Emerging Climate Risks and what will it take to limit global warming to 2.0°C?
The science challenges and gaps for transitioning to a low carbon society and limiting warming well below 2°C - as well as the actions needed.
24.11.2021
Top tips for presenting your data according to research
What do we really know about how to present complex data in ways that are easy to understand and have impacts that might help address complex issues such as climate change? Dr Lucy Richardson explores some of the useful tips provided by data visualisation and communication research that can help you effectively communicate complex information.
19.11.2021
World Philosophy Day: Addressing science scepticism requires a stronger understanding of the philosophy of science
On the occasion of World Philosophy Day, Nancy Cartwright (Vice President, International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology) and Benedikt Löwe (Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology) call for a stronger basic understanding of the philosophy of science.
18.11.2021
How to teach energy transition and climate in business schools
Achieving the aims of the Paris Agreement and stablizing warming under 1.5˚C will require deep emissions cuts in the private sector. In this long-read blog, Aurélien Acquier and Pierre Peyretou explain why deep disciplinary renewal within management education is required to strengthen understanding of sustainability principles in the corporate world. They show that the topic of energy transition can lay the ground for a truly transversal and systemic understanding of climate issues and planetary boundaries, and help understand how such planetary boundaries are connected with business activities.
18.11.2021
Major scientific assessment of the Amazon region issues urgent call to end deforestation and avert tipping points
Launched at COP26 on 12 November, a new interdisciplinary report calls for immediate action to protect the unique Amazon region.
15.11.2021
Amplifying the voices of at-risk, displaced and refugee scientists
The ISC Presents: Science in Exile podcast series aimed to pass the microphone to displaced and refugee scientists themselves, to tell their stories about how displacement affects research careers.
12.11.2021
Urban Health and Wellbeing in the Anthropocene
The 2021-2025 interdisciplinary science-action plan from the Urban Health and Wellbeing Programme takes a systems view of cities as the loci of solutions for healthy people and a healthy planet.
11.11.2021
World Science Day for Peace and Development: supporting at-risk, displaced and refugee scientists.
A call to action from UNESCO-TWAS, IAP and ISC in the framework of the Science in Exile initiative to support at-risk, displaced and refugee scientists.
10.11.2021
Building resilience in a climate challenged world
In a blog from COP26, Emily Gvino and Felix Dodds, of the Water Insititute at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, share their insights into what happens at a Climate Summit, and what this year's COP could mean for future action on disaster risk reduction and building resilience.
09.11.2021
Climate change projections for Pakistan: the need for sustainable solutions to protect its people and biodiversity
In this blog, Dr. Athar Hussain presents two aspects of climate change in Pakistan: a brief quantitative description of average rising temperature rates in recent years, as well as projected changes in patterns of temperature and precipitations that may occur in Pakistan's future.
08.11.2021