Archives: Monthly Archives: November 2023

5th National Climate Assessment Released

The most recent National Climate Assessment Report (NCA5) was released earlier this week, and two of UConn's faculty - Dr. Guiling Wang and Dr. Zhe Zhu - are among its authors.  In particular, the two worked on the sixth chapter of the report, Land Cover and Land-use Change.

"[The] NCA5 was written to inform a broad audience of decision makers around the country who are not climate scientists," Wang says. The NCA5 is designed for accessibility, and underwent a thorough review process from several federal agencies. With four years' work and hundreds of scientists' expertise, the report provides comprehensive and significant findings that will be used to inform future climate action.

"Climate change is not all doom and gloom," Wang concludes. "With climate action comes hope, optimism, and opportunities."

For more details, read on UConn Today. Or, read the chapter itself on the NCA5 website.

Laying the Foundation for Carbon Dioxide Reduction

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Environmental engineering professor Baikun Li and her 12-person team have been researching electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction, and their findings were recently published in the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Energy and Environmental Science Journal. Their work aims to understand the mechanisms of this chemical reaction, its potential for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and more.

“The broad impact of this methodology doesn’t only apply to CO2 reduction,” Li says. “It has countless applications, but we used CO2 reduction as an example of how we can use quantum level modeling for potential future research.”

For more details, read on UConn Today.