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  1. Sustainable Computing open mic

    Sustainable Computing open mic

    This open forum will address computing and it's contribution, realised and potential to achieving Sustainable Development Goals associated with UN AGENDA...

  2. Artist in Residence: one year on

    Artist in Residence: one year on

    Join CEE's Artist-in-Residence, poet Rebecca Sharp, for this work-in-progress sharing event. Rebecca will be sharing some of the new poems written during...

  3. Wastework

    Wastework

    This international, interdisciplinary conference on the materiality, spatiality and processing of waste in the early modern workshop proposes to examine acts of...

  4. Starting from Trash

    Starting from Trash

    Join colleagues (staff and postgraduate researchers) for an informal practice-sharing workshop as we explore waste as a heuristic for dialogue and teaching...

  5. Public lecture by Professor Tahseen Jafry

    Public lecture by Professor Tahseen Jafry

    Join CEPPA (Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs) for a public lecture on climate justice as part of Climate Week. The lecture will be given by...

  6. From local to global --- St Andrews Prize for the Environment photo exhibition

    From local to global --- St Andrews Prize for the Environment photo exhibition

    Since 1998, the St Andrews Prize for the Environment has shone a light on courageous action and bold leadership, and demonstrated how locally-driven solutions,...

  7. Sustainable Investing at St Andrews and beyond: an introduction from Liontrust Asset Management

    Sustainable Investing at St Andrews and beyond: an introduction from Liontrust Asset Management

    The University has a progressive sustainable investment policy for our endowments and funds. What does this mean in practice? How is the field of sustainable...

  8. Energy Café -- We drift like worried fire: photography explorations in the North Sea

    Energy Café -- We drift like worried fire: photography explorations in the North Sea

    Photographer, lecturer and CEE affiliated researcher, Peter Iain Campbell, has been photographically documenting the changing nature of the oil and gas industry...

  9. PEP talk: Turning Research into Impact: Responding to Calls for Evidence

    PEP talk: Turning Research into Impact: Responding to Calls for Evidence

    Ever wondered what role research and evidence plays in policymaking? Have you considered how your research can help inform policy? Do you know how to engage...

  10. PEPtalk: Relational approaches to navigating policy impact

    PEPtalk: Relational approaches to navigating policy impact

    The Centre for Energy Ethics is pleased to announce its Policy Engagement Practice seminar series --- PEPtalks. Please join us and our invited speakers as...

  11. Interactive stratospheric aerosol modelling of volcanic eruptions and impact on climate

    Interactive stratospheric aerosol modelling of volcanic eruptions and impact on climate

    Explosive volcanic eruptions are important drivers of climate variability. Simulating volcanic eruptions is vital for understanding their impacts on past...

  12. Book Launch: 'Engineering Reality' by Dr Cornelia Helmcke

    Book Launch: 'Engineering Reality' by Dr Cornelia Helmcke

    Join Centre for Energy Ethics postdoctoral researcher Dr Cornelia Helmcke for an informal event to celebrate the release of her book Engineering Reality: The...

  13. Connecting with Bonn: Sustainability Research & Cooperation

    Connecting with Bonn: Sustainability Research & Cooperation

    Would you like to know more about the Bonn Alliance for Sustainability Research and Bonn-St Andrews funding opportunities? STACEES is delighted to announce a...

  14. Virtual SEES Seminar -- Dr Takayuki Ushikubo, JAMSTEC Japan

    Virtual SEES Seminar -- Dr Takayuki Ushikubo, JAMSTEC Japan

    Our next SEES Seminar will be on Friday 24th Feb at 13:00. This is an online event however it will also be streamed live in room A15 at the Bute. All are...

  15. Energy Café: Large scale renewable energy investments in energy insecure regions.

    Energy Café: Large scale renewable energy investments in energy insecure regions.

    During this Energy Café, the centre's postdoctoral researcher Cornelia Helmcke will tie in her previous work on energy data justice in Colombia with her...

  16. Pollution, Corruption and Economic Development

    Pollution, Corruption and Economic Development

    Dr Erven Lauw investigates the effects of bureaucratic corruption on the economy when the relationship between pollution and development is represented by an...

  17. Energy Café: Cost-benefit analyses, short-termism and social discount rate

    Energy Café: Cost-benefit analyses, short-termism and social discount rate

    The Social Discount Rate (SDR) determines the present value of future societal costs and benefits. A declining SDR suggests society values future benefits more...

  18. Ghost projects: visions, promises and failures in African spatial development initiatives

    Ghost projects: visions, promises and failures in African spatial development initiatives

    In this seminar Professor Detlef Müller-Mahn from the University of Bonn will discuss the power of vision and developmental dreams in East Africa. The focus...

  19. Local hub conferences as a sustainable alternative to international travel?

    Local hub conferences as a sustainable alternative to international travel?

    Speakers: Dr Alison Johnston (School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of St Andrews) Dr Carol Sparling (School of Biology, University of St Andrews)...

  20. Communicating Climate through Arts

    Communicating Climate through Arts

    Claudia Lubao (PhD candidate, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences) will present 'The act of Musicalizing in Tanzania', which focuses on how...

  21. Conversation with our ocean: silent video projection

    Conversation with our ocean: silent video projection

    Elizabeth Ogilvie and Rob Page are known for environmental, ocean-focused art installations, including the Meander commission for Perth's Mill Street....

  22. STACEES/CAS/GOSSIP Seminar by PRISMA (Peru)

    STACEES/CAS/GOSSIP Seminar by PRISMA (Peru)

    Speakers: Maria Carmen Palacios, Oliver Calle, Amanda Valdez (all PRISMA, Peru). Chaired by: Alejandra Pizarro Choy, PhD student, School of Geography and...

  23. Energy Café: Legitimising the ISDS Regime through Energy Justice

    Energy Café: Legitimising the ISDS Regime through Energy Justice

    This seminar examines the role of the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) regime in the global energy sector and its connection to energy justice. The ISDS...

  24. STACEES event series: Net Zero and the Direction of Travel in Scottish HE

    STACEES event series: Net Zero and the Direction of Travel in Scottish HE

    How can Scotland's higher education institutions lead the way in supporting the UK government's Net Zero ambitions? Where are we right now and where...

  25. STACEES event series: Net Zero and the direction of travel in Scottish HE

    STACEES event series: Net Zero and the direction of travel in Scottish HE

    How can Scotland's Higher Education (HE) institutions lead the way in supporting the UK government's Net Zero ambitions? Where are we right now and...

  26. STACEES event series: Net Zero and the Direction of Travel in Scottish HE

    STACEES event series: Net Zero and the Direction of Travel in Scottish HE

    Abstract This seminar focuses on the environmental sustainability of the ongoing growth in international student mobility (ISM). The Higher Education (HE)...

  27. Digital Action on Climate Change in Heritage Environments (DACCHE)

    Digital Action on Climate Change in Heritage Environments (DACCHE)

    The climate crisis poses an existential threat to the world and by extension to our ability to pass on heritage. It threatens the parts that make up cultural...

  28. Virtual SEES Seminar -- Prof. Kurt Konhauser, University of Alberta, Canada

    Virtual SEES Seminar -- Prof. Kurt Konhauser, University of Alberta, Canada

    Abstract: A remarkably coherent ensemble of evidence points to a significant accumulation of atmospheric oxygen for the first time in Earth's history...

  29. STACEES event series: Net Zero and the Direction of Travel in Scottish HE

    STACEES event series: Net Zero and the Direction of Travel in Scottish HE

    Net Zero and the Direction of Travel in Scottish HE How can Scotland's higher education institutions lead the way in supporting the UK government's...

  30. Digitalisation and Sustainability at Home

    Digitalisation and Sustainability at Home

    In November 2021, the United Nations Environment Programme published an Early Warning, Emerging Issues and Futures paper highlighting the growing environmental...

  31. Eco-Anxious in St Andrews

    Eco-Anxious in St Andrews

    This exciting University event brings into dialogue two recent research projects on eco-anxiety. Both studies examined experiences of anxiety about the climate...

  32. Inside the UN plastics pollution treaty: working at the policy, research, and advocacy interface

    Inside the UN plastics pollution treaty: working at the policy, research, and advocacy interface

    Abstract At the end of 2022, the first Inter-Governmental Negotiating Committee meeting (INC-1) to develop a binding UN treaty (instrument) to end plastic...

  33. Looking North Part Two: Artists & Authors -- Mhairi Killin and Alastair McIntosh

    Looking North Part Two: Artists & Authors -- Mhairi Killin and Alastair McIntosh

    Looking North is delighted to host Mhairi Killin RSA and the well-known activist, writer, and academic Alastair McIntosh for part two of 'Alternative...

  34. Loss, damage and lessons from the past: a conversation on biocultural and linguistic landscapes

    Loss, damage and lessons from the past: a conversation on biocultural and linguistic landscapes

    In a world increasingly affected by climate change, maintaining biodiversity relies on enhanced and targeted conservation efforts, in coordination with robust...