University of Birmingham Wins Prestigious Green Gown Award for Benefitting Society
The Birmingham Plastics Network, in collaboration with Stan's Cafe, have been recognised for bringing policy action to the public and fore.
- Published: 7 November 2025
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Awareness to action: Scaling clean cold for resilient Global South communities
The global conversation around sustainable cooling has reached a pivotal moment, with the dialogue maturing — from curiosity to conviction.
- Published: 3 November 2025
"Hope, when honestly depicted, can be just as transformative as despair"
From dystopian ‘cli-fi’ movies to optimistic documentaries, Dr Richard Langley and Nina Jones examine how cinema has engaged with the climate crisis.
- Published: 30 October 2025
"We need literature to imagine the better futures that we have to bring into being"
Professor John Holmes traces the role of written storytelling in our relationship with the natural world and imagining a more sustainable future.
- Published: 30 October 2025
"Multispecies thinking could get us through climate change"
The Multispecies Collective, founded by Dr Iyan Offor, is imagining new legal frameworks that recognise the value of non-human flourishing.
- Published: 29 October 2025
"The environmental impacts of war and armed conflict raise fundamental issues of justice"
Professor Janine Natalya Clark argues that traditional approaches to transitional justice ignore the environmental impacts of war.
- Published: 29 October 2025
"With global temperatures continuing to rise, the imperative is to act in concert"
Professor Robert Lee warns of increasing unfairness and inequities among the COP30 nations in the global race for renewable energy technology.
- Published: 27 October 2025
"If science tells us what is happening to the planet, art helps us feel it"
Dr Isabel Galleymore's reflects on the burgeoning literary form of ecopoetry, and how her writing explores the tensions in our relationships with nature.
- Published: 27 October 2025
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