Universities & Colleges Climate Commitment for Scotland Andrew Chamberlain, EAUC Scotland Manager [email protected]07595 826 819 www.eauc.org.uk/scotland David Somervell, Vice-Convener, EAUC-Scotland, [email protected]Sustainability Adviser, University of Edinburgh Tel 0131 650 2073 Sustainability www.eso.ed.ac.uk Transport www.transport.ed.ac.uk EAUC Conference 31 st March 2009
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Universities & Colleges Climate Commitment for Scotland
Andrew Chamberlain, EAUC Scotland [email protected] 07595 826 819 www.eauc.org.uk/scotland
David Somervell, Vice-Convener, EAUC-Scotland, [email protected] Sustainability Adviser, University of Edinburgh Tel 0131 650 2073
Sustainability www.eso.ed.ac.uk Transport www.transport.ed.ac.uk
Extreme droughts will plague sub-Saharan Africa. Children stand behind one of thousands of livestock that died from thirst in southern Ethiopia. [REUTERS March 2006]
“We welcome the opportunities:• To harness our academic talents and expand
Scotland's ability – through our research capacity, knowledge exchange activity and the provision of skills, modules and courses – to create solutions to the challenges posed by climate change”
“… we commit our institution to: • Allocate time and resources to implementing measures• Within a year, publishing a five-year climate action plan
with targets and time scales to achieve a significant reduction in emissions …”
Signatories as at March 2009
James Watt College John Wheatley CollegeLangside CollegeLews Castle CollegeMoray CollegeMotherwell CollegeNorth Highland CollegeOatridge CollegeReid Kerr CollegeS Lanarkshire CollegeStevenson CollegeStow CollegeWest Lothian College
Aberdeen CollegeAnniesland CollegeAdam Smith CollegeAngus CollegeAyr CollegeCardonald CollegeClydebank CollegeDumfries & Galloway CollegeDundee CollegeEdinburgh’s Telford CollegeElmwood CollegeForth Valley College
University of AberdeenUniversity of DundeeUniversity of EdinburghEdinburgh College of Art Edinburgh Napier UniversityUniversity of GlasgowGlasgow Caledonian UniGlasgow School of ArtOpen University in ScotlandQueen Margaret University University of St AndrewsScottish Agricultural CollegeUniversity of StirlingUniversity of StrathclydeUHI Millennium InstituteUniversity of W Scotland