Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures

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/

“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 ⬇️

When it comes to climate people aren’t afraid to talk about change, so why are our leaders? People are happy to talk about behaviour change to help the climate. So why aren't leaders like Kier Starmer? Green Watch investigates...

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

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 ⬇

Opinion: How will we pay for Climate Damage? Takeaways from COP29 by Dr Agnes Rydberg, Deputy Director of the Sheffield Centre for International and European Law, University of Sheffield Representative at COP29.

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 .

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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Plastic: Unwrapped - Professor Joanna Gavins - Off The Shelf 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...

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/

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?” ⬇️

Is it time for everyone in Sheffield to give up flying for good? 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.

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

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

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

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 ⬇

Our broken news media makes it harder for us to take climate action – here’s how 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.