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Category: Climate Change

The Environment and “Socialist” States

1 May 202211 May 2022
Raul Zambrano
Climate Change, Economics, Governance, Human Development, Inequality
Thirty-six years after it first broke the news for the wrong reasons, Chernobyl is back in the headlines thanks to the horrible and absurd Russian invasion. Sixteen months before the well-known Soviet nuclear meltdown of 1986, a plant located in Read more

Global Wealth Distribution

15 December 20214 January 2022
Raul Zambrano
Climate Change, Economics, Human Development
GDP (Gross Domestic Product), the statistic most frequently used to measure wealth creation in terms of goods and services, has been the subject of critical review for the last 25 years. Green National Accounting (GNA) and the ensuing Green National Read more

Natural Disasters and Carbon Concentration

15 March 20204 April 2020
Raul Zambrano
Climate Change, Economics, Human Development
In 1988, the Brussels-based Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) launched the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) with the idea of promoting national and international humanitarian support to countries and regions affected by such events. Having a structured Read more

Carbon Removal Policies for the U.S?

28 February 20205 March 2020
Raul Zambrano
Climate Change, Economics, Governance, Innovation
Founded almost 40 years ago with the financial support of the MacArthur Foundation, the World Resources Institute (WRI) is one of the U.S most prominent research organizations working on environmental issues since its inception. The entity centers its efforts on Read more

Technology and Earth Hacking

10 February 20203 March 2020
Raul Zambrano
Climate Change, Governance, Inequality, Innovation
Hacking the Sky Low, angry gray clouds, seemingly non-stop light rain and damp breathing air were hometown weather traits that most bothered me when I was growing up. Like most other children, I had a fascination with airplanes and could Read more

More CO2: Consumption-based Emissions

10 November 201922 December 2019
Raul Zambrano
Climate Change, Human Development
In a previous post, I explored the relationship between C02 emissions, country income levels and population looking at production data only. Here, emissions are assigned to the country where goods or services are produced or generated, disregarding final consumption. In Read more

A Glance at Carbon Dioxide Emissions Data

1 October 20196 December 2019
Raul Zambrano
Climate Change, Economics, Governance, Social Innovation
Lack of data is certainly not one of the issues at the table when discussing energy production and carbon emissions. Well-known sources for the former include the UN Statistics Division, the International Energy Agency (IEA), the U.S. Energy Information Administration Read more

Blockchains and Food Safety

10 September 201915 February 2021
Raul Zambrano
Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Climate Change, Human Development, Innovation
Trade is one of the main trademarks of the globalization process. Nowadays, most countries exchange products and services regularly and use local comparative advantages to specialize in specific trade sectors and/or commodities. Food and agricultural products are important components of Read more

Waste no time waiting for e-Waste data

31 October 20185 January 2019
Raul Zambrano
Blockchain, Climate Change, Human Development, Social Innovation
The town where I currently reside is planning to change its e-Waste collection policy starting next year. As it is today, town people can go downtown once a month and drop their old computers, laptops, monitors and the rest. This Read more

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