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What role do banks play in the low carbon transition?

28 July 2026 · Algirdas Brochard
Sustainability
Banking and sustainability montage

Why investing in climate adaptation makes economic sense

28 July 2026 · Professor Swenja Surminski
Economics
montage of city and climate change imagery

How the TV drama Toxic Town captures the slow violence of industrial and environmental harms

26 May 2026 · Dr Roxana Willis
Sustainability
Image credit: Corby Steelworks, 1950s. Courtesy of Willie Cowie

Measuring nature‑related risks: why data is the hard part

26 May 2026 · Dr Tommaso Palermo
Sustainability
People walking along a road with one side green, the other environmentally damaged.

Are big companies doing enough to meet climate goals?

26 May 2026 · Ali Amin
Sustainability
Wooden bridge across mountains covered by trees by Jonathan Klok, Unsplash

How empty buildings could help solve Britain’s housing crisis

26 May 2026 · Laura Lane
Sustainability
Empty office blocks to sustainabile homes.

AI and the stock market: are algorithmic trades creating new risks?

23 September 2025 · Maximilian Goehmann
AI and tech
Graphic with stock market numbers and the text "error on execution"

Ask not what AI will do, but what we can make it do

27 May 2025 · Eugenie Dugoua
AI and tech
worlds and typed text

How far should we trust the voice of AI?

27 May 2025 · Dr Anuschka Schmitt
AI and tech
human woman talking to a robot

The hidden production line behind AI

27 May 2025 · Professor Bingchun Meng
AI and tech
Tunnels into a mountain under construction

How app defaults nudge everyday choices

25 March 2025 · Dr Nicolette Sullivan
Health
Two plates of food, the healthy one is black and white and the unhealthy is in colour

Can the gig economy boost entrepreneurship?

28 January 2025 · Dr Aaron Cheng
Economics
Smart phone, cyclist, money and a man using the phone