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A new report by the United Nations and Oxford University calls on countries to use economic recovery spending on climate action.

Download 12.87 MB The welfare of animals and the war against poachers attracts a lot of international attention but what about the welfare and working conditions of the park rangers? Fadzie Mushonga has spent time on the front line embedded with rangers in Zimbabwe and saw first hand how the militarisation of conservation has adversely affected not only the rangers but also the communities who live near by.  Guest

Benchmarking Building Control Systems Thanks to Calibrated Models Sponsored by CSEMJan 19 2021 Buildings play an important role in total energy consumption and worldwide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Smart control strategies are key technological enablers for reducing the GHG footprints of buildings. 3,4 but their simple nature, combined with possible tuning errors, can lead to sub-optimal control behavior. 5 Automatized, efficient building control can significantly reduce energy consumption and emissions. Research has been done into model predictive control (MPC), 6,7,8,9 a...

Are all those beaches shrinking and islands drowning? - Politicsweb 8 March 2021 - Back in 1989 Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the United Nations (UN) Environment Programme, said that entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend was not reversed by the year 2000. Melting polar ice caps would cause sea levels to rise by three feet, enough to cover the Maldives and other flat-island nations, he warned. John Kane-Berman  Back in 1989 Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the United Nations (UN) Environment Prog...

A new UN report estimates 17 per cent of the food produced globally each year is wasted. That represents a big environmental toll. Canadians are more wasteful than Americans, the report found.