EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS
University of East Anglia
Conservation to new heights On World Environment Day, 5 June 2019, the University of East Anglia (UEA) joined forces with other organisations worldwide to declare a climate and biodiversity emergency. Based in Norwich, Norfolk, UEA has led the way in climate change through the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research (CRU), the Climate Research Unit and researchers in other UEA schools. Blair Ferguson reports
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he CRU first brought global warming to the world’s attention with the global temperature record and continue to contribute to the world discussion with the Tyndall Centre’s Global Carbon Budget, the update for international policymakers on fossil fuel emissions. Two and a half years after this declaration, the climate discussion has gathered significant pace with the COP26 summit in Glasgow, bringing the world’s considerable issues to the fore. While UEA has contributed substantially to the climate 102
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change effort, they are also exceptionally conscious of practising what they preach. The university estates are under the control of Landscapes Manager Tom Everett, who has the considerable job of keeping all of the areas within his 360-acre remit in prime condition while considering the biodiversity within each space. Tom and his team of fourteen, consisting of grounds people, sports groundsmen and pest controllers, are responsible for the Colney Road Playing Fields, Sportspark, five County Wildlife Sites within the grounds, amenity areas, re-wilded areas, marshlands,