The Stirling Climate Festival is an event ran by students from the University of Stirling. The purpose of the festival was raise awareness and highlight the current climate issues the world is facing. The festival is made up of talks, workshops, panel discussions, crafts, outdoor activities and music. The festival is presented by individuals, charitable organisations and university societies affiliated with climate change.
The first ever Stirling Climate Festival took place between the 11th October and 17th October 2021 on the Stirling University Campus and the organisers are a team of eleven students. In a partnership with Stirling Council, Stirling Students Union and Stirling University, the open to all festival set out to tackle issues around climate change and open up a new perspective to those wanting to learn more and engage.
The Stirling Climate Festival has the following aims:
- To increase awareness and positive engagement in the climate crisis in Stirling University and the wider Stirling community
- To provide the opportunity to learn skills for individual and collective tackling of the climate emergency
- Help to provide an understanding of the importance of COP26
- Bringing the climate agenda to a wider audience and showing why a green transition would work for the people
- Helping people to understand the intersectionality of climate crisis, how it is inextricably linked to other social justice issues such as gender and race equality as well as its connection to global trade and politics
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