Global Climate Change and Solutions that Scale
The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a report in March 2023 warning of the dire consequences to come if annual global mean temperature increases by 1.5 degrees Celsius over preindustrial levels, which could happen in the first half of the 2030s. Humanity is expected to face crippling heat waves, flooding, drought, mass […]
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Clearing the Air
Welcome to this special report highlighting clean and sustainable energy research at the University of California, Irvine. As UC Irvine was being established in the mid-1960s, its leaders envisioned an institution designed with an architecture – both figuratively and literally – to address emerging environmental consequences of the industrial age. In those early days, Scott […]
Global Climate Change and Solutions that Scale
The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a report in March 2023 warning of the dire consequences to come if annual global mean temperature increases by 1.5 degrees Celsius over preindustrial levels, which could happen in the first half of the 2030s. Humanity is expected to face crippling heat waves, flooding, drought, mass […]