Experts from the University of Reading are set to share their expertise in climate and environmental science at COP31 including hosting events countering climate misinformation.
COP31 is the University’s first COP as host of the International Universities Climate Alliance (IUCA) Secretariat, a global network of research universities working to share climate science with policymakers and the public. Reading and IUCA are involved in more than eight side events across the two weeks of COP31.
On Wednesday 11 November, IUCA will host a COP31 side event on climate misinformation and disinformation, presenting a new IUCA briefing on how false and misleading claims are slowing climate action.
The same day, IUCA, led by Secretariat Director Rose Armour, is supporting a 24-hour Wikipedia editathon for COP31, which anyone can join from anywhere in the world. Participants will learn to edit Wikipedia with help from trained session leads, improving climate articles so they reflect the best available science. The editathon runs as six two-hour online sessions spread across 24 hours, so people in any time zone can take part.
The University of Reading delegation also includes
- Professor Rosalind Cornforth, Director of The Pearl in the Department of Meteorology.
- Professor Emmanuel Essah, Head of the School of the Built Environment.
- Professor Irem Dikmen, Professor of Construction Engineering and Management and Executive Board Member of UKCRIC (UK Collaboratorium for Research in Infrastructure and Cities.
Covering Preparing for tipping points; Buildings for a hotter world and Space data for climate action
Read more here – COP31 – Experts available from Turkiye – University of Reading
