WHAT IS SCOTLAND BEYOND NET ZERO?
As Scotland’s universities, we are acutely aware of the need to combine our strengths to address the major challenges facing the nation. The climate emergency is the greatest existential crisis facing the world and all of our member institutions have made significant commitments in recent years to support Scotland’s drive to net zero. We believe that working together will help drive results. ‘Scotland Beyond Net Zero’ is a coalition designed to catalyse research collaboration across all our academic disciplines, empower our communities and inform the policymaking and action Scotland needs to reach its ambitious targets.
We have identified shared approaches to research collaboration, including:
We will focus our collaboration on six key areas in which (further) research is crucial for achieving Net Zero and related sustainability goals. These are intended to be broad themes which are inter and cross disciplinary:
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