SDG 13:
CLIMATE ACTION

Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*

University Impact Ranking for SDG 13
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SDG13 Highlights

Public Engagements

Combating the Urban Heat Island, protecting vulnerable populations in Haifa
Change of direction - the resilience plan: the Israeli Climate Forum Conference, University of Haifa, 29 July, 2024

Public Engagements

“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
Muddy Water Design Thinking Multi Organizational solution

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Muddy Waters: Design Thinking for Understanding the Multi-Organizational Problem Space of the Water Sector

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Middle-Out Perspective (MOP) to Drive Renewable Energy
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Scientific Advice and Administrative Traditions: The Role of Chief Scientists in Climate Change Adaptation

By: Schmidt N.M., Teschner N., Negev M.
Published in: Review of Policy Research
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: The role of the chief scientist (CS), a key administrative position in various Israeli ministries, is to fund policy-ori (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…)

Transcriptional response of the heat shock gene hsp70 aligns with differences in stress susceptibility of shallow-water corals from the Mediterranean Sea

By: Franzellitti S., Airi V., Calbucci D., Caroselli E., Prada F., Voolstra C.R., Mass T., Falini G., Fabbri E., Goffredo S.
Published in: Marine Environmental Research
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Shallow-water corals of the Mediterranean Sea are facing a dramatic increase in water temperature due to climate change, (more…)

Temporal-Scale Analysis of Environmental Controls on Sea Spray Aerosol Production Over the South Pacific Gyre

By: Dror T., Lehahn Y., Altaratz O., Koren I.
Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: An understanding of sea spray aerosol (SSA) production is needed to better assess its influence on climate. Using satell (more…)

Climatic uncertainty in the Mediterranean Basin and its possible relevance to important economic sectors

By: Kutiel H.
Published in: Atmosphere
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: The Mediterranean Basin is among the densest populated regions of the world with forecasts for a further population incr (more…)

Interactions in soil-microbe-plant system: Adaptation to stressed agriculture

By: Shilev S., Azaizeh H., Vassilev N., Georgiev D., Babrikova I.
Published in: Microbial Interventions in Agriculture and Environment: Volume 1 : Research Trends, Priorities and Prospects
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: The intensive use of agrochemicals, increasing population, and imprudent anthropogenic activities impose a great concern (more…)

Methane hydrate stability and potential resource in the levant basin, southeastern mediterranean sea

By: Tayber Z., Meilijson A., Ben-Avraham Z., Makovsky Y.
Published in: Geosciences (Switzerland)
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: To estimate the potential inventory of natural gas hydrates (NGH) in the Levant Basin, southeastern Mediterranean Sea, w (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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Climate change vulnerability in a tropical region based on environmental and socio-economic factors

By: Sarun S., Ghermandi A., Sheela A.M., Justus J., Vineetha P.
Published in: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: The understanding of the regional and local dimensions of vulnerability due to climate change is essential to develop ap (more…)

Refinement of Miocene sea level and monsoon events from the sedimentary archive of the Maldives (Indian Ocean)

By: Betzler C., Eberli G.P., Lüdmann T., Reolid J., Kroon D., Reijmer J.J.G., Swart P.K., Wright J., Young J.R., Alvarez-Zarikian C., Alonso-García M., Bialik O.M., Blättler C.L., Guo J.A., Haffen S., Horozal S., Inoue M., Jovane L., Lanci L., Laya J.C., Hui Mee A.L., Nakakuni M., Nath B.N., Niino K., Petruny L.M., Pratiwi S.D., Slagle A.L., Sloss C.R., Su X., Yao Z.
Published in: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 359 cored sediments from eight borehole locations in the carbona (more…)

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…)

Can we detect centennial sea-level variations over the last three thousand years in Israeli archaeological records?

By: Dean S., Horton B.P., Evelpidou N., Cahill N., Spada G., Sivan D.
Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Archaeological remains are valuable relative sea-level (RSL) indicators in Israel, a tectonically stable coast with mino (more…)

Character, rates, and environmental significance of holocene dust accumulation in archaeological hilltop ruins in the southern levant

By: Lucke B., Roskin J., Vanselow K.A., Bruins H.J., Abu-Jaber N., Deckers K., Lindauer S., Porat N., Reimer P.J., Bäumler R., Erickson-Gini T., Kouki P.
Published in: Geosciences (Switzerland)
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Loess accumulated in the Negev desert during the Pleistocene and primary and secondary loess remains cover large parts o (more…)

The effects of long-distance migration on the evolution of moult strategies in Western-Palearctic passerines

By: Kiat Y., Izhaki I., Sapir N.
Published in: Biological Reviews
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Although feathers are the unifying characteristic of all birds, our understanding of the causes, mechanisms, patterns an (more…)

Do treaties matter? Climate change, water variability, and cooperation along transboundary river basins

By: Dinar S., Katz D., De Stefano L., Blankespoor B.
Published in: Political Geography
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Annual and seasonal water variability is predicted to intensify due to climate change. River basins lacking institutiona (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…)

Wet and dry tropical forests show opposite successional pathways in wood density but converge over time

By: Poorter L., Rozendaal D.M.A., Bongers F., de Almeida-Cortez J.S., Almeyda Zambrano A.M., Álvarez F.S., Andrade J.L., Villa L.F.A., Balvanera P., Becknell J.M., Bentos T.V., Bhaskar R., Boukili V., Brancalion P.H.S., Broadbent E.N., César R.G., Chave J., Chazdon R.L., Colletta G.D., Craven D., de Jong B.H.J., Denslow J.S., Dent D.H., DeWalt S.J., García E.D., Dupuy J.M., Durán S.M., Espírito Santo M.M., Fandiño M.C., Fernandes G.W., Finegan B., Moser V.G., Hall J.S., Hernández-Stefanoni J.L., Jakovac C.C., Junqueira A.B., Kennard D., Lebrija-Trejos E., Letcher S.G., Lohbeck M., Lopez O.R., Marín-Spiotta E., Martínez-Ramos M., Martins S.V., Massoca P.E.S., Meave J.A., Mesquita R., Mora F., de Souza Moreno V., Müller S.C., Muñoz R., Muscarella R., de Oliveira Neto S.N., Nunes Y.R.F., Ochoa-Gaona S., Paz H., Peña-Claros M., Piotto D., Ruíz J., Sanaphre-Villanueva L., Sanchez-Azofeifa A., Schwartz N.B., Steininger M.K., Thomas W.W., Toledo M., Uriarte M., Utrera L.P., van Breugel M., van der Sande M.T., van der Wal H., Veloso M.D.M., Vester H.F.M., Vieira I.C.G., Villa P.M., Williamson G.B., Wright S.J., Zanini K.J., Zimmerman J.K., Westoby M.
Published in: Nature Ecology and Evolution
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Tropical forests are converted at an alarming rate for agricultural use and pastureland, but also regrow naturally throu (more…)

Optimal Irrigation with Perfect Weekly Forecasts versus Imperfect Seasonal Forecasts

By: Jamal A., Linker R., Housh M.
Published in: Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: This study examines the impact of weekly and seasonal weather forecasts on the optimal irrigation scheduling problem. We (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…)