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The Environment and Sustainability Institute.

The Environment and Sustainability Institute, commonly abbreviated to ESI, is a £30 million interdisciplinary research centre whose remit is to find solutions to problems of environmental change. It has three research themes: clean technologies, natural environment, and social science and sustainability. Its building completes in October 2012, and will house up to 100 researchers, professors, lecturers and PhD students. Professor Kevin J Gaston was appointed inaugural Director in November 2010 and took up his post in May 2011.