Remarks and Abstracts of the First Sustainable Globe Conference 2021

Regmi, Shakil; Lindner, Martin; Tovar‐Gálvez, Julio César; Téllez-Acosta, Maria Esther

doi:10.3390/proceedings2022080004

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“…17 The energy-focused sustainable development goals (SDGs) were defined to ensure the universal availability of reliable modern renewable energy sources at affordable prices having higher efficiencies by 2030. 18 Although extensive efforts have been made to achieve the energy SDGs, the current rate of global energy transitions is still limited due to lack of an integrated framework design to improve economical access to renewable energies while maintaining zero CO 2 emissions. According to the statistics provided by the World Energy Council, fossil fuels still account for the bulk of the world's energy supply (76%), followed by renewable energy sources (19%) and then nuclear energy (4.1%) (www.worldenergy.org) (Figure 1A).…”

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“…In such a scenario, it is necessary to recall and meet the goals of a sustainable future of the planet in the name of “Agenda 2030” adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in 2015 . The energy-focused sustainable development goals (SDGs) were defined to ensure the universal availability of reliable modern renewable energy sources at affordable prices having higher efficiencies by 2030 . Although extensive efforts have been made to achieve the energy SDGs, the current rate of global energy transitions is still limited due to lack of an integrated framework design to improve economical access to renewable energies while maintaining zero CO 2 emissions.…”

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Microalgal-Based Bioenergy: Strategies, Prospects, and Sustainability

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The fuel crisis with the slumping reserves of fossil fuels and the exponential increase in the demand of energy necessitate a paradigm shift to a more sustainable and eco-friendly energy system. Microalgal biofuel has been recognized as one of the most prominent and versatile alternative renewable energy sources because it can be converted into a wide array of biofuels, such as biodiesel, bioethanol, bioelectricity and biogases such as syngas, methane, hydrogen, and hythane etc., with a lower carbon emission profile. To attain the economic viability of algal fuels, a collective biorefinery approach addressing both the operational and technical limitations is quintessential. The current review critically analyzes and categorizes energy aspects of microalgae through various direct and indirect approaches with the perspective of a circular economy. These approaches include complicated thermochemical and biochemical processes integrating the recovery of a wide range of value-added products apart from biofuels, thus defining a cascading approach for a multiproduct-based biorefinery model. A glimpse of recent technological advancements comprising hybrid cultivation systems, prospects of co-culturing, and the role of automated/modeling approaches in the industrial-scale production of "algal-based bioenergy" is also discussed in detail. Further, the review has also scrutinized and highlighted the developments and bottlenecks in genetic and molecular aspects of strain improvement for bioenergy production. Furthermore, the study also correlated the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of producing this green energy by evaluating the prospects and pitfalls to obtain a holistic picture on this alternative fuel for a bio-based sustainable economy.

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Microalgal-Based Bioenergy: Strategies, Prospects, and Sustainability

2022

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“…A total of 29 presentations by authors from 13 countries, and four continents (Africa, America, Asia, and Europe) and ten speakers were part of SGC 2021 (Regmi et al, 2022). The next section analyses the contributions in the SI and highlights diversity in ESD and EE as one of the core themes.…”

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Sustainability and Cultural Inclusion: Considering Ontological, Epistemological and Educational Diversity

Tovar‐Gálvez

2022

INTERDISCIP J ENV SCI ED

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Cultural diversity is important in understanding human-nature relationships and suggesting ways to change them in the face of environmental crises. Therefore, it is important to examine how environmental education (EE) and education for sustainable development (ESD) consider cultural inclusion. The debate between different visions related to humanity, society, nature, the environment, the relationship between humans and the rest of nature, development, growth, etc. opens the spectrum to study cultural inclusion. This editorial briefly overviews how EE and ESD address cultural inclusion. This overview places such a debate as the basis of this special issue (SI) of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Environmental and Science Education (IJESE). Most of the papers in this SI are expanded and peer-reviewed versions of conferences presented at the Sustainable Globe Conference 2021. The papers highlight sustainability problems in different scenarios, propose alternative viewpoints to what sustainability or ESD establish, and use diverse methods for producing knowledge.

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“…Over the last ten years, we have been working on questions of education for sustainable development in Nepal, Ecuador, Colombia, South Africa, Eswatini, Egypt, and other countries. This collaboration created the idea to combine our local and regional research concerning the local experience and the local cultural and spiritual background (Regmi et al, 2022).…”

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