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Tag: Environment

Show Your Stripes

In the lead-up to the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), CONNECTED speaks to Professor Ed Hawkins MBE about his pioneering research, the inspiration behind the infamous climate stripes graphic...

The Indisputable Truth

Reading graduate and meteorologist, Karl Shepherdson, offers a blunt yet hopeful view on the changing climate – and stresses that climate education is the first step on the journey to combat climate change. When Karl...

Facing Up To Climate Change

Reading PhD student, Elena Saggioro, opens up about why it’s so important to face up to climate change and to take action to stop it, and how her studies at Reading are helping her to do just that. Elena chose to come...

Education Outside The Classroom

“No one will protect what they don’t care about; and no one will care about what they have never experienced.” A stark but powerful insight from Sir David Attenborough that explains why it is vital that we...

Partnering For The Planet

Climate change is one of the biggest issues facing the planet. To tackle this threat, we must work together. We must help each other understand what is happening. Only then will we find solutions. Reading’s climate...

Trees burning in orange flames

Code Red For Humanity

Climate scientists at the University of Reading have played a leading role in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. Published in August 2021 to worldwide attention, the report warns that...

The climate stripes, created by Ed Hawkins to represent the Earth's warming

Leading Climate Education

Ahead of the University’s Climate Education Summit on 15 September, CONNECTED takes a closer look at three alumni who are participating in the Summit. Craig Bennett Craig is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at The...

Help Shape Climate Education

The University of Reading’s Climate Education Summit is to be informed by your voices. Help us engage as many schools and young people as possible to create an action plan for better climate education. The University of...

Climate Education Summit

Climate change is the defining crisis of our generation and it will be the lived reality for generations to come. Yet many people still don’t understand the issue, or feel able to respond to it adequately, including...

Empowering Young People

Reading graduate, Jack Abrey, speaks to CONNECTED about the global climate campaign he led for the Scouts, the importance of empowering young people, and being awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM) for his services to...