Implementing change

Informing parliamentarians on climate change

The Influencing Corridors of Power (ICOP) project was established by a team of students and staff from SOAS (University of London) with the aim of bringing researchers and Government closer together. SOAS has a longstanding tradition of political engagement and student activism. The ICOP briefings help to inform Government and Parliamentary debate, and makes university research more immediately relevant in shaping policy decisions on the most important contemporary issues facing the world. Topics covered by the ICOP briefings have ranged from Freedom of Speech to Covid-19, the situation in Afghanistan to Immigration in the UK, and most recently Climate Change.

Recent briefings have examined: ‘Community-led energy solutions as the future of just and clean energy transitions’; ‘Debt relief for a green and inclusive recovery’; and ‘How the Bank of England must act on the climate crisis’. At the recent COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow, SOAS students contributed to a policy paper calling for the UK government to look beyond its current ambition of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050 in order to encourage a global transition towards net zero.

SOAS offers the module Environment and Climate Crisis on its BA International Relations and BA Politics degrees, and a wide range of related postgraduate and online degrees from its Centre for Development, Environment and Policy, Centre for Sustainable Finance and Centre of Law, Environment and Development.

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