Global climate emergency

Making a difference

This Centre aims to find new systems-level solutions to tackle the worsening climate crisis. Working with partners we identify and implement interventions and ensure the adaptation to, and mitigation of, climate change impacts.

The complexity of the challenge cannot just be solved by direct, short-term research alone but needs a broad, multi-disciplinary and open approach that takes the long view.

Our multi-disciplinary approach to the global climate emergency

Transformational research

SRUC conducts internationally respected, largely multi- and inter-disciplinary research, seeking to address the major challenges of growing global demand for food and nutrition security, climate change and dwindling natural resources with emphasis on resource use efficiency.

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Expert business services

Learn how SAC Consulting can build sustainability into your designs to avoid depletion or degradation of natural resources, helping to protect and support a long-term environmental quality for all.

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Focused education offerings

SRUC focuses on solving the global challenges facing the planet, including climate change, biodiversity and access to nutritious food and clean water. By focusing on the sustainability of our natural economy, SRUC will strive to make a world of difference: delivering economic, social and environmental benefits for all, both locally across Scotland, the UK, and beyond.

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GreenShed

The state-of-the-art GreenShed will use cattle waste products to power a methane capturing system and grow indoor crops.

Agrecalc

A leading agricultural resource efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions calculator developed by SAC Consulting and SRUC.

Digital Dairy Chain

Transforming the Dairy Supply Chain with Innovation, Collaboration, and Growth.

Farm Carbon Storage Network

This project seeks to raise awareness of the value of carbon stored on farms through the establishment of a Farm Carbon Storage Network.

Could taxing unhealthy food help tackle climate change?

A new study, involving researchers at SRUC, has found that taxing foods high in fats, sugar and salt could potentially reduce emissions from food consumption, but it is unlikely that one policy could achieve both nutritional and climate goals.

Net-zero Cabinet Secretary sees SRUC climate research in action

Scotland’s Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Net Zero and Just Transition has been learning about some of the cutting-edge climate change research being carried out at SRUC.

Flower power at heart of methane reduction research

SRUC scientists’ research into reducing cattle methane emissions using a chemical from daffodils is part of a project awarded £2.8 million by the Department for Environmental Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).

First UK outing for portable chambers to measure sheep methane

High-tech portable chambers for measuring methane emissions from sheep are being used in the UK for the first time.

Africa's 'forgotten food crops' could play key role in climate change research

Researchers at SRUC, the World Vegetable Center, World Agroforestry and partner institutions have modelled how nutrient-rich forgotten food crops – crops not promoted in recent decades with the dominance of major staples – could help diversify future food systems to make them more climate-resilient and healthier.