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Enerdata 360° Newsletter — December 2021

Executive Brief –  The various hydrogen storage technologies The growing energy needs and the climate challenge call for a massive development of renewable energy sources. At this point, large scale electricity storage solutions hardly handle this growing renewable energy fluctuation. This is the reason why new technologies need to be explored, and hydrogen is foreseen as a promising vector for storing…

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Nature sustainability, December 2021

Volume 4 Issue 12, December 2021 Future coastal hardening The world’s coasts are increasingly covered with built structures, such as piers and seawalls. Using New Zealand as a case study, Floerl and colleagues find that coastal infrastructure has replaced more than half of the coastline of 30 urban centres worldwide…

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THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS < ISEE Elections News The Election for the ISEE Board 2022 will be launched on Friday, December 17. The election process will be open for ten days, and only members of ISEE can vote. If your membership has lapsed, do please renew on our…

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Nature ecology & evolution

Volume 5 Issue 12, December 2021 Armoured ankylosaur The holotype specimen of the armoured dinosaur Spicomellus afer. Spicomellus (pictured here) is the earliest ankylosaur so far described and the first from Africa. The specimen comprises spikes directly fused to the animal’s ribs, a morphology unique to this species. See Maidment…

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Nature reviews earth & environment, december 2021

Volume 2 Issue 12, December 2021 Mangroves, tidal marshes and seagrass meadows have historically been lost or degraded, threatening their ability to store carbon and provide ecosystem services. This Review details the global potential of blue carbon ecosystem protection and restoration in climate change mitigation, through carbon sequestration and co-benefit…

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Nature Climate Change December 2021

Volume 11 Issue 12, December 2021 Warming accelerates Southern Ocean flow Understanding the impacts of climate change on circulation in the Southern Ocean is limited by its remoteness and the lack of historical observations. Writing in this issue, Shi et al. use a combination of observations, CMIP6 and eddy-resolving models…

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Communications earth & environment

Featured Lunar-like silicate material forms the Earth quasi-satellite (469219) 2016 HO3 Kamoʻoalewa The Earth’s most stable quasi-satellite, Kamoʻoalewa, displays an extremely red reflectance spectrum typical of space weathering of lunar-like silicate material which raises the possibility that it is formed of material originating from the Moon Benjamin N. L. Sharkey…

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Actualidad científica, Noviembre

Actualidad científica: Del 1 al 29 de noviembre, 2021 COVID-19 La variante ómicron, fuertemente mutada, pone en alerta a los científicos Ewen Callaway Los investigadores se apresuran a determinar si esta variante de coronavirus de rápida propagación representa una amenaza para la eficacia de las vacunas contra la COVID-19. Neurociencia…

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Daily Energy News

Register to our daily newsletter Policy & Regulatory Germany’s new coalition government unveils new energy and climate targets 26 Nov 2021 Germany’s newly-formed coalition government has announced ambitious reforms to accelerate climate policies. It aims to advance the phase out of coal-fired power generation (by 2030) and to accelerate planning and approval procedures…

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Nature sustainability

Volume 4 Issue 11, November 2021 Human activity and landslide risk in Africa Population pressure and land-use change affect landslide risk. Depicker and colleagues analyse the impact of population dynamics, conflicts and deforestation on landslide risk in the Kivu Rift region (pictured), Eastern Africa. See Depickeret al. Image: Dr. Olivier…

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La evasión del compromiso climático

Escrito pormexico_social• 12 noviembre, 2021• 4:00 am• Ciencia, En Portada, Enrique Provencio, Medio Ambiente, Mundo, Notas A punto de concluir la Cumbre Glasgow, México sigue evadiendo tanto su responsabilidad global como el compromiso nacional con la transición climático. La representación oficial a la 26ª Conferencia de las Partes de la…

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Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Volume 2 Issue 11, November 2021 Anthropogenic climate change and environmental deterioration are driving global degradation of coral reefs. This Review examines how the natural adaptive capacity of coral holobionts can be harnessed and expanded to counter ongoing coral loss. See Voolstra et al. Image: David Fleetham/Alamy Stock Photo. Cover…

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Nature ecology & evolution (November 2021)

Volume 5 Issue 11, November 2021 Reproductive modes Life birth has evolved from egg-laying ancestors multiple times independently. The European common lizard, Zootoca vivipara (pictured here), is a rare example of a vertebrate with populations that are either egg-laying or live-bearing. Hybrids resulting from crosses between egg-laying and live-bearing lizards…

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Enerdata Newsletter, October 2021

Company news – Acquisition of Infinergia On September 30th, we acquired Infinergia,  a marketing and strategy consulting firm specialising in clean energy markets. This acquisition will enable us to further address new market opportunities by developing a new expertise on clean energy technologies and enlarging our offering. Read the press release Executive Brief –  Power storage…

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Communications earth & environment

Featured Research for climate adaptation Adaptation to climate change must be ramped up urgently. This Comment proposes three avenues to transform ambition to action: improve tracking of actions and progress, upscale investment especially in critical areas, and accelerate learning through practice. Bruce Currie-Alder Cynthia Rosenzweig Yang Wang Comment 18 Oct…

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Daily Energy News

Policy & Regulatory Ivory Coast may set more ambitious climate targets for 2030 22 Oct 2021 Ivory Coast plans to update its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), increasing its greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction target from 28% to 30% of the business-as-usual (BAU) scenario by 2030. This objective corresponds to a reduction of around 37 MtCO2eq in…

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Nature Energy October 2021

Volume 6 Issue 10, October 2021 Degradation in a vacuum Understanding the factors that reduce the power output of perovskite solar cells over time is key to their development. This image illustrates the greater structural and morphological degradation of the perovskite layer when solar cells are operated under vacuum instead…

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Nature sustainability

Volume 4 Issue 10, October 2021 Tuna-dependent economies and climate change Climate change will shift tuna fish away from the tropics. The study by Bell and colleagues finds two routes to sustaining the tuna-dependent economies of Pacific Small Island Developing States—reducing greenhouse gas emissions or negotiating to maintain the current…

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Alinear la reforma eléctrica a la transición energética

Escrito por • mexico_social• 8 octubre, 2021 • Enrique Provencio La reforma constitucional sobre la energía eléctrica tiene implicaciones muy diversas, y una de ellas se refiere al cambio de la matriz energética y a la acción climática, componentes clave de la lucha contra la crisis ambiental y de la…

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Nature Reviews Earth & Environment October 2021

Volume 2 Issue 10, October 2021 The transition to renewable energy requires notable quantities of technology metals and materials, the production of which causes substantial environmental damage. This Review discusses raw material extraction approaches that optimize technical performance and reduce environmental impacts. See Pell et al. Image: Opla/Getty Images. Cover…

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Nature ecology & evolution

Volume 5 Issue 10, October 2021 Monarch butterfly declines Monarch butterflies in eastern North America migrate thousands of kilometers, from central Mexico (seen here in winter colonies) to the Midwestern U.S. and southern Canada, over multiple generations each year. Integrating data on monarchs and potential stressors across the migratory cycle…

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Nature climate change

Volume 11 Issue 10, October 2021 Limits to flood adaptation River floods are expected to increase under climate change, requiring adaptation measures. Writing in this issue, Masahiro Tanoue et al. estimate the damage from floods globally after adaptation measures have been implemented, known as residual flood damage, under different scenarios….

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Daily Energy News

Policy & Regulatory Mexico unveils constitutional reform to strengthen power utility CFE 4 Oct 2021 Mexico has sent to Congress a constitutional reform seeking to strengthen the role of the state-owned power utility Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE) within the electricity sector. The reform would give a preferential treatment to the…

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