“In Solidarity for a Green World” is the theme of the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29), a high-level international summit that will take place from 11-22 November in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, to enhance collaboration between countries to facilitate the path towards energy transition and the fight against climate change. This global summit, which represents a crucial opportunity to accelerate action to tackle the climate crisis, involves a team of specialists led by Professor Martí Orta-Martínez, from the Faculty of Biology and the Institute for Research on Biodiversity (IRBio) at the University of Barcelona, and with the participation of experts Guillem Rius-Taberner, Alejandro Marcos and Gorka Muñoa (UB, IRBio).
In order to limit the increase in global average temperature to 1.5°C, it is essential to drastically reduce carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions in the atmosphere. This would mean not exploiting most of the existing coal, conventional gas and oil energy resources in regions around the world, according to research led by the University of Barcelona and published in the journal Nature Communications. The new article presents the atlas of unburnable oil in the world, a world map designed with environmental and social criteria that warns which oil resources should not be exploited to meet the commitments of the Paris Agreement signed in 2015 to mitigate the effects of climate change.
Members of PALADYN-ERC project (N. Davtian, O. Teruel and A. Rosell) participate in the SAGA10W campaign in the South Atlantic, to sail on board the B/O Sarmiento de Gamboa from Punta Arenas (Chile) to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Our goal is to measure the distribution of pyrogenic carbon in the deep ocean to understand the fate in the ocean of atmospheric emissions of biomass burning aerosols. The SAGA project (The South Atlantic Gateway in the Global Conveyor Belt) is led by Prof. Alonso Hernández-Guerra (Instituto de Oceanografía y Cambio Global - ULPGC) and Prof. Josep Lluís Pelegrí (ICM-CSIC).
Núria Penalva and Antoni Rosell, as a contribution to the PALADYN-ERC project, participated in the EN651 scientific expedition in the tropical Atlantic Ocean to collect samples from fires in tropical Africa. The work is a contribution towards understanding the variations in the atmospheric circulation in the past and to predict rain pattern changes in the future. IMAGE from: Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)
