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From buses in Bogotá to cycling through Cambridge, we can learn valuable lessons from how countries across the world deliver sustainable transport.
After Fidel Castro took power, government plans to build new housing, schools and factories were hindered by sanctions and supply chain issues, forcing architects to come up with creative solutions.
Embodied carbon - carbon produced during a building’s construction - urgently needs reducing, and reusing buildings could help.
Big corporations are under pressure to take real action on emissions or risk the wrath of protesters, investors and even shareholders.
Continuous growth of energy production and consumption, even from low carbon energy sources, could create more problems than solutions.
Women and girls in low-income countries are disproportionately likely to be affected by the plastic waste that’s flooding our planet.
‘Hyperscale’ warehouses filled with computer servers use water for electricity and cooling.
The environmental benefits of less commuting and fewer in-person events could be lost.
Ecolabelled seafood fetches higher prices in supermarkets, giving retailers and producers the incentive to up their sustainability game.
Good governance should be seen as the first and main tool for achieving climate change mitigation as policymakers pursue sustainable solutions for the environmental crisis.
More and more students want their universities to lead the way on sustainability issues. But are institutions doing enough to produce industry leaders who can meet that challenge?
A collaborative approach with Scottish fishers has led to an app that shares data about the location of endangered species so that other fishing vessels can avoid them.
A new study provides a detailed way to calculate the climate impact of food production, which could lead to more sustainable farming policies and methods.
The type of deep-tech ventures behind mRNA vaccines are key to economic prosperity and sustainable development.
Maine and Oregon have enacted laws that require makers of consumer product packaging to pay for recycling or disposing of it. Will other states follow?
In the absence of national leadership, local communities are forging new responses to the climate crisis in places where they live, work and play. These three examples show how.
Biogas is often overlooked as a source of renewable energy, but it could be a solution to dealing with the 9.5 million tonnes of food waste created by the UK every year.
A study has looked at which mega events took the largest toll on the environment and local people.
The Caribbean has long been the gold standard for western tourism: but our image of the islands as paradises ripe for our enjoyment is harming their environment and people.
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Research fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University
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Assistant Professor in Architectural Engineering, Université catholique de Louvain
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Chair, Monash Sustainable Development Institute & ClimateWorks Australia, Monash University
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Professor of Tourism, University of Otago
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Professor of Accounting, Durham University
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Chair and Professor of Urban & Regional Planning; Director of Canberra Urban & Regional Futures, University of Canberra
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Research Fellow, BehaviourWorks Australia (Monash Sustainable Development Institute), Monash University
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Honorary Fellow in the School of Biosciences, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Construction and Environmental Assessment, The University of Melbourne
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Sustainable Development Solutions Network Manager, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
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Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor, Research & Innovation, College of Design & Social Context, RMIT University, RMIT University
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Research Associate in Social Movements, Keele University
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Lecturer, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Postdoctoral researcher, Vienna University of Technology
