Nottingham investments to further the university’s commitment to sustainability

The university is taking a further step in its commitment to sustainability after appointing investment manager […]

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Tags: Cazenove, climate change, Environmental Sustainability Committee, Professor John Atherton, sustainability

Get rewarded for your sustainable actions with Green Rewards: launches today

This week is Sustainability Action Week and today (2 March 2021) the university is officially launching […]

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Tags: climate change, environmental sustainability, Green Rewards, Sustainability action week 2021

Climate change: how can mathematics help us to respond? [ONLINE]

To help us celebrate Earth Day.  Professor Pope’s evening public lecture will focus on climate change and how mathematics could possibly help us to respond.

Tags: climate change, Earth Day, mathematics, Professor Vicky Pope

Lianas, tropical forests and the global carbon cycle

In this lecture, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences, Geertje van der Heijden will explore the functioning of the carbon cycle and indicate its importance in mitigating some of the effects of human-induced increases in atmospheric CO2 concentrations.

Tags: carbon cycle, climate change, Co2, social sciences

BBC Panorama seeks Nottingham household for climate change experiment

Worried about climate change? Wish you could do more to help the environment? Want to take […]

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Tags: BBC, climate change, filming, Panorama, sustainability

How do we survive tomorrow?

A conversation about Energy Transformation and the future of local and national economies.

Tags: climate change, economy, energy, energy technologies, environment, sustainable economic

Nottingham leads on new technologies in government’s plan to upgrade the energy system

A plan to give homes and businesses more control over their energy use and support innovative […]

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Tags: claire perry, climate change, Creative Energy Homes, professor dame jessica corner, research, sustainability

Fate, luck and fortune: popular narratives of environmental risk

The Department of Classics (University of Nottingham) and the Department of History (University of Liverpool) present ‘Fate, luck and fortune: narratives of environmental risk’. How do we talk about the risks of our environment? Who do we blame when things go wrong? Last in a series of three workshops.

Tags: classics, climate change, Department of classics, environment, Georgina Endfield, history, research, sustainability, University of Liverpool

Fate, luck and fortune: political narratives of environmental risk

The Department of Classics (University of Nottingham) and the Department of History (University of Liverpool) present ‘Fate, luck and fortune: narratives of environmental risk’. How do we talk about the risks of our environment? Who do we blame when things go wrong?

Tags: classics, climate change, Department of classics, environment, Georgina Endfield, history, research, sustainability, University of Liverpool

Fate, luck and fortune: historical narratives of environmental risk

The Department of Classics (University of Nottingham) and the Department of History (University of Liverpool) present ‘Fate, luck and fortune: narratives of environmental risk’. How do we talk about the risks of our environment? Who do we blame when things go wrong?

Tags: classics, climate change, Department of classics, environment, Georgina Endfield, history, research, sustainability, University of Liverpool