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Environmental benefits of smart city solutions

Smart city technologies have a high, and largely unrealized, potential to improve quality of life. The idea behind smart cities is to use technology and

In a warming world, it is time to address the cooling access gap

Over 1.1 billion people globally face immediate risks from lack of access to cooling as global temperatures reach record highs, according to a report by the non-profit Sustainable Energy for All group.

How to curb aviation emissions? Work in progress at ICAO

In its latest meeting in Montreal at the end of June, the U.N. aviation agency adopted the first set of rules needed to implement the global market-based system to offset CO2 emissions from international aviation.

Low-Tech is the new High-Tech

Faith in progress through new technologies has been a driving force since the industrial revolution, but countries have come to realize the finiteness of natural resources: can we really resolve problems that were caused by the rise of industrial and technological progress with the same processes? Philippe Bihouix advocates for a development model in which “low technologies” would replace today’s “high-tech” world.

Water scarcity and foliage loss: how forests may lose their battle against climate change

A new study investigated how changes in water balance and tree canopies may impact the creation and maintenance of microclimates. Climate change may profoundly modify the ability of western U.S. forests to face climate extremes.

The bumpy road to action of the Paris climate deal

The end of 2018 is a crucial date for the implementation of the climate agreement adopted in Paris in 2015 and currently ratified by 178 countries. At COP24 in Katowice, Poland, countries are due to finalized and adopt the operational guidelines of the treaty, also known as “the Paris rulebook”.

The World in 2050: a global effort to support the 2030 Agenda

How do we meet the hunger, poverty, energy, growth goals while meeting the environmental goals? What are the synergies and trade-offs? What are the costs

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Renewables and efficiency: improved targets are good news, but still not enough

European institutions and member states in the mid-June session agreed on the revision of the Renewable Energy Directive and the Energy Efficiency Directive, the laws which set out the overall policy for the production of energy from renewable sources and the promotion of energy efficiency measures in the 28-bloc.

Urban sprawl indicators and policies for sustainable urban development

OECD cities are increasingly fragmented and more people are moving to low-density suburbs. A new set of urban sprawl indicators applied in 1,156 urban areas

In the name of the law: climate action goes to court

Over the last few years, an ever-increasing number of lawsuits have seen citizens and associations bringing their governments to the courts to enforce climate change commitments or to push for more ambitious policy goals to reduce emissions and adapt to impacts of the changing climate.

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Sculpture Meeting Data (and Coral Reefs). Interview with Courtney Mattison

Courtney Mattison is an internationally recognized artist and ocean advocate working to inspire policymakers and the public to conserve our changing seas.

Plastic pollution, from the Ocean to the Sea

Ocean plastic pollution is not only a global problem, but something that we are extremely affected by in the Mediterranean Sea region. With the devastating effects of plastic pollution realized, action is being taken to study, quantify, and better understand where discarded plastic is ending up and how this is harming nature, ecosystems, and ultimately humans. The realization of the downside to our societal dependence on this material has even lead to a social movement to address this problem and communicate change.

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