Research spotlights

How can cities learn from one another?
Researchers are taking a multitude of approaches to bring tangible solutions to urban challenges

Bringing local solutions to global urban issues

World top 20 for sustainability

Centre for Sustainable Solutions
Our climate commitments
- 2014: the first UK university to declare it would divest from fossil fuels within a decade
- 2017: signed the Sustainable Development Goals Accord
- 2019: first University in Scotland to declare a climate emergency
- 2020: opened the Centre for Sustainable Solutions
- 2020: published our response to the Climate Emergency 'Glasgow Green'
- 2021: launched new plan to cut carbon emissions from business travel by 7.5% each year

Our response to the climate emergency

Support sustainability
Make a donation to the sustainable projects of our Chancellor’s Fund

GUEST working group
Empowering students to improve the environmental practice of the University.

Sustainability in our College of Social Sciences

Sustainability in our College of Science & Engineering

The Dear Green Bothy
Study
Glasgow degrees related to sustainability and the environment