100 Voices – One Planet
100 Voices - One Planet collects and amplifies voices from people living in some of the regions most affected by a changing climate.
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People
Weather vs. Climate
by Sebastian Hettrich “It is snowing here, where is the global warming?” – this and similar statements are sometimes heard when current weather conditions do not seem to fit “global warming”. There is however a widespread misconception about what weather and climate actually are and, despite not being the same thing, these two terms are...
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Climate Science
MSc Climate Studies – Wageningen University and Research
Level: Postgraduate, MSc Length: 24 months (120 credits) Location: Wageningen, The Netherlands
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University Courses
Just Transitions – A Focus on Agriculture
Modern-day agriculture is unsustainable, accounting for 25% of global greenhouse emissions and failing to adequately distribute food to meet the needs of the global population.
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A Just Transition
Key term: Introduction to a Just Transition
The phrase ‘just transition’ is used a lot in climate activism and politics. Broadly, it means that as we move from an extractive linear to a sustainable circular economy, we make sure that: We address and remove past injustice caused by environmental degradation The new systems we put in place do not fall into the...
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A Just Transition/Key Terms
Food Sustainability – Alice Guillaume on the Cambridge Food Hub
Alice Guillaume, a Cambridge University Geography graduate, is passionate about food sustainability and now works at the Cambridge Food Hub, which aims to create a healthier, more resilient and kinder local food system. About me I studied Geography at the University of Cambridge. I’d always had an interest in food but, like many people, mainly...
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People
Tragedy of the Commons
The tragedy of the commons is an important economic concept which is frequently used to describe the difficult task of tackling climate change. The ‘commons’ part of the term refers to a common-pool, shared resource. This resource – for example common grazing land, common fishing water or our common climate and atmosphere – is used...
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Climate Economics
AI, Big Data, and the Environment – Part 4: Intelligent Environmentalism
This bite-sized article focuses on environmental modelling with AI. We’ve discussed the risks and dangers of data services in previous articles which you can check out here. This is a very rich topic, so we definitely recommend looking at the reviews and resources we’ve cited here for more information! Climate modelling is a huge task...
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Technology and the Environment
AI, Big Data, and the Environment – Part 3: Emissions on demand
In our previous article, we discussed why the cloud computing used to train AI isn’t all silver lining, but let’s compare that with a form of data management we’re more familiar with – the internet. While AI’s emissions are concentrated into the hands of (relatively) few researchers and companies who train then repurpose them for...
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Technology and the Environment
AI, Big Data, and the Environment – Part 2: Carbon in the Cloud
The massive investments made [1], and the infamous Google purchase of DeepMind [2] in the mid 2010s made the use of data mining (a.k.a. artificial intelligence, or AI) in research and industry boom in the second half of the decade. The number of businesses using AI methods almost tripled to one third in 4 years...
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Technology and the Environment