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,...
by mmikos@fgg.uni-lj.si | Aug 29, 2022 | Sustainable Development News, Water-related News
An open-access article in the journal “Communications Earth & Environmental” discusses the probabilistic projections of increased heat stress driven by climate change by 2100: even if the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 2 °C is met,...
by mmikos@fgg.uni-lj.si | Aug 19, 2022 | Sustainable Development News, Water-related News
The high-level conference MAB-IHP Regional Symposium Managing Water Resources in Biosphere Reserves in South East and the Mediterranean was organized on December 16 and 17, 2021 by the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe. The MAB-IHP Symposium...
by mmikos@fgg.uni-lj.si | Aug 17, 2022 | Sustainable Development News, Water-related News
The Scientific American webpage published on August 16, 2022 an article “What Megafires Can Teach Us about California Megafloods”, concluding that catastrophic megafloods formerly happened about once every 100 to 200 years in California, but climate change has...
by mmikos@fgg.uni-lj.si | Aug 3, 2022 | Sustainable Development News
Sustainable development in the European Union — Monitoring report on progress towards the SDGs in an EU context — 2022 edition, a report on 370+ pages was recently published by the EUROSTAT. A link to this report is available here. There is also a link to the...