Goal 13: Climate action

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Health and wellbeing; Sustainable cities and human settlements, Global

Global Urban Heat Island Mitigation - Chapter 4: Urban heat island: land cover changes, management, and mitigation strategies

Sabiha Sultana, A.N.V. Satyanarayana, Chapter 4 - Urban heat island: land cover changes, management, and mitigation strategies, Editor(s): Ansar Khan, Hashem Akbari, Francesco Fiorito, Sk Mithun, Dev Niyogi, Global Urban Heat Island Mitigation, Elsevier, 2022, Pages 71-93, ISBN 9780323855396, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-85539-6.00009-3.

This chapter advances UN SDG goals 11, 13, and 3 by discussing Remote Sensing-based strategies for managing land cover and ultimately mitigating anthropogenic heating and excess emission of GHG and pollutants by promoting green belts, vast plantation programs, and utilizing carbon-credit projects.

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Health and wellbeing; Sustainable cities and human settlements, Global

Applied Environmental Metabolomics: Community Insights and Guidance from the Field - Chapter 14: Exploring the coral bleaching tipping point with 13C metabolomics

Applied Environmental Metabolomics, 2022, pp 199-209

This chapter aligns with Goal 14: Life Below Water and Goal 13: Climate Action by exploring the application of stable isotope tracing and metabolomics to monitor coral responses to thermal and oxidative stress in order to predict the fitness implications of continued sea warming.

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Oceans & Seas; Biodiversity and ecosystems, Global

Seaweeds, an aquatic plant-based protein for sustainable nutrition - A review

Future Foods, Volume 5, June 2022

The eminent protein sources among the vegetarian population include cereals and pulses that do not satisfy the Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) level.

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Food security and nutrition and sustainable agriculture; Plant-based Food Development, Global

The compatibility of circularity and national dietary recommendations for animal products in five European countries: a modelling analysis on nutritional feasibility, climate impact, and land use

The Lancet Planetary Health, Volume 6, June 2022

An Article in support of SDGs 2, 13, and 15, assessing the environmental consequences and nutritional contributions of national food-based dietary guidelines while considering circular food system principles

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Food security and nutrition and sustainable agriculture; Sustainable consumption and production, Europe

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Assessment of Urban Water Energy Interactions and Heat Island Signatures in Rhode Island

Energy Nexus, Volume 7, September 2022, 100093

This article supports SDGs 9, 11 and 13 by employing an Urban-Water-Energy (UWE)-Nexus approach to understand water and energy demand and their interactions in both space and time for Rhode Island and quantifies the extent and exposure of the Urban Heat Island effects among its towns and urban populations using high-resolution details.

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Sustainable cities and human settlements, North America

Credible biodiversity offsetting needs public national registers to confirm no net loss

One Earth, Volume 5, 17 June 2022

This article considers barriers in tracking no net loss (NNL) outcomes, outline criteria of public offset registers to enable accessible and credible reporting of NNL, and show how existing registers fail to satisfy those criteria.

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Biodiversity and ecosystems, Global

Local waste management successfully reduces coastal plastic pollution

One Earth, Volume 5, 17 June 2022

Local actions have been considered as an important path for effective climate actions, but the extent to which community-level plastic waste elimination actions can be effective in coastal regions are unclear. This article leverage a nation-wide case study in Australia to show that community-level plastic pollution reduction actions can result in large benefits, regardless whether the plastic pollution was originated from the community or not.

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Oceans & Seas; Multi-stakeholder partnerships; Chemicals and waste, Oceania

Imperiled: The Encyclopedia of Conservation - Restoring Biodiversity and Living With Nature (Based Solutions)

Mark John Costello, Restoring Biodiversity and Living With Nature (Based Solutions), Editor(s): Dominick A. DellaSala, Michael I. Goldstein, Imperiled: The Encyclopedia of Conservation, Elsevier, 2022, Pages 7-14, ISBN 9780128211397

This chapter advances the UN SDG goals 12, 13 and 17 focussing on the restoration of biodiversity, which has become an international priority. Recognizing that it is difficult to determine when biodiversity has recovered, five indicators of recovery are proposed.

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Biodiversity and ecosystems; Indicators, Global

Pumped Hydro Energy Storage for Hybrid Systems - Chapter 2 - Need for pumped hydro energy storage systems

Felix A. Diawuo, Roland Teye Amanor, Chapter 2 - Need for pumped hydro energy storage systems, Editor(s): Amos T. Kabo-Bah, Felix A. Diawuo, Eric O. Antwi, Pumped Hydro Energy Storage for Hybrid Systems, Academic Press, 2023, Pages 23-41, ISBN 9780128188538

This chapter provides information on the benefits of pumped hydro energy storage as a means of providing consisent renewable energy power generation, offering power network management including load balancing and peak shaving, and grid stabilization with emphasis on frequency and voltage regulation. Additionally, the chapter highlights some of the different pumped hydro energy storage hybrid designs for both off-grid and grid-tied applications while the impact of climate change is discussed.

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