Dr Cle-Anne Gabriel presenting about the Carbon Literacy project

Helping individuals and organisations tackle the climate crisis is the focus of an Australian-first training program adopted by The University of Queensland.

16 August 2021
The UQx Sustainable Energy MicroMasters provides the knowledge and tools to help better understand and bring clean and sustainable energy for all.

The University of Queensland’s UQx Massive Open Online Course program has reached two million enrolments, and is set to continue growing as it expands its MicroMasters offerings.

12 January 2018

Two University of Queensland law students have been putting their skills to the test in the Malaysian state of Sabah, in Borneo, through pro bono legal work.

2 March 2016
Picture of food basket

Global food systems can no longer rely on “business as usual”, according to an internationally renowned economist visiting The University of Queensland this week. ...

18 August 2014
UNESCO World Heritage Site of Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park, St Kitts and Nevis.

A cultural heritage expert from The University of Queensland Law School is working with UNESCO to protect historically significant shipwrecks in the Caribbean.

8 July 2013

MBA students have helped to launch a social business which provides marginalised young men with an opportunity to run their own shoe shine operation.

28 November 2011

Pearl farmers in Fiji are set to benefit from the expertise of UQ Business School students. Five MBA students from the school have spent a week in Savusavu, Fiji working with a small group of pearl farmers to help them improve their livelihood.

28 November 2011
Lucy Bechtel (right) with members of The Global Sunrise at UQ

A University of Queensland graduate is playing her part in an ambitious solar energy project in Africa.

12 July 2011

The next Conference of Parties to the UNFCCC is to be held at the end of this year in Cancun, Mexico.

17 November 2010
Leonie Bowles

When in Spain, do as the Spanish do. It's a principle Leonie Bowles is sticking to, allowing her to immerse herself in the country's history and culture, while learning to speak the language fluently.

13 August 2010

An interdisciplinary research team at The University of Queensland has been awarded a third grant from the US based MacArthur Foundation to continue a conservation project in Solomon Islands for a further three years.

21 June 2010

Landholders will find it easier to understand the laws affecting the sustainable management of their land once a research project by a UQ law academic is complete.

10 June 2010
Visiting tourism expert from Japan, Professor Masahiro Yabuta

Lessons learned at Australia's national parks are expected to help a leading Japanese academic lobby for more sustainable practices in his home country.

9 June 2010

Opinion editorial by Alexander Stathakis, project manager of UQ's Sustainable Business Unit, on the Climate Change Talks in Bonn, Germany.

21 April 2010

UQ’s newly established Global Change Institute has received $1.4 million in ARC funding to attract the best young minds to tackle climate change.

9 April 2010
An example of deforestation in Kalimantan, Indonesia

How much does it really cost to stop deforestation?

26 February 2010