Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures

07/01/2025

A new year and a new team member! Would you please help us give Ben Purvis a warm welcome to the Grantham Centre 🙌

Ben will be joining our Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) team as a Research Associate. They are an interdisciplinary critical social scientist, with expertise relating to discourses of sustainability, particularly in relation to social, economic, and political aspects.

They will be working on a range of projects, including environmental and social LCA, and we are very excited to have their socioeconomic expertise on our team. Welcome, Ben! 🥳

Full bio here ⬇️
https://grantham.sheffield.ac.uk/team/ben-purvis/

22/11/2024

“I’m not going to now go around telling people how to live their lives" - Kier Starmer at COP29 Azerbaijan on announcing the UK's new carbon targets.

But can we reach these targets without expecting people to change their behaviour? Read our latest report ⬇️

People are happy to talk about behaviour change to help the climate. So why aren't leaders like Kier Starmer? Green Watch investigates...

21/11/2024

We're in the final days of and negotiations have been slow. Will it have a positive impact on South Yorkshire, let alone the world?

This is a fantastic Now Then article all about COP, featuring experiences from our The University of Sheffield delegates.

Read here 👇
https://nowthenmagazine.com/articles/cop29-rethinking-south-yorkshires-place-in-the-most-important-climate-negotiations-on-earth-baku-azerbaijan

15/11/2024

How will we pay for climate damage? 💰 That's one of the major concerns being addressed at COP29 Azerbaijan. Our delegate Agnes Rydberg shares her key takeaways from the first week at COP29.
Read here ⬇

Takeaways from COP29 by Dr Agnes Rydberg, Deputy Director of the Sheffield Centre for International and European Law, University of Sheffield Representative at COP29.

11/11/2024

The world's most important meeting on climate starts today. 🌍

We hope all our delegates attending COP29 Azerbaijan have an insightful and inspiring experience. We will be sharing their updates on X and LinkedIn, so follow us to keep up to date with everything going on at .

08/11/2024

This thought-provoking Off the Shelf Festival Of Words podcast explores how we became a plastic planet 🌍

It is hosted by our Grantham Centre associate Joanne Gavins and features our supervisor Harriet Baird and co-directors Tony Ryan and Rachael Rothman.

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This podcast explores our relationship with one of the most ubiquitous and controversial materials on the planet: plastic. Over three episodes, Professor Joanna Gavins talks to experts from a range of different academic disciplines to try to understand how plastic became such an integral part of mod...

08/11/2024

Last year the delegates we sent to came back disheartened and frustrated 💔

That's why this year we have funded a training series to support all our delegates attending COP29 Azerbaijan.

Read more about our training sessions ⬇️
https://grantham.sheffield.ac.uk/how-we-are-preparing-our-delegates-for-cop29/

07/11/2024

Are we addicted to flying? And isn’t it time we gave it up for good? ✈️

Read this fascinating Now Then article about the session at our Sustainability Symposium which posed the question: “Can flying be part of a sustainable future?” ⬇️

Our jet-setting lifestyles in the global north come at enormous cost to people and planet – and the aviation industry’s proposed solutions simply don’t add up.

01/11/2024

We've an exciting opportunity for a Research Associate to join our Sustainability Assessment team and take a lead researcher role in the UK National Clean Maritime Research Hub (UK-MaRES) 🚢

Find out more and apply online.
🔗 https://bit.ly/3YLxo20

30/10/2024

With the red briefcase barely closed, what are the initial reactions to ? 💼

When it comes to sustainability, here are some of the headlines that struck our team 🌍

Read here ⬇️

What does the 2024 Budget mean for sustainability and the environment? Our Green Watch team share their reaction.

29/10/2024

You can now watch a full recording of the The University of Sheffield Sustainability Symposium 2024 online! 👀

This year we brought together a range of researchers, leaders and activists to discuss the key multidisciplinary sustainability issues of our time.

Watch here ⬇️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_D9S9ZxNWo&t=1396s

23/10/2024

Should we be worried that scientists have found microplastics in men’s testicles? 😲

This insightful Now Then article based on our panel discussion at this year's Sustainability Symposium shows how the media's over-emphasis on eye-catching headlines is making it harder for us to take real climate action.

Read the full article here ⬇

The press routinely over-emphasise the trivial and the eye-catching, at the same time as ignoring anything that is too complex to fit neatly in a news story.