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COP28 Reflections: An activist’s journey to the biggest climate conferences

COP28 Reflections: An activist’s journey to the biggest climate conferences

by Léa Weimann

From my first Climate Strike in December 2015, I knew that I wanted to participate in a Conference of the Parties (COP) on Climate Change. I wanted to take the energy, passion, and frustration I felt as a teenager protesting in the streets into the negotiating rooms that decide our future. Eight years later, the reality of that dream is very different from what I had imagined.

PhD candidate for Deep Transitions research

PhD candidate for Deep Transitions research

An interdisciplinary team of researchers is seeking to recruit a PhD student to a research project on industrial modernity and Deep Transitions at the Institute of Social Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia, led by Laur Kanger. The PhD study (4 years) will focus on...

ETROD seminar series continues

ETROD seminar series continues

Organisers are delighted to announce the upcoming ETROD cycle on “Chemistry and Society”. Amid multiple and ongoing energy and pollution crises, social scientists increasingly pay attention to the role of chemical knowledges, compositions, and potentialities. This...

Venue Information

Venue Information The Centre's Policy Reunion event - Acting on Climate Change: Policy, Rights, & Net Zero - is set to take place on Friday 10 May 2024 in the heart of the University of St Andrews, St Salvator's Quad. All venues being used for this event meet...

Film Screening with the Centre for Amerindian Studies

Film Screening with the Centre for Amerindian Studies

CAS is delighted to invite you to a film-screening of Stepping Softly on the Earth and a Q&A with its director Marcos Colón, who will be visiting St Andrews as part of a UK campus tour. The film will be screened at the University of St Andrews on Friday April 19th...

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