The EAUC Scotland Smaller Institutions Sustainability Meeting met in-person at Forth Valley College, Falkirk Campus on 30th May 2024 to discuss how to progress action on climate...
The Climate Risk Register Guide and Tool aims to assist institutions in the early stages of their adaptation journey.
Purpose of the report This document provides a suite of case studies that demonstrate practical action that local authorities have taken across England that focus, at least...
Weathering the Storm A Guide to Saving and Making Money in a Changing Climate
Sam Barnett from Forth Environmental Resilience Array introduced their project, hosted by the University of Stirling at the EAUC-Scotland Forum Meeting in December 2021. The...
Universities Facing Climate Change and Sustainability
Go Green Tools - Hillside Environmental Services
How do we maintain our work/life balance during this time while continuing to ensure our own and our families well-being? We are delving into the lives of members to find out...
In light of the Coronovirus pandemic and it's impacts on our institutions EAUC-Scotland hosted a webinar to find out what peoples thoughts were at this time, how people are...
Our EAUC-Scotland Conference 2019, entitled the Elephants in the Room, included several breakout sessions. This page contains the resources from the workshop on Adapting to the...
Climate change is not only a risk in itself to operational, teaching and research activities, but also a multiplier of many other risks. It is vital that considerations of...
This Handbook and Framework from Adaptation Scotland has been developed on the principle that successful adaptation is not simply a case of improving understanding through...
The Benchmarking Tool helps illustrate an organisation’s adaptation journey. It should be used to provide a baseline assessment of your organisation’s current...
On the 7th of October 2019, EAUC-Scotland and Historic Environment Scotland co-hosted an event on risk & resilience in a changing climate at the Engine...
Using an existing organisational resilience framework to develop a Climate Change Adaptation Plan is an accompanying guide to Adapting universities and colleges to a...
EAUC and the Higher Education Business Continuity Network (HEBCoN) have been working with a group of Members over the last year, with the support of AECOM, to develop a guide...
Adapting universities and colleges to a changing climate: Making the case and taking action is the main guide produced through a collaborative project on climate change...
The University of Edinburgh has released its Adaptation Framework, to fit in with its aim of becoming net zero by 2040. This feeds in to the overall vision that the University...
This was a Business School group consultancy project for MSc Carbon Finance and MSc Carbon Management students The main research question this study seeks to answer is:...
Communication is fundamental in ensuring University stakeholders understand, support, and act upon, climate change adaptation measures taken by the University. It is therefore...
There is wide recognition that the success of both the University of Edinburgh’s Climate mitigation and adaptation strategy should closely align with the...
In August 2014, a removable flood barrier was installed to the entrance of Barnes Wallis, on Shakespeare Street (Nottingham) in response to previous flash flooding...
This discussion paper aims to foster a conversation about the impacts of climate change, how they might affect our operations and what the University may need to do to manage...
Disaster risk has no borders. Indirect losses from extreme weather events can cripple national economies, kill small businesses, shut down factories and take away jobs....
This climate change risk assessment addresses the risks to ARU resulting from climate and weather events, and their associated health, operational, and financial consequences....
Sometimes the concept of climate change is difficult to reconcile with real life events. It can be hard to imagine the impact that severe weather events and long term climate...
University of Strathclyde Adaptation Events and Actions
ISO 14001 is the most popular environmental EMS in the world and is commonly found in UK institutions. In can be confusing to work out how to integrate climate change...
Situated on the east coast of Scotland, the University of St Andrews is tasked with the challenge of both the maintenance of historic buildings and improving the resilience of...
As a public body, the University of Glasgow has a legal duty under the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 to address the changing climate and take adaptation measures to ensure...
Looking to engage with your Finance Department on sustainability? Find more information through the Sustainability Engagement Guide
Under Section 54 of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009, Scottish Ministers must make annual reports to the Scottish Parliament assessing progress on Scotland’s...
Climate Just have created an information tool to map risks and vulnerabilities to flooding, heatwaves and fuel poverty. Scotland has now been updated and you can access the...
On Monday 9th April the EAUC and HEBCoN (Higher Education Business Continuity Network) Risk Project Working Group met for the first time at the AECOM Offices in Birmingham....
In early 2017, Creative Carbon Scotland teamed up with Adaptation Scotland, Aberdeen City Council, Robert Gordon University and four creative practitioners to deliver a min-arts...
Join Adaptation Scotland and EAUC-Scotland for a Scoping Workshop to explore what Scotland’s universities and colleges need to progress their adaptation work. ...
In a new documentary film called 'Climate Change and Scotland's Future', University of Glasgow graduates Jenni O'Neill and Cameron Mackay (both recent geography...
Resources from the 'Moving from Compliance to Leading Change' Summit at the EAUC-Scotland Conference 2017.
Presentation from the 'Moving from Compliance to Leading Change' Summit at the EAUC-Scotland 2017.
This paper sets out some of the issues in BREEAM which aim to improve the mitigation, adaptation and resilience in buildings.
Case study on working through a climate impact assessment at University of St Andrews as part of a five step adaptation process.
AECOM, in partnership with the EAUC, will be delivering a webinar looking at how higher and further education organisations can integrate their findings from climate change...
AECOM, in partnership with the EAUC, delivered this webinar looking at how higher and further education organisations can integrate their findings from climate change risk...
This webinar is the second of two adaptation presentations delivered by Adaptation Scotland, with part one providing an introduction to adaptation and Adaptation...
This webinar, first presented on the 20th July 2016, is the second of two adaptation presentations delivered by Adaptation Scotland. Part one provided an introduction to...
This webinar is one of two adaptation presentations delivered by Adaptation Scotland. Part one will offer an introduction to climate change adaptation, from what it is (and...
This webinar, first presented on the 13th July 2016, is one of two adaptation presentations delivered by Adaptation Scotland as part of the three-part EAUC-Scotland...
In April 2016, EAUC-Scotland invited Adaptation Scotland to run a workshop on Adaptation aimed specifically at Scottish universities and colleges. The workshop was designed to...