Edinburgh Earth Initiative

Description

The Edinburgh Earth Initiative was launched in 2021 to drive a step change in the University of Edinburgh engagements with global climate and sustainability challenges.

The Initiative aims to help ensure the University of Edinburgh’s research, teaching, and innovation creates just and positive regeneration for the climate.

Members drive resources towards core research on ecosystems, energy futures, and health; they create opportunities to train future leaders through scholarships and fellowships; they help to foster innovations that deliver real-world impacts on climate mitigation and adaptation; they help ensure that climate and environmental is central to the Initiative's international partnerships; they work to make academic knowledge available to decision makers in business, industry, policymaking institutions, regulatory authorities, and civil society organisations; and they put climate justice at the centre of the Initiative's institutional commitments.

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2021

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University of Edinburgh
Old College
South Bridge
Edinburgh
EH8 9YL