SDG 13:
CLIMATE ACTION

Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*

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SDG13 Highlights

Change of direction - the resilience plan: the Israeli Climate Forum Conference, University of Haifa, 29 July, 2024

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“Change of direction – the resilience plan”: the Israeli Climate Forum Conference, University of Haifa, July 29, 2024
COP Conference of Parties, 29th session, UN Climate Change, Baku, Azerbaijan, 2024, Flags

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University of Haifa is Observer at the 29th annual Conference of the Parties (COP) for Climate Change, November 2024

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Middle-Out Perspective (MOP) to Drive Renewable Energy

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Combating the Urban Heat Island, protecting vulnerable populations in Haifa
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Sedum-dominated green-roofs in a semi-arid region increase CO2 concentrations during the dry season

By: Agra H., Klein T., Vasl A., Shalom H., Kadas G., Blaustein L.
Published in: Science of the Total Environment
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2017 |  Link
Description: Green roofs are expected to absorb and store carbon in plants and soils and thereby reduce the high CO2 concentration le (more…)

Seasonal aggregations of sharks near coastal power plants in Israel: An emerging phenomenon

By: Barash A., Pickholtz R., Pickholtz E., Blaustein L., Rilov G.
Published in: Marine Ecology Progress Series
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Sharks in the Mediterranean Sea are at extremely high risk, and their populations are rapidly declining. In the Eastern (more…)

Green roof and photovoltaic panel integration: Effects on plant and arthropod diversity and electricity production

By: Schindler B.Y., Blaustein L., Lotan R., Shalom H., Kadas G.J., Seifan M.
Published in: Journal of Environmental Management
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: The combination of green roofs with photovoltaic (PV) panels has been proposed to provide synergistic benefits as the pa (more…)

A comparison of the effects of selected mono-ethnic urban environments on the autonomic functions of Muslim and Jewish women in Israel

By: Saadi D., Agay-Shay K., Tirosh E., Schnell I.
Published in: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Few previous studies evaluated ethnic differences in the effects of urban environments on the autonomic balance in intra (more…)

Evidence for a humid interval at ∼56–44 ka in the Levant and its potential link to modern humans dispersal out of Africa

By: Langgut D., Almogi-Labin A., Bar-Matthews M., Pickarski N., Weinstein-Evron M.
Published in: Journal of Human Evolution
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: This study provides a detailed reconstruction of the paleoenvironmental conditions that prevailed during one of the peri (more…)

Improving integration in societal consequences to climate change

By: Jaffe Y., Bar-Oz G., Ellenblum R.
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Humanities  | Time: 2019 |  Link
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Silences in a climate of voicing: teachers’ perceptions of societal and self-silencing regarding sensitive historical issues

By: Savenije G.M., Goldberg T.
Published in: Pedagogy, Culture and Society
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Education  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: This study explores the silencing and voicing of sensitive topics in history education from a cross-national and multile (more…)

Ancient trash mounds unravel urban collapse a century before the end of Byzantine hegemony in the southern Levant

By: Bar-Oz G., Weissbrod L., Erickson-Gini T., Tepper Y., Malkinson D., Benzaquen M., Langgut D., Dunseth Z.C., Butler D.H., Shahack-Gross R., Roskin J., Fuks D., Weiss E., Marom N., Ktalav I., Blevis R., Zohar I., Farhi Y., Filatova A., Gorin-Rosen Y., Yan X., Boaretto E.
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: The historic event of the Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA) was recently identified in dozens of natural and geologica (more…)

ICDP workshop on scientific drilling of Nam Co on the Tibetan Plateau: 1 million years of paleoenvironmental history, geomicrobiology, tectonics and paleomagnetism derived from sediments of a high-altitude lake

By: Haberzettl T., Daut G., Schulze N., Spiess V., Wang J., Zhu L., St-Onge G., Chen F., Liu X., Lyu X., Ju J., Ma Q., Wu Z., Wünnemann B., Yan D., Yi S., Zhang H., Zhao Y., Zhao H., Buylaert J.-P., Murray A., van der Woerd J., Frenzel P., Gleixner G., Harms U., Reicherter K., Schwalb A., Ulfers A., újvári G., Mehrotra N., Waldmann N., Lami A., Ariztegui D., Barbolini N., Ascough P., Clarke L., Henderson A., Staff R., Noren A., Spanbauer T., Stoner J.
Published in: Scientific Drilling
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: The Tibetan Plateau is of peculiar societal relevance as it provides freshwater from the so-called “Water Tower of Asia” (more…)

Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Vegetative Agriculture Markets in Israel

By: Zelingher R., Ghermandi A., De Cian E., Mistry M., Kan I.
Published in: Environmental and Resource Economics
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: We integrate the combined agricultural production effects of forecasted changes in CO2, temperature and precipitation in (more…)

Retrospective Reconstruction of the Ecophysiological Grapevine Behaviour Through the Analysis of Tree-Ring Series to Validate an Approach to Extract Data from Space-Born and UAV Techniques

By: Damiano N., Bonfante A., Cirillo C., Amitrano C., Erbaggio A., Brook A., De Micco V.
Published in: 2019 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Agriculture and Forestry, MetroAgriFor 2019 – Proceedings
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Climate change is intensifying the need to improve the use efficiency of farm resources and to increase crop yield and q (more…)

Holocene climate variability and cultural dynamics in the Indian subcontinent

By: Mishra P.K., Chauhan P.R., Diwate P., Parth S., Anoop A.
Published in: Episodes
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2020 |  Link
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A smart multiple spatial and temporal resolution system to support precision agriculture from satellite images: Proof of concept on Aglianico vineyard

By: Brook A., De Micco V., Battipaglia G., Erbaggio A., Ludeno G., Catapano I., Bonfante A.
Published in: Remote Sensing of Environment
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: In this century, one of the main objectives of agriculture is sustainability addressed to achieve food security, based o (more…)

The rise and fall of viticulture in the Late Antique Negev Highlands reconstructed from archaeobotanical and ceramic data

By: Fuks D., Bar-Oz G., Tepper Y., Erickson-Gini T., Langgut D., Weissbrod L., Weiss E.
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Humanities  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: The international scope of the Mediterranean wine trade in Late Antiquity raises important questions concerning sustaina (more…)

Hydrology and water management in Israel and the southern Levant [Hydrologie und Wasserwirtschaft in Israel und der südlichen Levante]

By: Greenbaum N.
Published in: Geographische Rundschau
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Israel, located in a semi-arid Mediterranean to arid climate region, similar to other countries in the southern Levant, (more…)

Negotiating a dual deficit: the work of student support between conservative audacity and tempered radicalism

By: Sapir A.
Published in: Studies in Higher Education
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: Student support practitioners, who provide students with academic, emotional and social support, are integral to higher (more…)

Climate change impacts on vector-borne diseases in Europe: Risks, predictions and actions

By: Paz S.
Published in: The Lancet Regional Health – Europe
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2021 |  Link
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Cooling degree models and future energy demand in the residential sector. A seven-country case study

By: Castaño-Rosa R., Barrella R., Sánchez-Guevara C., Barbosa R., Kyprianou I., Paschalidou E., Thomaidis N.S., Dokupilova D., Gouveia J.P., Kádár J., Hamed T.A., Palma P.
Published in: Sustainability (Switzerland)
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: The intensity and duration of hot weather and the number of extreme weather events, such as heatwaves, are increasing, l (more…)

Safety climate strength: The negative effects of cliques and negative relationships in teams

By: Arizon Peretz R., Luria G., Kalish Y., Zohar D.
Published in: Safety Science
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: Safety climate is one of the most valid predictors of safety outcomes in organizations. Safety climate studies usually r (more…)

FTIR BONE CHARACTERIZATION and RADIOCARBON DATING: TIMING the ABANDONMENT of BYZANTINE PIGEON TOWERS in the NEGEV DESERT, ISRAEL

By: Yan X., Tepper Y., Bar-Oz G., Boaretto E.
Published in: Radiocarbon
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Humanities  | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: Various archaeological and historical evidence shows that the marginal area of the Negev desert of southern Israel enjoy (more…)