Climate change is one of the most urgent crises facing our world, it is inherently complex and needs multidisciplinary attention and action. This problem requires both more date and better insights into why the climate is changing and how rapidly. In addition, research can provide better insights into scenarios, possible strategies for mitigation and adaptation, how effective they may be and what the social and environmental costs will be. In brief, who needs to act and how.
One of the most impactful ways to tackle the challenge of climate change is the energy transition from fossil fuels to green energy sources, such as solar and wind energy. The energy transition will involve many levels in society and across many national and cultural boundaries, including: citizens, companies, public infrastructure, international trade agreements, laws, regulation and norms, and even introduce new challenges as nations look to secure access to scarce, strategic raw materials.
Sustainable planet also incorporates questions emerging from the increasing urgency of resources constraints of other basic raw materials, including food and water, and the limits to them. It encompasses studies of the types, sources and severity of environmental degradation caused by human actions, including damage to land, rivers and oceans and to bio-diversity (ultimately also to human health).
How can research help to address these issues? Most likely the solutions require a multidisciplinary approach.
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European Science Alliance Protect Our Winters
The Protect Our Winters (POW) Science Alliance is an alliance of renowned scientists from various disciplines, all of whom deal with...
Joint Call for Proposals on Solutions for Carbon-Neutral Cities

Funding body: Concert Japan, Bulgarian National Science Fund (BNSF), Bulgaria, France – National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)...
COST Action: Grant for funding networking activities
COST funds interdisciplinary research networks called COST Actions. These Actions bring together researchers, innovators and other...
Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL)
I'd be happy to connect researchers who lecture similar seminars to identify possibilities to set up COIL-courses. COIL stands for...
Collaboration Groups
New Technology Critic
Discussions around New Technology and their impact on society. Through the experimentation of new applications which need new...
COIL & Virtual Exchange - let's share ideas, good practices, and resources!
COIL & VE - what, how, why - and who?
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PhD research stay
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How to ENGAGE in this international research community
Beyond technology: A research agenda for social sciences and humanities research on renewable energy in Europe. S. Krupnik et al. (2022)
SDG interactions and current research gaps
Science, technology and innovation is not addressing world’s most urgent problems