Accelerating the transition to zero pollution via a systems engineering approach to carbon-agriculture-health nexus.
Climate change will have crippling human health and socioeconomic outcomes, which will be magnified by biodiversity loss and chemical pollution. Addressing this global grand challenge requires a concerted multi-disciplinary effort that can yield technological solutions for a sustainable future; this is well aligned with the goals of the Sustainability School of Convergence Science, an integral part of 51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s Science for Humanity strategy. To achieve this goal, the Faculties of Engineering, and Natural Sciences have launched project CATALYSE-TZP featuring multidisciplinary research to find holistic solutions to our society’s most pressing environmental challenges. A Sustainability Futures Lab will be created in our South Kensington Campus to amplify cross-College Net Zero research, with an enterprise pipeline linking it to the 51³Ô¹ÏÍø WestTech Corridor. A state-of-the-art facility, the GroDome, will be set up at Silwood Park to catalyse new and ongoing environmental research collaborations highlighting Silwood’s role as a world-renowned ecological centre and its unique lab-to-field capabilities. CATALYSE-TZP will involve collaborations with partners in academia, industry and healthcare, across the globe with cross-sector support for this initiative given the need to overcome global grand challenges that represent barriers to a sustainable society: shocks to the energy and food systems, the pervasive impacts of pollution, and the human costs of climate change and biodiversity loss. The Project will build upon 51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s leadership in innovation and successful entrepreneurship, translating fundamental sustainability science to its practical application.
CATALYSE-TZP is led by (Head of Department of Chemical Engineering), (Head of Department of Life Sciences).