scott Foster (UNECE), Dave Pearson (Star Refrigeration Ltd), Paul Steen (Vattenfall Hea

The Conference will be an opportunity to learn from and showcase work going on within the University associated with net zero and the built environment, by our staff and student colleagues, and as part of many collaborations and relationships with partners outwith the University.

From Cooling Towers to Stone Circles: the heritage of Sighthill

Date: Thursday 11 November 2021 - Saturday 20 November 2021
Time: 10:00
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: online

This online exhibition tells the story of the heritage of Sighthill, an area of Glasgow currently being reborn as one of the largest urban redevelopment projects in Europe.

Green Finance Green Futures

Date: Thursday 11 November 2021
Time: 10:00 - 11:00
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: Online

This live webinar is the final session in the Green Finance Green Futures programme. The webinar will feature panelists from the Bank of England, Skills Development Scotland and the Scottish Government, and the experts will discuss questions submitted by students.

Water Music: Source to Sea

Date: Thursday 11 November 2021
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: University of Glasgow Concert Hall
Speaker: Sequoia Duo

Sequoia Duo presents Water Music: Source to Sea, a musical imagining of the journey taken by a raindrop as it travels along Scotland’s waterways, presented as part of Music in the University and The Dear Green Bothy.

Poetry and the Climate Crisis: Scotland and India (Session I)

Date: Thursday 11 November 2021
Time: 16:00 - 18:30
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: online

Join a host of poets, readers & interdisciplinary thinkers as we explore urgent questions about the climate crisis through the work of Patrick Geddes & Rabindranath Tagore (First of two sessions).

Games Sustainability Hackathon

Date: Saturday 13 November 2021
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: online

Join us for a boundary-busting, creative hackathon as we develop new strategies for making board & video games more environmentally conscious.

Imagining Ecological Pasts and Futures

Date: Wednesday 17 November 2021
Time: 18:45 - 21:45
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: online

Join UofG Fantasy for an evening exploring how fantasy engages us with climate emergency, with an interactive creative writing session from authors Ruth EJ Booth & Oliver Langmead.

Poetry and the Climate Crisis: Scotland and India (Session II)

Date: Thursday 18 November 2021
Time: 16:00 - 18:30
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: online

Join a host of poets, readers & interdisciplinary thinkers as we explore urgent questions about the climate crisis through the work of Patrick Geddes & Rabindranath Tagore (Second of two sessions).

Demystifying corporate Net Zero targets; the status and how to set robust Net Zero targets to reach global climate goals

Date: Tuesday 30 November 2021
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: Online
Speaker: Amir Safaei

Amir will look at the role of business in combating the climate change, and how they are doing so through setting science-based targets and through signing up to 1.5°C Ambition pledges.