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While climate change affects everyone, gender inequalities mean it has a disproportionate impact on women. Climate change and gender equality are everyone’s business, and we can do more to achieve these equally necessary, mutually reinforcing goals.
While climate change affects everyone, gender inequalities mean it has a disproportionate impact on women. Climate change and gender equality are everyone’s business, and we can do more to achieve these equally necessary, mutually reinforcing goals. 2 hours ago
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Pentagon Science and Technology Executive Committee Announces Winner of FY21 Applied Research for Advancement of S&T Priorities
U.S. Department of Defense
The Department of Defense (DoD) Science and Technology Executive Committee (S&T ExCom), coordinated by the Office of the Under Secretary for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)), is proud to announce the winner of the 2021 Applied Research for Advancement of S&T Priorities (ARAP) Program Award Competition.
“After careful deliberation by the S&T ExCom, I am delighted to announce that we have selected ‘Surface Morphing and Adaptive Structures for Hypersonics (SMASH)’ for this year’s ARAP Award,” said Dr.
18 December 2020
Climate change doesn’t stop for COVID-19, but the climate negotiations have. Ever since the first meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP) in 1995, national and European Union negotiators have typically met at least twice annually. At these conferences, delegations have taken decisions on implementing the United Nations Climate Convention and have adopted new agreements (the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 and Paris Agreement in 2015).
The pandemic has meant no UN climate negotiations in 2020. There is unfinished business finalising the Paris Agreement ‘rulebook’ – e.g. rules for a new cooperative ‘mechanism’ (superseding the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism), making this unprecedented hiatus is a setback for global cooperation. As the Kyoto Protocol’s second commitment period ends on the final day of 2020, full adoption of the Paris rules is more urgent than ever.