The two-week conference is being seen as key to increasing action on cutting emissions to deliver on the pledges in the global Paris Agreement to limit temperature rises to “well below” 2C, and try for the safer 1.5C goal. World leaders are preparing to head to Glasgow for the crucial COP26 climate summit, where countries are under pressure to increase their ambition to tackle the greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change. “We continue to welcome views from across our community and we will continue to work with our various student bodies to reach our ambitious carbon reduction targets.” “The principal met with students yesterday who are concerned about the climate crisis and are encouraging the university to move further and faster. The deal includes 60 demands which would “end the university’s countless ecologically destructive practices”, according to protesters.Ī University of Glasgow spokesperson said: “We were the first university in Scotland to declare a climate emergency and we have since published our response to that emergency, which commits us to the ambitious target of achieving net carbon neutrality by 2030.
“We are already in a climate crisis, we cannot afford to wait.”
