Special Features

Barney Swan was born in the United Kingdom and raised off-grid in Far North Australia, where the lack of modern conveniences helped him develop an acute understanding of the value of energy. With degrees in Business and Multimedia, Barney is the International Director for ClimateForce. He leads corporate and educational workshops around the world and promotes Environmental Social Governance...

You have such a robust background in sustainability in the UAE, could you share your experience of working in this field along with what drew you to NYUAD? It has been an amazing journey working in the field of sustainability in the UAE. I have been living and working in Abu Dhabi since 2010 and the transformation has been phenomenal. The leadership of the UAE is really pushing ahead with...

Karina is passionate about poverty alleviation, social justice, and sustainability. She has experience researching development issues in Senegal, Uganda, Ghana, and the Arab region, and her main interests lie in evaluating the efficacy of development projects and innovations to combat poverty. Born and raised in Norway by her Chilean mother, Karina’s global journey started once she left for...

You are a Hillary Rodham Clinton Global Challenges Scholar at Swansea University. Could you tell us more about this program and what drew you into it in the first place? The Hillary Rodham Clinton Global Challenges Scholars Program is a fully funded initiative by Sky providing five top and promising graduate students selected from all over the world “research and advocacy skills in a range of...

Dr. Johan Nylander has worked with climate policy and carbon pricing for over 20 years. His experience covers policymaking at the international, regional and national levels, including advisory support to governments, multilateral development banks, UN bodies and the private sector relating to the implementation of the Paris Agreement, the Kyoto Protocol, regional and national emissions trading...

Geopolitical tensions between China and the United States risk accelerating ecological breakdowns. To ensure a multilateral approach to climate action and advance responsible ecological stewardship, the EU should strengthen climate security cooperation, particularly with China and long-standing partners in Africa. This article was originally published on Carnegie Europe and is available...

Cecil Scheib is currently NYU’s Chief Sustainability Officer and has served as NYU’s Director of Energy and Sustainability at NYU from 2007 to 2012. He has been involved in multiple key initiatives concerning NYU’s sustainability such as the Green Grants Program, reducing emissions by 30 percent, inculcating sustainability into procurement, higher solid waste diversion rates, the Cogeneration...

Dr. Daniel Lewis is responsible for the Huntington’s history of science and technology holdings from 1800 to the present. He holds the Ph.D. in Latin American history from the University of California at Riverside and has had post-doctoral appointments at Oxford University, the Smithsonian, and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich. Lewis’s primary research interests lie...

Olya is a consultant at Metyis and social entrepreneur, who is passionate about climate and society and all things circular.  You are part of the global NYU family and spent some time at NYUAD? I graduated as a Chemistry major from NYU in 2014, and right after, I received an opportunity to become a Global Academic Fellow at NYUAD (’14-’16).  It was a fantastic experience where I had had a chance...

How did your interest in the environment shape your experience as an engineer at NYU Abu Dhabi?  As a student interested in sustainability, my experience at NYU Abu Dhabi supported transforming my interests into tangible actions. Since my very first semester at the university, I felt a sense of belonging amongst a group of passionate and motivated environmentalists. This shaped my approach to...

Hannah is an Anne Kantor Fellow at The Australia Institute, Australia's leading progressive public policy think tank, where she is  researching climate and energy policy. Hannah is a former research Fellow and alum of New York University Abu Dhabi, where she leveraged geospatial data to study climate impacts. She aspires to work at the intersection between research and policy to aid our...

Primatologist calls for overhaul of food habits to prevent a future pandemic. Read the gull article here.

Essential Cinema presented a screening of Idrissou Mora-Kpai's Arlit, dieuxième Paris which investigates the environmental racism associated with uranium extraction in Mali. Once a vibrant “second Paris” from migrants from different parts of Africa, Arlit became an empty town where residents die of radiation poisoning when the uranium market crashed. Following the screening, Mora-Kpai spoke from...

Bristol is at the head of a food phenomenon that is helping residents better connect with their cities and each other. Read the full article here.

Team of NYU scientists study shifting landscape of country one member calls ‘the end of the planet’.  Read the full feature here.

Greenland is melting at an unprecedented rate, causing vast quantities of ice to disappear and global sea levels to rise. The fate of the ice sheet is not sealed, but unless CO2 emissions are sharply cut, the long-term existence of Greenland’s ice is in doubt. Read the article published at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies here.

Read testimonials from our guests who attended the Rachel Carson Center Conference: The City Environments Around the GlobeL. Sasha Gora, Doctoral Candidate, RCC Munich City of sand, city of skyscrapers, but a city of mangroves? The City Environments Around the Globe intensive field seminar in February began off of NYU Abu Dhabi’s campus and with a frog eye’s view of a local mangrove forest....

My previous work concerned with barriers, land, longing and belonging has been expanded to encompass ideas of transience as it relates to land and place. The emphasis on longing led to a consideration of changing landscapes and ephemeral moments that are fixed in time rather than located in a specific place. More recent work continues the exploration by examining the relationship between the...

In the Mariana Trench, the lowest point in any ocean, every tiny animal tested had plastic pollution hiding in its gut. Read more of this article from The Atlantic by clicking here.

The Radical Hope syllabus serves as a resource for anyone interested in environmental issues. It provides a new way of framing and thinking about how individuals or groups might formally or informally learn about our most pressing environmental issues — and how we, collectively and/or individually, might respond to them. The syllabus is open for collaboration from individuals working in...