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De Universiteit Utrecht is per 1 september een nieuw onderzoeksinstituut rijker: het Institute for Sustainable and Circular Chemistry.

As of 1 September, Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ has a new research institute: the Institute for Sustainable and Circular Chemistry.

To learn more about the research behind living labs and how Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ is engaging with them we talked to Harm van den Heiligenberg and Claudia Stuckrath Alvarado.

EU circular economy policy ensures electronic waste is appropriately processed locally but overlooks loophole exports to the Global South, researchers have found.

Het EU-beleid inzake circulaire economie zorgt ervoor dat elektronisch afval op lokaal en nationaal niveau naar behoren wordt verwerkt, maar gaat voorbij aan mazen in de wet in de export naar landen in the Global South.

Gemeentes hebben vaak ambitie om maatregelen te treffen om steden klimaatbestendig te maken, maar het schort nog vaak in de uitvoering. Hoe komt dat?

Many municipalities have the ambition and intention to take measures to make cities climate-proof, but often implementation is still lacking. Why does this happen?

Tijdens het Springtij festival op Terschelling organiseerden collega's van de Universiteit Utrecht een workshop over de slechte waterkwaliteit in Nederland.

A workshop was organized during the Springtij festival on Terschelling on poor water quality in the Netherlands, with many Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ input.

Zelfs als de ambitieuze Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) voor afvalwaterzuivering van de Verenigde Naties (VN) wordt gehaald, zullen in sommige wereldregio's ernstige waterkwaliteitsproblemen blijven bestaan.

Study shows that, while achieving the UN ambitious SDG for wastewater treatment would cause substantial improvements in global water quality, severe water quality issues would contain to persist in some world regions.

If every country complied with all the environmental treaties that exist in the world, would we end up in a better place? Dr. Rak Kim is investigating.

We at Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ want to learn from each other by sharing stories from those actively engaging in transdisciplinary research and how they went about their journeys. In this field story, we share the experiences of the SustaIndus team.

Catherine Blanchard has published a paper in Frontiers in Political Sciences co-authored with Sabine Gollner (Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ).

UU onderzoekers Marjolijn Haasnoot en Sanne Akerboom zijn per 15 april 2023 benoemd als leden van de Wetenschappelijke Klimaatraad.

Beperken van de uitstoot van broeikasgassen is uiteindelijk goedkoper dan niets doen

Climate policy is also from a purely economic point of view a good idea

A recently published article investigated how the SDGs affect international cooperation in the field of data collection. "Top-down steering will be necessary."

On July 5, Dr. Fatima Denton will formally accept the appointment to the Prince Claus Chair in Equity and Development 2022-2024 at Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ.

A new Utrecht-led study investigates how the way in which we imagine the future impacts policy choices in the present across the Global South.