News – November 2013

MOOCs and the Future of Entrepreneurship Education

On Wednesday 4th December 2013, at the Royal Society of Edinburgh, there will be a breakfast seminar to explore and discuss howentrepreneurship education is and can be revolutionised through online learning. Delivered as a collaboration of Informatics Ventures, Edinburgh BioQuarter and the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation; with support from Scotland’s 2020 Climate Group. Our three speakers are thought-leaders on the topics of online learning and entrepreneurship education. Ian Ritchie, Vice President (Business) of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, will …

Published on 28 November 2013

Environmental Justice Policy

ESRC AQMEN/GSSG Lecture at the University of Glasgow. Effective environmental justice policy requires an understanding of the economic and social forces that determine the correlation between race, income, and pollution exposure. We show how the traditional approach used in many environmental justice analyses cannot identify nuisance-driven residential mobility.

Published on 26 November 2013

Why are fossil fuel reserves growing?

New data collated by Oil Change International (OCI) shows how global fossil fuel reserves are growing, while the world’s remaining carbon budget is shrinking. As a result, the proportion of fossil fuel reserves that are ‘unburnable’ is growing quickly. The original version of this graphic was made by Kiln for OCI.

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Published on 26 November 2013

Warsaw climate talks set 2015 target for plans to curb emissions

Governments around the world have just over a year in which to set out their targets on curbing greenhouse gas emissions from 2020, after marathon overnight climate change talks in Warsaw produced a partial deal. Under the agreement, settled in the early hours of Sunday morning after more than 36 hours of non-stop negotiations, countries have until the first quarter of 2015 to publish their plans.

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Published on 24 November 2013

Sustainability movement will fail unless it creates a compelling future vision

The greatest risk to the sustainability movement is that it is struggling and so far failing to articulate a vision of a future that is both prosperous while remaining within planetary boundaries. Until it is able to showcase a plausible paradigm shift, then no-one is going to feel safe letting go of the current system that is driving us towards the edge of an environmental and social abyss.

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Published on 23 November 2013