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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.

Misschien is er een radicaal andere benadering van onderwijs nodig om studenten op te leiden tot 'agents of change'? Blog door Lisette van Beek

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.

In fosfaatarme gebieden kiezen planten minder vaak voor hun gangbare samenwerking met schimmels in de bodem. Dat blijkt uit een recent onderzoek van Daniil Scheifes en collega's.

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?

Marleen van Rijswick, hoogleraar Europees en nationaal waterrecht aan de Universiteit Utrecht gaf een lezing aan agrariërs over duurzaam waterbeheer.

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.

Tegengaan van klimaatverandering - met koolzuurgaswinning uit zeewater snijdt het mes aan vier kanten

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

Precious Plastic maakt samenwerking tussen de knappe koppen van Hogeschool Utrecht en Universiteit Utrecht mogelijk.

Voor een werkelijk circulaire economie zouden producenten veel meer geprikkeld moeten worden om hergebruikte materialen en levensduurverlenging toe te passen.

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.