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Natural Disasters and Carbon Concentration

15 March 20204 April 2020 Raul Zambrano

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 […]

Carbon Removal Policies for the U.S?

28 February 20205 March 2020 Raul Zambrano

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 […]

Technology and Earth Hacking

10 February 20203 March 2020 Raul Zambrano

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 […]

More CO2: Consumption-based Emissions

10 November 201922 December 2019 Raul Zambrano

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 […]

A Glance at Carbon Dioxide Emissions Data

1 October 20196 December 2019 Raul Zambrano

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, […]