Find out more about the ways in which social science researchers at Nottingham
are exploring Emissions through the content below.
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- We are taking rapid steps toward low emission technology. Government subsidies have supported much of this progress. Yet efforts to accelerate the transition face fierce political resistance, with opponents claiming that they would cost too much. Without stronger support, clean technology may arrive too late.
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- Professor Robert McCorquodale explains how legal frameworks around human rights offer a means to incentivise corporate behaviour to protect the climate.
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- Simon Gosling summarises the finding of the United in Science climate report, produced by The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in 2021, on the state of the Earth's climate system.
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- Seafood supply chains sustain three billion people nutritionally and also provide 10% of the world's population with employment. But they are dangerously unsustainable.
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- This blog explores some of the flaws in our globalised food systems and the historical trading patterns upon which they are based, which have remained largely unquestioned for centuries. Food is essential but the way consumer demands have shaped our food systems through overproduction and consumption is not.
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- A new survey shows that public support for the extraction and use of shale gas has dropped significantly over the last year with concerns about the potential impact on the environment beginning to outweigh the possible economic benefits.