Global climate emergency
This Centre aims to find new systems-level solutions to tackle the worsening climate crisis.
Our multi-disciplinary approach to the global climate emergency
Transformational research
Â鶹ɫÇéƬ conducts internationally respected, largely multi- and inter-disciplinary research, seeking to address the major challenges of growing global demand for food and nutrition security, climate change and dwindling natural resources with emphasis on resource use efficiency.
Expert business services
Learn how SAC Consulting can build sustainability into your designs to avoid depletion or degradation of natural resources, helping to protect and support a long-term environmental quality for all.
Focused education offerings
Â鶹ɫÇéƬ focuses on solving the global challenges facing the planet, including climate change, biodiversity and access to nutritious food and clean water. By focusing on the sustainability of our natural economy, Â鶹ɫÇéƬ will strive to make a world of difference: delivering economic, social and environmental benefits for all, both locally across Scotland, the UK, and beyond.
Our major climate crisis projects:
GreenShed
The state-of-the-art GreenShed will use cattle waste products to power a methane capturing system and grow indoor crops.
Dairy Nexus
A transformational project to foster innovation in the dairy sector, the Dairy Nexus will boost productivity and work to decarbonise the sector.
Digital Dairy Chain
Transforming the Dairy Supply Chain with Innovation, Collaboration, and Growth.
Climate crisis research in Â鶹ɫÇéƬ news:
Could taxing unhealthy food help tackle climate change?
A new study, involving researchers at Â鶹ɫÇéƬ, has found that taxing foods high in fats, sugar and salt could potentially reduce emissions from food consumption, but it is unlikely that one policy could achieve both nutritional and climate goals.
Net-zero Cabinet Secretary sees Â鶹ɫÇéƬ climate research in action
Scotland’s Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Net Zero and Just Transition has been learning about some of the cutting-edge climate change research being carried out at Â鶹ɫÇéƬ.
Flower power at heart of methane reduction research
Â鶹ɫÇéƬ scientists’ research into reducing cattle methane emissions using a chemical from daffodils is part of a project awarded £2.8 million by the Department for Environmental Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).
First UK outing for portable chambers to measure sheep methane
High-tech portable chambers for measuring methane emissions from sheep are being used in the UK for the first time.
Africa's 'forgotten food crops' could play key role in climate change research
Researchers at Â鶹ɫÇéƬ, the World Vegetable Center, World Agroforestry and partner institutions have modelled how nutrient-rich forgotten food crops – crops not promoted in recent decades with the dominance of major staples – could help diversify future food systems to make them more climate-resilient and healthier.
Restoring peatlands to fight climate change
New advice is being offered to farmers to help them access funding to protect and restore peatlands.
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