It’s Circular Economy Week, from 1 to 6 February. But what is it that makes an economy circular? And just how circular is our university? René Kleijn,...
On 21 January, the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) has released two reports on circular economy and urban mining in the Netherlands. In them...
In our globalised economy, goods and services are frequently produced abroad. Is it the producer or the consumer that should be held responsible for g...
What if we start taxing carbon-intensive products such as electricity and gasoline, and at the same time compensate low-income households? Hauke Ward ...
The municipality of Leiden aims for circular construction, but how do you reconcile that with the growing demand for housing? For the Kennisatelier Du...
Fighting against cancer, antibiotic resistance and disposable plastics: Ahmed Ali, Fredj Ben Bdira, and Valerio Barbarossa receive a LUF grant for the...
Stefano Cucurachi and José Mogollón (Institute of Environmental Sciences, CML) share the most important lessons from their webinar ‘Building a sense o...
Researchers from the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) identified six top priorities where environmental interventions can make the most diffe...
CML grants three Stans Awards each year, known as the best PhD paper, best student thesis and best outreach from the past year. The CML staff nominate...
Raw materials should no longer be excavated from mines, but reused from sources that are already present, such as unused underground electricity cable...
Can students help make our cities more sustainable and resilient? The Resilient Cities Hub thinks so: during its knowledge café on 16 January, passion...
A new study on the province level material footprint of China underscores the need to improve resource efficiency in the country, which would be cruci...
Gross domestic product (GDP) is the most powerful indicator in the world. And that while a large part of the scientific community sees it as an outdat...
A recent study in Ecological Economics, led by Leiden environmental scientist Bertram de Boer, states that the European Union could lower its environm...
Earlier this year, the public voted environmental scientist Paul Behrens Discoverer of the Year 2018. Behrens is an interdisciplinary scientist who wa...
