This PhD opportunity is offered as part of a partnership between Newcastle Business School (NBS) at Northumbria University and AB Agri Ltd; which is part of Associated British Foods Ltd and is an international UK-based business delivering products, technology and services to food, drink and animal feed supply chains. Many of these supply chains start with the production of animal feeds and food end-products can be traced back through supply chains to these inputs.

AB-Agri and NBS have so far collaborated to map out the supply chains for a selection of pork and chicken end-products and produced baseline
estimates of the carbon footprint for those products. The purpose of
this project is to take this baseline information into the future, to identify where the significant contributions to total environmental impact are happening throughout the supply chain, monitor the baseline as processes evolve and to identify how best to mitigate the most significant carbon hotspots.

Further details can be found here.

In September 2008 the University of Leeds will run its new MSc Sustainability (Climate Change). This is one of a suite of Sustainability masters programmes, for which we are registering students for study this academic year or in the future. The programme provides students with a solid foundation in the broader debates on sustainability as well as expertise in climate change, encompassing the physical science of climate change, climate change impacts, and adaptation to and mitigation of climate change. The programme's interdisciplinary training is based upon compulsory modules on sustainability, in physical climate science and in the economic, political and business dimensions of managing climate change and its impacts. There are also electives to broaden or focus the taught content, and the dissertation gives students a chance to examine an issue of their choice in detail. The programme also offers a stepping stone towards a doctoral degree for qualified and interested students. More details can be found here.

This coruse is available for part time study through on-line distance learning. With the exception of several weekend schools and a short study tour, the learning is carried out in the student’s own home or workplace. There are eight taught modules providing a range of technical, marketing, management, work experience and professional skills development. A study tour is also used to visit a range of organic and conventional farms as well as businesses operating in the organic food supply and distribution chain. Further details can be found here.

Registration open for September 2008. This new MSc in Climate Change and International Development has been designed to meet the career needs of people working in international development and climate change policy and practice. The course will cover a range of issues surrounding international and local dimensions, particularly the questions of mitigation and adaptation in resource-poor and vulnerable settings. The course will address aspects of the policy process, and include units on dimensions of climate change (CC) and development: International policy frameworks on climate change; Adaptation and Mitigation choices and pathways; Adaptation and National Responses; Linking CC mitigation and development (CDM and beyond); The carbon trade: markets and development; CC and poverty reduction, trade-offs and synergies; Local responses to extreme events and disasters; adaptation and mitigation impacts in Africa; Sectoral responses (e.g. Managing coastal / water resources).

For more information see here.