UK Prime Minister, Theresa May, announced the Government’s commitment to halve the energy use of all new buildings by 2030. This comes as part of a series of initiatives introduced to deliver the UK’s Industrial Strategy.
Professor David Ockwell, Reader at The Sussex Energy Group, has contributed to an article in the New Statesman, regarding the UK’s summer heat wave and its perceived link to climate change.
A recent study by Professor Richard Tol, Professor of Economics at the University of Sussex and Dr Marco Letta uncovers the impact climate change has on the productivity of developing countries, which will slow their economic growth.
At the University of Sussex, the School of Business, Management and Economics (BMEc) as it was formerly known, is now called University of S…
Leading global sustainability experts and stakeholders, including the University of Sussex Professor Joseph Alcamo, Director of the Sussex Sustainability Research Programme (SSRP) and former Chief Scientist of UN Environment, have asked governments to develop a more strategic and efficient approach as they begin adapting plans to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
According to findings of a study at The University of Sussex and Aarhus University in Denmark, it could be more effective to produce focused marketing of electric cars to women, in order to steer consumers away from non electric vehicles.
This year, the University of Sussex hosted a new competition open to all Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) MSc and PhD students. The Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Policy Challenge challenged the participants to develop creative science, technology and innovation policy ideas, which were presented to a panel of judges and live audience, who also had the chance to vote for their favourite idea.
The Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex has coordinated and launched a ground-breaking five-year programme of transformative work, with the hope to build an international network dedicated to transformative change, as embodied in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The University of Sussex has been involved in a new study with Aarhus University, Denmark, which has found that car dealerships are preventing people from switching to electric vehicles (EVs) in the Nordic region and possibly beyond.
