The Science Council of Japan and the SDGs 1/10
The Science Council of Japan made the very interesting exercise of classifying the resolutions it adopted in the period 2014-2017 according to the SDGs.
Exploring the link between education and climate change
Education reduces the vulnerability of populations toward climat change, but also can increase slighlty greenhouse gases emissions.
Science for the SDGs – Part 5: What about food? 1/2
Can we produce enough food, in a sustainable way, at affordable prices? Agriculture is one of the nexus of SDGs.
Preserving both coral reefs and fisheries
How can marine areas to be protected be most effectively defined by reconciling several SDGs?
“Only ecology-based economies can avoid future catastrophe”
In this opinion piece, Fazlun Khalid gives his view about what we should aim after the COVID-19 pandemics. Scientific research is in the programme, and not only for vaccines
Smaller scale solutions needed for rapid progress towards emissions targets
Low-carbon technologies that are smaller scale, more affordable, and can be mass deployed are more likely to enable a faster transition to net-zero emissions.
Engaging the Next Generation: An IYCN outreach competition
Recognising exemplary contributions to chemistry outreach.
Science for the SDGs – Part 4: Sustainable and just economies
How can science help to progress toward economics systems that would be more sustainable (and more fair)?
TROP-ICSU after 3 Years
We already told you about TROP-ICSU (aka Trans-disciplinary Research Oriented Pedagogy for Improving Climate Studies and Understanding), lead by IUBS and the International Union for Quaternary Science. ISC three-year funding ended at the end of 2019, and a recent blog post by ISC (a partner of IYBSSD 2022) reports on the main results. Three achievements…
Lake Chad doesn’t dry up
A recent work shows that the total water stock in Lake Chad has been increasing over the past 13 years. This is encouraging because the lake concentrates environmental, economic and political issues.
