SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

icon for SDG 11 sustainable cities and communities We work towards SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities through our Grantham Scholars projects.

For example, Maria del Carmen Redondo Bermudez is creating green barriers of plants to reduce air pollution in urban settings.

And our Plastics: Redefining Single-Use research project works towards this goal through an innovative rethinking of single-use plastic.

Mapping resource effectiveness across urban systems

Congratulations to Grantham Scholar Ling Min Tan for the publication of Mapping Resource Effectiveness Across Urban Systems!

Every year the Grantham Scholars put on a series of free sustainability events with Festival of Debate (the largest annual […]

Racial justice, Covid and the SDGs at the Grantham Centre Annual Symposium.

Urban metabolism looks at cities as if it they have a metabolism, like a living biological system.

Food waste is a big problem for the environment and public places, like schools, create a significant proportion of it. […]

Grantham Scholar Maria del Carmen Redondo Bermudez researches how green barriers can reduce air pollution. Her PhD project is focused […]

Interview with our director Rachael Rothman about our special plastics project. The interview in The Star describes how our £1m […]

Grantham Scholar Ling Min Tan is first author of a new paper about urban metabolism. The paper is An ecological-thermodynamic […]

Did you know that air pollution in parts of Sheffield is the equivalent of a smoking habit? Or that domestic […]

Grantham Scholar Fiona Graham calls for sustainable sandwiches to be more nutritious in an interview with the The London Economic.