A praise for patience about research and innovation
Technological innovation is rooted in basic sciences research, which produces knowledge without emergency. “Finders” need researchers.
Questioning the development process
In the 1980s, the development community realised that many initiatives in favour of Global South countries were partial successes, sometimes even blatant failures.
“Oceanography should be a core discipline in Africa”
The importance of oceanography is massively underestimated in Africa, according to Rondrotiana Barimalala, the only woman from francophone Africa to be named a 2020 fellow of the Future Leaders-African Independent Research (FLAIR) programme.
The Science Council of Japan and the SDGs 7/10
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. Let’s have a look at SDG10 and SDG11.
Exploring the impacts of climate change on hydropower production
Hydropower electricity generation would benefit more from a 1.5°C than a 2°C global climate warming scenario, shows a case study in Sumatra.
Science for the SDGs – Part 11: Global environmental commons 3/4
Pathways to transformation related to the global environmental commons also need more science.
A Global Young Chemists’ Survey
How do young chemists envision sustainability in chemical education?
Flooding caused by downpours
Since the 1950s, the number of deaths caused by floods in Africa has increased fivefold. Human and cimatic factors are responsibles.
Science journalism needed now, more than ever
As coronavirus emergency requires accurate and reliable information, more media outlets should have journalists trained in science.
The Science Council of Japan and the SDGs 6/10
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. Let’s have a look at SDG9.
