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New online hub showcases breadth of UCL’s response to climate change
The new UCL Climate Hub highlights the wide range of UCL’s work on climate-related issues, including environmental science, health and energy issues, and social context and justice.
16 December 2020
Sustainable UCL has produced a new website setting out how UCL’s community is addressing the climate crisis through its diverse research, teaching and operational activity. The Climate Hub also demonstrates how the university intends to be a net zero carbon institution by 2030.
The website aims to help bring together different disciplines within UCL to collaborate on solving the climate crisis, as well as better connecting researchers to external partners in academia, policy and government.
“At UCL we know that we can’t address the climate emergency with a single idea,” says Professor Geraint Rees, Dean of the UCL Faculty of Life Sciences and Chair of UCL’s Sustainability Steering Group.
“That is why we are bringing together minds, perspectives and expertise across disciplines and communities to foster the innovation needed to face the world’s greatest challenge.”
The Climate Hub showcases UCL’s breadth of climate change research and how it is working in partnership with policymakers, entrepreneurs and local communities on climate-related issues. It also offers insights into how the UCL community is integrating its climate research with its teaching and the way the university operates.
We are bringing together minds, perspectives and expertise across disciplines and communities to foster the innovation needed to face the world’s greatest challenge.
The diverse work featured on the website includes research on the capacity of London’s cycle lanes, helping shipping move towards a low-carbon future and the impact of global warming on the Arctic ice mass.
“We want the website to help to connect our researchers with external partners and funders, as well as with each other,” adds Professor Rees.
