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Six million euros were divided over ten projects in total, and all studies will last five years.

The Copernicus Institute is offering visiting scholar positions fully funded by ERC project "Problem-Shifting between International Environmental Treaty Regimes: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions".

Within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the National Ocean Decade Committee has been established, as a link between the UN organisation and the national network of public and private stakeholders.

Climate researcher Detlef van Vuuren has been awarded the Spinoza Prize for his scientific work, the highest honour in Dutch science.

Two PhD Candidates from Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��, Clara Colonna (Agri-food Law) and Sara Ramezani (Urban Planning), embarked on a unique learning journey in Montpellier, south France.

Professor Petra de Jongh will conduct fundamental research into the operation of catalysts. This could lead to accelerating the energy transition, for example by developing catalysts for the efficient conversion of CO2 and hydrogen into sustainable fuels.

Eelco Rohling has been appointed Professor of Ocean and Climate Change at the department of Earth Sciences Faculty at the faculty Geosciences as of 15 April 2024.

Ecocide in Indigenous conceptualizations is not only one crime, but it comprises multiple crimes simultaneously.

In a highly visionary Nature article, two chemists from Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� present a roadmap in which oil refineries could be reinvented to be completely fossil-free. Processes will be electrified if possible, and raw materials will change to CO2, agricultural and municipal waste.

The transdisciplinary research project Whose Ocean? has received a €33,500 euro grant from the Creative Industries Fund.

Until now, biodiversity mainstreaming has been largely ineffective due to non-binding commitments, vaguely formulated targets, “add-on” biodiversity initiatives, and too few resources.

Bringing together scholars, practitioners, and students in the heart of Utrecht to understand the potential of integrating health and nature in cities.

Pathways to Sustainability consists of nine thematic communities, each dealing with a different aspect of sustainability. Time to sit down with the three leaders of the Energy in Transition community.

The conference took place on 22 March 2024 at the Hogeschool Zeeland and was organised by UCWOSL in collaboration with the Delta Climate Centre.

Paleoclimatologists from Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� and geologists from the British Antarctic Survey will make reconstructions of the geological time periods with rapid global warming and fastest ice sheet melt.

A new briefing on justice in sustainability transitions has been published online by the European Environment Agency (EEA) using input from Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� researchers.

To get a better understanding of the topics that the people of S4S do research on, we initialized a project on
community network analysis.

The UYA connects young academics from Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� who have obtained their PhD less than eight years ago to exchange critical perspectives on academia, policy, and society.

Roxana Roos, senior researcher at Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��’s Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, set out to discover what the most important barriers to the participation of local and indigenous communities are.

NWO has committed funding for a five-year research project on one of the most complex challenges of our time: scaling digital innovation in a responsible way.