CARBON NEUTRALITY
Anthropogenic climate change is largely contributed to the release of greenhouse gas emissions from human industrialization. Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is one of the biggest contributors and enters the Earth’s atmoshpere via the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, natural gas, and oil.
We have the technologies today to supply the world with clean non-carbon energy but unfortunately not the collective or political will-power to fully implement such changes.
The CRUNCH research aims to help municiplaties and communities make decisions to get to net-zero carbon emissions.
Image: Scenario of the role of negative emissions technologies in reaching net zero emissions. NOTE: For any concentration and type of greenhouse gas (e.g. methane, perfluorocarbons, and nitrous oxide) CO2e signifies the concentration of CO2 which would have the same amount of radiative forcing.
SOURCE: UNEP, 2017.
Resilience
Resilience: Meaningless Jargon or Development solutions?
Donors, recipient governments and implementing agencies are selling ‘resilience’ to the public without a clear definition or a money-back guarantee
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SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN, 2013.
Measuring Resilience: A Concept Note on the Resilience Tool
The resilience tool provides a framework for understanding the most effective combination of short and long term strategies for lifting families out of cycles of poverty and hunger. It is based on the principle that the factors that make households resilient to food security shocks must first be understood, and then strengthened.
SOURCE: FAO.