This past July, I was invited to present our Urban Environment and Social Inclusion Index (UESI) at the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Annual Meeting of the New Champions (AMNC ’19) in Dalian, China as part of the Global Situation Space forum. This space...
Cities pack a lot of heat. Increasing human activity and the clearing of land for infrastructure are quickly driving up their temperatures. This local phenomenon, known as the urban heat island (UHI) effect, is compounded by rising temperatures from global climate...
Photo Credits: Marc-Olivier Jodoin on Unsplash. Originally posted on the Samuel Centre for Social Connectedness website. As Montréal cools down from a boiling weekend during which Environment Canada warned of humidex values reaching a high of 45 degrees, the...
Photo courtesy of the World Bank Innovate4Climate Summit. Claire Krummenacher, Yale-NUS College ’20, contributed to this blog post. On June 6 at the Marina Bay Sands Convention Centre, I had the privilege of joining Gwen Robinson, Chief Editor of the Nikkei...
The Urban Environment and Social Inclusion Index (UESI), which measures cities’ environmental performance at the neighborhood scale, will soon grow from 30 to more than 160 cities. Two upcoming events will preview these additions to the Index. Data-Driven Lab Research...
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