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Elizabeth Wathuti and Eugenia Kargbo Highlight the Need for Environmental Conservation

Climate change used to be a science challenge until recently when it has also become a developmental and moral challenge. We have witnessed the impact of climate change on every aspect of our lives. The recent IPCC 6th assessment report is red coded for humanity making it imperative for actions that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere and to slow down global warming. The presentation will explain the progress in our understanding of the climate system, the impact of climate change and actions we all have to take. Professor Nana Klutse is Vice Chair of the Working Group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). She is Associate Professor at the Department of Physics, University of Ghana and the Head of Department.

Project Starting in Pune, India and Dr. Tao Co-authors Paper

Africa's first heat officer is helping women keep cool in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown.

Overheating Cities on a Hot Planet This fascinating and inspiring talk centered around how to help overheating cities through urban engineering. Ronita Bardhan is an architectural engineer and urban studies educator, with a PhD in urban engineering. Bardhan leads the research group - Cambridge Sustainable Design Group (SDG). Her research is centered around data-driven design of built environment for precision prevention from health and energy burdens in the warming climate. She triangulates building physics, engineering, and social science data to develop solutions for realising health and low-carbon energy potential in built environments. Bardhan works on climate heat stress & health in built environment. She has extensively worked in Slum Rehabilitation (social) housing (in India, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa and Brazil).

MEER's visit to Fergusson College, Pune, India, was eventful. The lecture delivered by Dr. Taov on September 16th, 2023, covered the organization's goals and vision for India.

FREETOWN UPDATE: MEER team members joined a diverse group of participants, including activists, policymakers, researchers, and NGOs, at a Trócaire conference about environmental issues

Dr. Ye Tao presents at Arctic Momentum: Dr. Tao was received by an enthusiastic group of scientists and experts gathered to discuss climate intervention science and research at a conference in Helsinki, Finland.

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This MEERTALK premiered MEER's short documentary FREETOWN: COOLING A CITY, featuring Dr. Ye Tao, Founder & Director of MEER, along with the team working on the project. It includes a discussion with members from the team on the ground in Africa, as well as a followup interview with a resident whose roofing has been changed to MEER's reflective roofing.

CLIMATE EMOTIONS AND ACTIVISM: A PSYCHOLOGIST'S PERSPECTIVE: Margaret Klein Salamon, PhD, Clinical Psychologist

Testing Our Floating Mirror Design! An innovation of floating reflectors has been in development by MEER.

BREAKING TOGETHER: A FREEDOM-LOVING RESPONSE TO COLLAPSE: Jem Bendell, World-renowned scholar

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MEER Is Growing – Project Expansion in Freetown! A recent huge rainstorm has damaged a municipal building in Sierra Leone, and as a result, MEER is being sought as an improved choice when building a new roof.

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As temperatures in Freetown rise, Eugenia Kargbo is helping people adapt to the heat

WHAT'S INSIDE THE IPCC REPORT "FINAL WARNING"? Charlie Gardner, Conservationist, Activist & Member of Scientists for Extinction Rebellion

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FASTER, HIGHER, HOTTER, TAKEAWAYS FROM CLIMATE 2022: David Spratt, Research Director for Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration, Melbourne

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Learn how surface-based solar reflectors could provide localized cooling benefits and stabilize Earth's temperatures to prevent overheating.

At his meeting with staff at Freetown's Fourah Bay College, Dr. Ye Tao discussed the Cooldown Freetown! project concept with department heads and others.

MEER's Founder Dr. Ye Tao arrived in Freetown, Sierra Leone, in January, to begin working with local city officials and university staff on MEER's "Cool Down Freetown!" project, the first of MEER's planned Urban Cooling project series.

People in Freetown, Sierra Leone, are increasingly exposed to extreme heat due to climate change and the urban heat island effect, but covering homes in a reflective film significantly cut indoor temperatures

Dr. Rupert Read sets out succinctly the case for building what has come to be called a new mass ‘moderate’ flank in climate action: reaching well beyond the ‘ghetto’ of existing activism, to those who won’t in fact consider themselves activists at all.

MEER Founder Dr. Ye Tao was invited to Santiago de Chile to present at the "Congreso Futuro" along with many other speakers, including award-wining German filmmaker Werner Herzog.

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ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION: STORIES FROM THE FRONTLINES Ugochi Anyaka-Oluigbo, environmental journalist speaks about climate change in Nigeria and the people it's affecting.