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Prof Paul Ekins appointed Co-Chair of UN's Global Environment Outlook report (GEO-6)
Prof Paul Ekins appointed Co-Chair of UN's Global Environment Outlook report (GEO-6). 12 October 2016. Prof Paul Ekins OBE, Director of UCL ISR, has today been appointed as Co-Chair of UNEP’s ‘Global Environment Outlook’ report (GEO-6), the…
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Call for Papers: Water SDGs and future water management
Call for Papers: Water SDGs and future water management. 16 August 2016. On 8 – 9 November 2016 the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources (UCL ISR) will be hosting a two-day conference in London. Being the 5th in a series of BHP Billiton…
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New UCL ISR paper published in The Journal of Cleaner Production
New UCL ISR paper published in The Journal of Cleaner Production. 5 July 2016. UCL ISR's Prof Raimund Bleischwitz co-authors a new paper on 'Ossified Materialism' published in The Journal of Cleaner Production as an introduction to the special…
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Tax diesel cars based on air pollution, says ISR report
Tax diesel cars based on air pollution, says ISR report. 30 June 2016. A new report by UCL’s Institute for Sustainable Resources for Green Budget Europe outlines options for fiscal reform to tackle air pollution from diesel cars. The report…
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The Energy & Resource Economic Policy Group launches as a joint UCL-Energy and ISR initiative
The Energy & Resource Economic Policy Group launches as a joint UCL-Energy and ISR initiative. 1 June 2016. The Energy & Resource Economic Policy Group was launched on 6 May 2016. The first meeting of the group focused on the group’s aims and…
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Prof Paul Ekins participates in debate on environmental implications of Brexit
UCL ISR's Professor Paul Ekins OBE joined a high level panel discussion on 9th May hosted by The Crowd to consider the environmental implications of the forthcoming EU referendum.…
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Resources:Framed Photography Competition 2016 Results
To coincide with the 2016 UN-Water theme and World Water Day on March 22, this year’s Resources:Framed photo competition was themed ‘Water for People, Water by People’.…
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Fully funded PhD Studentship on global food production available
Fully funded PhD Studentship on global food production available. 21 March 2016. PhD Studentship on the impacts of climate change and land degradation on global food production. Overview. • Title: PhD Studentship on the impacts of climate change…
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Can Our Economies Grow Forever? - Paul Ekins TedxUCL Talk
Can Our Economies Grow Forever? - Paul Ekins TedxUCL Talk. 2 February 2016. As human economies grow, they use more and more natural resources and increase their impacts of the environment. The question arises as to whether continuing economic growth…
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UCL ISR Director joins colleagues in warning over EU exit
UCL ISR Director joins colleagues in warning over EU exit. 28 January 2016. Prof Paul Ekins OBE, Professor of Resource and Environmental Economics and Director of the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources, has joined colleagues from a range of…
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