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Powering the world’s transition to a sustainable, low-carbon, climate-resilient future.

End to end, long-term solutions

We are specialists in integrated approaches to building an ecologically and socially sustainable future. From the Centre for Sustainable Engineering to our citizen-driven conservation projects, we design new systems, materials and networks that will allow people and our planet to thrive together.

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Queen Mary is home to an energy and sustainability community that is transforming how industry designs, makes and uses the world’s resources for good. Our research leaders are sustainability inventors, entrepreneurs and advocates, and our industry PhDs are training tomorrow’s green skills workers.

Ingenuity everywhere

At Queen Mary we are committed to improving lives through collaboration: good ideas can and should come from anywhere. We work with industry, governments and communities around the world to harness their insights and find solutions to the world’s sustainability priorities.

Research spotlight

A library of plants – what can we learn about our changing landscape?

What does the size of a plant genome tell us about its chances of survival? As land use, climate and other anthropogenic changes alter the distribution of plants across the British Isles, can scientists predict future patterns?

Learn moreA library of plants – what can we learn about our changing landscape?
What’s in the water? Measuring the impact of plastic pollution

Microplastics are tiny plastics particles created when plastics degrade and escape into the environment, releasing toxic pollutants into our soil and water. Within 30 years, 12bn tonnes of microplastic could have entered the environment.

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Helping London’s children breathe more easily: how Queen Mary research influenced the introduction of the Ultra Low Emission Zone

Professor Jonathan Grigg and Professor Chris Griffiths have played a pivotal role in making London’s air healthier for us all – and particularly for our children. Air pollution is the top environmental risk to human health in the UK.

Learn moreHelping London’s children breathe more easily: how Queen Mary research influenced the introduction of the Ultra Low Emission Zone
Aerosol-treated perovskites – shedding new light on affordable solar energy

We need to increase renewable energy generation to meet net zero targets and to make energy more affordable. Discover how Joe Briscoe, Reader in Energy Materials and Devices at Queen Mary is researching how solar power generation can be made more efficient.

Learn moreAerosol-treated perovskites – shedding new light on affordable solar energy