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The potential for global forest cover The restoration of forested land at a global scale could help capture atmospheric carbon and mitigate climate change. Bastin et al. used direct measurements of forest cover to generate a model of forest restoration potential across the globe (see the Perspective by Chazdon and Brancalion). Their spatially explicit maps show how much additional tree cover could exist outside of existing forests and agricultural and urban land. Ecosystems could support an additional 0.9 billion hectares of continuous forest. This would represent a greater than 25% increase in forested area, including more than 200 gigatonnes of additional carbon at maturity.Such a change has the potential to store an equivalent of 25% of the current atmospheric carbon pool. Science , this issue p. 76 ; see also p. 24

This document collects the summaries of the interviews carried out with various stakeholders in the Requena-Utiel region from March to October 2021. The topics covered in these interviews focused on the governance of the aquifer, the creation of the Central Board of Users of the Requena-Utiel Underground Mass and the relationships between the different users, their perception of the quantitative and qualitative state of the aquifer and the future actions to take for sustainable management. The questionnaire written by the team from Bo��azi��i University, Turkey, was taken into account when preparing the interviews. This project is part of the PRIMA Programme supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No 1923.

Actuellement, les installations CAD sont souvent surdimensionnées par manque de connaissance pour garantir les besoins thermiques de tous les clients. Ce dimensionnement se fait pour un point de fonctionnement à la puissance maximale, puissance à fournir seulement de 1 à 5 jours par an. Une optimisation énergétique grâce à un logiciel pourrait permettre une économie des matières premières des conduites, des déperditions thermiques et de temps lié au dimensionnement. Le but de ce projet est de développer un algorithme itératif en C++, afin de calculer les pertes de charge en régime laminaire et turbulent selon le besoin de chaleur des clients dans un réseau ramifié. L’algorithme considère le réseau comme un arbre composé des points, selon un fichier d’entrée XML. Afin de simplifier la structure, seule la conduite d’aller est considérée. En plus seuls les points des divisons ou des consommateurs sont considérés comme importants dans une première version du Solver. Ces derniers sont nommés feuilles. Les entrées sont principalement l’énergie consommée par chaque sous-station, les longueurs des conduites, les propriétés des conduites et les températures d’aller et de retour du réseau. Les sorties du Solver se trouvent sous forme de fichier texte : débit, vitesse de l’écoulement, perte de charge, différence de température pour chaque branche, température et pression à chaque feuille. L’outil développé très simplifié permet d’imprimer les résultats pour chaque feuille principale dans la conduite d’aller et la visualiser dans QGIS. L’algorithme a été testé sur un cas d’étude réelle. Le résultat du Solver par rapport au tableur Excel actuellement employé par un bureau d’ingénieur a pu montrer son potentiel de précision et sa vitesse de résolution. Tous les résultats visuels sont cohérents par rapport aux résultats calculés.

This study is a follow-up on the the implementation of a business model, which was created in a co-creation process between two universities and an established SME specialized in monitoring municipal and industrial water distribution systems.. A shared collaboration sustainability innovation project between two universities and SME company on research, development and innovation context results was analyzed. A product was innovated for water systems monitoring service's needs and generated from two universities and SMEs shared RDI pilot. Authors elaborate findings for commercialization possibilities success factors and challenges for the co-creation concept. Evaluation criteria used are implementation feasibility and environmental & economical value. InTo tool is utilized for after commercialization phase to evaluate business model in this case study. Literature review focuses on collaboration enhanced sustainability innovations, which is used as comparison frame. Authors suggest efficient actions for collaborative innovation and hurdles to stay away for smooth environmental area innovation commercialization.

This report provides information on energy demand profiles and commercial aspects relevant to the end-users involved in the ASTEP project.

Abstract In this paper, the simplified algorithm for prediction of insulation status of high-voltage asynchronous machine stator coil is presented. It also pointed out the simple way of determining the lifetime coefficient of the stator insulation of high-voltage asynchronous machine. The presented methods are based on the law on the increasing probability of electrical discharge that arises from the rule of independent probabilities multiplication. The experiments were performed on samples taken from new and used windings. The experiments were also carried out on entirely new and used windings. The statistical processing of the experimental results was with high statistical reliability, and a combined measurement uncertainty was satisfactory. The satisfactory results have been obtained that enable replacing the expensive and time-consuming testing in the construction phase of the high-voltage asynchronous machine, as well as the testing during the machine's operation, with much shorter and economical tests, while the reliability of the results remains unchanged.

This document updates the work plan and the schedule of the ASTEP project at M18. The Gantt chart, the Pert chart and the Work Breakdown Structure of the project are presented, including the schedule of Tasks and Subtasks, their responsible partner and person, the related deliverables and their dependencies.

Advection fog is the sole source of water for many near-the-sea arid areas worldwide such as the lomas, i.e. fog-dependant landscapes of the coastal zone of Peru and Northern Chile, where deforestation occurred since 16th century, leading to a progressive and severe desertification. There, today's local socio-ecological systems suffer from lack of freshwater because they cannot rely anymore on the contribution of fog captured by vegetation. This paper presents the results of an experimental reforestation project carried out in Mejia (Peru), where tree seedlings of five native and exotic species were planted in two permanent plots in 1996. Part of the seedlings were irrigated during the first three years after planting, others not. The irrigation was carried out thanks to water harvesting by large fog collectors. From the third year onwards, all trees relied only on fog water collected by their canopy. Survival rate, height, and root-collar diameter were monitored until 2010, when also the soil carbon and nitrogen stocks were measured. Fifteen years after the planting, about 65% of trees were still alive and growing, and reforestation had induced substantial carbon sequestration both above- and below-ground. Of the tree species, Acacia saligna was definitely best performing than the other, with most of the above ground carbon stored in its biomass and a consequent high efficiency as natural fog collector. Overall, the combination of fog collection by nets and the plantation of trees showing good fog collection capacity, represented a successful strategy for allowing reforestation of arid environments and induced fast and substantial carbon sequestration. Greater efforts should be thus devoted for this purpose, paying special attention to the selection of the most suitable tree species to plant, especially looking at the local biodiversity. This work is dedicated to the memory of Professor Mario Falciai, passed away in 2015, who firstly conceived the experiment and attended all the work since 1996, bringing in our University the idea of Fog Collection for sustainable water management.