SSC Newsletter 29: Global warming is leading us into an unfamiliar world

World temperature records were broken earlier this week when the average global temperature hit 17.18C. Experts expect the record to be broken again very soon because data suggests, that this year’s warmest days are still to come – and with them the warmest days ever recorded. Until the start of this week, the hottest day on record was in 2016, during the last El Niño global weather event, when the global average temperature reached 16.92C.

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SSC Newsletter 26: Publication of Heatwave Policy Brief

We are delighted that 'The 2022 heatwaves: England’s response and future preparedness for heat risk' Policy Brief was published yesterday and attracted a lot of media attention. Starting last summer, during the heatwaves of 2022, SSC worked in collaboration with colleagues from the Grantham Research Institute for Climate Change - London School of Economics and Political Science, the Place-Based Climate Action Network (PCAN) and the Red Cross.

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SSC Newsletter 24: awarded BCUS project 2023

Each year, the Brussels Centre for Urban Studies funds several projects led by VUB research groups and researchers. Each of the awarded projects engages with the broad field of urban studies and with concepts linked to inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives on cities and ‘the urban’, comparative urbanism and engaged research connecting academia with other actors and networks. One of the winners of the 2023 edition is Silent Spring Consultants with the following project:

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SSC Newsletter 23: Beating the heat.

Extreme heat and drought is a global climate challenge of concern to Silent Spring Consultants who since the heatwave of 2022 have been working in collaboration with a range of stakeholders the United Kingdom and Europe.  The world’s cities are heating up at twice the global average rate due to rapid urbanization and the urban heat island effect. By 2100, many cities across the world could warm as much as 4 degrees Celsius (°C) if GHG emissions continue at high levels – this is more than double the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting global temperature rise to no more than 1.5°C.

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