De wereld draait op water. Voldoende, schoon water is van vitaal belang voor de menselijke gezondheid, de industrie, de landbouw en de energieproductie. Door klimaatverandering is onze verhouding tot water wereldwijd aan het veranderen (ipcc, z.d). Het verkrijgen van schoon en veilig water wordt dan …

Van IPCC naar inspirerende voorbeelden van klimaatadaptatie: [video van de presentatie]

This is a report of the research done during the Summer School 2022 at the Digital Methods Initiative (UvA). The work and the report were developed in collaboration with the participants in the datasprint: Gabrielle Aguilar // Federica Bardelli // Laura Bruschi // Miranda García // Giulia Giorgi // Matthew …

There is increasing evidence that humans are not living sustainably. There are three major drivers of the unsustainable approach: population, consumption and the growth economy. There is widespread denial about these issues, but they clearly need to be addressed if we are to achieve any of the possible …

The 2018 IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C once again highlighted (and with increased urgency) the benefits of immediate, extreme decarbonisation efforts in order to minimise the negative impacts of climate change. Achieving such demanding global targets requires concerted national, subnational, …

The present research investigates how the IPCC’s Working Groups safeguard their scientific character while communicating with policymakers. Due to the different nature of Working Groups’ assessments, all Working Groups make different boundary arrangements of how science is defined; what is considered …