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The University of Edinburgh: Environmental Sustainability
| Institution | The University of Edinburgh View institution profile |
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| Department | School of GeoSciences |
| Web | https://www.ed.ac.uk/studying |
| Study type | Taught |
Summary
Our world faces significant and complex challenges, from rising inequality to environmental issues. Global climate change is now affecting everyone on the planet.
Ensuring environmental sustainability is one of the most significant challenges facing humanity in the 21st century, and raises urgent questions such as:
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What is sustainability?
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What are the debates and challenges surrounding different models of sustainable development?
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How can economic and energy systems be restructured to combat climate change?
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What policies foster sustainability? What are the challenges and implications of implementing these in the ‘Global South’ and the ‘Global North’?
At this critical moment, more organisations are working to promote sustainable development, reduce human impacts on the environment, and achieve economic equity. These initiatives include the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
With the MSc Environmental Sustainability, you can explore these questions and other significant challenges affecting our present and future world.
You will be encouraged to think across different disciplines and consider scientific, socio-economic, and policy perspectives to better understand sustainability and how it can be achieved in different geographical contexts.
You can explore critical social and global issues and ways to address these to benefit individuals, communities, societies and nature.
Our programme gives you an international perspective, focusing on regions in both the ‘Global South’ and ‘Global North’.
Edinburgh Climate Change Institute
This degree is associated with the Edinburgh Climate Change Institute (ECCI).
ECCI brings together the following domains to help develop a low-carbon society:
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law
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business
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social science
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technology
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policy experts
Through ECCI, you will have the opportunity to work and network alongside professionals and potential employers within this high-demand field.
MSc
| Level | SCQF Level 11 |
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| Entry requirements | Entry requirements for individual programmes vary, so please check the details for the specific programme you wish to apply for on the University of Edinburgh website. You will also need to meet the University’s language requirements. |
| Location | Central area campus George Square Edinburgh EH8 9JZ |
Edinburgh. Extraordinary futures await.
The University of Edinburgh is one of the world's top universities, consistently ranked in the world top 50, and placed 34th in the QS World University Rankings 2026.
Our position as one of Britain’s leading research universities was reaffirmed by the results of the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF). The University of Edinburgh is one of the world’s top research-intensive universities, ranked 4th in the UK for research power (Times Higher Education, Overall Ranking of Institutions), with 90% of our research activity classified as world leading or internationally excellent in the 2021 Research …
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