This plea came across my timeline while most of the rest of Bluesky was speculating gleefully about the death of Donald Trump. One answer, I suppose, is to read my blog though I wouldn’t generally recommend that as any kind of solution to anything. I wrote not just one post on the comms around this, […]| Diagram Monkey
It has been a while since I looked at the merging of global temperature datasets and even longer since I wrote anything up. I have been thinking about it which doesn’t, as with all my thinkin…| Diagram Monkey
But reactors are easily disrupted and aren’t reliable or efficient| Beyond Nuclear International
Critics of subsidies and mandates for clean energy, energy efficiency, and electric vehicles, say these technologies should be able to compete on a level playing field. Fossil fuels still enjoy wor…| Climate Value Exchange
Jennifer Hough is a social justice & human rights advocate who seeks to address injustice using strategic law, policy and communications to bring about change. – Late last year, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Gaston Browne, delivered powerful testimony on the world stage about the catastrophic climate consequences facing small island states. Evoking the existential… Continue reading Barbuda: A case study in disaster capitalism and resistance→| Irish Centre for Human Rights
With influential series on California, on the terraforming of Mars, and on human civilization as reshaped by rising tides, Kim Stanley Robinson has established a conceptu…| Recall This Book
A “World View” published in natureorscience by Tim Palmer (TP from hereonin) is one of those odd but energetic articles senior academics write that one has to read multiple times to savour the full oddness. This one asked “Just how bad will climate change get?” and then added “The only way to know is to […]| Diagram Monkey
This is a sort of second part to How to science a science with science but it’s somewhat bleaker and made the whole thing rather long, so I cut it in two. As the ads say: when the fun stops stop. This bit is almost no fun at all. I knew things had definitely gone wrong […]| Diagram Monkey
The “Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate” came out last week. I’ve made some broad comments on it already, but I’ve been reading the section on ocean acidification – they call it “The Alkaline Oceans” – in more detail, mostly because it is very short. I’m not an expert […]| Diagram Monkey
When I became a climate scientist nearly 22 years ago, I started accumulating books on the subject. One of the first was called something1 like “Global Warming: Apocalypse or Hot Air?” …| Diagram Monkey
The Paris Agreement calls on all Parties (the countries joining it) to publish Nationally Determined Contributions (to the global climate crisis response) every five years. The first were finalized in 2015, alongside the Paris Agreement; the 2nd round came in 2020 and 2021, some delayed by COVID; the third round are being released this year, […]| Climate Value Exchange
A CCI Blue Note policy brief for the 2nd Food Systems Summit Stocktake (FSS+4) taking place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Four years after the historic United Nations Food Systems Summit, there are many…| Climate Value Exchange
Briefing note for the Food Systems Summit Stocktake (FSS+4) taking place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Four years after the historic United Nations Food Systems Summit, there are many big questions looming about the future of food systems, globally, at regional and national levels, and in terms of what is available to people, locally, in their […]| Blue Notes
The International Court of Justice has issued an Advisory Opinion [PDF] finding that nations are obligated to act to reduce climate-related risk for their people and for other nations, an…| Blue Notes
July 25, 2025Saving the world with speed and at scale| stackoverflow.blog
In 2023, the United Nations General Assembly formally asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to issue an advisory opinion on the obligations of states with regard to climate change, under international law. The request asked for legal findings on two core questions: On Wednesday, July 23, 2025, the ICJ issued its landmark Advisory Opinion on the […]| Climate Value Exchange
The International Court of Justice has issued an Advisory Opinion [PDF] finding that nations are obligated to act to reduce climate-related risk for their people and for other nations, an…| Climate Value Exchange
This week, the UK parliament debated a ban on fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship for the first time in what is, hopefully, the first step towards legislation that would limit the industry’s ab…| Culture Unstained
Eight years after CASI-F charted a more responsible path across Europe’s sustainability landscape, the stakes are higher than ever. In my last post I spotlighted five pressure points – weak green-claim rules, the ERA’s 2025-27 overhaul, tighter Horizon Europe ROI scrutiny, grassroots energy pilots, and an even louder circular-economy drumbeat. Our new article, Integrating Policy Agendas […]| Rafael Popper's Blog
The SB62 round of United Nations Climate Change negotiations have concluded in Bonn, Germany. The key takeaway for many participants and observers seems to be: The SB62 advanced some…| Climate Value Exchange
A policy brief from Climate Civics and the Climate Value Exchange for negotiators at the SB62 round of United Nations Climate Change negotiations, in Bonn, Germany. As negotiators gather in Bonn, Germany, for the 62nd meeting of the Subsidiary Bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (SB62), they will be faced with […]| Blue Notes
Briefing note for the 2025 Spring Meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund From Climate Civics and the Climate Value Exchange What are we doing? 2025 has been so far a time of deep turmoil, destabilizing long-standing alliances, financial markets, trade relations, food prices, and vast reservoirs wealth. Across the world, future-building potential is at risk […]| Blue Notes
Cities are increasingly important in the work of shaping human access to health and wellbeing. As more of the world’s population moves to cities, decisions that determine whether air and water are clean and safe, and how food is acquired and distributed in local economies, may determine how long people live and how free they […]| Blue Notes
The COP30 round of UN Climate Change negotiations in Belém, Brazil, offers many opportunities for expanding investment into climate action and its everyday benefits. In many ways, Belém provides a unique opportunity to take those benefits far beyond clmate priorities, to support improved conditions across whole economies. For a long time, one of the great […]| Blue Notes
A Climate Civics International policy brief outlining tools and strategies for accelerated mobilization of wider pools of capital, through institutions and mechanisms participating in the Finance in Common Summit and network. 2024 was the hottest year on record. In fact, it was far hotter than expected, and new evidence suggests the reason is relatively simple: global heating has been […]| Blue Notes
CCI briefing note on COP29 focus areas A safe, resilient, and livable climate future is possible. That should be the subtext of every headline about climate disruption and our response. We can…| Blue Notes
Cormorant1 numbers are falling, says the headline I just made up2, and scientists don’t know why. Reading it, I assume that this is a bad thing. If numbers keep falling, there will eventually…| Diagram Monkey
Dipesh Chakrabarty The twenty-eighth Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change – or COP28 for short – recently took place in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The negotiations that go on at these COP … Continue reading →| In the Moment
Have you seen the blue heart sign in the park by the Peterborough Road entrance? It’s there to tell people about the Blue Campaign, an initiative to encourage everyone to leave 10% of their g…| Friends of Poulter Park and Revesby Wood
In June 2025, as the Parties to the U.N. Climate Convention (197 nations plus the European Union, with member states among the 197) meet in Bonn, Germany, for the 62nd round of negotiations among the Subsidiary Bodies (SB62), we are seeing grave political and geophysical disruptions across the world. Geophysical impacts, proliferating cost and risk, […]| Climate Value Exchange
In its flagship Recipe for a Livable Planet report, the World Bank found that Agrifood is a bigger contributor to climate change than many think. It generates almost a third of GHG emissions, averaging around 16 gigatons annually. This is about one-sixth more than all of the world’s heat and electricity emissions. This has several far-reaching practical […]| Climate Value Exchange
To achieve enduring prosperity, we need to address climate risk, reduce impacts, and build resilience, in ways that heal economic disparities. Two months after 196 nations gathered in Paris to negotiate the most important implementation agreement for global climate action, the Paris Agreement, Geoversiv released a short brief titled ACCESS to GOOD, through the Engage4Climate Network, […]| Climate Value Exchange
The SB62 round of Earth Diplomacy Leadership workshops explored complexities and leverage points in The Process, while asking detailed questions about ways to bring climate policy and act…| Climate Value Exchange
“The 32C heat that will be endured by people in the south-east of England on Saturday will have been made 100 times more likely by the climate crisis, scientists said on Friday.R…| Diagram Monkey
A fascinating preprint came across my timeline this morning1. It caught my eye because it came with an aphorism: “Data without uncertainty estimates are empty, uncertainty estimates without d…| Diagram Monkey
A ‘Blue Note’ policy brief from Climate Civics and the Climate Value Exchange for negotiators at the SB62 round of United Nations Climate Change negotiations, in Bonn, Germany. As negot…| Climate Value Exchange
Two Earth Diplomacy Leadership sessions June 5 will focus on practical ways of mainstreaming climate solutions—food systems and banking. On Thursday, June 5, to mark World Environment Day, we will …| Climate Value Exchange
May 2025 Climate Value Exchange actionable insights brief In May 2025, the global climate disruption challenge is intensifying. The most significant features of this critical moment are: The …| Climate Value Exchange
🌍 We have Only One Earth 🌱 Dear Friends, Today, June 5th, the world comes together to celebrate World Environment Day, a global initiative that has grown into the largest platform for environmental…| Retiredकलम
Today, internal documents from BP have been made public which uncover the oil company’s ‘cynical strategy’ for sponsoring art and culture. The internal memos show how far from seeking to generously…| Culture Unstained
Introduction – World Environment Day will be celebrated every year on June 5 across the world to raise awareness about the importance of a green nature or environment on our planet This internatio…| daneelyunus
I revisited the climate movement to see what had changed since I first mapped it back in late 2021. This … More| thinking, doing, changing
It is often said the climate challenge is as much a political and moral challenge as it is a technical one. In technical terms, science gives us the evidence we need to address climate-related prob…| Climate Value Exchange
PV modules are cheap enough today that the simple fixed East-West arrays are cheaper and faster to install than the industry’s darling, the single-axis tracked array. Xavier Dedenbach, Terraform Po…| Terraform Industries Blog
To close out Earth Month, we held a special virtual meeting with friends and allies of Climate Civics, on Wednesday, April 30. We had people joining from across Africa, as well as some in the Ameri…| Climate Value Exchange
NOTE: A version of this article was originally published by Resilience Intel and Liberate Systems, in 2023. It has been updated with 2025 context and relevant strategic insights. Time is money.&nbs…| Climate Value Exchange
The Climate Action and Food Systems Alliance (CAFSA.net) is a coalition of voices for climate-resilient food systems, convened by Climate Civics and the Global Initiative for Food Se…| Climate Value Exchange
What a brilliant hour I just had with our team. In amongst the busyness of the week, I was able to cycle to Salford Quays, enjoy the sun and an online meeting of our environment working group. This…| Hayley Lever
April 22, 2025: (Spaceweather.com) Planting season is a hectic time for farmers. For many, it means working through the night using GPS-guided tractors to plant thousands of acres in a short period…| Spaceweather.com
As we approach Earth Day 2025, the conditions for long-term preservation and expansion of Climate Value are far from ideal. Below, we review some of the pressures at work in early 2025, and then po…| Blue Notes
[Originally posted on the Terraform blog April 3, 2025.] Three years ago we set out to make cheap synthetic natural gas from sunlight and air. At the time I didn’t fully appreciate that we had kick…| Casey Handmer's blog
Climate disruption is causing real-life devastating consequences, and creating unprecedented levels of compounding risks for people, communities, industries, and nations. These intersecting and com…| Climate Value Exchange
As we approach Earth Day 2025, the conditions for long-term preservation and expansion of Climate Value are far from ideal. Below, we review some of the pressures at work in early 2025, and then po…| Climate Value Exchange
Part 1 – Gathering insights on what is needed to make building Climate Value an everyday economic activity Climate Value Exchange partners have been gathering insights on Activating the Climate Val…| Climate Value Exchange
On Wednesday, March 26, 2025, CCI convened Part 1 of the Good Food Finance Network’s Data Systems Integration Forum. This virtual discussion forum focused on work needed to activate insi…| Climate Value Exchange
Report from a special virtual forum Advancing Climate-Smart Trade and Finance, exploring value-building international cooperation to drive sustainable human development Article 6.8 of the Paris Agr…| Blue Notes
I’ve recently been taking a closer look at the Streamlined Energy & Carbon Reporting (SECR) guidelines. While we currently produce figures on CO2 emissions in Energy Sparks we’re no…| Lost Boy
Three years ago we set out to make cheap synthetic natural gas from sunlight and air. At the time I didn’t fully appreciate that we had kicked off the process of recompiling the foundation layer of our entire industrial stack. Last year, we made cheap pipeline grade natural gas from sunlight and air and expanded our hydrocarbon fuel road map to include methanol, a versatile liquid fuel and chemical precursor for practically every other kind of oil-derived chemical on the market. Unlimited...| Terraform Industries Blog
Introduction Trump has received a lot of negative press for disbanding the US Environmental Protection Agency and removing many environmental protection laws and is generally hated by environmentalists. His campaign promises have been to drill oil like mad and burn as much oil as possible. Of course, with Trump what he actually does, does not […]| Stephen Smith's Blog
Much ink and light has been spilled over the backlash against ESG (which is shorthand for standards and ratings that measure performance on environmental, social, and governance value-bui…| Climate Value Exchange
Cities are increasingly important in the work of shaping human access to health and wellbeing. As more of the world’s population moves to cities, decisions that determine whether air and water are …| Climate Value Exchange
The COP30 round of UN Climate Change negotiations in Belém, Brazil, offers many opportunities for expanding investment into climate action and its everyday benefits. In many ways, Belém provides a …| Climate Value Exchange
California is by far the richest and most powerful polity led by Progressive ideals, and it has taken a beating of late. In this post, I discuss a practical roadmap by which California must reclaim its mantle as the shining city on the hill, an embodiment of the positive attributes of Progressive ideals and material optimism, and once again become a target of aspirational upward mobility. This will not be an easy road. Decades of complacency have squandered enviable resources and potential. B...| Casey Handmer's blog
A Climate Civics International policy brief outlining tools and strategies for accelerated mobilization of wider pools of capital, through institutions and mechanisms participating in the Finance i…| Climate Value Exchange
In a dangerous attempt to suppress evidence and move America backward on climate crisis response, Donald Trump is attempting to end consideration of the “social cost of carbon”. The move is include…| Climate Value Exchange
Two and a half years after we released the Capital to Communities report, we see the access of local communities to capital that supports climate risk reduction and resilience building threatened, …| Climate Value Exchange
By Nick Roxburgh1, Rocco Paolillo2, Tatiana Filatova3, Clémentine Cottineau3, Mario Paolucci2 and Gary Polhill1 1 The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen AB15 8QH, United Kingdom {nick.roxburgh,…| Review of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
Hi all, Happy New Year! I hope you all had a good Christmas and New Year break with your loved ones. Well, in the end, whilst I was a bit cautious in my blogging my gut call that Trump would win th…| forecastingintelligence
Climate Value Exchange briefing note, reporting from December 2024 monthly meeting During the December 2024 monthly planning meeting for the Climate Value Exchange, we shared views on the COP29, it…| Climate Value Exchange
Today marks 9 years from the day the Paris Agreement was established as the consensus outcome from the COP21 round of UN Climate Change negotiations. That moment was one of jubilation, relief,…| Climate Value Exchange
The shift toward a climate-smart banking system will be a learning-by-doing process. It needs to happen everywhere, at every scale, starting now. Climate disruption is advancing around the world, c…| Climate Value Exchange
Key messages: New finance commitments are meaningful progress, but funding targets must be seen as a floor, not a ceiling. Much more is needed to achieve justice and the practical resou…| Climate Value Exchange
An interactive look at Article 6.8 of the Paris Agreement and its potential to bring about a transition to climate-smart trade, finance, and everyday economics, in all regions. Thursday, November 2…| Climate Value Exchange
The debate about ESG investing is not what you think it is. Anyone with assets to protect has to ask how to avoid proportional risk attached to unsustainable practices. The evidence is clear: Human…| Climate Value Exchange
[ I’m breaking from my usual technical posts, since I have some wonderful news to share with you all; opinions mine, not those of my employer, etc. ] For readers of elevated left-leaning publications such as the Guardian, one of the more remarkable discoveries one might make is that the sources of environmental devastation are… Continue reading The Environment will Be Saved if We Just Avoid Doing Icky Things→| Branch Free
Gaia is facing a metacrisis. But humanity is primarily facing a crisis of institutions and collective imagination. Many of us would be unable to recognise a healthy human scale cultural organism if…| Jorn Bettin
The first week of the COP29 has seen negotiators from nearly 200 nations struggling through many long-running barriers to progress, while advancing important logistical questions around insight-sha…| Climate Value Exchange
The Climate Civics International briefing note on transformational areas of work for COP29 in Baku A safe, resilient, and livable climate future is possible. That should be the subtext of ever…| Climate Value Exchange
The COP29 cycle of Earth Diplomacy Leadership workshops has delivered important insights about the risks and opportunities in the Baku negotiations, and suggested a number of overarching goals that…| Climate Value Exchange
By disrupting the Earth’s main heat transport system, humans risk creating a new Ice Age in Europe – while the rest of the planet overheats to intolerable levels. Far beneath the storm-tossed waves of the North Atlantic, a monster is stirring. A monster so vast and violent it could savage Western Civilization in ways not … Continue reading When the Oceans Run Amok…| Surviving C21
In the eye of the hurricane is a moment of calm and silence, before wild chaos and destruction resumes. Symbolically, the world now stands in such a place. “We are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster. This is a global emergency beyond any doubt. Much of the very fabric of life on Earth … Continue reading The deafening silence in the Eye of the Hurricane| Surviving C21
The vast wildfires now ravaging the world’s northernmost regions herald rising danger for all humanity, no matter where we live. To people worldwide desperately trying to rebuild their lives and homes following devastation by hurricane, flood, drought and sea-surge, what happens in the remote Arctic may seem of small importance. But it has the capacity … Continue reading Is Arctic methane stoking the climate crisis?| Surviving C21
FACT, PERCEPTION AND A LOOMING CRISIS Although this site is dedicated to the rigorous analysis of measurable economic and financial trends, there are times when intuition must be allowed some latit…| Surplus Energy Economics
Terraform Industries is making cheap synthetic natural gas from sunlight and air. After the success of our team in building an end-to-end demonstration of our fuel synthesis process, aspects of the future are coming into focus. Terraform is emerging from its R&D phase into its value generation phase. That’s right – it’s time to make money! This necessity is not motivated by greed, but by the recognition that it is impossible to rapidly deliver a complete industrial stack for synthetic f...| Terraform Industries Blog
Planet Earth is sick – and getting sicker, according to a new Planetary Health Check. The report, by Germany’s Potsdam Institute, finds that humans – like a drunken driver heedlessly running a red traffic light – have smashed through the safe boundaries of the planet and its ability to sustain life in seven out of … Continue reading The Earth is sick – and getting sicker.| Surviving C21
Most of the Norwegian population has throughout history lived off the land. In 1872, 87 % of the population lived outside of the cities. They were mostly… Read more "The Norwegian farm – gården – some terms"| Genealogical research in Norway
A Bolzano, dal 1992, esiste uno dei centri di ricerca privati più importanti d'Europa. I temi di cui si occupa Eurac Research sono vari e continuamente aggiornati: management e cultura d'impresa, genetica ed energie rinnovabili ma anche, negli ulti| Intravino
Being Part 3 of an ongoing series that is unlikely to reach any satisfying conclusion anytime soon. See Part 1 A multitude of possibly unsatisfying answers and Part 2 A panoply of trifling dis…| Diagram Monkey
Around the world, from India, to the Middle East, to southern Europe to North America, people are dropping in tens of thousands under the blazing heat of a Northern summer. Many die. In one of the …| Surviving C21
The SB60 negotiations can create new momentum for the climate value economy. Earth Diplomacy Leadership workshops provide critical insights for cooperative acceleration. Ahead of the SB60 round of …| Climate Value Exchange
The SB60 round of UNFCCC negotiations could open a door to the great promise of climate-resilient development, but the Bonn Conference also comes at a time when the world community risks permanentl…| Climate Value Exchange
In which I wonder what would happen if time ran backwards and the globe cooled.| Diagram Monkey
The Integrated Data Systems Initiative is a five-year innovation sprint, organized by the Good Food Finance Network (GFFN) and recognized by the 2023 Agriculture Innovation Mission (AIM) for Climat…| Climate Value Exchange
Climate disruption and nature loss are putting food systems at risk. To avoid the destabilizing effects of pervasive food insecurity, urgent action is needed to improve food-related finance, and ho…| Climate Value Exchange
Geoff Holland: What is an Earth System treaty? And what are its core principles? Julian Cribb: An Earth System Treaty is a worldwide legal agreement, committing everyone who signs it to work to pro…| Surviving C21
Wines Made from Hybrid GrapesThis month, our World Wine Travel writers are exploring wines made from hybrid grapes. One might ask what is a hybrid grape? We’ll explore what hybrid grapes are,…| foodwineclick
In 1992, nearly 200 nations agreed to “prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system”. In 2015, the 197 Parties to the Climate Convention (the COP) adopted the Paris Ag…| Climate Value Exchange
It’s crunch time for our climate future. We are living through a worsening storm of hard impacts, and all of the ways forward are rocky. We are more than 30 years on from the historic global …| Climate Value Exchange
What is non-market climate cooperation? It’s how groups of countries can make climate value central to their dealings, with benefits across the whole economy. In 1992, nearly 200 nations agre…| Climate Value Exchange
