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Fossil subsidies undermine climate policy, says Patrick Huntjens and other colleagues in an opinion article.

Much of everyday life consists of routinized and habitual activities that use energy, such as heating the home. Heating (space and water heating combined) accounted for about 80% of the final energy consumption of households while about 90% of homes in the Netherlands used natural gas for heating in...

People who are customers of a bicycle rental company are more likely to go by bike instead of public transport, car or on foot. This is according to recent research by scientists at Maastricht University.

From lab technician to FHML student to national decision maker: after spending a number of formative years at Maastricht University, Abdifatah Ahmed Mohamed has returned to his native Somalia. There he aims to make a difference as Director of Policy and Planning at the Ministry of Health and Human...

Citizens can do more for a better climate than they think, according to Professor Patrick Huntjens

In 1999, Hanneke van der Tas was one of the first students to graduate from UM’s brand new European Law School. She went on to earn a postgraduate degree from Harvard Law School. She passed both the New York Bar and the Paris Bar, seemingly destined for a career as a lawyer or judge. Then her life...

Like a number of other universities in the Netherlands and elsewhere in the world, UM has its own Open Science Community (OSCM), a bottom-up organisation supported by ten volunteers, including seven ambassadors within the faculties. One of them is PhD candidate Matthijs Sloep, a data engineer at...

Patrick Huntjens, Professor of Governance of Sustainability Transitions at Maastricht University, has won the Nautilus Book Award 2022 with his book 'Towards a Natural Social Contract'. 

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