An update has been provided by the Air Liquide Foundation on the projects it has been involved with.
Today, there are 194 projects located in 42 countries, and more than 200 employees involved.
Since January 2014, 41 new projects have been approved in 20 countries. Among them, six new scientific research projects that fall within the scope of the foundation’s efforts in the area of preserving the earth’s atmosphere and improving respiratory functioning have been approved.
For example, the foundation has renewed its support for the explorer Ghislain Bardout and his second Under The Pole II Expedition in Greenland with an endowment of €120,000 over two years. The objectives of the expedition are twofold: to measure the amount of carbon dioxide trapped in the ocean depths in order to better assess the impact of this phenomenon on climate change, and to study human physiological response during deep sea dives in very cold water in order to issue safety recommendations to divers.
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