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Low economic growth can help keep climate change within the 1.5°C threshold
19 Dec 2023
A new study shows that economic growth rates make a big difference when it comes to prospects for limiting global warming to 1.5 °C, as per the Paris Agreement.
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Jeroen van den Bergh: "We cannot keep expecting COPs to solve the climate crisis"
18 Dec 2023
Following the completion of COP28, held earlier this month in Dubai, ICTA-UAB climate policy researcher Jeroen van den Bergh says we cannot keep expecting...
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La emergencia climática, teatralizada por científicos del ICTA-UAB
14 Dec 2023
Los investigadores del ICTA-UAB implicados en el programa "Jóvenes, Ciencia y Ética" de la Fundación Catalana para la Investigación y la Innovación (FCRI)...
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Drivers of social-ecological changes in Important Agricultural Heritage Systems? Small-scale farmers identify them
04 Dec 2023
Climate change, alongside other local biophysical, social and economic factors such as deforestation or overexploitation, constitute the main drivers of...
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ICTA-UAB to organize Growth vs Climate Conference 2024
30 Nov 2023
Human activity is irreversibly changing our planet, especially our climate. The voracious demand for fossil fuels and natural resources has led us to an...
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A new map points at the impacts of Rare Earths
27 Nov 2023
A map created by the Debt Observatory in Globalization in collaboration with the Environmental Justice Atlas of ICTA-UAB, the Institute for Policy Studies...
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School zone traffic calming measures promote citizen health and coexistence
27 Nov 2023
The school environment is a priority area for the health and well-being of children and their families. That is why since 2020, the "Protecting Schools"...
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Panagiota Kotsila receives an ERC Consolidator Grant
23 Nov 2023
ICTA-UAB researcher Panagiota Kotsila has received a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to develop the project “Embracing Immigrant...
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New ICTA-UAB Ombudsman, Dr Josep Enric Llebot
22 Nov 2023
Since last October, Dr. Josep Enric Llebot has been the new ICTA-UAB Ombudsman Officer, a new position created in the Institute with the aim of receiving and...
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Green growth loses weight as a consensus position in the European Parliament
17 Nov 2023
Politicians in the European Parliament are supportive of post-growth and ecosocialist positions to tackle the climate crisis, and not only green growth.