Recipe for a Livable Planet: Achieving Net Zero Emissions in the Agrifood System
The global agrifood system has been largely overlooked in the fight against climate change. Yet, greenhouse gas emissions from the agrifood system are so big that they alone could cause the world to miss the goal of keeping global...
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Report on energy transitions to achieve India’s net-zero targets
A meeting was held for the launch of the report titled “Synchronizing energy transitions towards possible Net-Zero for India: Affordable and clean energy for All” prepared by IIM Ahmedabad as part of a study project which was sanctioned in...
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ECEMP 2024 Conference on Energy Transition Scenarios for a Climate Neutral Europe
Reaching climate neutrality will require large-scale deployment of renewable energy technologies, improving energy efficiency, and strengthening energy security. This demands significant investment in energy infrastructure and incentivizing innovation in the Energy Transition. Energy and climate models offer valuable insights...
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The Changemaker’s Guide to the Energy Transition
ENCLUDE proudly presents The Changemaker’s Guide to the Energy Transition, a playbook that aims to take citizens step by step to design, implement and reflect on an initiative of their own related to the energy transition. This is the...
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Open positions at Joint Global Change Research Institute, USA
The Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI), a partnership between Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and the University of Maryland (UMD), is recruiting: Group Lead – Human-Earth Systems & Science Group Read the full job announcement Energy-Environment-Economy Scientist Read...
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Workshop: Unveiling Circular Economy Economic Modeling
The joint workshop on Circular Economy Economic Modelling, supported by the EAYE and the EU & ANR projects: IAM-Circ, Circomod, CircEUlar and ScarCyclET, will take place on the 1st of July 2024 in Leuven. This workshop will precede the Annual Conference...
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Climate change impacts increase economic inequality: evidence from a systematic literature review
In a new systematic review study, a team of authors from PRISMA analysed the existing literature and gathered evidence on whether, where and how climate change exacerbates economic inequality. The evidence from 127 peer reviewed papers shows that climate...
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Impacts of Global Warming on Regional Energy and Economy: Uneven consequences arising from global warming-induced heating and cooling demand of households
The impacts of global warming vary across regions. This paper studies the distributional implications of global warming impacts on household energy use for heating and cooling and the induced macroeconomic responses under different scenarios. The authors’ research updates the...
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Global trends and scenarios for terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services from 1900 to 2050
The 20th century saw rates of biodiversity loss high enough to qualify as a sixth mass extinction. Climate change now further threatens species and ecosystem services. Pereira et al. forecasted changes in both biodiversity loss and ecosystem services to 2050...
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A better integration of health and economic impact assessments of climate change
Climate change could lead to high economic burden for individuals (i.e. low income and high prices). While economic conditions are important determinants of climate change vulnerability, environmental epidemiological studies focus primarily on the direct impact of temperature on morbidity...
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