by Ella Feathers | Jun 30, 2023 | AI, Big Data, Data, Featured
By Ella Feathers, with the input and technical expertise of Angel Hsu and Zhi Yi Yeo Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) applications are dominating headlines and public discourse for the threats and opportunities they pose to society. These...
by Ella Feathers | Jun 21, 2023 | Climate, Data, Featured
DDL Student researchers were on the ground at the UNFCCC conference this month, furthering our research about how non-state actors can participate in climate action Earlier this month, DDL student researchers Katherine Burley (PhD’26) and Christian Chung...
by Ella Feathers | Apr 14, 2023 | Data, Featured, Urban Environment and Social Inclusion Index
We have updated the Urban and Environment Social Inclusion Index (UESI), the first and only spatially-explicit index measuring cities’ environmental performance, equity, and progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 11, which charges urban areas to be sustainable...
by Ella Feathers | Mar 31, 2023 | Climate, Data, Featured, Policy
Last week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change formally approved and released the IPCC AR6 Synthesis report, the summary of latest climate science. It shows that while the stakes to reduce global warming are higher than ever, there are also more...
by Ella Feathers | Mar 24, 2023 | Climate, Data, Featured, Urban Environment and Social Inclusion Index
This blog was written by Tuviere Onookome-Okome, a researcher in epidemiology at DDL and the Samuel Centre for Social Connectedness. On July 28, 2010, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly recognized that safe and clean drinking water is a fundamental...
by Ella Feathers | Mar 3, 2023 | Data, Data Visualization, Energy, Featured
UNC PhD students Katherine Burley, Ying Yu and Beth Brown, have been selected for the Energy Data Analytics PhD Student Fellows program at Duke University. All three awardees are interested in energy and environmental policy research and are involved with DDL or Dr....
