Source: https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20251118080310969

The role of higher education in tackling climate change needs to be reviewed, as universities are not included enough in discussions about the crisis facing the world, according to a leading academic.

Tristan McCowan, professor of international education and vice-dean international at University College London’s Institute of Education, said universities needed to be given a stronger voice in debates around the climate crisis because of the levels of expertise that existed within them.

McCowan, who set up the Climate-U network of universities and organisations in 27 countries, which recently held its annual conference in Brazil ahead of the United Nations COP30 conference, said higher education was “not nearly involved enough in some of these negotiations and the action plans that come out of them”.