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News from New York University

Urban Future Forum 2024: Equity in Piloting Climate Solutions

In the spring of 2023, the ​Urban Future Lab at NYU Tandon School of Engineering was awarded a grant from IN2 (the Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator, co-founded and co-administered by NREL) to host an event bringing together community-based organizations (CBOs) focusing on climate and/or workforce, startups, investors, and channel to market partners. With this grant, they hosted their first ever Urban Future Forum on June 25, 2024, as an attempt to forge meaningful connections and enhance transparent communication between innovators and communities prior to deployment.

New Book Release by Columbia Global Reports

Four Questions for Cameron Abadi

The DWIH New York had the pleasure of interviewing Cameron Abadi, author of the book “Climate Radicals” which will be published in the fall by Columbia Global Reports.  In the book, Abadi profiles the fascinating activists of Letzte Generation, known for gluing themselves to street intersections and throwing food on works of art; Ende Gelände, which demands the immediate phaseout of coal by occupying mines; and the German leaders of the global coalition Fridays for Future, which organizes school strikes (on Fridays) and many other large-scale demonstrations. Read more about Cameron’s background, the idea behind the book and its implication for future policymaking in Germany and the United States in this interview.

News from the University of Freiburg

Spy-Satellite Images Offer Insights into Historical Ecosystem Changes

New study led by Dr. Catalina Munteanu from the Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Freiburg advocates the use of more than one million declassified images for ecology and conservation.

News from the University of Cologne

University of Cologne’s Climate Research: How Stable Is the Antarctic Ice Sheet?

Geologists from the University of Cologne are investigating the influence of past climate and environmental changes on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet in regions that are ice-free today.

News from the University of Cologne

Students from Cologne and Ukraine Conduct Research on Climate Change

A joint research project of the University of Cologne (UoC) and the University of Applied Sciences in Cologne (TH Köln) with Ukrainian universities further develops study and teaching in biology and engineering sciences.

News from Universität Hamburg

Social Change More Important than Physical Tipping Points

Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is currently not plausible, as is shown in a new, central study released by Universität Hamburg’s Cluster of Excellence “Climate, Climatic Change, and Society” (CLICCS).

Prof. de Meaux and Prof. von Korff Schmising

University of Cologne Wins Funding for a New Collaborative Research Centre in Plant Sciences

Around 10 million euros over four years for research into the genetic foundations and key mechanisms with which plants adapt to changes in their environment.