by mmikos@fgg.uni-lj.si | Sep 17, 2022 | Sustainable Development News, Water-related News
A research paper in the journal “Science” discusses that exceeding 1.5 degrees C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points. The paper presents an updated assessment of the most important climate tipping elements and their potential tipping points,...
by mmikos@fgg.uni-lj.si | Sep 16, 2022 | Higher Education News, Sustainable Development News, Water-related News
The WorldRiskReport 2022 as a pdf document is avaialble here. Its focus was on digitalisation. The report includes the WorldRiskIndex which calculates disaster risk from extreme natural events and negative climate change impacts for 193 countries and thus 99 percent...
by mmikos@fgg.uni-lj.si | Sep 16, 2022 | Publications, Water-related News
In the framework of the international master study programme Flood Risk Management, recently another international student was defending successfully his MSc thesis: Filmon Ghilay Ghebremichael: The impact of climate induced change in flood characteristics on flood...
by mmikos@fgg.uni-lj.si | Sep 15, 2022 | Higher Education News, Sustainable Development News, Water-related News
The Global Climate Risk Index 2021 analyses and ranks to what extent countries and regions have been affected by the impacts of climate-related extreme weather events (storms, floods, heatwaves etc.). The most recent data available for 2019 and from 2000 to 2019 was...
by mmikos@fgg.uni-lj.si | Sep 2, 2022 | Higher Education News, Sustainable Development News, Water-related News
UNESCO invites to an international conference to mark the 30th anniversary of the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Programme. The Conference entitled “Transforming knowledge for just and sustainable futures” will be held on 3-4 November 2002 in UNESCO HQ in Paris,...
