Thank you to everyone who joined us for
COP30 - Belém, Bedlam and Balance 🌍
A huge thank you to @stuartbrocklehurst.bsky.social for sharing such insightful reflections
More events coming up soon: globalcentredevon.org.uk/events/
#GownMeetsTown #COP30 #ClimateAction #Sustainability
🌍 COP30: Belém, Bedlam and Balance
📅 Tuesday 27th January, 6pm
Join us for a fascinating online talk with @stuartbrocklehurst.bsky.social from University of #Exeter, as he reflects on COP30.
More info: bit.ly/4iLlHkk
#GownMeetsTown #COP30 #ClimateAction #Belem2025
With @stuartbrocklehurst.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk
As we enter the second week at #COP30, our Deputy Vice-Chancellor @stuartbrocklehurst.bsky.social, who's in Belem, observes that the Amazon surroundings are not yet having the desired effect of driving progress.
greenfutures.exeter.ac.uk/article/exet...
Anyone for Risk? Exeter's @stuartbrocklehurst.bsky.social Brocklehurst is in Brazil at #COP30 and in his first blog post for #greenfutures explores how different geopolitical motivations look set to inform the negotiations.
greenfutures.exeter.ac.uk/article/why-...
In this month's Climate Conversations Alex Burkhill talks to Deputy Vice Chancellor at University of Exeter, @stuartbrocklehurst.bsky.social, on the positive developments from Exeter Climate Forum and the need for further research on extreme weather events to support UK agriculture.
The Government has today published 'The UK's Modern Industrial Strategy', which highlights the role that universities have to play in the creation and support of thriving, globally competitive industry sectors. Hear what Minister for Science Lord Vallance said about it on his recent visit to Exeter.
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Gool Peran Lowen - Kernow Bys Vyken!
We've some great submissions for this week's snapshot! Joe Blackman found our most famous resident, Napoleon, surveying an empty Forum. Totty Brobyn caught a bare tree under the blue sky outside the Innovation Centre. Prof Neil Gow found this ‘Earth stars’ fungi growing on our Streatham Campus.
Each week members of our community submit photos of our campuses for inclusion in our weekly staff bulletin. We think they're too good not to share, so welcome to our first Uni Snapshot!
Thanks to Debbie Ironside Smith, Ebony Houghton and Julie Taylor for capturing some beautiful skies over campus.
We're thrilled to have risen 12 places to 9th in the 2024/25 People & Planet University League! We're also the highest-ranked university in the Russell Group, and one of just 4 from the mission group to attain first-class status!
news.exeter.ac.uk/university/e...
Beautiful!
Smallest County Council is around 550k, so this level allows East Sussex to unitarise on its own. I suspect most remaining County Councils would also find it hard/impossible to split into multiple +500k units.. so I wonder if it’s really about encouraging straight conversion from CC to Unitary.
Three men in dinner suits on a stage in front of a screen announcing the award
The award - a wooden block with the name of the award on it
The @uniofexeter.bsky.social has won the @timeshighered.bsky.social Award for ‘Outstanding Contribution to Environmental Leadership’! The judges commented “Exeter has strengthened not only higher education leadership in climate policy but also UK climate leadership internationally.”
My final reflections from the biodiversity summit in Colombia #COP16 #QuickCOP #COP16Colombia
I was delighted to write this article on climate and business for the CBI ahead of their Annual Conference on 25th November, at which I’ll be speaking.
Business balances risk and opportunity, climate change and our response will drive both over the years ahead.
www.cbi.org.uk/articles/opp...
Large congress hall full of people
Stuart by COP16 sign
Academic and research pavilion
Sculpture of boxes with different representations of biodiversity
Great start to #COP16 in Colombia
Stuart speaking
Penny Endersby, Lord Sharma and Minister Kerry McCarthy wait to speak
Stuart and Lord Deben
Copies of the guide
World leading climate experts have written an authoritative new guide, produced by @uniofexeter.bsky.social and Peers for the Planet, issued to every MP and active peer, and launched in parliament last night.
Available to all online at:
greenfutures.exeter.ac.uk/parliamentar...
Things to know:
Land and ocean remove half of our CO₂ emissions yearly.
For climate and us, the rate of removal matters.
This rate slows over time.
Sure, all that CO₂ will eventually end up in the ocean over thousands of years, but it's not fast enough.
We have to stop burning fossil fuels!
Green line graph time series of average sea surface temperature anomalies for each May to July from 1854 through 2024. There is large interannual variability, but an overall long-term increasing trend. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1981-2010 baseline. 2024 is the warmest on record.
The mean global sea surface temperature averaged over the last three months remained the highest on record relative to any other May to July period...
Data from NOAA ERSSTv5: psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...
Just your friendly reminder that virtually no one buys petrol or diesel cars in Norway. They have become the horse & cart of cars...
Coming to a country near you!
More great figures here: robbieandrew.github.io/EV/
Climate change increases storm overflows; Exeter Uni is working with South West Water to address this. Good to visit the Countess Wear labs and sewage works to discuss this.
