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How EU farm subsidies favour high-emission animal products04 April 2024More than 80 percent of the EU’s agricultural subsidies go to the production of animals or animal feed. These products are responsible for 84 percent ...
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‘The battle for sustainability won’t be won in the civil courts’18 March 2024Fossil Free against KLM on greenwashing, municipalities against Chemours on PFAS discharge, climate cases against Shell and ING Bank… There are many e...
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Students help make Maldives more fertile04 March 2024Its idyllic setting and white sandy beaches have made the Maldives a hotspot for tourists. This provides an income but is a problem for the fragile na...
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Climate and elections: these were your top stories from 202318 December 2023The year 2023 saw the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, the Wagner Group rebellion and wildfires and floods as all the weather records were smashed. Our...
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Who will pay for our energy transition?01 December 2023The Dutch Development Bank's new SDG loan fund for green energy in the global south may not be as positive as it seems. Anthropology professor Marja S...
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‘We are drowning in dossiers of which we have long known they will play a role’13 November 2023The new government needs to look further ahead, says environmental scientist Rutger Hoekstra. ‘We keep pushing forward big dossiers like demographic a...
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Archaeological laboratories visit Faculty of Science for sustainable ideas07 November 2023In 2018 the Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (LEAF) was launched in the UK. The aim of this programme was to help laboratories work more sus...
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Transition from fossil to clean energy will reduce global mining activities26 October 2023A wide range of metals need to be mined for solar panels, wind turbines and batteries. Researchers from Leiden University have shown that this 'concer...
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International Labor Rights Case Law Journal affiliated with Department of Labour Law14 September 2023In recent years, much research has been conducted at the Department of Labour Law on the topic of sustainability and fundamental labour rights. Linked...
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How polluting are the clothes in your closet?05 September 2023Cotton is the most widely used natural fibre for clothes. But how polluting are our jeans and shirts actually? Environmental scientist Laura Scherer c...
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Logging in tropical forests has a major social impact on local people04 September 2023The local benefits op logging operations in tropical forests are far smaller than we often think. At the same time, the negative impacts on local well...
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Book presentation 'Phanta Rhei: recht en duurzaamheid'05 July 2023On 15 June 2023, the book presentation for the ‘Panta Rhei: recht en duurzaamheid’ (Panta Rhei: law and sustainability) was held at the Oude Sterrenwa...
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How polluting buildings and machinery make rich countries ever richer06 June 2023Rich countries are getting richer because of environmentally polluting (construction) investments from the past, largely at the expense of poor countr...
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Our Earth is becoming unliveable. Can we still turn the tide?16 May 2023We have crossed six of the nine boundaries within which human life on Earth will still be possible for future generations. That is not good news. Can ...
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Sustainability prize for research into the effects of a plant-based diet28 April 2023Paul Behrens and his team have won the Frontiers Planet Prize of half a million euros for their research into the effects of switching to a plant-base...