PACE - Space Apps Challenge

SDGs and COVID-19

This challenge invites you to analyze the impact of COVID-19 on the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by looking at the current and ongoing change in the monitoring indicators of the UN SDGs using Earth observation/remote sensing and global Earth system model-derived analysis products.

PACE --- Green the Light

Summary

Our project intends to address SDG-7 (Affordable and Clean Energy). PACE has developed a website that facilitates user-organization interaction as well as outlining and educating citizens to help them Green switch, into a cleaner, more reliable energy sources. This platform will provide the user with an overview of clean energy in the context of the pandemic as well as handing them useful information and a list of our best recommendations for clean energy suppliers based on their geolocation.

How We Addressed This Challenge

COVID-19 has had a huge impact on human society in a short period of time, causing

countries all over the world to start paying attention to public health issues. We should not learn lessons only after paying a huge price.

News reports have flooded the scene with hospitals lacking proper energy, poor air quality exacerbating COVID-19 symptoms, and further pushing the goals of SDG 7 down the line. Seeing how interconnected SDG 7 is to the other SDGs, our team, PACE, settled on combatting this issue.

We are trying to raise awareness and educate people about climate change and encourage them to switch to renewable energy sources saving by those millions of lives in the future, environment and so much more. In order to be able to eliminate the impacts of climate change, which affects everyone we must unite everyone to act together. So, we established a website designed to educate, empower, and guide the people to make more informed decisions... greener decisions.

A website was the natural medium of choice, due to increased intractability, traffic tracking, and general ease of communication, use, and ease of update.

How We Developed This Project

Step 1: Identifying the problem which is the urge to use renewable energy in providing clean and accessible energy for every human being and raising awareness about climate change and its effect using the situation of Covid-19 and incorporating the effects of reduced emissions on health, environment and even saving human lives.

Step 2: Set & Prioritize Goals: we want to achieve and what we are going to address and how we are going to collect data and present them.

Step 3: Create a schedule for the project.

Step 4: launched our website after collecting data and doing the proper research.

Step 5 : Doing a short video to summarize our project and uploading it to youtube.

Detailed website info

The Green the Light website organized by PACE has the following pages.

The home and about us pages introduce our original intention to make this website and our team.

Renewable energy and series interfaces introduce different kinds of renewable energy and their characteristics. These pages are for educating people so that they can better understand the advantages of renewable energy, and then guide them to choose renewable energy.

The Green Switch page is the core interface of our website. After the user enters all the cities and countries they are in, we will print the local climate by connecting to the database and give the renewable energy that can be selected according to the climate. At the same time, it gives users energy suppliers in their country and their energy composition. By ranking them, customers can choose to replace their electrical suppliers to achieve the effect of supporting the development of renewable energy.

We collated data from reliable resources and built our database based on these collected data.

All the resources we have used can be found on the resources page on our website and also here in the submission form.

The COVID-19 & Climate page is to introduce the impact of these two human disasters, and how despite it all, humanity has overcome the cruellest of burdens. If we can solve COVID-19, which begs the cooperation between nations, we can solve climate change. Moreover, this page introduces the different ways energy emissions have changed since the rise of the novel-corona-virus, further highlighting that humanity can change our habits if we must.