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Through the "Mobility in a Sustainable Future" program, NWO has committed funding for a four-year project exploring how challenges in mobility, energy and housing can be addressed together.

Perhaps it requires a radically different approach to education to empower students to become ‘agents of change’? Blog by Lisette van Beek

Ecological grief shows that ecocide is not just an environmental issue but also a psychological one.

On 16 February 2024, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Mr Karim Khan, launched a public consultation to advance accountability for environmental crimes.

Unless the ICC reconsidered the mental element requirements for the existing crimes, the prosecution of people ‘most responsible’ for environmental harms would be (to put it mildly) an uphill struggle.

Are leased products less well looked after than their owned counterparts? Researchers reveal this is often the case and work with designers to come up business model solutions to challenge this.

The means we use to reduce the carbon footprint result in a gold rush for minerals. A focus on a material footprint could connect the climate issue to resource extraction and justice issues, four UU scholars argue.

An Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ research team has taken the first steps in creating an evidence base about data purchasing by governments in the Netherlands.

How can we reduce local congestion in the electricity grid, while offering national energy markets more flexibility?

Young people might choose to grab a hamburger at McDonalds after attending a climate rally. While some might find this hypocritical, developmental psychologist Sander Thomaes feels such criticism is disingenuous.

Marleen van Rijswick, professor of European and national water law at Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ gave a lecture to farmers about sustainable water management.

Precious Plastic is making cooperation between Hogeschool Utrecht & Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ's bright minds possible.

It’s like using one stone to kill three birds, or actually four: the capture of CO2 from the oceans

For a truly circular economy, manufacturers should have much more incentive to use reused materials and life extension.

UU researchers have published an article in the Dutch journal Milieu en Recht (Environment and Law), titled ‘Bodemdaling in Nederlandse veengebieden: knelpunten voor solide beleid en besluitvorming’ (Soil subsidence in Dutch peat meadow areas: challenges for solid policy and decision making).

COVID-19 has shaken the world. Emergency responses across the world have led to drastic changes in local and global development trajectories within a very short period of time. Dr. Giuseppe Feola and his fellow researchers propose five priorities for political strategies to achieve meaningful, sustainable and equitable transformation.

How would you green up Utrecht Science Park? Green up the grey by designing a biodiverse USP. Participate in this competition by submitting designs and ideas that effectively green up the grey spaces and win a prize.

Biermann has shown that he plays an important role in furthering research on global environmental governance. His colleagues talk about why the win was well-deserved.

Chemistry researchers have uncovered the mechanism behind cobalt oxide as an active component for COâ‚‚ conversion.

Call to governments, the United Nations and other actors to stop development and potential use of planetary-scale solar geoengineering technologies.