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🌳🥵🌂Els arbres urbans perden bona part de la capacitat de refredar durant les sequeres. Vols saber per què? No et perdis la notícia sobre aquesta recerca realitzada per l'ICTA-UAB www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...

How do energy models and time policies intersect? 🌍⏱️ Raúl Velasco Fernández @raulvefe.bsky.social represented ICTA-UAB at the Time Use Week 2026, in Barcelona, sharing key insights on time organization, energy, and ecological boundaries for a more balanced pace of life.

📢 TOMORROW at ICTA-UAB! Join us for “Rethinking Neoliberalism in WANA”, a seminar with Adriana Qubaiova. 🌍 Exploring conflict, environmental crises and migration through a feminist lens in West Asia and North Africa. 🔗 Join online: www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...

Missed our seminar yesterday? 🎥 You can now watch the recording of "Palestine as a feminist issue" with Dr. Adriana Qubaiova (@CEU) on our YouTube channel! Organized by the REAL-Postgrowth project at ICTA-UAB. 📺 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouBA... #FeministStudies #Palestine

📢 TODAY at ICTA-UAB! Join us for “#Palestine as a feminist issue”, a seminar with Adriana Qubaiova, Visiting Professor at Central European University, organised by the REAL-Postgrowth project. 🕒 15:00–16:00 📍 Sala Montseny, ICTA-UAB & online 🔗 Join online: www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...

⏯️👨‍💻When Both Parties Serve the Rich, What are You Voting For? Our researcher @jasonhickel.bsky.social & Myriam François challenge the logic of endless economic growth & ask what it would take to build an economy that serves people and the planet, rather than ultra-rich znetwork.org/zvideo/when-...

Un grapat de tovalloletes i moltes cigarretes Investigadors de l’ICTA-UAB avaluen l’impacte del turisme a les platges urbanes del litoral barceloní amb l’escola La Minerva de Calella, en el marc projecte Magnet de #Equitat @fundaciobofill.bsky.social www.elpuntavui.cat/societat/art...

Una transición energética extractivista: los grandes proyectos renovables vulneran los derechos de los locales. Nuevo estudio liderado por el ICTA-UAB. efeverde.com/renovables-e...

Megaproyectos De Energías Renovables Bajo La Lupa La investigación, en la que participa el ICTA-UAB, examina conflictos vinculados a instalaciones solares, eólicas, hidroeléctricas y geotérmicas en ocho territorios. www.ibtimes.es/estudio-impa...

La cara oculta de la transición energética: los megaproyectos de renovables sacrifican los derechos de las comunidades locales El ICTA-UAB revela que estas empresas usan un discurso que legitima proyectos que dejan a las comunidades al margen de todo tipo de beneficios. www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...

🆕 Renewable Megaprojects Put Local Communities' Rights at Risk 🏗️🌳💸ICTA-UAB study reveals that energy corporations use corporate sustainability discourses to legitimise these projects that exclude communities from just economicreturns and ignore their impacts. www.miragenews.com/renewable-me...

✍️How unequal exchange shapes our world By @jasonhickel.bsky.social mronline.org/2026/10/15/h...

🌱 Is economic growth always the goal? What if we looked beyond GDP? ICTA-UAB researcher @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social explores agrowth as a new way to rethink capitalism, wellbeing and sustainability in a lecture at King's College London @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...

💽El uso inadecuado de las bases de datos científicas invisibiliza el papel de los pueblos indígenas🏹🌳 en la conservación, según un estudio del ICTA-UAB. ¡Descubre qué sucede! 👁️ www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...

🤔Sempre és bon moment per lluitar contra la desinformació! 💡L'ICTA-UAB se suma a la tasca del @verificat.cat per aclarir si el biocombustibles són realment sostenibles. Són una peça més en la transició energètica però, podrien contaminar i agreujar les emissions? www.verificat.cat/especial/bio...

Huge news! 🎉 Our #ATRAE researcher Joleah Lamb is heading to @lamoncloa.gob.es on Oct 22 to meet the President of Spain! 🏛️✨ Organized by Ministry of Science & @ageinves.bsky.social, she'll join fellow grantees to share her experiences. So proud! 👏🔬 www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...

😨Missed yesterday’s seminar by Bineh Ndefru? ⏯️Watch it now on our YouTube channel!🔴 🎥 Discover how probabilistic modelling can help assess post-growth policies and identify pathways to improve wellbeing while reducing environmental pressures. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ-P...

📢 TODAY at ICTA-UAB (2 pm)! Join us for a seminar with Sven van Mourik on sovereign debt and the politics of ecological transition. 🌍 Explore who should bear the costs of a sustainable future. 🗣️👩‍💻Join us in person or online! www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-... #SovereignDebt #ClimateFinance

📢 Starting soon! Join us today at 15:00 for the REAL-Postgrowth seminar with Bineh Ndefru (ICTA-UAB) on “A probabilistic framework for modelling wellbeing within planetary boundaries” 🌍 📍 ICTA-UAB & online 🔗 Join us on Zoom: www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-... #PostGrowth #Wellbeing #PlanetaryBoundaries

💸L’economia funciona com un organisme viu: extreu recursos, els transforma i n’expulsa els residus.🌍 En aquest article d’opinió al CCCLab, Marcel Llavero de l’ICTA-UAB, reflexiona sobre les relacions de poder i governança, i els límits de la producció i el consum. www.cccb.org/ca/w/article...

💸La economía es un organismo vivo: extrae recursos, los transforma y expulsa residuos. 🌍 En este artículo de opinión, publicado en el CCCLab, Marcel Llavero del ICTA-UAB, reflexiona sobre las relaciones de poder y gobernanza, y los límites de la producción y el consumo www.cccb.org/es/w/articul...

💸The economy functions like a living organism: it extracts resources, transforms them and expels waste 🌍 In this opinion piece published on the #CCCBLab, Marcel Llavero, researcher at ICTA-UAB, reflects on power, governance, and the limits of production and consumption www.cccb.org/en/w/article...

🌧️ As extreme rainfall reminds us, climate risks are never just environmental, they’re also social and political. 🔴 Happening now at @ICTA_UAB: “Beyond Resilience: Environmental Justice and the Governance of Environmental Risk” with Omar Pérez Figueroa. 💻 Join online: www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...

🌍 Nuestro investigador @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social del ICTA-UAB participa en el Global Sustainability Barcelona Summit para debatir sobre los costes humanos y económicos del cambio climático.🌱 🕐 Hoy, 13 h 📍 CaixaForum Barcelona globalsustainabilitybarcelonasummit.com

🚀 We’re getting close to 3,000 followers! 🎉 Let’s spread the word and help more people discover what we do. 🌍💚 Now more than ever, the planet needs #BraveScienceforAchangingWorld. Let’s make it happen together! 🔬🌱

📢 Next week at ICTA-UAB! Join us next week for a workshop with Omar Pérez Figueroa, from @illinois1867.bsky.social, exploring climate adaptation, environmental risk and inequalities. Rethinking resilience through the lens of environmental justice. 🌱 www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...

🗣️Great insights shared by Dr. Laura Malinauskaitė (University of Iceland) at ICTA-UAB! 📊🌱 Her talk explored measuring economic welfare beyond GDP through the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), highlighting findings from the Baltic States and reflecting on alternative measures of welfare. #BeyondGDP

🏙️ Can the 15-minute city make housing less affordable? A new study involving ICTA-UAB explores the link between proximity to everyday services and rental prices in Barcelona, València, Palma and Granada. 🔎 Greater accessibility can come at a cost. 🔗 www.uab.cat/web/news-det... #SustainableCities

📺📹El reportatge de 30 minuts de TV3 analitza l'augment de temperatures pel canvi climàtic. 🥵🌡️ Com ens afecta aquesta calor? Estem preparats per afrontar-la? Es poden mitigar els efectes? 🗣️Amb Gara Villalba, investigadora de l'ICTA-UAB www.3cat.cat/3cat/morts-d...

🎓🥂 Congrats to Pablo Núñez Yebra on successfully defending his PhD thesis, “Scaling climate-policy ambition: From local action to global coalitions”! A great achievement and a perfect reason to celebrate with colleagues and friends! 🎉🌍 #PhDDefense #ClimatePolicy @icta-uab.bsky.social

🎉🌿 So happy and proud to celebrate Ella O’Neill’s successful PhD defense! Congratulations, Ella, on this wonderful achievement and on your thesis, “Nature and Culture Entanglements: Planning Urban Blue-Green Spaces”! Wishing you every success in this exciting new chapter! 💚✨ #PhDDefense #ICTAUAB

🎓 Congrats to Mateo Sanclemente on successfully defending his PhD thesis, “Towards an Integrated Assessment of Circular Economy Options for Electric Vehicle Batteries”! 👏 Congratulations also to his supervisors, Laura Talens and Xavier Gabarrell. 🌱 #Sostenipra #UAB #CircularEconomy #Sustainability

TODAY at 3pm!

¿Por qué más zonas verdes disparan tu alquiler y tu hipoteca? @amaliacaar.bsky.social de l'ICTA-UAB destapa los mecanismos de la gentrificación verde: el valor del suelo según el verde urbano, cómo afecta el calor, y los errores municipales en los proyectos verdes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTqm...

Aquesta tarda organitzem una activitat molt especial a #Calella! 🏖️🔬 Us esperem a la xerrada i mostreig científic a la platja amb el nostre oceanògraf Michael Grelaud, en marc del Projecte Magnet i la #NitDeLaRecerca. ⏰ 15:00 h 📍 Escola La Minerva Us hi esperem! 👇 www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...

🚀Enguany, som socis científics de la nova edició d'ALIA al #CCCB i acompanyarem els alumnes en un nou curs sobre la transició energètica⚡ Avui, el nostre investigador @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social ha obert el programa parlant d'economia ambiental i solucions climàtiques💡 www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...