CLIMOS researchers Luis Samaniego and Suzana Blesic were present at the European Geoscience Union General Assembly 2023 from 23 to 28 of April 2023, in Vienna, Austria. The EGU General Assembly 2023 brought together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary, and space sciences.
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World Environment Day, celebrated annually on 5 June, is a global initiative that brings together individuals, businesses, governments, and organisations to raise awareness and act on pressing environmental issues. The EU funded projects BCOMING, TRIGGER, CLIMOS, IDAlert and BEPREP will run a social media campaign to raise awareness of the potential risks plastic pollution poses for infectious diseases – its spread and occurrences.
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For a long time, people have known that our natural environment and climate affects the spread of disease. Before germ theory, western medicine blamed damp, bad air for generating diseases like smallpox and plague. Wetness and heat, coldness and dryness and the balance between them were the source of all ills. With advancements in medicine, technology and research, we now understand that weather doesn’t create disease out of thin air, but does have a crucial role in their spread.
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The Forecasting, Early Warning System and Tools partners organised the first foresight consortium workshop using the STEEPED framework to uncover “Which Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental, Political, Ethical and Demographic dimensions are likely to affect the use of the Early Warning System by stakeholders?”. It was held online on the 5th of April 2023.
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