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COP31: A Turning Point for the Planet?

Held this year in Anatalya, Türkiye, COP31 will again bring delegates from all over the world to review progress and negotiate actions in what now seems to many a lost cause of keeping within the 1.5C target set by the Paris agreements.
Jackdaw gas platform and drilling rig stand east of Aberdeen in the North Sea
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Pragmatic or Problematic

Why approve the Jackdaw gas field? It makes no sense economically or environmentally, and it will do nothing for the cost of living crisis or energy security.
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New network to drive harmonisation in product environmental sustainability assessment

Academics from the Universities of Sheffield and Manchester together with Unilever launched a new network to help the foundation industries use life cycle assessment tools to reduce their environmental impact.
An audience listening to a panel of four speakers at the Reflections on COP event

Reflections on COP28: Talking the talk or walking the walk?
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Trams and electric vehicles can team up to save energy

Grantham Scholar Fiona McBride explains how exactly electricity gets wasted by trams and metro trains and how we can save the energy by using it to charge a fleet electric vehicles.
Grantham Scholar Su Natasha Mohamad standing in the aisle of an airplane

Planes, Plastic and Life Cycle Assessment

Grantham Scholar Su Natasha Mohamad works on planes, plastic and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) which is one the best ways to produce evidence about sustainability claims.

Manasi Mulay standing in front of her research poster

Using chemistry to treat water micropollutants

Latest research reveals how to better use chemistry to treat water micropollutants.