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COVID-19 confinement leads to temporary reduction in daily global carbon dioxide emissions

COVID-19 confinement leads to temporary reduction in daily global carbon dioxide emissions

New research published in Nature Climate Change suggests that daily global CO2 emissions have dropped by 17% by early April 2020, compared to the average emissions in 2019. It is still early to say what the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on 2020 annual emissions will be, but a reduction between 4% and 7% is expected.  

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Diverse perspectives on interdisciplinarity

Diverse perspectives on interdisciplinarity

A team of 57 members from the Canadian College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada (the College), who are engaged and interested in diverse interdisciplinary endeavours, provided their perspectives on the intellectual, cultural, and social perspectives of interdisciplinarity.

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