New government, new hope for embracing environmental priorities
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As the Labour government takes the helm, we look forward to new opportunities for addressing unprecedented environmental challenges together.
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As the Labour government takes the helm, we look forward to new opportunities for addressing unprecedented environmental challenges together.
Institute of Sustainability event celebrated exciting developments, including a new research strand on social transformation and behavioural change.
Firm co-founded by University of Bath Bioprocess Engineer Prof Chris Chuck set to expand
University of Bath startup creates sustainable power from bacterial batteries – ‘Bacteries’ – that harvest electricity from soil
Dr Simon Freakley, from the University's Institute for Sustainability, is part of a team awarded the Horizon Prize by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
The University of Bath is a key partner in a major UK government investment in research to improve the sustainability of chemical and polymer production.
From innovation centres working directly with industry to bring products to market and decarbonise industry, to real-time monitoring of chemical reactions and improvement of membranes, our projects are interdisciplinary in nature, crossing traditional boundaries between science and engineering to develop new sustainable technologies.
We design molecules, materials and manufacturing processes to enable a circular economy and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, and take a whole-systems perspective to measuring and embedding sustainability in decision making, using methods from industrial ecology to understand the full environmental footprint of our products and activities.
Read more about our researchThe University of Bath Institute for Sustainability brings together fundamental and applied science and engineering, and whole systems approaches; applying interdisciplinarity across its research, training, education, collaboration, policy, public engagement and knowledge exchange activities.
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