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New tool will make it easier for countries to measure ecosystems New York, 29 April - An innovative artificial intelligence (AI) tool that will make it...
These updates are republished press releases and communications from members of the Science|Business Network University of Eastern Finland: New international research project to support achievement of ambitious climate goals Scholars of climate law at the University of Eastern Finland are participating in NDC ASPECTS, an extensive, international project seeking to provide research-based knowledge to support the achievement of the goals of the Paris Agreement, and to promote increasingly ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). To be launched in May, the project has secured three-...
Grounds for concern April 8, 2021 Sunlight is the greatest life-giving force on our planet. It is also a potential source of more clean energy that we can ever use. The amount of solar energy reaching the surface of the Earth is estimated to be a staggering 3.4 million exajoules (EJ) a year. To give you some idea of how much this is, a single EJ is one quintillion (one million trillion) joules (the T hoku earthquake and tsunami measured in at 0.175EJ). The sun’s rays bathing the Earth in a single year are enough to supply humanity, at its current rate of primary energy consumption, with e...
Goats graze in between solar panels in Puertollano, near Ciudad Real, central Spain, on April 10, 2019 [File: Bernat Armangue/AP Photo] Sunlight is the greatest life-giving force on our planet. It is also a potential source of more clean energy that we can ever use. The amount of solar energy reaching the surface of the Earth is estimated to be a staggering 3.4 million exajoules (EJ) a year. To give you some idea of how much this is, a single EJ is one quintillion (one million trillion) joules (the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami measured in at 0.175EJ). The sun’s rays bathing the Earth in a...
E-Mail IMAGE: Neil Adger, winner of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change. view more Credit: BBVA FOUNDATION The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change has gone in this thirteenth edition to Neil Adger, Ian Burton and Karen O'Brien for changing the paradigm of climate change action, previously confined to mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions, by folding in the concept of adaptation to unavoidable impacts. While earlier editions of the Frontiers of Knowledge Awards have distinguished contributions to climate change science fro...