News News stories 3 April 2024 Liang Kong attends the 2024 Hydrogen UK Conference Liang Kong, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Advanced Resource Efficiency Centre (AREC), attended the annual Hydrogen UK Conference on 12 March 2024. 25 March 2024 IACMI - The Composite Institute visit to the University of Sheffield The representatives of IACMI - The Composite Institute visited the University of Sheffield on 5 March2024. 5 March 2024 Study to explore if circular economy can meet needs of UK's buildings A new project led by researchers at the University of Sheffield will explore the extent to which the circular economy could meet the UK’s building needs using zero new material extractions, zero emissions and zero waste. 27 November 2023 Dr Moein Shamoushaki and Professor Lenny Koh publish new article about the environmental impact of heat pump supply chain Dr Moein Shamoushaki and Professor Lenny Koh's new article in Nature examines a range of heat pump technologies from an environmental perspective using a life cycle assessment approach. A green hydrogen powered heat pump is also investigated. Published by Nature Search New report highlights circular economy opportunities in Ghana’s agri-food sector The report highlighted opportunities to reduce food waste and increase profits but that awareness among customers also needed to be raised. 29 April 2021 Simulating and reducing household waste from plastic food packaging Funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), a new project that is set to help reduce the amount of food and plastic waste that is thrown away by households every year has been launched by researchers. 7 April 2021 University of Sheffield’s Institute for Sustainable Food leads £6m research project to transform the UK food system Research will focus on improvements to sustainability and resilience within horticulture, hydroponics and hybrid farms. 30 March 2021 Applying rock dust to croplands could absorb up to 2 billion tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere, research shows Adding crushed rock dust to farmland could draw down up to two billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air per year and help meet key global climate targets, according to a major new study led by the University of Sheffield. 7 July 2020 ‘One Nation’ Strategy to Achieve Net Zero Emission by 2050 In June 2019 the UK launched a major new policy which will require the UK to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. 2 July 2020 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous Page 1 Current page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 … Next page Next › Last page Last »