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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.

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.

New Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� research reveals struggles to move beyond the popular misconception that recycling is always circular and sustainable.

Dr. Rakhyun E. Kim, dr. James Patterson en dr. Yanliu Lin will each receive 1.5 million euros to carry out their research over the next five years.

The average body size of grazing animals in a landscape affects the balance of nutrients that are available to plants, researchers from Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� find.

Interview with postdoc Shaun Smith who investigates the governance of infrastructure across traditionally conceived 'domains', such as electricity in water.

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.