Three decades of conferences have not halted the rise of global emissions. So is COP a failure and should we stop sending delegates? 🌎 Not according to Michael Jacobs who believes its achievements so far are evidence that the world really is acting on #ClimateChange. Read the full article ⬇️ #COP30

All eyes on #Belém 👀 #COP30Brazil starts today! World leaders, scientists, activists, & policymakers are in Brazil to try and negotiate further efforts to tackle the #ClimateCrisis and we are sending 3 delegates from @sheffielduni.bsky.social to join them! Find out more ⬇️ tinyurl.com/yna4pxc8

Street food vendors in #Indonesia risk being left behind as the country moves toward a #GreenTransition. Grantham Scholar, Eva Andriani, travelled to Indonesia to conduct participatory research with vendors to develop a financial literacy training programme. Read her story ⬇️ tinyurl.com/2fv89v25

Did you know, standing near 67 bananas could give you a very low level waste (VLLW) dose of radiation! ☢️ That was just one of the facts shared at today's ISAC event. Five Grantham Scholars gave insightful presentations on their research covering everything from radioactive waste to carbon capture.

🥼📣 If you are a #scientist and want MPs to attend this vital Emergency briefing, please sign our open letter. Not received this via academic channels? Email [email protected] with subject line "Send letter" for details.

“I took a long hard look at my values and realised I had no good reason to fly”✈️ Our Grantham Scholar, Anne Thompson, chose only to use trains & ferries on her recent conference trip to Finland. Read her tips on how academics can travel more sustainably ➡️ tinyurl.com/5fhkpaa3 #SustainableTravel

📢 Scientists are warning that the climate and nature crisis is proving more severe than first thought - but will your MP listen? We're supporting the landmark National Emergency Briefing on the climate and nature crisis. Please urge your MP to signed up. Find out more ➡️ www.nebriefing.org

"I've increasingly embraced an identity as both a scientist and an activist" At the @granthamcsf.bsky.social's Sustainability Summit, scholars and scientists explored what roles art and activism have to play in furthering serious action on climate breakdown 🪧 @sheffielduni.bsky.social

Democratising data, renegade economists and visual activism: @nowthenmag.bsky.social on an afternoon at the @granthamcsf.bsky.social Sustainability Symposium 👇 nowthenmagazine.com/articles/the...

Last week we brought together academics, artists and activists for the @sheffielduni.bsky.social Sustainability Symposium 2025 🌎 The day was full of fascinating discussions about interdisciplinarity, communities of practice, and the role of art and storytelling in activism. #SheffSustSymp 1/4

At Muses Mind Machine we're investigating how ecomusicking helps shape our environmental values, beliefs and behaviours Yesterday's www.bbc.co.uk/academy/live... and today's @granthamcsf.bsky.social symposium asks how individual and systemic change can shape the environmental choices we make.

Can data alone change human behaviour and what role does art play in combating climate change? These are just some of the questions discussed at yesterday's @sheffielduni.bsky.social Sustainability Symposium. Read this insightful review of the event from @nowthenmag.bsky.social ⬇️ #SheffSustSymp

We're excited to be hosting the @sheffielduni.bsky.social Sustainability Symposium 2025 today! Through panel discussions featuring academics, practitioners & activists, we will be exploring how systemic change comes through true interdisciplinarity and the creation of community. #SheffSustSymp

Hot off the press - our new Grantham Centre t-shirts are here! 👕 A huge thank you to the award-winning social enterprise @printedbyus.bsky.social for producing them 🙏 This amazing local organisation teaches homeless and vulnerable people new skills to help them move towards more fulfilling lives

Eco-Friendly or Eco-Fraud - Just how damaging is #Greenwash? There is another chance to watch our event from this year's @festofdebate.bsky.social where our panel of experts separate fact from fiction and deliberate the issues around #sustainability rhetoric. Watch here ⬇️ tinyurl.com/bddzzpy5

The Reform UK led #Kent County Council is on the verge of ditching its #climate emergency declaration, despite the motion being at odds with the latest research. @richsulley.bsky.social from our #GreenWatch team shares his expert views. Read the full story here ⬇️ tinyurl.com/bdyz5zfs

Council leaders are expected to vote in favour of investing public money to reopen Doncaster Sheffield Airport, despite warnings about the financial risk and impact on the environment. Senior Research Fellow @richsulley.bsky.social spoke to @theipaper.com about the decision ⬇️ tinyurl.com/2s3p8kxy

Last month our Grantham Scholar Meg Meredith co-hosted a PGR Interdisciplinary Soil Research Workshop. The engaging session explored interdisciplinary working and provided an opportunity for PGRs to start conversations with researchers from other disciplines working on the broad topic of soil. 🌱

We welcome the new evidence provided by @granthamicl.bsky.social on the climate & health risks associated with #AirportExpansion. This year @richsulley.bsky.social wrote an @uk.theconversation.com article on why Heathrow expansion is incompatible with #NetZero. Read here ⬇️ tinyurl.com/4kerye8w

As part of @granthamcsf.bsky.social's #Greenwatch project we cast our eye on headlines and claims and see if they stack up. In this article we investigated an idea for decarbonising shipping and using lifecycle analysis and some simple chemistry looked at the numbers.

A new #CarbonCapture technology made headlines recently with the claim it can clean up cargo shipping. The key ingredient: quicklime It works by reacting it directly with CO2 from the ship's exhaust to make limestone Can it be that simple? Our #GreenWatch team investigated ➡️ tinyurl.com/3pzrzj3w

Exciting Times at the Grantham Centre. We've got money available to UoS researchers with ideas that can multiply the effect of existing sustainability research, or kick start something new.

📢 We're very excited to launch the Grantham Amplification Fund! We're pledging £500,000 to kickstart impactful #sustainability research projects! It's open to all @sheffielduni.bsky.social academics, researchers & professional service staff. Read more ⬇️ tinyurl.com/26ut4mpf #ResearchFunding

⚠️ A new comprehensive list of chemicals used in plastics shows that over a quarter of those used are classified ‘chemicals of concern’! Should we be worried? 😟 Our Co-Director, Rachael Rothman, went on BBC Inside Science to discuss the new findings ⬇️ (starts: 2:02) 🔊 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

What impact would #Degrowth or #GreenGrowth in the Global North have on economies in the Global South? 🌍 Congratulations to our Research Associate, Dr Ben Lowe, on the publication of his fascinating new research paper. 🙌 Read in full here ⬇️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This is the world’s most #sustainable solar-powered cold room 🧊 It is improving food security, supporting the local economy and cutting greenhouse gas emissions in Sub-Saharan Africa 🌍 Our Research Fellow, Stuart Walker, was part of the team behind the project. Read more ⬇️ tinyurl.com/mr66x5zb

Vegan cake, bicycles & a Repair Tree - it must be the Grantham Centre Summer Social 😎 Thanks to all those who came to our summer social this week to celebrate the amazing work done by our Scholars & Supervisors! A big thanks also to Reyt.Repair & A Different Gear for leading the repair workshops 🙏

Sheffield’s stripes on #ShowYourStripes Day - a striking visual of our rapidly warming climate 📈 Wherever you are in the world, your stripes will tell the same story. Read more about how graphs are shaping our understanding of the #ClimateCrisis ⬇️ grantham.sheffield.ac.uk/the-graphs-s...

Climate change is here. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions alone won’t save us — we must adapt and act now! ⚠️ You can now watch the full recording of this fascinating @festofdebate.bsky.social event hosted by our Grantham Scholars. ⬇️ 📽️ youtu.be/IxV3D7t3Oxg?... #FoD2025 #ClimateCrisis

For World Refill Day, our Senior Researcher @sarahcgreenwood.bsky.social explains how our research is perfecting reusable packaging systems to reduce plastic pollution. 🥤 📽️ youtube.com/shorts/gdilz... Read the research paper ⬇️ tinyurl.com/2bnbmwbw #WorldRefillDay #MoreThanYouThink

Water is a basic human need, yet water scarcity is causing suffering for millions of households across Kenya. 💧 A video project, funded by our GO Fund initiative, aims to empower local voices and highlight their innovative water practices. 🎥 Read more ⬇️ tinyurl.com/59fc73wy

30% of England’s household waste went to landfill in 2023. Could a giant greenhouse powered by burning waste be a greener way to grow food? @granthamcsf.bsky.social's Alex Newman explains the project - and the challenges it faces - for @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/why-burning-...

Is burning waste to power and heat a massive greenhouse really a greener way to grow food, or just more hot air? 🔥 Our Research Associate in our Sustainability Assessment team, Alex Newman, shared his thoughts on the project with @uk.theconversation.com 🍅 Read more ⬇️ tinyurl.com/yubd5sy3

On 9 Oct 2023, prescribed burns in the Peak District caused smoke to cover #Sheffield and #AirPollution to spike 🔥 This inspired our Grantham Associate, Maria Val Martin, & other researchers to create a system to detect and measure the impacts of moorland fires. Read more ⬇️ tinyurl.com/szkzedxw

COP29 was a landmark moment in the development of a global carbon market. But what happened next? Our COP29 delegate, Issi Steeley, has followed the progress closely. Read her article to learn more about the history and challenges of the #CarbonMarket. ➡️ tinyurl.com/3k2fmhjk

At @granthamcsf.bsky.social @festofdebate.bsky.social event on the future for plastics these questions were raised again, “𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘥𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘥𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵?”, “𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘱 𝘢 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮?”, “𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘪𝘦?”

Don't miss our final @festofdebate.bsky.social event tonight! Co-Director, Tony Ryan, will be exploring how bio-based plastics can suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere to help combat climate change. 🕖 7:00-8:30pm The Diamond, Lecture Theatre 2 Book here ⬇️ 🎟️ tinyurl.com/2s4arvf4 #Sheffield

Could bio-based #plastic be the unlikely hero in our fight against #ClimateChange? At our last #FoD event Co-Director, Professor Tony Ryan, will challenge common perceptions of plastic & outlines how it can be part of a sustainable future 📅 28 May 🕖 7pm - 8:30pm 🎟️ tinyurl.com/3hyh6rec #Sheffield

The planet actually needs you to use more plastic! 🌎 Join us for our @festofdebate.bsky.social event where our Co-Director, Tony Ryan, will challenge common perceptions and outline an alternative, sustainable future for plastic. 📅 Wed 28 May, 7pm Book here ⬇️ lnkd.in/eiP6kFm4 #FofD #Sheffield

Our Senior Research Fellow @richsulley.bsky.social appeared on BBC Look North yesterday to discuss our report raising concerns around the proposed reopening the Doncaster Sheffield Airport. 👀 Watch here (segment starts at 13:30) tinyurl.com/5abej2t6 Read our report here ⬇️ tinyurl.com/smn33xw8

🚨 We are thrilled to be partnering with Festival of Debate this year 🙌 We are hosting a variety of fascinating events throughout the festival on subjects covering everything from rethinking plastic to eating bugs. View our full programme here ⬇️ grantham.sheffield.ac.uk/grantham-cen... #Sheffield

Was great to present at the @britsoci.bsky.social Conference last week. Lots of interesting discussion and connections! Repping our sustainability assessment work at @granthamcsf.bsky.social

This new technology is helping Peru fight against the illegal logging of its tropical rainforest 🌳 The new technology, which a former Grantham Scholar helped develop, uses satellite data to detect evidence for the removal of the rainforests most valuable trees. Read more ⬇️ tinyurl.com/2usr8x6y

We were delighted to host the Buddie-Pack Consortium meeting this week - welcoming project partners from industry and academia from across Europe. The project aims to develop #Sustainable strategies for reusable plastic packaging in the food & personal care sectors. Read more ⬇️ www.buddie-pack.com

We're very excited to have three of our Grantham Scholars presenting at this year's @pintofscience.uk 🍺 Make sure you catch Christopher Noroozi, Will McMahon and Jake Allcock as they discuss their incredible research in pubs across #Sheffield. Find out more ⬇️ pintofscience.co.uk/events/sheff...

Congratulations to our Grantham Associate @mvalmartin.bsky.social for her contribution to the latest DEFRA #AirQuality Expert Group report on the differentials in air pollutant exposure across communities and regions in the UK 🏭 Read the full report here ⬇️ tinyurl.com/y4yffahp #AirPollution

Our Senior Research Fellow @richsulley.bsky.social is presenting at Culture & Climate: Sheffield's Response at @sitegallery.bsky.social this Thursday. The event will bring together diverse voices to showcase creative responses to the #ClimateCrisis. Book here ⬇️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/she...

We were honoured to host Baroness Natalie Bennett and the @ukparliament.parliament.uk Knowledge Exchange Unit at our Engaging with Parliament event on Friday. Baroness Bennett shared her valuable insights as a Member of the @houseoflords.parliament.uk on how she engages with the research community

Following bees on foot isn’t very practical, so how can we use Bluetooth to track their foraging journey? 🐝 Watch to learn more: youtu.be/Hcv5N_M4i2Q