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How can you reduce your carbon footprint? Teresa Domenech discusses on The One Show
Associate Prof Teresa Domenech talks about ways in which we can all reduce our carbon footprints by thinking about our purchasing choices on BBC1: The One Show.…
UCL Inst. for Sustainable Resources
Using scenarios for future diets and food production under climate change
Using scenarios for future diets and food production under climate change. 26 October 2021. What are ‘scenarios’ scientists use when thinking about what might happen in the future with climate change? Thanks to Covid-19, we have all become used…
Faculty of the Built Environment|UCL Inst. for Sustainable Resources
Land use vs climate change
Land use vs climate change. 25 October 2021. Climate change threatens biodiversity as well as people. It is important that governments incorporate measures to halt biodiversity loss into climate change policies. YouTube Widget PlaceholderRelated…
Faculty of the Built Environment|UCL Inst. for Sustainable Resources
Vision for the future of plastics
Vision for the future of plastics. 18 October 2021. We rely on plastics for our everyday lives. Plastics perform critical functions especially in sectors like healthcare and packaging. Decarbonizing the plastic sector is possible but can only be…
Faculty of the Built Environment|UCL Inst. for Sustainable Resources
How can a green recovery from COVID-19 be achieved in Ghana?
Read the latest policy brief from the GCRF funded project Greening the Economic and Social Recovery in Ghana and Zambia discussing how Ghana can achieve a green recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.…
UCL Inst. for Sustainable Resources
Measuring the environmental sustainability of countries: the ESGAP story
Read the story of the Environmental Sustainability Gap framework told by Arkaitz Usubiaga-Liaño, Alison Fairbrass and Paul Ekins as part of our 10 years of ISR celebration…
UCL Inst. for Sustainable Resources
Tracing climate investments and shifting investment behaviour
Seeking to support system changes to the financial industry on climate change issues through data-driven analysis from Principle Research Fellow Nadia Ameli.…
UCL Inst. for Sustainable Resources
Driving the low carbon transition through “induced innovation”
Reflections on why the low carbon transition may be much cheaper than models predict, from Senior Research Associate Paul Drummond.…
UCL Inst. for Sustainable Resources
Professor Jim Watson named new Director of the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources
Professor Jim Watson has been announced as the new Director of the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources (ISR) and will take up the position on 1 November 2021.…
UCL Inst. for Sustainable Resources
Reflecting on 10 years of the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources
Reflections from UCL ISR Directors past, present and future on all that the Institute has achieved over the last 10 years.…
UCL Inst. for Sustainable Resources