Energy Always: 2024 CCA-WRI Research Symposium

On Tuesday 6 August, the 2024 CCA-WRI Fellows Emily Doucet, Gökçe Günel, and Yosuke Nakamoto shared their research undertaken as part of Above/Below/Between: Light on a Damaged Planet.

Jointly convened by the CCA and the Window Research Institute based in Tokyo, this three-year research fellowship program began in 2022. Throughout summer 2024, the three 2024 CCA-WRI fellows spent time at the CCA interrogating a third element in the diffusion of light across our solar societies: the condition of the “between.” The “between” names specific phenomena that become apparent between the atmosphere and land, and that reflect the Earth’s condition as a solar-dependent environment. These include, for example, increasing levels of air pollution across the globe, and how this has become a major concern for everyday human activities in towns and cities. The “between” also contains the chemical aftereffects of carbon combustion, industrial production, and forest fires. Air pollution thus becomes a phenomenon that generates a range of mitigation practices, from investments in public transit to green industrial technologies more broadly.

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