University of Sydney Sustainability Program

🍃 Current University of Sydney students: Register now for free access to the 2025 Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability (ACTS) Conference, The Future of Sustainability! ⚡

🤝 Join other students and changemakers from across Australasia online from 5–7 November to explore bold ideas, hear from sustainability experts and discover how you can help shape a just and thriving future.

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A single NSW postcode is demonstrating to the rest of the state the benefits of electrifying their homes and effectively decarbonising.

Greener, healthier and more heat tolerant cities require more tree canopy and nearby green space - which Sydney and Melbourne are lacking.

What does Australia have to do to make it easier for apartment-dwellers to access more sustainable electric vehicles?

Live in an apartment and want to charge an electric car at home? Here are 4 ways to help that happen Installing chargers in existing apartment blocks can be complicated. So how can these challenges be overcome?

The Australian Government has a decades-long history of recognising but not delivering on the need for sustainable and climate-responsive homes.

Nothing new under the sun: Australia’s long history of missed chances to build sustainable homes When Australia faced a housing crisis 80 years ago, the government was urged to promote the building of more climate-responsive homes. So why are so many homes today still not made for our climate?

A new round of UN talks on a global treaty ending plastic pollution is due later this year.

A new online tool will help conservationists share novel solutions to climate threats from projects overseas and across Australia.

New tool has given conservationists hope amid warming climate A new online tool will help conservationist share and compare novel solutions to climate threats. Its founders hope it will inspire innovation and optimism amid grim global warming metrics.

The ability to call a place "home" is becoming increasingly priviliged, with people displaced by climate change and housing crises.

Climate change is forcing us to rethink our sense of ‘home’ – and what it means to lose it Philosophers explain how our mainstream understanding of ‘home’ is a culturally specific one, and how it could be broadened.

Powering flights with hydrogen is hoped to lower both costs and greenhouse gas emissions.

Green hydrogen-powered aircraft could be cleaner, quieter and cheaper A Brisbane-based aviation company is working with CQ University researchers to get Australia's first green hydrogen-powered commercial flight in the sky by 2027.

Drones fighting bushfires are no longer science fiction - they'll soon be reality.

It’s science, not fiction: high-tech drones may soon be fighting bushfires in Australia As bushfire seasons grow longer and more intense, Australia needs new weapons in its firefighting arsenal.

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) is naturally removed from the air when it reacts with certain types of rock and can be accelerated by crushing suitable rocks and spreading them over agricultural fields. This simple method could vastly increase the rate of CO₂ removal from the atmosphere.

Spreading crushed rock over farmland can remove CO₂ from the atmosphere if we do it right A technique known as “enhanced rock weathering” promises to remove billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the atmosphere. But it’s crucial to be able to measure how much CO₂ is captured.

Australia is on the cusp of a once-in-a-generation transformation, as our energy systems shift to clean, renewable forms of power. First Nations peoples, the original custodians of this land, must be central to – and benefit from – this transition.

After 65,000 years caring for this land, First Nations peoples are now key to Australia’s clean energy revolution A new federal government strategy outlines how to elevate the rights of Indigenous Australians