January 2, 2022
Climate Crisis Solutions - Climate Genn Podcast
"With global agriculture across the world at high risk from rising temperatures and associated impacts, Ye’s team are proposing increasing the Earth’s reflectivity in order to reduce the temperature within the biosphere.
In this interview we go into some detail about how it works, resource requirements, where it would be deployed and the pathway to scaling up.
Social response is critical Ye also highlights the need for more understanding of psychology in order to be able to align the growing numbers of people around the world who are realising that our future is in a perilous state."
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Press October 2023
Africa's first heat officer is helping women keep cool in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown.
October 11, 2023
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MEERTALK October 2023
Overheating Cities on a Hot Planet This fascinating and inspiring talk centered around how to help overheating cities through urban engineering. Ronita Bardhan is an architectural engineer and urban studies educator, with a PhD in urban engineering. Bardhan leads the research group - Cambridge Sustainable Design Group (SDG). Her research is centered around data-driven design of built environment for precision prevention from health and energy burdens in the warming climate. She triangulates building physics, engineering, and social science data to develop solutions for realising health and low-carbon energy potential in built environments. Bardhan works on climate heat stress & health in built environment. She has extensively worked in Slum Rehabilitation (social) housing (in India, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa and Brazil).
October 1, 2023
MEERTALK
