To save development economics from itself, it is essential that we completely reimagine both the idea of development and the sewage system.
I spoke to Dr Thomas Tanner who offered advice on how to manage your climate anxiety and what to focus on.
The needs and experiences of people with disabilities have been ignored and alienated within the broader climate justice discourse and movement.
A call to action to governments and the IPCC from the world’s leading child-focused agencies under the Children in a Changing Climate Coalition.
The final part of this blog series addresses globally differentiated climate change impacts in relation to climate finance, losses and damages, the Just Transition and Article 6.
Part 3 addresses whether the Glasgow Climate Pact (GCP) rehabilitated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).
This blog series presents the key insights of SOAS’s Climate Briefing and looks at how COP26 has addressed the issues and hopes expressed by the academic community.
This research series promotes the local knowledge of marginalised communities in West Africa who are mobilizing against the impacts of climate change.
What did the major global powers have to say concerning solidarity in addressing COVID-19, climate change and conflict resolution?
Developing countries were deeply disappointed that proposals for a ‘Glasgow Facility’ to help them cope with the devastating effects of loss and damage caused by climate change were dropped.
Professor Edward Simpson joined thousands of other academics, ministers, corporates and activists at COP26 in Glasgow.
Dr Thomas Tanner gives a debrief of COP26 – its failures, successes and what needs to happen next.
“Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ alternative climate solutions should be taken seriously into consideration.”
A brief guide to the UN Climate Change Conference 2021.
A talk on COP26 through the lens of SOAS research and regional engagement.
Why South Asian countries should prioritise the localisation of SDGs and improved governance at the grassroots level.
Despite Bangladesh producing less than 0.35% of global greenhouse gas emissions, it has become one of the most active countries in the field of climate change planning and action.
As water and energy shortages become more frequent, global environmental context is needed as part of our communications and media strategies.
New research on post-pandemic futures and climate resilience in Bolivia, Colombia and Peru.
Professor Thomas Tanner talks about why there’s an increase in climate anxiety – and how we can tackle it.
A new SOAS report sets out a proposal for debt relief focused on a green and sustainable recovery.
We know that climate change increases the frequency and intensity of natural disasters: these disasters can result in large-scale forced migration
Global responses to climate change are focused on mitigation: much less attention is given to climate change adaptation. Is now the time for change?
Climate refugees fleeing environmental breakdown have been predicted to sweep across the globe in a vast tide within the coming decades. These predictions have been
It is now uncontroversial that central banks should take climate change into account. But a big question remains: how should they do so?
How has the way we talk about climate change, changed? And how is it discussed by various media outlets? Maxine Betteridge-Moes explores.
Join a programme of virtual events exploring decolonising knowledge at the SOAS Festival of Ideas.
Do you feel strongly about social justice? Are you passionate about a cause? An inter-disciplinary studies approach could be the answer.
“The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We
The current crisis should be used as a basis to rebuild and strengthen solidarity between people and nations.
Covid-19, the oil industry, and wider economic effects.
Mark Hobart reflects on what the media tells us about the Covid-19 crisis.
The theme for Earth Day 2020 is ‘climate action’.
Issues surrounding climate justice, low carbon transport and nation-building.
A net zero carbon economy cannot be achieved without a radical transformation of the financial system.
BSc Economics student Lucy Downes is following a green path to politics, standing as a Green Party PPC.
How mass movement and action can combat a crisis fuelled by capitalism.
What has the government done since declaring a climate change emergency on 1st May?
We need a truly internationalist approach to address the climate crisis.
The government needs to move faster to prevent a climate crisis.
Supermarkets are among the worst offenders of plastic pollution.
Think you know all about climate change? Take our quiz to find out just how clued up you really are.
Pick up any newspaper on any given day and you will find reports of protests, strikes, demonstrations, occupations – some sort of resistance to capitalist crisis and the state of things, large or small, in practically any country around the world.
Throughout your three weeks at SOAS you will be asked to stretch, challenge and develop your skills of critical analysis. The intensive academic format will enable you to deepen your subject knowledge and/or regional area of choice.
Climate change is the foremost challenge, which faces humanity in the 21st century, and it is being prioritised as such by (most!) governments around the world.
Enrol onto our summer school and pick the brains of our academic specialists about the issues that interest you most
Meet ‘global eco-superhero’ Felix Finkbeiner…
To anyone that was dragged – complaining – around a museum in childhood, the 21st century museumscape has altered beyond recognition
Climate policy expert Dr Harald Heubaum on the Paris Agreement, Trump’s appointment of fellow sceptics, the Dakota and Keystone pipelines and also some reasons to be optimistic…
