EXIT research group studies the impact of Extractive Industries, in particular the Fossil Fuels Industry, on Planetary Health and Environmental Justice.
The approach we adopt is highly interdisciplinary, combining tools from envirionmental forensics, environmental epidemiology, climate policy, ecology, veterinary science, remote sensing, and citizen science. We bridge the natural and social sciences to study the Global Change from an integrated perspective.
To achieve this, we have 2 complementary strategies:
La caça de subsistència és una font molt important de proteïna per a les comunitats rurals i indígenes de les selves tropicals d’arreu del món. No obstant això, alguns estudis suggereixen que la munició de plom utilitzada per aquesta pràctica podria representar un greu risc per a la salut d’aquestes poblacions. El projecte INDILEAD investiga aquest problema mitjançant l’anàlisi dels nivells de plom en sang en comunitats indígenes de les selves tropicals del Camerun (poble Baka), el Perú i Indonèsia (poble Punan-Tubu). A més, l’estudi identifica les principals vies d’exposició per comprendre millor els riscos associats a aquesta problemàtica.
To limit the increase in global mean temperature to 1.5 °C, CO2 emissions must be drastically reduced. Accordingly, approximately 97%, 81%, and 71% of existing coal and conventional gas and oil resources, respectively, need to remain unburned. The UNBURNED project will develop the first global geospatial platform integrating policy-relevant information on fossil fuel reserves, state-level political indicators, biodiversity indicators, and social and economic indicators associated with fossil fuel divestment plans, impacts and activities. The platform will be presented in the COP29 next November and will propose sensitive areas that should remain entirely off-limits to fossil fuel extraction. Link to the Atlas of Unburnable Fossil Fuels: https://atlasofunburnablefossilfuels.ub.edu