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Global tourism accounts for 8% of total worldwide greenhouse gas emissions, four times more than previously believed, new research says.

Some gases, including carbon dioxide and methane, trap heat in the atmosphere, producing a "greenhouse effect," and so make the planet warmer. The amount of greenhouse gases released by a particular activity is referred to as its "carbon footprint."

Congratulations to GEM students Juan Carrillo, Anam Rahman, Jaydeep Mistry, and Stephanie Wen (pictured in order) for finishing 1st runners-up in the recent Esri Canada Centre for Excellence (ECCE) App Challenge.

On Thursday, May 17th, Dr. Christ Fletcher will deliver a presentation to Environment & Climate Change Canada (ECCC).

Congratulations to Dr. Suzanne Kearns, who was recently featured in an article published by the Waterloo Region Record. The article explores Dr. Kearns' path to becoming a professor of aviation at the University of Waterloo.

Congratulations to GEM students Nehal Kanetkar, Tanya Iljas, Vineet Virwani (pictured in order) on their winning proposal to L&B Consultants on aviation sustainability. This was through their participation in the GEOG 474 course on Sustainability in Aviation, taught by Dr. Suzanne Kearns.

The students issued the following statement:

Congratulations to Geography and Aviation professor Dr. Suzanne Kearns, who recently launched her new book, Fundamentals of International Aviation, at the Waterloo Wellington Flight Centre.

Dr. Sarah Burch and her GATE research have come out with new research on how Canadian small businesses think about sustainability! Read more and find a link to a research summary here. 

Newly published research from GEM prof Dr. Derek Robinson and former Master's student Andrei Balulescu shows how small businesses could make use of freely available data on public spending habits to make themselves competitive with much larger companies! A summary of their findings can be found here, or you can check out the full research paper. 

Congratulations to GEM's Percy Korsah for winning the People's Choice award at UWaterloo's Three Minute Thesis competition!

Three of our hardworking Geography and Environmental Management professors recently joined with David Roewade, Sustainability Specialist for the Region of Waterloo, to give a roundtable discussion on the topic of climate change.