• The Las Vegas Grand Prix serves as the penultimate round of the 2023 season , and will run on a street circuit known as the Las Vegas Strip Circuit. (wwlp.com)
  • 2023. "Genetic and floral trait changes in Oenothera organensis ( Onagraceae ) during long-term ex situ cultivation. (chicagobotanic.org)
  • State Sequestration: Federal Policy Accelerates Carbon Storage, But Leaves Full Climate, Equity Protections to States , 14 San Diego Journal of Climate and Energy Law 95 (2023). (unm.edu)
  • As we speak, September 2023, we have found two grand-ironies.The first one is that as environmental consciousness and the desires for environmental sustainability and justice become more widespread, places like the Putumayo are experiencing a simultaneous increase in violence against territorial and environmental defenders. (lu.se)
  • The recently published Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 1 informs that the climate emergency is human caused, rapidly progressing, will worsen until at least mid-century regardless of future emissions scenarios, and heralds massive, unprecedented and cascading impacts on planetary and human health. (theisn.org)
  • The series begins on Monday, February 15, with Ariel Ortiz-Bobea , assistant professor of applied economics and policy in the Dyson School, who will share research on anthropogenic climate change on agricultural productivity growth. (cornell.edu)
  • Beyond the SDGs, anthropogenic climate change represents the grand challenge of our century. (deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de)
  • Prior to joining the UNM faculty in August 2017, Gabe managed the climate change mitigation program at the Georgetown Climate Center and co-taught a climate change law and policy practicum course as an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law. (unm.edu)
  • An Examination of Policy Options for Achieving Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions in New Jersey (Georgetown Climate Center, Rutgers University & World Resources Institute, 2017) (lead author). (unm.edu)
  • Reducing Transportation Emissions in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic: Fuel System Considerations (Georgetown Climate Center, 2017) (co-author). (unm.edu)
  • Our research program focuses on crucial societal challenges and aims to advance an understanding of how and why different - often co-existing - modes of governance and institutional arrangements enable or restrict sustainable outcomes. (uu.nl)
  • The mission of the group is to contribute with high-quality research on fundamental issues related to grand societal challenges of globalisation and climate change, such as renewable energy transitions, institutional developments for a global carbon price, and Swedish innovations for sustainability. (lu.se)
  • Smith, S. J. & Mizrahi, A. Near-term climate mitigation by short-lived forcers. (nature.com)
  • Short-lived climate pollutant mitigation and the Sustainable Development Goals. (nature.com)
  • Since the 2000s, the European Union (EU) has promoted biofuels for transport to achieve climate change mitigation and rural development in the global South. (lu.se)
  • Specifically, it explores how different planning approaches, instruments, and institutions respond to the grand challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss. (uu.nl)
  • Research aims at the integration of social and natural dimensions of sustainability in the context of grand sustainability challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, water scarcity and land use change. (lu.se)
  • At the same time, yields of the world's major food crops are projected to decline in the coming decades as the climate warms, causing droughts, heat waves, or heavier--than-normal rains. (technologyreview.com)
  • UCLA's Sustainable LA Grand Challenge aims to make Los Angeles the world's first sustainable megacity. (ucla.edu)
  • The university's Sustainable LA Grand Challenge, which launched in 2013, unites dozens of UCLA faculty, researchers, students and collaborators to create a road map that will make Los Angeles the world's first sustainable megacity - and a model for others around the world. (ucla.edu)
  • Newswise - Professor Rob Hale of William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science is lead author of a new "Grand Challenges" paper commissioned to mark the 100th anniversary of the American Geophysical Union, the world's largest association of Earth and space scientists with more than 60,000 members in 137 countries. (newswise.com)
  • Changes occurring in the world's climate pose significant threats to human health and wellbeing and will have even greater impacts in the future. (cdc.gov)
  • In addition, three Lund University units that are dealing with climate anxiety/eco-emotions in different ways will present their work, experiences, and reflections - the Student Health Centre, the Occupational Health Service, and Medvetenskapens hus. (lu.se)
  • Short-lived climate forcers (SLCFs) like methane, ozone and aerosols have a shorter atmospheric lifetime than CO 2 and are often assumed to have a short-term effect on the climate system: should their emissions cease, so would their radiative forcing (RF). (nature.com)
  • Here, we use a compact Earth system model to attribute CO 2 RF to direct CO 2 emissions and to climate-carbon feedbacks since the pre-industrial era. (nature.com)
  • This study illustrates the long-term impact that short-lived species have on climate and indicates that past (and future) change in atmospheric CO 2 cannot be attributed only to CO 2 emissions. (nature.com)
  • Christopher Voigt, the Daniel I.C. Wang Professor in the Department of Biological Engineering and co-director of MIT's Synthetic Biology Center, is leading a Climate Grand Challenges flagship project that aims to reduce emissions from agriculture, largely from fertilizer, and boost yields of major food crops. (technologyreview.com)
  • The ambition of achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 to tackle climate change requires a global effort. (elsevier.com)
  • Under any reasonable projection of greenhouse gas emissions, the rate of change will accelerate in coming decades. (issues.org)
  • New Strategies for Reducing Transportation Emissions and Preparing for Climate Impacts , 44 FORDHAM URB. (unm.edu)
  • State Innovation on Climate Change: Reducing Emissions from Key Sectors, While Preparing for a "New Normal," 10 HARV. (unm.edu)
  • Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Transportation: Opportunities in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic (Georgetown Climate Center and Cambridge Systematics, 2015) (lead author). (unm.edu)
  • Challenging local innovators and inviting the best from around the globe to tackle greenhouse gas emissions is good for job growth and for our province's economy, " noted Reza Moridi , Ontario's Minister of Research, Innovation and Science. (globe-net.com)
  • The Solutions 2030 Challenge encourages companies to develop breakthrough technologies that will help Ontario's industrial plants reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, meet the targets set in Ontario's Climate Change Action Plan , and increase innovation and entrepreneurship in the province. (globe-net.com)
  • Phase 2 of the challenge will require teams to build a lab-scale technology prototype in a controlled environment and will be evaluated based on prototype performance and the team's vision to scale their technology to reduce GHG emissions by Ontario industry by 2030. (globe-net.com)
  • If greenhouse gas emissions continue its trajectory, many countries in the region will be heavily impacted by physical climate risks, including reduced crop yields, disruptions to natural ecosystems and dwindling resources. (eco-business.com)
  • BECC revolves around three Grand Challenges that must be tackled to find solutions to the combined consequences of anthropogenic emissions, land-use and climate change on biodiversity and ecosystem services. (lu.se)
  • Reducing cropland ammonia (NH3) emissions while improving air quality and food supply is a challenge, particularly in China where there are millions of smallholder farmers. (bvsalud.org)
  • A grand challenge for mankind is to fight climate change, which involves both reducing and reverting CO 2 emissions. (lu.se)
  • Studies underline that these changes are predominantly caused by our way of living - how we travel, supply energy, produce goods, the food we eat, how we live - as these involve the use of fossil fuels and land use change, with concomitant emissions of greenhouse gases into the climate system. (lu.se)
  • The challenge going forward will be to apply an increasingly advanced and nuanced understanding of urban ecology in the practice of planning, designing, and monitoring cities as dynamic ecosystems. (frontiersin.org)
  • The master's programme in Atmosphere, Climate, and Ecosystems provides you with the opportunity to study the complex global system made up of the atmosphere, climate, and ecosystems, and the related global challenges. (lu.se)
  • This Research Topic in Frontiers is grounded in the 2nd Baltic Earth Conference in HelsingĆør, 11-15 June 2018, and will cover the themes of Baltic Earth, in particular highlighting the Baltic Earth Grand Challenges as defined by the Baltic Earth Science Plan. (frontiersin.org)
  • This year, as in previous years, we have an amazing list of speakers covering a diverse range of topics related to climate change: from robotic underwater vehicles exploring the stability of the Antarctic ice sheet to climate change migration, community resilience to climate change, and many more," says Hess. (cornell.edu)
  • As complex sustainability challenges call for multi-disciplinary knowledge and societally impactful research, we co-create solution proposals together with partners from different sectors of society. (aalto.fi)
  • We live in the Anthropocene epoch, where humans are responsible for grand sustainability challenges such as climate change and resource scarcity. (ptc.com)
  • Sustainability challenges associated with energy systems are complex and need an interdisciplinary approach. (lu.se)
  • What sustainability challenges are most pressing? (lu.se)
  • To me, the three most pressing sustainability challenges are (i) the loss of biological and cultural diversity in specific places of the world, (ii) that the way climate change is governed by nation-states that at the moment is not delivering results at the pace and scale that the climate emergency demands, and last but not least (iii) that sustainability cannot happen within capitalism. (lu.se)
  • While outlining the challenges, the volume also highlights the positive impacts, such as yield increases, farmers' empowerment in the innovation and development processes, contributions to maintenance of crop genetic diversity and adaptation to climate change. (routledge.com)
  • Climate change poses a hierarchy of significant challenges for conservation policy. (issues.org)
  • For species with small populations or specialized habitat requirements, climate change poses special challenges. (issues.org)
  • And while climate change now poses serious threats to our rivers and water resources, there is cause for hope. (americanrivers.org)
  • Climate change poses a serious, immediate and global threat to human health and the responsibility for taking action to address this threat rests with every person, every community, every leader and every government around the world. (cdc.gov)
  • Climate Resiliency in Canada: A "Coming of Age" for Adaptation? (sciencepolicy.ca)
  • It began with the recognition that not only does Cornell have a tremendous depth in climate change expertise spread across the campus, but that climate change will have an increasingly significant presence in the lives of today's students. (cornell.edu)
  • Studies into past climates, today's climate, and alternative future climates are research areas, which complement each other and together underline comprehensive understanding of the climate system. (lu.se)
  • The serious impact of climate change and the effects of increasing food prices are resulting in hunger and becoming even more serious as a global problem, with grave consequences on health. (who.int)
  • Overall, the data show that keeping existing forests standing remains our best hope for maintaining the vast amount of carbon forests store and continuing the carbon sequestration that, if halted, will worsen the effects of climate change. (nationofchange.org)
  • Although scientific understanding of the effects of climate change is still emerging, there is considerable evidence to support preparing for potential health risks. (cdc.gov)
  • As the nation's public health agency, CDC is using its prevention expertise to help states and cities investigate, prepare for, and respond to the health effects of climate change. (cdc.gov)
  • This would make LPJ-GUESS fitting for further investigation about how greenhouse gas fluxes, vegetation and soil conditions are expected to change by a changing climate. (lu.se)
  • Knowledge about these and other processes is crucial for our understanding of climate variability and change both on global and regional scales, and to develop climate models for projections of future climates. (lu.se)
  • He has chaired four workshops for the National Science Foundation and U.S. Army Research Office and collaborated with both organizations to identify critical research challenges and shape their research agendas in cybersecurity and privacy within networked systems. (asu.edu)
  • New research from Universities UK (UUK) has highlighted the need to convince people in the South East that universities are striving to find solutions that tackle climate change. (surrey.ac.uk)
  • According to new research from UUK, only 46 per cent of parents in the South East believe universities are equipping students with the right knowledge about climate change. (surrey.ac.uk)
  • Despite Surrey's efforts to engage with the local community and publicise its research and sustainability strategy through initiatives such as the Guildford Living Lab, fewer than half (49 per cent) of parents in the South East recognise that universities are researching solutions to climate change. (surrey.ac.uk)
  • is based on a study analyzing more than 1.6 million papers from Elsevier's Scopus database, combining data with content and subject-matter expertise to gain unique insights into how research can accelerate efforts to mitigate climate change. (elsevier.com)
  • In our research and teaching, we engage with increasingly complex governance challenges in developing, operating, and transforming cities and urban regions in line with sustainability goals. (uu.nl)
  • Research in this theme focuses on the governance of climate change and biodiversity in cities and regions. (uu.nl)
  • The challenges are too many to list, and addressing these will require interdisciplinary research, bringing in expertise from engineering, material sciences, soil science, ecology and many more. (deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de)
  • Under the umbrella of our Grand Challenges, BECC is organized in Research Themes. (lu.se)
  • Learn about the latest research and practice within climate anxiety/eco-emotions including different approaches to deal with climate anxiety/eco-emotions. (lu.se)
  • The University's sustainability chief wants to win the 'hearts and minds' of parents in the South East who told Universities UK pollsters that they aren't aware of what universities are doing to combat climate change. (surrey.ac.uk)
  • Greening the Old New Deal: Strengthening Rural Electric Cooperative Supports and Oversight to Combat Climate Change , 85 MO. (unm.edu)
  • This seminar series brings in the brightest minds from across the world in different disciplines to understand the difficulty and complexity of climate change and the innovations already in progress to solve this problem. (cornell.edu)
  • Tom Corr, President and CEO, Ontario Centres of Excellence, noted that through Ontario's Solutions 2030 Challenge, part of OCE's TargetGHG program, we will reach out to the global cleantech innovation ecosystem with the goal of bringing some of its brightest thinkers to Ontario to solve challenges related to climate change. (globe-net.com)
  • The complexity of and urgency to solve the global grand challenges, climate change, loss of biodiversity, poverty, and urbanization are broadly recognized. (helsinki.fi)
  • Solving climate change will also solve many of the SDGs. (deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de)
  • Whether it's through initiatives like the Surrey Climate Commission , CREST Business awards, local green space projects or the Greening Southway group , our researchers have been engaged with the community for years to illustrate not only how the University is helping to tackle the problem of climate change, but how local citizens can assist in finding a solution. (surrey.ac.uk)
  • We need urgent and ambitious climate solutions and must ensure future generations are given the chance to build the careers they need to tackle this emergency head on. (surrey.ac.uk)
  • Through six related sub-projects, the Voigt-led interdisciplinary team of MIT researchers will tackle one of the greatest challenges the world faces as the global population heads toward 10 billion. (technologyreview.com)
  • The University of Maryland recently awarded $30 million to 50 projects through its Grand Challenges Grants Program, an institution-wide initiative to tackle major societal issues. (umd.edu)
  • Innovating new sustainable products, services, business models and forms of consumption can help tackle global challenges. (aalto.fi)
  • To foster a new generation of researchers that can address societal grand challenges BECC, together with the SRA MERGE, have developed ClimBEco. (lu.se)
  • The NDC is currently being drafted by President Biden's climate team and will be presented to the United Nations later this year. (nationofchange.org)
  • Join us at the Summit and gain a better understanding of the UWA Grand Challenges and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs). (edu.au)
  • Soon after a landmark report from the United Nations' scientific panel on climate change came out in October, Lisa Reyes Mason, Center for Social Development faculty director for Environment and Social Development, wrote an opinion piece and spoke on television about what people can do. (wustl.edu)
  • Keeping forests intact has long been considered essential to maintaining a healthy planetary environment, but scientists are now beginning to understand just how critical they are in the fight against climate change. (nationofchange.org)
  • The second Grand Challenge looks at preparing for environmental change. (idsnews.com)
  • GREEN-K - Global Environmental Evolution in Nephrology and Kidney Care - calls on the development of climate resilient kidney care systems that function through accountable, sustainable low carbon health care, and propose a pathway to achieve this goal through a global, collaborative, and inclusive multidisciplinary working group. (theisn.org)
  • Gabe has also taught or will be teaching environmental law, public utility regulation, and a climate change writing seminar. (unm.edu)
  • Objective 5-Provide land managers with information and decision tools needed to maintain profitability and environmental sustainability, and reduce risk to livestock operations in a changing climate. (usda.gov)
  • In "Five Dimensions of Climate Science Reductionism," Jonathan Rigg and Lisa Reyes Mason assert that science tends to extract climate change from its social and environmental contexts, making climate change a "detached physical process. (wustl.edu)
  • Through ClimBEco, PhD students associated with MERGE acquire inter-disciplinary skills and an overview of the environmental, global change and sustainability fields with their many disciplinary aspects. (lu.se)
  • Sciences Po's Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) organizes an event to discuss how global health is fundamental to addressing Climate Change. (dndi.org)
  • The search for novel conservation strategies that will stand up to global shifts in climate highlights a third challenge: New conditions and new tools require a reassessment of our conservation goals. (issues.org)
  • The challenge will position Ontario as a global leader in building a low-carbon future while supporting job growth and strengthening the economy. (globe-net.com)
  • Elements of the Ontario Green Investment Fund supports Ontario's Business Growth Initiative , helping to accelerate Ontario's innovation economy, while responding to the challenges and opportunities of rapid technological change and global economic forces. (globe-net.com)
  • This session of Grand Rounds explored the wide-ranging health impact of our changing climate and discussed some of the strategies, programs and partnerships currently being used to confront the challenges associated with global climate change. (cdc.gov)
  • Dr. John Iskander and Dr. George Luber discuss some of the challenges associated with global climate change. (cdc.gov)
  • Grand Challenges are issues where gaps in scientific understanding constrain the ability to make informed decisions on issues of pressing concern for the well-being of people and the environment, in a world affected by continued global change. (lu.se)
  • As a graduate of the programme, you will be prepared to enter society with broad knowledge in natural science and special competence in a specialized field of science, intermixed with global challenges. (lu.se)
  • The climate system encompasses the global atmosphere, oceans, land surface, cryosphere (snow, sea ice, glaciers and ice sheets), vegetation and various biogeochemical processes such as the carbon and nitrogen cycles. (lu.se)
  • Furthermore, climate change strongly links to other global grand challenges, such as poverty reduction, protection of biodiversity, economic growth and the overall pursuant of sustainability. (lu.se)
  • This includes exploring the institutional spaces and governance innovations required for systemic solutions such as nature-based solutions, transformative climate adaptation and multi-species approaches to become embedded and mainstream for sustainable urban futures. (uu.nl)
  • Consequently, there is a call for a transition or rather, a transformation in all spheres of life requiring changes in technologies, values, behavior and governance. (helsinki.fi)
  • Despite identifying gaps in awareness of the work universities are doing, the UUK study found that parents see universities as crucial to delivering on the Department for Education's sustainability strategy - published last week - with 65 per cent in the South East thinking a university degree is essential for those contemplating a career in tackling climate change. (surrey.ac.uk)
  • But we are a leader in many other disciplines that are crucial for facing the climate crisis, from synthetic biology to economics. (technologyreview.com)
  • Forests are crucial to combating climate change-will Biden rise to the challenge? (nationofchange.org)
  • This informs us about the climate system in ways that cannot be addressed by direct observations, and contributes to our overall knowledge of climate under change. (lu.se)
  • In the chapter the authors challenge the conception of "money as a thing" and, building on Elinor Ostrom's ideas, they explain why understanding "money as a commons" will bring us to more inclusive and resilient economic futures. (lu.se)
  • Dogwood Alliance, a nonprofit based in Asheville, North Carolina, that is working to protect the nation's Southern forests across 14 states, has launched a public petition urging the Biden administration to "hold the forestry industry accountable for its climate, biodiversity, and community impacts" and "establish strong, ecologically sound, and environmentally just protections" for forests. (nationofchange.org)
  • Transformative technologies drive changeā€¦ whether evolutionary, revolutionary or disruptive. (globe-net.com)
  • In a new study, UCLA researchers Alex Hall (department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences) and Jim McWilliams (department of Atmospheric and oceanic Sciences) will make the first detailed models predicting how climbing temperatures will affect the coastal climate in four regions. (ucla.edu)
  • But the UCLA Health enterprise has never shied away from a challenge. (ucla.edu)
  • Among other things, the institute supports UCLA's Depression Grand Challenge, a massive initiative to get at the root causes of depression and find new prevention and treatment strategies for a condition that is responsible for 1 million suicides every year. (ucla.edu)
  • As with climate change and species management, developed and emerging nations will have to cooperate to find equitable solutions. (newswise.com)
  • Unfortunately, the magnitude of impending climate change also worsens the prospects for species whose conservation status is not currently directly tied to climatic limitations. (issues.org)
  • In addition to species extinctions, climate change threatens genetic diversity within species, as well as the ecosystem functions performed by species and ecological communities, such as providing fresh water and controlling pest populations. (issues.org)
  • The Formula 1 World Championship returns to Las Vegas for the first time since 1982, when the city last held what was then known as the Caesars Palace Grand Prix. (wwlp.com)
  • With its unique strengths and position, UCL has an opportunity and an obligation to develop and disseminate original knowledge to help provide solutions to the grand challenges faced by the world today and tomorrow. (wikipedia.org)
  • Including the Tongass and other old forestlands in our NDC will send a signal to the world that the U.S. is ready to lead on protecting critical natural climate solutions. (nationofchange.org)
  • A more just and equitable world post COVID-19, and Climate Change, UWA is bringing together students, industry representatives, leaders in business and government, thought leaders, academics and the community to explore the solutions for some of society's most complex problems. (edu.au)
  • I am also interested in developing measures of success and best practices for ex situ plant conservation programs, from collecting genetically diverse seed accessions to minimizing genetic change during storage and increasing likelihood of success of restorations. (chicagobotanic.org)
  • The populations most vulnerable-children, elderly people, those living in poverty, people living in certain geographic areas and people with underlying health conditions-are at even greater health risk from climate change. (cdc.gov)
  • University-wide seminar provides important views on the critical issue of climate change, drawing from many perspectives and disciplines. (cornell.edu)
  • Join us at this seminar where we will learn more about how to approach climate anxiety and eco-emotions in the educational setting. (lu.se)
  • Join our seminar to learn more about how to support students, colleagues, and/or yourself in dealing with climate anxiety and other emotional responses to sustainability crises. (lu.se)
  • And then we're going to bring on the rest of the panel to talk more broadly about what are the opportunities and challenges of actually I think fulfilling the promise that is out there that innovation can actually deliver some major progress. (techonomy.com)
  • Plant breeding is essential to food production, climate-change adaptation and sustainable development. (routledge.com)
  • Weber also named major challenges and some of the questions to be addressed in plant sciences for our sustainable future. (deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de)
  • In addition, Gabe's scholarship and policy work focuses on climate change and energy issues, particularly with an equity focus. (unm.edu)
  • It is in this context that communities and investors are increasingly turning to the law to express demands for climate action - and with increasing success. (edu.au)
  • Fulton Schools researchers will collaborate with researchers at The Ohio State University to drive technological advancements to address a wide spectrum of network challenges and opportunities, including signal processing technologies, distributed control and machine learning algorithms and innovative security mechanisms. (asu.edu)
  • Our diverse range of complementary expertise empowers us to collaboratively address the challenges presented by FutureG networks. (asu.edu)
  • These projects aim to address climate change, human health and disease, artificial intelligence and inclusion in STEM. (umd.edu)
  • To address these challenges, we introduce a new computable quality measure based on Stein's method that bounds the discrepancy between sample and target expectations over a large class of test functions. (nips.cc)
  • Gabe's recent work has focused on ensuring that energy is affordable to everyone in the clean energy transition and on identifying the mechanisms being used to address equity in administrative rulemakings related to climate change. (unm.edu)
  • Michael Sherraden delivered the keynote address at the Grand Challenges for Social Work event "Economic Equality and Financial Capability" in October at the University of Denver's Graduate School of Social Work. (wustl.edu)