Climate Change showcase shines a light on COP21

Nottingham Trent University held a Climate Change showcase to coincide with the beginning of the international climate change summit COP21 in Paris.

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An event to communicate and promote research being undertaken on climate change at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) was held in December 2015 to coincide with the international climate change summit in Paris (COP21).

The Climate Change Showcase featured researchers from across the University, with six Schools represented among the fifteen speakers. Topics ranged from the impact of consumerism on climate change to the threats and opportunities faced by low-lying atoll states of the Pacific.

Keynote speaker Dr. Petra Molthan-Hill had attended a preparatory meeting for COP21 organised by the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI) and her speech covered their preparations for the summit. NTU is one of only 16 UK universities to commit to HESI, which was created in the run-up to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+ 20) in 2012 and now has 227 members worldwide.

The full list of speakers and their presentations titles were:

Professor Tim Cooper - Too much stuff: the impact of consumerism on climate change
Dr Amanda Smith - Urban energy transitions to low carbon futures: the case of Nottingham*
Lynne Oxborrow and Angharad Mclaren - From Future Factory to clothing longevity
Toby Tonkin - Monitoring environmental change with unmanned aerial vehicles: a case study from a high-Arctic glacier*
Carlos Abrahams - Extreme events and freshwater ecology
Naomi Braithwaite - Turning waste into value: a Circular Economy approach to climate change mitigation
Dr Petra Molthan-Hill - Preparing for the climate change summit - insights from the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative
Dr Marianna Poberezhskaya - Communication and climate change: case study of Russia
Dr Mofakkarul Islam - Determinants of the uptake of renewable energy generation practices on UK farms
Professor Amin Al-Habaibeh - The use of infrared thermography for the assessment of a building's insulation and energy performance
Dr Ben Taylor - Media technologies and e-waste
Dr Christine Cole - Climate change and the repair, reuse culture
Dr Jillian Labadz - Upland management for the reduction of carbon losses from peatlands
Dr Roy Smith - Existential threats and opportunities for the low lying atoll states of the Pacific