COP Cafe

The COP29 climate summit kicked off in Baku, Azerbaijan on Monday 11 November. Throughout the conference, we’re live-streaming the events and negotiations on a big screen in the ECCI Cafe.

Open to all students and staff from 9am - 5pm, Monday 11 - Friday 22 November.

Live discussion: Wednesday 20 November, 1:15-4pm

Join us on Wednesday 20 November for an afternoon of informal discussions - aimed at answering your questions about the annual climate summit and the events unfolding at COP 29. 

Featuring academics and students, climate experts and COP veterans.

1:15 - 2pm: ECCI Co-Director and Climate Risk and Resilience expert, Dr Kate Donovan and Brenda Mutoni - a Mastercard Foundation Scholar studying at the Business School.

2 - 3pm: Viltė Čivilytė, President of the UoE Sustainable Development Association and Lecturer in Climate Change Mitigation, Dr Matt Lane.

3-3:30pm: Luca Taschini, Chair in Climate Change Finance at the Business School - recently returned from Baku.

3:30-4pm: Free discussion

Grab a coffee, tune into the latest news and chat to students, academics and practitioners who have taken part this year and at previous summits.

Learning for a Sustainable Future: Live at COP29

Enhance your engagement with COP via Learning for a Sustainable Future: Live at COP29

This two-week course, which runs in parallel with the COP29 conference from 11 November 2024, offers an opportunity to examine what COP29 is, why it’s important and reflect on how you can add your voice to the call for collective action for a sustainable future.

Artworks

While you're in the Cafe, look out for a series of paintings by artist, teacher, environmentalist and social scientist Laura Johnson.

The works explore how climate change disproportionately affects children around the world - drawing on the work of UNICEF’s climate change risk index - and how indigenous livelihoods, heath and culture are impacted by globalisation and environmental degradation.