🇨🇦 Associate Professor, Life Cycle Assessment / Industrial Ecology, @McGill_Eng, @mcgilltised, @mcgillu. Energy Technology And Policy Assessment (ETAPA). 🇨🇦
Interested in sustainability? Are you a U.S. student? Come to the best student city in North America for an M.Eng. in sustainability in engineering and design (https://t.co/he8xCBhOq5...). Deadline extended for U.S. students!
#sustainability#engineering#energy#climatechange
#McGill researchers: CDSI’s spring coding atelier schedule is out now. CDSI offers coding solutions for researchers every Tuesday and Thursday from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.
For more details, check the “Coding Ateliers” tab of our “Data Science Solutions Hub” page (link in bio).
#AI
🇨🇦 Fact. The « Governor of Canada » is actually an indigenous woman. 🇨🇦
Her Excellency, the Right Honourable Mary Simon, is Canada’s first Indigenous governor general.
Let’s not brush this very important fact aside.
#cdnpoli#trumptariff#Canada#UnitedStates#Trump
Check out our opinion article in the @NatObserver on how « green » #hydrogen needs to be deployed thoughtfully in meeting #climate goals.
Happy holidays to all!
https://t.co/Wv1I6A2FP8
QS Sustainability Rankings rate McGill among world’s best 🌎🏆 Ranked 15th globally, McGill is also placed 3rd in Canada and 4th in the Americas, with global top 10 recognition for environmental education and research impact.
Read more: https://t.co/D7rdGePyPC
International trade in clean technologies is on course to rise sharply ahead
Trade in the top clean technologies is on track to nearly triple to $575 billion by 2035, over 50% higher than the value of natural gas trade today 👉 https://t.co/ooGK2Skib5
* Check out our systematic review on #solar#photovoltaics and #soil#carbon. A truly rewarding collaboration, especially when admiring how @TheHernandezLab brought our data visualization to life. Worth your while to take a look! Huge congrats to lead author Noah Krasner.
New Report Lays Out Role for Carbon Dioxide Utilization in U.S. Economy, Identifies Research Gaps and Opportunities https://t.co/V36rcjQZdu via @theNASEM
Global electricity use is set to grow strongly in 2024 & 2025
Demand is forecast to grow by around 4% this year — among the fastest in the past 20 years outside of the rebounds from the financial crisis & pandemic
More in our Electricity Update ➡️ https://t.co/chh729i9y5
The pace of the transition to EVs will hinge on their cost
In China, more than 60% of electric cars sold in 2023 were already cheaper than conventional equivalents
Competition & innovation are expected to bring down prices in other major markets 👉 https://t.co/1qNMMfc0n1
In 2024, investment is solar PV is set to grow to $500 billion, leading the transformation of the power sector
More money is now going into solar PV than all other electricity generation technologies combined
Learn more 👉 https://t.co/d07N0h6zXv
As energy transitions advance, "cents per kilowatt hour" may replace "dollars per barrel" as the benchmark for energy affordability
On a path to 1.5C, oil's share in total household energy spending falls significantly by 2035 & electricity’s share surges: https://t.co/nv5BvtxpMU
Our study challenges perceptions about land required by #wind#power by quantifying the benefits of #land sparing opportunities. https://t.co/XsUURhzN6Q
#IWD2024 theme is Inspire Inclusion – a message exemplified by McGill’s female leaders. At the moment, ten of McGill’s 14 deans are women; three are the first to ever to lead their Faculty.
https://t.co/xJYN7MFBdG
Much of the rise in CO2 emissions in 2023 came from an exceptional fall in hydropower due to extreme drought, with countries turning to fossil fuels to plug the gap
Without this unusual drop, global CO2 emissions from power generation would've declined → https://t.co/nNJbvkXyuE