Climate Action
There is no doubt that the anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases are changing our living environment. Climate change is in our hands. We need to both work on limiting it as much as we can (mitigation), but we will also have to learn to adapt to new circumstances. TU Delft will harness its innovative powers to support the world-wide transition to non-fossil resources, and adaptation of the living environment to the consequences of global warming.
The problem is complex and urgent – but we have no other choice than to be optimistic and use all of our capacity to face the challenge, through our education programs and our research.
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In the Climate Action research programme, we start from four themes we consider to be paramount for future Climate Action:
The TU Delft vision on Climate Action is deeply founded in preceding decades of university wide climate action research. The goal of the Climate action research programme is to build on current strengths and identify the areas where there is a need to strengthen our capacities to keep up our (inter)national reputation as climate action university.
Herman Russchenberg
Pro Vice Rector Climate Action
‘There is always a reason not to act. Let’s do something about this. Time is running out’
Climate Action Stories
Climate Action News
08 November 2016
Future coastal sea level rise
If mid-century temperatures reach 2°C, global coastlines could rise by approximately 20 centimetres, but, due to global imbalances in ocean levels, 90% of coastal areas could experience even higher coastlines. And if temperatures rise by 5°C by 2100, as predicted by climate scenario RCP 8.5, coastlines could increase an average of 90 centimetres. Furthermore, an average of 80% of coastlines would have the potential to rise above 1.8 meters. An international team of researchers, among them Riccardo Riva of TU Delft, have published these findings in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on November 7th.
01 November 2016
Ruisdael Observatory: TU Delft wants to understand the future of our atmosphere
On October 31st, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) launched their agenda for major research facilities to help our nation to keep pushing back the boundaries of science. One of the proposed facilities is the Ruisdael Observatory, an atmospheric monitoring observatory covering the entire country. Named after the seventeenth-century painter Jacob Ruisdael, famous for his cloudscapes, this project will keep the Netherlands at the cutting edge of atmospheric science.
24 October 2016
Unravelling the secrets of rising sea levels in the North Sea
In collaboration with other parties, researchers from TU Delft have succeeded in precisely modelling rises in sea level in the North Sea for recent decades. In their view, the consequences of climate change during this period are already visible in the North Sea. The researchers published a paper about this in Geophysical Research Letters on Monday 24 October.
23 September 2016
Climate change intensifies night-time storms over Lake Victoria
Lake Victoria in East Africa will become a hotspot for hazardous thunderstorms due to climate change. This is shown by an international study published in Nature Communications on the 23rd of September. Stef Lhermitte (TU Delft) analysed the differences between storms during the day (which occur mainly over land) and during the night (occur mainly over the lake).
13 July 2016
Ruisdael Observatory: Understanding the future of our atmosphere
