Priestley Centre for Climate Futures

Priestley Centre for Climate Futures, is based at the University of Leeds.

I work with Priestley to conduct interdisciplinary research, organise events, and seminars with respect to climate action. Writing concept notes for new projects/initiatives.

As a Priestley Climate Scholar, during 2022-2024, I have spearheaded an ambitious project gathering 20+ authors from different disciplines to write together a monograph/edited volume. This book is forthcoming with Routledge on 2025.

See the book project:

Some other works included:

• Co-organising the event: After Ice: Telling the Story of A Warming World (link)

And a lot of fun with art, craft, stories, and research 🙂

Sketching our research:

Further, as part of UNFCCC Task Force in University of Leeds, where I serves as youth/student representative, and Priestley Centre for Climate Futures—I was a delegate to UNFCCC COP28 in UAE, UNFCCC SB60 in Bonn, and COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan.

UNFCCC COP29:

Priestley's engagements in COP29 have been many:

• My profile (here)
• Blogs:
  • The Moana effect: how small island developing states are bringing their struggle against climate change to the world – The Conversation (link); reposted to MENAFN, EconoTimes, YahooNews, Island Innovation, Tolerance.ca and more.
  • Financing the Future — “For A Green World”: Baku’s call for climate solidarity [Published in Policy Leeds]
  • Children and Climate Finance: A Matter of Intergenerational Trust [Published in Priestley Centre for Climate Future]
• See more blogs from Priestley here

UN Climate Change Conference, Bonn [SB60]

A few highlights at Bonn were:

• Co-spearheading the poster-work on Empowering the eco-anxious

• Co-authored "Youth activists are now real agents of change at global climate summits"; in The Conversation (link)
• Live from Bonn with CISDL (link)

UNFCCC COP28:

Priestley's engagements in COP28 have been many:

• My profile (here)
• Vlog

Webinar:

This online event offered the University of Leeds community an opportunity to meet members of their COP28 delegation. The webinar begins with an overview of COP28 and outline its importance: both scientific and political. Further listening to several members of the delegation about their planned activities and hopes for the negotiations.