Danaci admitted that her “first and likely last” COP experience was more about observation and networking Nick Miao Editor-in-Chief Protests at COP29 (Credit: UN Climate Change/Habib Samadov via Flickr/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) UCL Union President Goksu Danaci last week admitted she “didn’t feel too comfortable” during her time at the UN climate conference. She said she […]
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Engineers have warned the Union against banning clubs and societies from accepting sponsorships from fossil fuel companies as it would strip opportunities for graduates. Andrea Bidnic and Angelina Bones Investigations Editor and News Reporter Unemployed gang: The first Activities Zone of the year was packed with Cheese Grater journalists (Credit: Nick Miao) The President of
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Pro-Palestine activists have in recent weeks carried out disruptions at UCL careers fairs to highlight the University’s ties to companies complicit in genocide. Rhi Skelhorn Student protesters from Action for Palestine took over the BNY Mellon stall at last Wednesday’s careers fair in the Wilkins Building, displaying banners that read ‘Bankrolling genocide’ and ‘Fossil free
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At least five candidates running for NUS delegate were part of a secret conspiracy to control the agenda at this year’s National Conference, writes Nick Miao.
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Paige Johnson, Yash Zodgekar, Ary Ris-Luamhain and Rebekah Wright This October, Just Stop Oil (JSO) marked another destination on its Irn-Bru coloured tour of the UK: the UCL Portico. Though the paint has now been washed away, the infamous image of JSO activist Arthur Clifton posed defiantly between orange-stained pillars remains imprinted on our minds.
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Is UCL sustainable? And can it be improved much further without addressing the elephant in the room of aviation?
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Francis K. Whitt is the environmental editor for the Male Observer, an award-winning magazine that uses facts and logic to decode some of our era’s most complex political problems. Enormous clouds of nitrous oxides billow into the atmosphere. The roads are gridlocked; cars are powerless in the face of anarchy. Children scream. You’d be forgiven
With the Fossil Free UCL divestment campaign seemingly gaining momentum, Provost Michael Arthur and co. are deliberately dragging their feet. Despite promises to Fossil Free UCL that UCL council would “give its Investment Committee an explicit remit to monitor its approach to responsible investment”, comments made by Arthur at the Academic Board meeting on 25th
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