Post by Ernesto D.R. Santibanez Gonzalez

#Theory has been generous to #humanity, creating vast amounts of #knowledge. But theory alone cannot heal our wounded #planet. What the #climate needs is a centre of thought and action with impeccable #academic rigor: an intellectual fire that rivals the world's leading research and knowledge centres to solve the planet's great challenges affecting local development. Today, we announce the birth of an International #Centre of #Excellence that operates not on ivy-covered campuses but in the driest desert on #Earth. Administratively housed at @UNAP, but defined by its global mandate, this is the crucible of #Atacama: a rigorous sanctuary built on the conviction that global salvation requires local wisdom. This is our response to the existential pain of our time. We are not just inaugurating a center; we are lighting a beacon for an economic transition in balance with nature and the needs of society, anchoring the promise of a low-carbon economy in the land of the Pampa. The dawn of the Atacama has arrived. The desert is not empty; it is the soil where a balanced and equitable world takes root. #Staytuned. Tomorrow, we will reveal the minds that are already charting the course toward this frontier. NELSON MACULAN Stefan Seuring Olga Battaïa Rameshwar Dubey @rene bañares https://lnkd.in/dZp--KrR @joao-carlos-leitao Alberto Mendoza Yutao Wang Cooperativa Ciencia @qiuhong-zhao Innova UNAP Raúl Ignacio Castillo-Villagra Julio Andrés Rozo Grisales Samuel Fosso Wamba Angappa Gunasekaran Idiano D'Adamo Rodrigo Lozano Jorge Lira Tomicic @malin-song Universidad de Talca Rodrigo Ariel Schiaffo Arriagada Diego Conti Luciano Ferreira da Silva Marcio Cardoso Machado, PhD Victor Corrêa Charbel Jose C. Ana Beatriz LOPES DE SOUSA JABBOUR Arcadio Cerda Ex-Ante CORFO | Chilean Economic Development Agency Elsevier Researcher Academy Springer Nature #Innovation #GreenEnergy #Sustainability #AtacamaProtocol #innovaunap #ClimateAction #UNAP #Atacama #Chile #GreenHydrogen #ClimateChange #greenammonia