UN Biodiversity Lab
Launched in the summer of 2018, the UN Biodiversity Lab is a partnership between the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). The Lab’s goal is to utilize spatial data to support the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. By building spatial literacy and leveraging spatial data, the UN Biodiversity Lab aims to improve regulatory decision making while increasing transparency and accountability within environmental reporting. Powered by MapX, a geospatial mapping software that collects and verifies data through a free cloud-based tool, the Lab enables governments that lack spatial data to more easily report their biodiversity performance for conservation decision-making. Through direct engagement with over 140 countries, this collaborative open-source platform allows for dynamic updates based on user needs, thus facilitating the construction of partnerships between data providers and users to ensure that governments have access and capacity to use premier spatial data for crucial decision-making regarding conservation.
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Biodiversity, Climate Change, Data, Ecological Modelling, Internet of Things
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Air Pollution Robot
The dangers of air pollution to human health are well documented, though the traditional methodology of collecting and reporting on sample lags behind the need to keep abreast and regulate air pollution in a meaningful amount of time. The use of drones and robots have been identified by researchers as resources that can be tweaked […]
Artificial Life, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Ecological Monitoring, Industry/Natural Commodities, Lifestyle, Monitoring
Telematic Rivers
Erica Kermani’s artwork seeks to answer a central question: if rivers were seeing an equal, living entity, would humans take issues like climate change threatening them more seriously? In his year-long art exhibition in 2017, Kermani, in collaboration with Diana Salcedo & Jeana Chesnik, created a new forum of interaction between humans and rivers to […]
Climate Change, Ecological Monitoring, Lifestyle, Monitoring, Pollution, Visual Technologies
Co-occupied Boundaries
Art is easily found in nature but rarely is what considered art today inherently natural. The concept of co-occupied mediums that serve to be both functional for nature and aesthetically pleasing to people is being actively explored by Asya Ilgun and Phil Ayres, from the CITAstudio at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. In […]
Climate Change, Ecological Monitoring, Lifestyle, Monitoring, Pollution, Visual Technologies