Collaborating groups are working to understand the impact of climate change in the physical, social or indigenous environment.
Author J. Ibeh Agbanyim suggests five principles for a successful collaboration. These are: trusting that all members of the group wish to succeed; respect of others ideas; willing to listen and share ideas; empowering group members; and building effective communication.
Climate Literacy: The Essential Principles of Climate Science is information that is important for individuals and communities to know and understand about Earth’s climate, impacts of climate change, and approaches to adaptation or mitigation.
ATMOSPHERE
The atmosphere is the envelope of gases that surround Earth. If you look at the atmosphere’s chemical composition, it’s mostly nitrogen and oxygen.
CRYOSPHERE
If you take water from the hydrosphere and freeze it, then it becomes part of the cryosphere. The cryosphere is the all-encompassing term for locations where water is in solid form.
If you take rocks from the lithosphere and erode them over time, you get soil in the pedosphere.
Outer shell of Earth. We can divide it into the continental and oceanic crust. The oceanic crust consists of the youngest rocks on Earth.
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Sustainable Development Goals
The SDGs are sustainable, interconnected, and global. To achieve these goals, countries need to cooperate.
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from David Fogarty, Climate Change Editor at The Straits Times
Power grids are increasingly vulnerable to the worsening impacts of climate change.
High-voltage power lines, underground cables, and the poles and wires that connect homes and businesses, can all be damaged by stronger storms, floods and wildfires as well as heatwaves and cold snaps.
Often, we don't think about these risks and take grids for granted -- until the power goes out.
Which is what happened in the Australian state of Victoria on Feb 13 this year, when a storm blew over six ageing transmission towers as well as smaller powerlines, knocking out power for about 1.5 million people.
I really enjoyed researching and writing this commentary for The Straits Times about the need for greater climate resilience for power grids globally, especially in Asia where grids are growing quickly.
The good news: Grids can be made more resilient and investments are happening. Stronger transmission towers, more interconnections to boost redundancy, putting power cables underground, fire-proofing power poles, regular tree pruning and grass cutting in fire-prone areas, better extreme weather forecasting, and -- not building big transmission towers at all.
Grids are expanding in part because of growing populations, greater electrification of societies (eg, more EVs, and electrical appliances), but also to link up huge amounts of new solar, wind and battery storage projects.
But distributed renewable energy -- small, localised grids -- can help make local communities energy independent and less reliant on the main grid.
The bottomline: Governments need to prioritise grid investment and national adaptation strategies need to include clear action plans to strengthen the power transmission network. Weak grids will only hold back the global fight against climate change and prove very costly down the line.
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