Sustainable Futures | The University of Manchester

Resilient Futures

Fulfilling societal functions in the face of accumulating and disruptive environmental change at various scales, whilst ensuring our natural environment

Resourceful Futures

Providing for human needs in ways that sustainably manage finite resources and recover value from rather than lose materials into the environment.

Net Zero Futures

Delivering rapid emissions reductions and enhancing our ability to remove and store carbon.

Healthy Futures

Managing risks to humans and ecosystems and realising the benefits of transitioning to an environmentally sustainable future.

Inclusive and Prosperous Futures

Delivering environmental sustainability through a just transition that enables communities to thrive.

Inspired and Informed Futures

Inspiring students, citizens and communities to address sustainability challenges through knowledge and skills required to understand problems and create solutions to them.