Measured Insights
The latest blog posts from our research projects.
Mapping Nature Play Spaces in New York City (SCSC)
This blog was written by Laura Murphy, Samuel Centre for Social Connectedness Fellow and DDL collaborator.
NASEM Report: Greenhouse Gas Information for Decision Making
On October 4th, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Committee on Development of a Framework for Evaluating Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Information for Decision Making released a report examining approaches to evaluate...
Measuring Income Disparities through Heat in Collaboration with the Samuel Center for Social Connectedness
by Tuviere Onookome-Okome During the summer of 2022, the Northeast has seen unprecedented temperatures. Boston broke its daily record, seeing temperatures reach 100 degrees at the Boston Logan International Airport (Source) where the previous record-high temperature...
Casting the Net (Zero) Wide: Determinants of Ambitious Targets & Trade-Offs for Subnational Climate Action
Analysis of climate policy documents from 318 cities shows that specific text patterns can predict ambitious plans and that deciding cities’ climate strategies involves trade-offs.
Read the paper published in npj Urban Sustainability.
Accounting Global Climate Mitigation Actions for The Expanding Subnational Commitments: A Conversation with Kaihui Song
The Data-Driven EnviroLab welcomes Kaihui Song, our new postdoctoral research associate. Kaihui obtained her Ph.D. in Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland. She is a sustainability enthusiast and a well-trained professional with over nine years of experience in sustainable development and the circular economy. Here are some of her thoughts on her experiences with global emission accounting and researching subnational climate actions…
DDL Receives National Science Foundation Grant To Develop an Empirical Model of Subnational Climate Action
Data-Driven EnviroLab’s Principal Investigator, Dr. Angel Hsu, has received a $503,819 grant from the National Science Foundation for a 3-year research project, “Catalyzing virtuous cycles of climate action: an empirical model of polycentric climate governance.” The...
DDL Director Angel Hsu helps UNC’s interdisciplinary team secure $900,000 for Southeast Asia studies
DDL Director Angel Hsu is part of a UNC interdisciplinary team that secured a $900,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation through its Initiative on the study of Southeast Asia. The project “Bringing Southeast Asia Home,” coordinated by the Carolina Asia Center, will...
Cities strive to improve environmental performance, but most of them fail to provide benefits equally
The Urban Environment and Social Inclusion Index, first launched in 2018, is the only spatially-explicit index that shows on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood basis how cities perform on Sustainable Development Goal 11’s charge for inclusive urban development. The 2022...
Cities on the Sustainability Frontlines: Measuring Social Inclusion and Environmental Performance
The Data-Driven EnviroLab will be hosting the webinar "Cities on the Sustainability Frontlines: Measuring Social Inclusion and Environmental Performance" from 10:00 - 11:30 am EST on Thursday, July 14. This briefing will introduce key insights and highlights from the...
Large companies committing to net zero hits critical mass in Europe, but major credibility gaps remain in global national, regional, city and corporate targets
More than one-third (702) of world’s largest publicly traded companies now have net zero targets, up from one-fifth (417) in December 2020. But, 65% (456/702) of corporate targets do not yet meet minimum procedural reporting standards. National net zero targets set in...
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