Chris Kinally
@chris_kinally
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Postdoctoral Researcher addressing off-grid solar waste, Energy Justice, Circular Economy, and sustainable textiles
Joined October 2020
RT @UoMPolicy: 🔋 Lead-acid batteries used to power off-grid solar energy devices sold across sub-Saharan Africa often fail. ♻️ Recycling….
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Solar electrification #SDG7 is driving lead pollution in Africa: one solar battery can release the equivalent of 100 lethal oral doses of lead. Safe recycling is urgent. New publication with @schmid_gallego Fernando Antonanzas Frank Podd @SustainableUoM.
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Seeking football fans to participate in biomaterials research project #football #biomaterials #research #footballjersey #fashion #materials @CEHenninger @fashfutures @schmid_gallego @laurajpottinger @songyi_yan
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Seeking football fans to participate in biomaterials research project #football #biomaterials #research #footballjersey #fashion #materials @CEHenninger @fashfutures @schmid_gallego @laurajpottinger @songyi_yan
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RT @UoMCreativeMCR: We're starting off the day with our Global South session featuring presentations on climate litigation in African court….
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My first PhD publication in a series investigating the dynamic of the unregulated #offgrid #solar market in sub-Saharan Africa, exposing that #ewaste is accelerating childhood lead exposure, and investigating #circualreconomy solutions.
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RT @ProfJohnBarry: 'The people vs Climate Change', new BBC documentary.Follow members of the UK’s first ever Citizens Assembly on climate c….
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"air pollution impact of these coal plants could also lead to an estimated 29,000 emergency hospital visits due to asthma, 25,000 preterm births and 14 million days of work absence every year at a total annual cost of $6.2bn.".Exactly the transparency we need.
A loophole in #HSBC’s pledge to phase out financing for #coal 🏠by 2040 allows the Asset Management arm to support companies with plans to build more than 70 new coal power plants #ClimateCrisis #COP26.
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Increase resource security of critical materials and stop illegal toxic waste export to low-income countries .“It is estimated that there are more technology critical metals in household drawers than in Europe’s largest mines,”.
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RT @TyndallCentre: Seminar series on Climate Change, Inequality, and X happening in May! We will share a registration link soon. https://t.….
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"By including carbon sinks in climate-economic models, a Pandora’s box had been opened.".
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For Net Zero “over the next 30 years we will need to mine more mineral ores than humans have extracted over the last 70,000 years.” The demand for minerals that already face global security issues is increasing tenfold. #netzero needs a #circulareconomy .
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A view of African cities "through the lens of urban metabolism". A stunning exhibition helping us relate to consumption and how resources flow through cities. #circulareconomy .
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“By the end of 2020, 12,000 people per day could die from hunger linked to COVID-19, potentially more than will die from the disease itself.”.
The impacts of the #COVID19 crisis are felt hardest by the world's most vulnerable people. This blog, developed by @EforA_Coalition, explores how #solar agricultural technologies can help avert a food catastrophe and mitigate mass hunger. Read it here:
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