GRID-Geneva generates various types of resources such as data, data platforms, publications, visuals (maps, graphs, posters), storymaps or multimedia contents. These various resources are all accessible through this website.
Pascal Peduzzi, Director of GRID-Geneva gave an interview to the Swiss TV RTS on the environmental impacts from sand extraction. This broadcast gives several examples on the unsustainable use of sand in various locations.
Public Eye podcast (in German) about sand. With the participation of Giulia Marti (UNEP/GRID-Geneva).
Participation of the GRID-Geneva's director to the science magazine “42 – The Answer to Nearly Everything“ on the German/French TV-channel ARTE.
The climate change data platform contains up-to-date relevant information about climate change indicators
The Interactive Country Fiches provide a system of interactive and updatable environmental profiles for the analysis of environmental situations and performances of countries around the world. Covering eight environmental pillars, this online tool aims to provide information on key national policies and actions, and offers a single-entry point to over a hundred of up-to-date datasets.
The Global Infrastructure Risk Model and Resilience Index (GIRI) is the first publicly available, fully probabilistic risk model to estimate risk for infrastructure assets with respect to most major geological and climate-related hazards.
The sand side event at the UN Water Conference 2023, titled "Concrete threat to water security: Sustainable sand mining solutions to build resilience" took place on Friday 24 March 2023. The video is accessible from this page
UNEP/GRID-Geneva is leading the Global Marine Sand Watch, a platform to help countries and stakeholders monitor dredging activities in near real-time towards the goal of capacity building, development of guidelines and best practices for sand extraction.
GRID-Geneva's director has been invited to answer questions from kids about sand in the RTS broadcast "Brouhaha".
As a follow-up of the UNEP publication "Sand and Sustainability: 10 strategic recommandations to avert a crisis", UNEP/GRID-Geneva's director, Prof. Pascal Peduzzi, was interviewed by Radio-Canada (in French) on 29th of April 2022 about sand shortage.
