It focussed, among other things, on an agreement on the deployment of systems designed to clean up plastic floating in the upper surface layer of the high seas.
Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ researchers Tarek Alskaif and Wilfried van Sark interviewed about their work with EU project PARENT and its pilot in the East of Amsterdam.
Detlef van Vuuren gives us a behind-the-scenes look at research on global climate scenarios. How is scientific research contributing to complex climate policy?
Jesse Hoffman: ‘The transition to sustainability is fraught with risks. The world could suffer from many negative consequences, both large and small.’
Dr Thomas Giesecke studies vegetation change during the last 20,000 years, and Dr Jaap Nienhuis predicts coastal change on decadal to centennial timescales.
On the World day against the death penalty, Montaigne researcher Pauline Jacobs delivered a lecture with the title 'The abolition of the death penalty.