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Experimente gewinnen zunehmend an Bedeutung in gesellschaftlichen Gestaltungs- und Innovationsprozessen; insbesondere im Kontext von städtischen Nachhaltigkeitstransitionen.

Emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) and particulate matter (PM) from traffic sources are modelled for the City of Berlin with a bottom-up approach using HBEFA emission factors.

This paper presents the development of an open-source toolkit aimed to help industrial clusters design (economically and environmentally) optimal pathways towards net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, critical to reaching the Paris and Glasgow

The cement industry which is characterised by the highest carbon intensity per unit of revenue among all major industries needs to rapidly reduce their CO2 equivalent (CO2e) emissions to reach carbon neutrality.

Economic disruption associated with the Covid-19 pandemic and the current energy and – potentially economic – crisis related to the war in Ukraine emphasize the importance of understanding and managing crises’ immediate and lasting effects on deca

Understanding and managing systemic risk is more important than ever due to our immense global connectivity (e.g., between sectors, such as food-health-water-energy, countries and continents, down to individuals).

To achieve the ambitious but necessary climate targets set by the Paris Agreement, the IPCC model pathways for limiting global warming to 1.5°C compared to pre-industrial levels make apparent the need for safeguarding and enhancing the natural glo

Technical innovations of the digitization lead to significant changes in society. From the point of view of computer science, the main focus is at the technical side of innovations or at the clear economical aspects for the clients.

This paper presents the main technological achievements of the first 3-gigawatt-class HVDC superconducting cable system, which was manufactured and successfully tested in the European project Best Paths.

Rising climate change requires rapid changes in high emitting industries such as the cement industry.

The environmental crisis due to air pollution, high CO2 emissions, noise from traffic and soil ceiling requires profound changes to the car-dependent transport system.

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A multi-scale modelling system was developed to provide hourly NOx concentrations field at building resolving scale in the urban area of Modena.

The objective of this work is to present a high-resolution, urban scale large-eddy simulation (LES) frameworkfor modelling dispersion and chemical transformation of nitrogen oxides (NOx=NO + NO2) from urban traffic.

Indo-gangetic plain (IGP) and Himalayan foothills have large spatial and temporal heterogeneity in aerosols characteristics.

Known as "the Third Pole" (TP), the Tibetan Plateau and surrounding mountains hold the largest aggregate of glaciers outside the pole regions.

Kathmandu valley located in the foothills of Himalaya in Nepal suffers from serious air pollution problems.

The Kathmandu Valley in the Himalayan foothills, considered as one of the global "hot spots" for what concerns air pollution, is currently facing severe air quality problems due to rapid urbanization processes, dramatic land use changes, socioecon

The EU-funded collaborative project BEST PATHS explores new pathways for delivering reliable power in Europe through the large-scale integration of growing shares of renewable energy.

Intense fog events have been observed during winter months over the Indo-Gangetic Plain.

In this article we explain the relatively successful performance of the EU in climate and energy governance by essentially two factors: (1) multi-level reinforcement and (2) the mobilization of economic interests at different levels of governance

In Central Asia, more than 60 % of the population depends on water stored in glaciers and mountain snow.

In this work, results for the different MgB2 wires and cables designed in Best Paths will be presented, with a focus on the critical parameters influencing the cable manufacturing.

Accurate knowledge of tropospheric ozone is important for understanding its current and future effects on human health, air quality, and climate.

Integration and harmonization of large spatial data sets is not only since the introduction of the spatial data infrastructure INSPIRE a big issue.

The recognition of soils and their functions by the public and, in particular, the planning community isgenerally poor.

The urban ecosystem and its ecosystem services (ESs) are managed for the wellbeing of urbandwellers. Thus, sustainable urban development depends on ESs aside economic, cultural and politicaldimensions.

Air pollution is largely unstudied in sub-Saharan Africa, resulting in a large gap in scientific understanding of emissions, atmospheric processes and impacts of air pollutants in this region.

The Kathmandu Valley, an urban basin in Nepal, is subject to extreme air pollution events.

Ceilometers have been used for several meteorological applications, often in the framework of air qualitystudies.

The BEST PATHS project is focused on the development and demonstration of grid equipment suitable for bulk power transmission across Europe.

A comprehensive regional assessment of emission sources is a major hindrance for a complete understanding of the air quality and for designing appropriate mitigation solutions in Nepal, a landlocked country in foothills of the Himalaya.

The EURODELTA-Trends exercise is a multi-model experiment in which seven regional models performed anair quality hindcast over Europe for the 1990-2010 period at regional-scale resolution (25km).

Realistic simulation of physical and dynamical processes happening in the Arctic surface and atmosphere, and the interacting feedbacks of these processes is still a challenge for Arctic climate modelers.

High seas and deep sea governance is progressing through the UN BBNJ process. At the same time the International Seabed Authority is developing a Mining Code for the Area.

Within the FP7-funded BEST PATHS project, a demonstration area is aiming to validate the MgB2 technology for HVDC power transmission.

Space charge measurements under operating conditions bring useful information on the behavior of the insulating material at high voltage and low temperature.

The European project BEST PATHS was initiated with the aim of developing state-of-the-art high-power transmission technologies. In this work, the AC losses in a superconducting MgB2 cable are estimated for various operating conditions.

Having been enmeshed in modernity’s quest for innovative progress on one hand, and in attempts at fundamental critique and warning on the other, academic research nowadays struggles both with a positive conceptual framing of sustainability transfo

Many European cities continue to struggle with exceedances of NO2 limit values at measurement sites near roads, of which a large contribution is attributed to emissions from traffic.

Our understanding of the transport of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from the Indo–Gangetic Plains(IGP) to the Himalayas remains limited.

In this contribution the vision, contents, process and structure for a collaborative research repository of indicator-based sustainability assessment tools is outlined.

Black Carbon (BC) is an important short-lived climate-forcing pollutant contributing to global warming through absorption of sunlight.

Anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide and methane - key greenhouse gases (GHGs) - are primary causes of global warming and resultant impacts.

The properties and the vertical structure of the mixing layer as part of the planetary boundary layer are of key importance for local air quality.

Lumbini, in southern Nepal, is a UNESCO world heritage site of universal value as the birthplace of the Buddha.

Our knowledge about ambient black carbon (BC) in the vast Himalayan region, a region vulnerable to impacts of global warming, is very limited due to unavailability of a long-term ambient monitoring.

Programs to plant millions of trees in cities around the world aim at the reduction of summer temperatures,increase of carbon storage, storm water control, and recreational space, as well as at poverty alleviation.

With the emergence in the 1960s of international interest in the exploitation of deep-sea mineral resources, a majority of the actors involved at the time quickly established a position strongly oriented towards global justice with regard to the d

Air pollution in the Kathmandu valley is influenced by a variety of domestic and industrial sources such as garbage and biomass burning, brick kilns, and vehicular emissions.

An international field campaign SusKat-ABC (a Sustainable atmosphere for the Kathmandu Valley - AtmosphericBrown Clouds), was conducted during Dec 2012 – June 2013 in Kathmandu and surrounding regions to assess theinfluences of local and regional

It is vital to strengthen the capacity of communities and countries to prepare and adapt to the health impacts arising from climate change.

Mit den im September 2015 von den Vereinten Nationen verabschiedeten Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) der Agenda 2030 wurden erstmals soziale und ökologische Nachhaltigkeitsziele systematisch verknüpft.