GeoLog

Are we equipped to meet the Glasgow Climate Pact?

Gillian D'Souza November 26, 2021

Man-made landscape. Credit: María Burguet (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

November 2021 once again put climate change in the spotlight for Europe and the world. Close to 200 countries came together this month for the UN’s annual climate summit, COP26, and after much deliberation, adopted the Glasgow Climate Pact. Some key commitments had countries pledging to limit their emissions by 2030; forming the first-ever alliance targeting fossil fuel extraction; setting u ...[Read More]

Imaggeo On Monday: Green Energy of Kamchatka

Tatiana Matveeva November 22, 2021

Green Energy of Kamchatka. Credit: Tatiana Matveeva (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

The Mutnovsky Geothermal Power Plant is the largest geothermal power plant in Russia (the time of writing). It is located near to volcanic mountain Mutnovsky at altitude of 800 m and has a capacity of 50 MW. The Mutnovsky Geothermal Power Plant has resolved the problem of raising the stability of the power supply for the Kamchatka region, at the expense of using the richest stocks of thermal heat ...[Read More]

GeoTalk: what is the EGU Biodiversity Task Force? with Policy Manager Chloe Hill

Hazel Gibson November 19, 2021

Biodiversity is the new Policy Priority Area! Photo credit: Marc Girons Lopez via Imaggeo.

This week EGU announced the launch of an open call for members of a new Biodiversity Task Force to help EGU interact with European policymakers through it’s official Policy Priority Area ‘Biodiversity’. But what is a policy Task Force? What kind of work is involved? And are you eligible to apply to be a member? We sat down with EGU Policy Manager Chloe Hill to talk about the rece ...[Read More]

Imaggeo On Monday: Summer on the Northern Hemisphere

Maximilian Reuter November 15, 2021

Summer on the Northern Hemisphere. Credit: Maximilian Reuter (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

The image shows a northern hemispheric summer day of the year 2012. One can see an impressive north Atlantic cyclone, a cloud free Mediterranean Sea, Saharan dust north of the Canary Islands, and cumulus fields near the coast of Namibia and Angola. The image was taken at June 28, 2012 09:00 UTC from the MSG satellite in a geostationary orbit 36000km above the equator. EUMETSAT provided the level 1 ...[Read More]