13. Climate Action

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Green steel: a material ready for industrial decarbonisation and widening the horizons of electrification

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The steel industry contributes 8% of global CO2 emissions, prompting urgent acti...

A new study points to a key window of opportunity to save Greenland's ice sheet

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A study published in Nature suggests that the Greenland ice sheet may be more re...

Tiny deer and rising seas: How climate change is testing the Endangered Species Act

Tiny deer and rising seas: How climate change is testin...

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Rising sea levels in the Florida Keys are threatening the habitat of the Key dee...

2023 Climate Action Day Event to Take Place on November 2nd

2023 Climate Action Day Event to Take Place on November...

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The Tzu Chi School of Jakarta’s #SaveTheEarthNow Climate Action Project

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Tzu Chi School of Jakarta’s #SaveTheEarthNow Climate Action Project is a creativ...

A Severe Drought Pushes an Imperiled Amazon to the Brink

A Severe Drought Pushes an Imperiled Amazon to the Brink

ahopper@mines.edu Oct 18, 2023  0  76

The Amazon rainforest is suffering from a severe drought that is not showing sig...

Hottest September on record puts 2023 on track to be warmest year ever

Hottest September on record puts 2023 on track to be wa...

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This September was the hottest one ever and 2023 is firmly set to be the warmest...

Utah's Wildcat Loadout Project: A New Colorado River Threat

Utah's Wildcat Loadout Project: A New Colorado River Th...

jaysonmartinez Oct 17, 2023  0  107

Oil production in Utah's Uinta Basin has increased thanks to new drilling techno...

Amazon rainforest port records lowest water level in 121 years amid drought

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It’s Time to Engineer the Sky

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Using AI and Indigenous Data to Predict the Movement of Ice

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Researchers say that using decades’ worth of physics, indigenous data, and stati...

Innovating for a Net-Zero Future: the Climate Tech Imperative at SXSW Sydney 2023

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Driving Cleaner

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Glacier Melting Causing Flooding and Hazards as Global Warming Continues

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As global warming continues to impact our world, we are seeing changes everywher...

Restoration in Manafwa District

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UN Sustainable Development Goals

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1. Are you advancing or impeding progress toward SDG No. 1: End poverty in all its forms?

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1. Are you advancing or impeding progress toward SDG No. 1: End poverty in all its forms?

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18.8 %
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6.3 %

2. Are you advancing or impeding progress toward SDG No. 2: End hunger, achieve food security?

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0 %

3. Are you advancing or impeding progress toward SDG No. 3: Ensure healthy lives?

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4. Are you advancing or impeding progress toward SDG No. 4: Ensure inclusive education?

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5. Are you advancing or impeding progress toward SDG No. 5: Achieve gender equality?

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6. Are you advancing or impeding progress toward SDG No. 6: Ensure availability of water, sanitation?

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7. Are you advancing or impeding progress toward SDG No. 7: Ensure access to sustainable energy?

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0 %

8. Are you advancing or impeding progress toward SDG No. 8: Promote inclusive economic growth?

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12.5 %

9. Are you advancing or impeding progress toward SDG No. 9: Build resilient infrastructure?

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11.1 %

10. Are you advancing or impeding progress toward SDG No. 10: Reduce inequality among countries?

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10. Are you advancing or impeding progress toward SDG No. 10: Reduce inequality among countries?

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88.9 %
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11.1 %
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0 %

11. Are you advancing or impeding progress toward SDG No. 11: Make cities safe and sustainable?

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11. Are you advancing or impeding progress toward SDG No. 11: Make cities safe and sustainable?

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87.5 %
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12.5 %

12. Are you advancing or impeding progress toward SDG No. 12: Ensure sustainable development?

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85.7 %
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14.3 %
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0 %

13. Are you advancing or impeding progress toward SDG No. 13: Urgent action to combat climate change?

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13. Are you advancing or impeding progress toward SDG No. 13: Urgent action to combat climate change?

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12.5 %
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0 %

14. Are you advancing or impeding progress toward SDG No. 14: Conserve the ocean?

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14. Are you advancing or impeding progress toward SDG No. 14: Conserve the ocean?

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0 %

15. Are you advancing or impeding progress toward SDG No. 15: Protect terrestrial ecosystems?

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15. Are you advancing or impeding progress toward SDG No. 15: Protect terrestrial ecosystems?

Total Vote: 8

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100 %
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0 %
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0 %

16. Are you advancing or impeding progress toward SDG No. 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies?

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16. Are you advancing or impeding progress toward SDG No. 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies?

Total Vote: 9

Advancing progress.
88.9 %
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11.1 %
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0 %

17. Are you advancing or impeding progress toward SDG No. 17: Strengthen the global partnership?

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17. Are you advancing or impeding progress toward SDG No. 17: Strengthen the global partnership?

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