Here’s you’ll find the latest news and events from the CAST team.
Led by Artsadmin and Julie’s Bicycle, Season for Change 2020 will be a major cultural festival and campaign celebrating the environment and inspiring urgent action on the future of our planet, in the lead up to the UN’s COP26 international climate negotiations in Glasgow, November 2020. Season for Change 2020…
This article was originally published on the University of Cardiff website. Sustainable student ideas win cash prizes A ‘smart fridge,’ an app that cuts supermarket food waste, and a system that uses small change to plants trees are among the winners of a new sustainability challenge for Cardiff University students…
Cardiff University has declared a climate emergency and announced its aim to become carbon neutral by 2030. Cardiff University is our host institution and we’re pleased to have been able to support the University Executive Board in their discussions around the climate emergency. Universities around the world are responding to…
Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh, our centre director, is one of four lead experts who will support the design and delivery of the Climate Assembly UK. Citizens’ assemblies bring together people from all walks of life to discuss important issues. They have been used all around the world, including in the UK,…
We are pleased to officially launch the CAST Centre today with a special event held at Cardiff University. In this short video Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh describes why CAST is needed and what we aim to achieve. To coincide with the launch, new findings have been released from research carried out…
Which images come to mind when you think of climate change? If you answered ‘polar bears’, ‘melting ice’ or ‘pollution’ then you’re not alone; over the last twenty five years or so the media, and other organisations have used images like these as visual shortcuts for environmental problems, as well…
Dr Claire Hoolohan discusses transdiciplinarity and CAST
Adam Corner discusses the role Climate Outreach will have in the new Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations.
CAST director Prof. Lorraine Whitmarsh introduces the newly announced Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations.
CAST was officially announced in a speech by the First Minister of Wales on 21st March.