The University of Edinburgh Business School and NatWest Group collaborated to design and deliver a flexible, scalable and impactful L&D initiative that equipped the banking group’s colleagues with the necessary technical knowledge, skills and awareness to deliver on its climate ambition – to be a leading bank in the UK, helping address the climate challenge.
COP 28 is winding up with a pledge to 'transition away' from fossil fuels. How do we achieve this, whilst delivering net zero targets and addressing wider environmental impacts associated with the extractive nature of our current economic system? The answer lies in the circular economy, writes Charlotte Lee-Woolf, Edinburgh Innovations’ Business Development Manager for Sustainability and Social Responsibility
As the world turns towards COP28 in the United Arab Emirates we reflect on the University of Edinburgh’s staff and student entrepreneurs who are making their ideas work for a better world.
Wave energy pioneer and University of Edinburgh startup Mocean Energy has raised £2.2 million in new equity alongside a £500,000 grant to drive the commercialisation of its wave energy technologies.
A team of Scotland’s leading Earth scientists has received £1m of UK Government funding to develop new ways to measure the capture of carbon dioxide in volcanic rock.
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team behind new thermal energy storage technology that could help replace
fossil fuels has been awarded £3.6 million by the Department for Energy
Security & Net Zero for a trial at a whisky distillery in Scotland.
