2015 news

Edinburgh has a substantial delegation attending the Paris Climate Summit; this includes our staff, students and alumni who have been taking part in side events, and reporting on sessions.

This January GESA Deputy Director Dr Elizabeth Bomberg and ECCI Director Dr Andy Kerr were delighted to join Dr Simon Shackley from the School of Geosciences to co-host Professor Michael Grubb, author of Planetary Economics.

This January GESA Deputy Director Dr Elizabeth Bomberg and ECCI Director Dr Andy Kerr were delighted to join Dr Simon Shackley from the School of Geosciences to co-host Professor Michael Grubb, author of Planetary Economics.

The International Biodiversity and Climate Panel with Dr. Braulio Dias (Executive Secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity) and Julia Marton-Lefevre (former Director General of IUCN) took place on 25 November in the Old College.

On 6th November 2015, the BENELEX team organized the side-event “Fair and Equitable Benefit-Sharing for the Protection and Full Realization of the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities: Challenges and Opportunities in International Law” at the Ninth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) held in Montreal, Canada, from 4-7 November 2015.

November 2015: Students that completed the LLM programme in Global Environment and Climate Change Law in 2014/2015 are already gaining professional successes.

Eddleston Water, Scottish Borders, the site of collaborative research to understand how hydrological processes affect natural flood management.

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A vibrant community of practice for ecosystem services research, decision-making and natural resource management in Scotland, Ecosystem Services Community Scotland (ESCom) encourages dialogue between Science, Policy and Practice, helps to align Scottish ecosystem services research and organises and promote events to support ecosystem services knowledge exchange.

Green Week took place on the 3rd-5th June. Organised by the European Commission, Green Week is the biggest annual conference on European environment policy. This year's theme was nature and biodiversity. As an EU funded project focused on ecosystem services OPERAs was invited to attend and talk to delegates about its aims to bridge the gap between science, policy and practice.

On June 15 and 16 the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) hosted its annual energy conference.

Students on this year’s LLM in Global Environment and Climate Change programme have been getting involved with a range of research events.

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Ecosystem services project welcomes international recognition.

In collaboration with the School of Geosciences the new, GESA affiliated, online MSc in Carbon Management launches this September. This online programme is a ground-breaking development of the award-winning campus-based MSc in Carbon Management programme at the University of Edinburgh.

Conohar Scott is the Leverhulme Artist in Residency at the Centre of Environmental and Marine Sciences at the University of Hull. He has just completed his PhD, entitled ‘The Photographer as Environmental Activist: Politics, Ethics & Beauty in the Struggle for Environmental Remediation’.

Nine students from GEPS degrees are headed to an international meeting with President Bill Clinton, Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Chelsea Clinton this March.

The University of Edinburgh invites applications from exceptional candidates for a fully funded doctoral research project that addresses a ‘Perfect Storm’.

MSc students in Global Environment, Politics and Society programme are presenting their projects at the Clinton Global Initiative University conference and taking part discussing innovative solutions to global challenges.

BENELEX PI Elisa Morgera carried out two international consultancies in 2015, to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and the European Commission respectively, which have drawn upon the preliminary findings of the BENELEX project.