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Professor Biermann invited to give a presentation in Dialogue Session of UN
Frank Biermann, professor with the VU Institute for Environmental Studies, has been invited to give a plenary presentation in the United Nations General Assembly on 22 April in New York City. He is the only scientist invited as plenary speaker for a special dialogue session of the Assembly, marking "Mother Earth Day". Biermann has called upon governments to embark on a fundamental reform of the United Nations Organization in order to speed up current political processes to protect the global environment.- Article on Brominated Flame Retardants of Ana Ballesteros-Gómez in Chemical and Engineering News
- Van den Bergh and Botzen publish in Nature Climate Change about the social cost of carbon
- In the journal 'Appetite', De Boer, Schösler and Aiking publish on alternative strategies to reduce meat consumption
- Global Land Project Open Science Meeting a success
- Brenden Jongman and colleagues publish in Nature Climate Change about European flood risk
- Publication on ecosystem services as a contested concept in Conservation Letters
- Digital Handbook on EU environmental policy launched
- Dematerialization in a Circular Economy for Europe
- Professor Aerts gets prestigious VICI scholarship of one and a half million euro from NWO
- Huitema and colleagues secure half a million Euros for Climate Governance Research
Events
7 April
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12-13 hour
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IVM; C-541
16 April
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11:45
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Auditorium VU
Mairon Bastos Lima defends PhD thesis on The Politics of Biofuel Governance and Sustainability
22 April
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tba
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Trustee Council Chamber, UN, New York
Professor Biermann gives presentation in Dialogue Session of UN
