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Syslab's and ENVS's Alumna Paromita Basak Awarded Prestigious NASA FINESST Grant

Paromita Basak

Paromita Basak, a graduate of  Syslab and the CEU's Environmental Science and Policy Department, has been awarded a $150,000 research grant by NASA’s Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) program. This prestigious grant will support her PhD research at the University of Maryland, where she is working on “Analyzing Spatial Co-Benefits of Carbon and Structural Diversity in Southeast Asia with GEDI.”

Professor Pintér receives a Balaton Group Endeavor Program grant for comparative research on urban NBS in China and Europe

April 10, 2024
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On April 4, 2024 the Project Committee of The Balaton Group announced its decision to support a joint proposal by Prof. Pintér and Prof. Linjun Xie at the University of Notthingham - Ningbo to the Balaton Group Endeavour Program, designed to support ground-breaking collaborative research of members.

Diana Urge-Vorsatz Discusses Global Warming on BBC World News

February 15, 2024
Diana Urge-Vorsatz, Photo credit: Daniel Vegel

In a "Your Questions Answered" segment, BBC World News featured Diana Urge-Vorsatz, Professor in CEU's Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, discussing the news that for the first time on record, global warming has exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius over a 12-month period. She is Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Link: https://youtu.be/Aas1B5rqcO0?si=gsHzSlzbRXgpceQg