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The blog, Peak Environmental Impact, begins, ... "You won’t hear about it from green campaigners, but many of the key drivers of environmental destruction are slowing down.  The rate of population growth is nearly half today what it was in 1970....

As catchy titles go, you have to say that this is down there with "M4 closed by accident" which my local newspapers seem to feature every week. The report in question, is on sustainability in UK tertiary education, and it...

Watch out.  COP21 is coming. Reuters has reported comments by Laurence Tubiana, the French envoy to COP21, quoting her as saying that delegates remain divided over fundamental issues, one of which is the framework for measuring carbon emissions – with oil-producing nations...

You may think you have already come across the Global Goals for SD, but are you confusing this with the UN's SD Goals? Of course, they are the same goals, but when you compare the websites, you'll see the difference.  Global Goals...

The 17 SDGs were launched by the UN on September 25th, to the usual fanfare.  They are wordy, as I've noted before, and as the Economist has argued, some are so convoluted as to defy evaluation – which, perhaps, was the point....

I was being gloomy in a meeting the other day about the dismal prospects for COP21 when someone said the outcome will depend on what David Cameron does. That cannot be right in any tangible sense as our carbon emissions...

It seems that the UK is leading the world in addressing one aspect of climate change.  This is that the fall in our greenhouse gas emissions per $ of GDP, at 10.9%, is not only the highest in the world...

Ashden's Sustainable School Awards ceremony was held his wednesday in London.  Sadly, I was unable to attend.  There were four winners: Thornhill Primary School, Cardiff – young eco warriors make big energy savings Thornhill Primary School’s crack squad of student eco-warriors keep energy...

Here's a new MOOC from Cornell University: Environmental Education: A transdisciplinary approach to addressing wicked problems. The organisers say: "The goal of this course is to create an environmental education “trading zone”— an online space where scholars and students gather to learn about...

It is no surprise to see that Cambridge has (again) topped the Times Higher Education table of tables, based on the combined results of the UK’s three main domestic university rankings.  Oxford lies second (again), and St Andrews third (again).  The 3 tables...