Director of the Grantham Centre Professor Tony Ryan has spent his life working with plastic, and believes we need to be more nuanced in our understanding of this remarkable but – recently – much reviled material. As Professor Ryan recently […]

Have you ever considered the politics of water? Grantham Scholar Naomi Oates studies the values and everyday practices of different actors involved in water supply. As part of this research project, Naomi has undertaken fieldwork in Balaka, Malawi, and here […]

Grantham Scholar Gloria Mensah is researching how Carbon Capture & Storage technology interacts with politics. Here she reports back on an important conference that gathered international experts from varied fields to work out how to deliver a new agenda for […]

Despite being told there was no point in ‘talking to the enemy’, Grantham Scholar Theresa Nelson got time with a Republican Congressman from the other side of the political spectrum to discuss renewable energy – and left with renewed faith […]

Eco’ri features a piece about Jeremy Grantham this week, including his controversial opinions about climate change scientists and population control. Billionaire Capitalist Speaks the Truth About Climate Change WESTPORT, Mass. — The talk was titled “Race of Our Lives: Trying […]

Chief Research Advisor for the GCSF, Peter Horton, writes that only a radical change in the way we produce and consume food will deliver a sustainable and just global agri-food system. Read the full article here  

Samuel Leigh, the POST Fellow for Energy and Environment in Houses of Parliament, visited The University of Sheffield earlier this year to discuss contributions for the note on Environmentally Sustainable Agriculture. After meeting our scholars, he interviewed our supervisors and […]

Scientists and engineers from the University of Sheffield have helped world leaders shape a more sustainable future at the successful United Nations conference on Climate Change in Marrakech. Researchers from the University’s Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures and Energy 2050 […]

Yesterday (2 December), the Grantham Centre and the Worldwide Universities Network hosted a busy panel discussion at the UN Conference on Climate Change (COP21) in Paris. The event, ‘What are the research challenges associated with developing a climate-smart agri-food system?’ brought […]

Soil loss is an unfolding global disaster that will have catastrophic effects on world food production, scientists at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change have warned. Speaking today (Wednesday 2 December 2015) at the 21st Conference of the Parties […]