Climate Action

As one of the critical geographical issues we face today, climate change is a major area of work for us, and one that benefits significantly from our solutions-focused approach of cross-sectoral working and coordination.

Climate Solutions

We are currently working on the delivery and further development of a project to improve the 'climate literacy' of managers in the public, private, academic and voluntary sectors. Climate Solutions aims to tap into the huge potential for organisations and individuals to support national and international efforts to combat climate change.

Climate Emergency Summits

Our Climate Emergency Summits provide space for motivated people from across sectors to come together in a safe and open workshop environment to offer solutions to the climate emergency. Since late 2019, we have held several summits focusing on particular issues and generating hundreds of ideas. A report is published after each event, and submitted to government to help inform policy.

Five for the Future

Developed through the Climate Emergency Summit programme, Five for the Future encourages all organisations to ask the same five questions at the end of each event they run ahead of COP26. Five for the Future will help generate a set of common answers, which in turn will help to shape an organisation- and society-wide set of key concerns.

Bitesize

In 2014-16 we developed a project to assess ways in which Scotland could make the biggest difference to reducing global climate emissions, through expertise, innovation or example. Several areas of our current policy work stem directly from this project.

Climate Change Videos

As a key geographical issue, climate change regularly features in our public talks, some of which have been recorded, and we have made some short videos in support of Climate Solutions programme.

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Climate Change Blogs

Many of the articles featured on our blog address different aspects of climate change.

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Latest

Farmers, Academics and NGO's Deliver Consensus on Farming and Climate

A panel of farmers, academics and NGO representatives have published a consensus pathway for making Scottish farming climate compatible. In a debate that has been notoriously polarised, Farming for 1.5 Inquiry was able to set out a credible way forward by bringing different perspectives and aspirations around the same table.
Roald Amundsen and the 1925 North Pole Expedition

RSGS Writer-in-Residence Jo Woolf investigates the life and explorations of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, accredited as the first to reach the South Pole, the first to voyage through the Northwest Passage by ship, and one of the first to cross the Arctic by plane. Amundsen received the RSGS Livingstone Medal in 1925 “in recognition of his recent unique aerial exploration of the north polar regions.”
June 2021

RSGS E-newsletter: International Geographical Societies Gathering; The Geographer 'Farming for a 1.5°C Future'; Jacobs signs up for Climate Solutions; Climate Solutions- 'Meet the Experts' event; RSGS Blogs
Professor Graeme Whittington

Professor Kevin J Edwards reflects on the life and work of Graeme Walter Whittington, Emeritus Professor of Geography in the University of St Andrews. Professor Whittington made research contributions of international standing to studies on the evolution of Scotland’s geographical and historical landscapes, drawing upon the methods of science and the humanities.