5
May
2022
EarthDay 2022 | Dialogue between Science and Movements on Climate Justice
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22 April 2022 marked the 53rd edition of World Earth Day, a day established in 1970 by the United Nations to highlight the importance of protecting natural resources. It is the most important environmental event, involving more than a billion people in 192 countries around the world every year. This year’s theme is #InvestInOurPlanet. Following... Read More
5
Apr
2022
BANKING ON CLIMATE CHAOS | FOSSIL FUEL FINANCE REPORT 2022
Last week, Rainforest Action Network and five other civil society organisations released the 2022 edition of the Banking on Climate Chaos, endorsed by more than 500 organizations. This report contains a detailed analysis of how the world’s 60 largest banks finance the fossil fuel industry. It shows how the world’s biggest banks, despite the current... Read More
5
Apr
2022
Published 3th part of the IPCC’s sixth assessment report: “Mitigation of Climate Change”
Yesterday, the third part of IPCC’s sixth assessment report has been published. In this section the IPCC tackle the covering ways of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, after follows a first section published in August that focused on the physical aspect of climate change and emphasised the unequivocal link between climate change and human activities and... Read More
4
Apr
2022
GLOBAL CLIMATE STRIKE | #PEOPLENOTPROFIT
On the 25th of March there was the Global Climate Strike #PeopleNotProfit launched by Fridays for Future.“The catastrophic climate scenario that we are living in is the result of centuries of exploitation and oppression through colonialism, extractivism and capitalism, an essentially flawed socio-economic model which urgently needs to be replaced. A system where rich nations... Read More
15
Mar
2022
HOW to LIE with MAPS | Critical Cartography Workshop – GeoNight 2022
World Geography Night 2022 is an event taking place worldwide on Friday 1 April 2022.Since its first edition in 2018, World Geography Night (GeoNight) aims to highlight geography and geographers and to be able to give the general public the opportunity to become familiar with geographical concepts and studies, making geographical research more accessible to... Read More
14
Mar
2022
REFORESTING THE MIND – GeoNight 2022
World Geography Night 2022 is an event taking place worldwide on Friday 1 April 2022.Since its first edition in 2018, World Geography Night (GeoNight) aims to highlight geography and geographers and to be able to give the general public the opportunity to become familiar with geographical concepts and studies, making geographical research more accessible to all. This... Read More
4
Mar
2022
Remarks to fossil fuel industry from António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, to the press conference launch of IPCC report.
Here we report the declaration made from the Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres during the press conference launch of the report from the IPCC Working Group II: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability on Febrauary 28 2022. The official version is available here. I have seen many scientific reports in my time,... Read More
4
Mar
2022
Published IPCC report on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
On February 28 2022 the report from the IPCC Working Group II: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability was published. Here the full press release.This report is the second instalment of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), which will be completed this year.The report highlights how increased heatwaves, droughts and floods are already exceeding plants’... Read More
16
Feb
2022
Lectio Magistralis “Climate Crisis | Impacts, scenarios and opportunities”
The Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on Climate Justice is pleased to inform you about and invite you to the inaugural event of the new course “Climate Change and Adaptation in Ecosystems and Societies” of the Bachelor of Engineering for Environment and Territory that will be held online on 28 February from 10.30 to 12.30... Read More
15
Feb
2022
New Universitary Course on Climate Change and Adaptation on Ecosystems and Societies
The ‘Climate Change and Adaptation on Ecosystems and Societies‘ course within the Bachelor of Engineering for the Environment and Territory will start shortly.The course will start on 28th February and classes will be held in person every week, on Mondays and Fridays from 10.30 to 12.30.In this course you will learn the basics of Climate... Read More