Tonya Vitova and Laurent Schmalen, KIT, Are Awarded ERC Consolidator Grants for Their Projects
Professor Laurent Schmalen (Photo: Markus Breig, KIT) and Dr. Tonya Vitova (Photo: Private) receive an ERC Consolidator Grant each.
For their projects, two researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) receive a Consolidator Grant each of the European Research Council (ERC). Dr. Tonya Vitova, in her project “The Actinide Bond,” studies actinide bonds with innovative spectroscopic methods to better understand the environmental behavior of these elements. Professor Laurent Schmalen, in his project “RENEW,” works on reducing the complexity and energy consumption of communication systems and on making them more efficient and environmentally friendly. In the next five years, both projects will be funded by the ERC with up to EUR 2 million each.
A meat-free diet across the world still won t fix climate change, researchers say
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Study Shows No-Meat Diet is not a Blanket Solution to the Climate Crisis
Written by AZoCleantechDec 17 2020
People living in industrialized regions such as Europe or the United States are often encouraged to consume less meat and animal-based foods to ensure a healthier diet that is lower in emissions.
Livestock being fed improved forages in Tanzania. Image Credit: Georgina Smith/International Center for Tropical Agriculture.
However, such suggestions are not versatile solutions in low- or middle-income countries, where livestock are vital to incomes and diets, debate researchers in a study published recently in
Environmental Research Letters.
Conclusions drawn in widely publicized reports argue that a main solution to the climate and human health crisis globally is to eat no or little meat but they are biased towards industrialized, Western systems.
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In five years time, it is planned to extend the EU climate goal of reducing CO2 emission of new vehicles by 37.5% until 2030 to heavy duty vehicles as well. Stricter goals are currently being discussed in the EU. In 2019, 409,801 commercial vehicles were registered in Germany, of these, 38,620 semitrailer trucks. So far, they have not been subject to any CO2 reduction requirements. Within the KliMEA project, researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) will now extensively study drive systems of heavy duty vehicles and fuel cell technology to find ways how future production of fuel cell components can be adapted to the new requirements.