The Israeli Young Academy, in collaboration with "Bashar - an academic community for society in Israel" and the Israeli Association for Ecology and Environmental Sciences, will hold dozens of lectures on the climate crisis and global warming all over the country as part of the "Science and Environment Week" "Academania 2022".
"Academania" is a joint venture of The Israeli Young Academy, a founding member of the Israeli National Academy of Sciences, and the organization "Beshaar - an academic community for society in Israel", whose goal is to make scientific knowledge accessible to the general public - to bring the public together with the best researchers who are at the forefront of scientific research in the various fields.
This year the "Academania" will be held in cooperation with the Israeli Association for Ecology and Environmental Sciences and will be dedicated to the issue of the climate crisis - a burning issue with immediate consequences for all of our lives, which includes many areas, including food, environment, agriculture, warming, sea level, waste, water behavior, etc. . The "Academania" events will be held as part of the "Science and Environment Week" that accompanies the 50th Annual Conference on Science and the Environment led by the association.
The events will include dozens of meetings and lectures that will be held simultaneously on Monday, July 4, all over the country, and especially in the settlements of the geographic and social periphery. All the researchers will come, voluntarily, to tell about the climate crisis, about the various studies they have done on the subject and the connection of these studies to our daily lives.
Admission to the 26 lectures will be free, and they will focus on global changes - the climate crisis and its consequences in Israel and around the world. In Eilat they will talk about the questions that preoccupy climate researchers; Birucham on the effect of greenhouse gases on global warming; in Sderot on weather forecasting in the age of climate change; in Kfar Gaza on the consequences of warming on the planet; in Kfar Kara on ecological processes that affect humans and other animals; in Kiryat Ekron on the future of the coral reefs; in the ancients on the connection between climate change and the means of transportation in the future; In Acre about the effects of the climate crisis on the collapse of food systems and the hand is still bent.
says Dr. Yossi Yuval from Tel Aviv University, a member of the Young Academy and the organizers of the project, who will lecture at Kibbutz Ruchama as part of "Academania 2022": "This year's engagement with the climate crisis and its effects is called for due to its devastating and immediate consequences on the entire planet. The members of the Young Academy have a great commitment to social and academic involvement, and we have no doubt that global warming and the climate crisis are the most burning and important issues today. The effects of climate change on quality our lives, about the agricultural crops that will disappear in the coming years, about the quality of the food we eat, about extreme and destructive weather phenomena - all of these We are required, as scientists and researchers, to transfer and make available the most relevant and up-to-date research knowledge to the general public."
Says Dr. Vared Ariel Nahari, CEO of "Bashar":"We all know that the climate crisis is an important issue, and yet it is pushed aside, worldwide, by the more 'urgent' issues. But this is a mistake because the climate crisis and the environment have long been not only urgent or important - they are critical. The climate crisis will directly affect For our ability, for our children and grandchildren to live here - here in Israel, here on Earth. We at 'Bashar' are committed to promoting higher education in the periphery and making scientific knowledge accessible, and are proud of the project 'Academania', which expresses these values and focuses this year on a critical and fascinating topic."
Says Dr. Uri Sharon, CEO of the Israeli Association for Ecology and Environmental Sciences: "Less than a year ago, the sixth report of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC) was published. The report, compiled by 234 of the world's leading climate scientists, stated in no uncertain terms that if humanity does not take decisive action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the red line of global warming - one and a half degrees - will be crossed before the year 2050. The responsibility to prevent this dangerous outcome rests on our shoulders. As the umbrella organization of environmental scientists in Israel, the Israeli Society for Ecology and Environmental Sciences has been working for 52 years to make environmental scientific knowledge accessible to the Israeli public and policy makers. This year, as part of the 'Academania' project, members of the association and other scientists will come to all parts of the country to talk about the most burning issue on the environmental agenda - the climate crisis".
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