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- Stakeholder Event: Deep Seabed Mining and protecting Hydrothermal VentsUtrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ hosted a stakeholder event on protecting Hydrothermal Vents on on the deep seabed. The presentations and report are available here./en/news/stakeholder-event-deep-seabed-mining-and-protecting-hydrothermal-vents
- Accelerating Net Zero: A call for a global monitoring system for solar energyProf. Wilfried van Sark proposes the establishment of a comprehensive monitoring system that would ensure a reliable and sustainable electricity supply./en/news/accelerating-net-zero-a-call-for-a-global-monitoring-system-for-solar-energy
- NWO funds research on collaboration within circular agriculture missionsNWO has committed funding for a four-year research project on one of the most complex challenges of our time: the transition to circular agriculture./en/news/nwo-funds-research-on-collaboration-within-circular-agriculture-missions
- Research into the CO2 Performance Ladder as a tool for sustainable procurementThe Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ Centre for Public Procurement (UUCePP) will investigate the role carbon certificates play in making procurement practice more sustainable/en/news/research-into-the-co2-performance-ladder-as-a-tool-for-sustainable-procurement
- Researchers call for major reforms of the UN Sustainable Development Goals: SDG Summit a decisive momentWith research showing that the SDGs have had little political impact, the UN SDG Summit, researchers call for four major changes to how the SDGs are implemented and governed globally./en/news/researchers-call-for-major-reforms-of-the-un-sustainable-development-goals-sdg-summit-a-decisive
- Vegetation patterns - the missing link in our understanding of ecosystem resilience and tipping pointsSwarnendu Banerjee explains the undervalued role of vegetation patterns in ecosystem tipping points and how this can help us fine-tune conservation interventions./en/news/vegetation-patterns-the-missing-link-in-our-understanding-of-ecosystem-resilience-and-tipping-points
- Climate experts in collaboration with artistsAt Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ, climate modellers from the IPCC are collaborating with two artists.. Article on the Pathways to Sustainability Conference and the cooperation with artists, originally written for NRC./en/opinie/climate-experts-in-collaboration-with-artists
- Collaboration Critical Pathways & Sustainable Ocean - recap Break out sessionAt the Pathways Conference on 4 April, the Critical Pathways and Sustainable Ocean communities jointly organized a session on the topic of ‘Whose Ocean’/en/news/collaboration-critical-pathways-sustainable-ocean-recap-break-out-session
- Will the Netherlands be put 'on hold' again, because of the WFD?Prof. Marleen van Rijswick (Utrecht Centre for Water, Oceans and Sustainability Law at Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ) spoke before the Lower House Committee for I&W on 1 June/en/news/will-the-netherlands-be-put-on-hold-again-because-of-the-wfd
- A second life for solar panels with glass defectsGlass defects in solar panels can be repaired while maintaining the panel's energy performance. The inspiration for this solution came from the automotive industry./en/news/a-second-life-for-solar-panels-with-glass-defects
- Safeguarding public access to drinking water – also in times of scarcityResearchers from the Utrecht Centre for Water, Oceans and Sustainability Law (Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ) wrote an article in NJB on public duty of care for our drinking water/en/news/safeguarding-public-access-to-drinking-water-also-in-times-of-scarcity
- Conversion of Earth Simulation Lab into a sustainable research laboratory startedOn Sustainable UU Day 2016, Tuesday 11 October, the conversion of the former Van de Graaff laboratory into Earth Simulation Lab (ESL) officially started./en/news/conversion-of-earth-simulation-lab-into-a-sustainable-research-laboratory-started
- New book on decarbonising economiesDecarbonising Economies explores how agency, power and geography shape our possibilities for a low carbon future./en/news/new-book-on-decarbonising-economies
- Building for eternity can't be done in vulnerable placesSpatial planning is increasingly determined by climate change. If it were up to Peter Pelzer, the same should apply to temporary planning./en/opinie/building-for-eternity-cant-be-done-in-vulnerable-places
- Immediate acceleration of global climate action needed to realise 1.5 degrees goalThe goal of the Paris climate agreement will become out of sight unless countries collectively show more ambition and take immediate action. That is the opinion of the five Dutch climate experts who contributed to the IPCC report./en/news/immediate-acceleration-of-global-climate-action-needed-to-realise-15-degrees-goal
- The new normal is localFuture Food Utrecht and AMPED/Local2Local will work together on the transition to local food and a regional food system, heritage and landscape, biodiversity and climate adaptation./en/news/the-new-normal-is-local
- Manipulation of the climate – start getting used to itIn the fight against climate change, people look hopefully at technological solutions more and more often. But the debate about it is dangerously superficial, researcher Jeroen Oomen believes./en/opinie/manipulation-of-the-climate-start-getting-used-to-it
- Climate change risks runaway algal bloomsNew research shows how algae blooms in the oceans can run wild, leaving large areas of the ocean deoxygenated and unlivable/en/news/climate-change-risks-runaway-algal-blooms
- Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ receives funding for research on Antarctic tourismA research consortium of Utrecht and Wageningen ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ and universities from New Zealand receives 1 million euros in NWO funding for research on Antarctic tourism/en/news/utrecht-university-receives-funding-for-research-on-antarctic-tourism
- New catalysts make use of precious metals highly efficientlyWith a new and promising way to make catalysts, the amount of precious metals needed is reduced by a factor of 10/en/news/new-catalysts-make-use-of-precious-metals-highly-efficiently