It might be true that the world needs to remove ten billion tonnes of CO₂ from the atmosphere every year but it’s never going to happen for many different reasons: technical, financial, social, environmental, governance, etc. If we don’t reduce CO₂ emissions, we’re screwed. That’s it.

Finished all 5 episodes in a couple of days😅. Highly recommended!

Great article by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, Open Access www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The window to act on climate is rapidly closing. Our new 2025 State of the Climate report is just out. Read the full report here: doi.org/10.1093/bios... @michaelemann.bsky.social @dwallacewells.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @ecowarriorss.bsky.social

German study shows how far right sets agenda thanks to mainstream parties reshaping their communications to respond to what are initially fringe issues, boosting the spread of these ideas and signalling to voters that these ideas and stances were legitimate shorturl.at/OFfig

Broadly correct, except the far right in office is far more corruppt than the people they replace.

'Existing buildings and infrastructure should be upgraded to withstand temperatures of at least 2C higher than normal by 2050...the committee said. Any new constructions intended to last decades should be prepared for 4C above preindustrial levels...'

Atmospheric CO2 concentrations "surged" last year - a record yearly increase It's bad enough that we're continuing to burn fossil fuels, but now the world's natural carbon sinks (like the forests going up in flames) are failing too Fuck

That England has had its three worst harvests on record inside the past five years really should be being treated as a much bigger cause for concern than is currently the case. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520171...

Will I be the first to suggest the carbon offsets worked exactly as planned: they delayed real action for another 25 years

Yep- a very dumb bet.

New study finds both MPs and the public underestimate how quickly global emissions must be cut.

The US is destroying its chance of global leadership in electric vehicles. EU also lagging Globally, EVs are on an expanding trend and the tech is set to be dominated by China This was not inevitable, but the result of poor political choices by the West www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Degrowth has never been a coherent political perspective, nor has it had an agreed political strategy. This interview with Jason Hickel and reply by Vincent Liegey, Anitra Nelson, and Terry Leahy pair well to highlight the dividing lines. Links below.

Alarm over #Pfas pollution from datacenters amid #AI boom Tech companies’ use of Pfas gas at facilities may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Simply replacing fossil-fuel extraction with critical-mineral mining is no way out of the climate crisis, Thea Riofrancos argues in her new book. Scott W. Stern on “Extraction”:

📢BIG NEW STUDY📢 Out today in Nature: the all-new Doughnut! Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @kateraworth.bsky.social and myself. 🧵 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds - Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I dont often agree with Ryan Air boss Michael O’Leary but he is right about SAF "There is no possibility of meeting 6% SAF by 2030; not a hope in hell." Thats because the bio feedstock for SAF will hit food production and cause inflation. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Zack Polanski 🤝 Karl Polanyi

“It is increasingly indefensible for news coverage of climate change not to make it clear that this crisis is driven by very specific human activities – primarily burning fossil fuels. And in second place is food, agriculture, forestry.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Recent research shows that the potential of both carbon capture & storage and ecosystem restoration to mitigate climate change have been greatly over-estimated It is not going to be possible to suck all that carbon out of the sky once it's up there We have onlu one option: stop burning stuff

India, China, Europe, and the United States are on very different population paths

📢 Call for Panels for our flagship event! ⛵ EADI / IOB 2026: Shaping Sustainable Futures: Global Challenges, (G)local solutions? 📅 29 June – 2 July 2026 📍 @iobua.bsky.social, University of Antwerp, Belgium ⏰ Deadline for submissions: 7 September 2025 ➡️ bit.ly/EADI-IOB-26-call

Explainer: Why is climate change causing ‘record-shattering’ extreme heat? | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org w/ comment from @robertvautard.bsky.social and @erichfischer.bsky.social #CBarchive Read here: buff.ly/3ZND907

'Similarly, the world will pass 2C around the year 2048'

Where are the eco-cities?

NEW Summer 2025 was the UK's hottest on record This year's average summer temperature of 16.1C was made around 70 times more likely because of climate change, the @metoffice.gov.uk has found www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

Heatwaves are making people age faster, study suggests - Research is a ‘paradigm shift’ in understanding how damaging prolonged high temperatures are to health, showing the impact can be lifelong #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New review: "The tipping point for unstoppable ice loss from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could be exceeded even under best-case CO2 emission reduction pathways, potentially initiating global tipping cascades" #climatecrisis HT @carbonbrief.org www.nature.com/articles/s41...

'A fundamental rethink of the UK’s climate policy requires a consensus that is grounded in equity, scientific integrity and transformative ambition'

1. This is something I've been saying for 25 years, but it's hard to get many people to listen. What counts is not the new energy sources you add, but the old ones you retire. Unfortunately it's politically easier to build renewables than to shutter fossil fuels.🧵 www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...

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I did my PhD on protected areas - the 15% of the Earth's land set aside as parks and reserves for the conservation of nature The UK's National Parks are NOT protected areas - they don't meet the definition Only 3% of our land does, it's a disgrace

Yet more magical thinking. phys.org/news/2025-06...

Really happy to be presenting my research on a post-growth China case study at the ISEE-Degrowth Conference in Oslo tomorrow! What a shame the two China research papers and the China workshop at the conference all clash 😶

“The village’s 300 inhabitants had to leave their homes on 19 May after geologists monitoring the area warned that the glacier appeared unstable. Now many of them may never be able to return. Climate change is causing the glaciers – frozen rivers of ice – to melt faster and faster..”

The violence is relentless

Just to reiterate the unfathomably huge stakes here: bird flu has the potential to kill millions and millions. It has done so before. Vaccines are the best defense we have, and this administration just unilaterally decided, nope. 🧪

@aaronjbastani.bsky.social was pathetically ill-informed about Degrowth theory on Fri Novara Live. Degrowth does not argue 'we don't need to build anything'/ we shouldn't 'hoover our house' 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️ It does argue we need to build mass public transport even though Bastani stated it doesn't.

A sobering look at some key #climate indicators from last year - CO2 Emissions in 2024 - Record High Coal - Record High Gas - Record High Oil - Record High (tied 2019) 🧵1/9 www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-glo...

if the whole world population had emitted as per the richest 0.1% since 1990, the global temperature increase would have been 12.2C 😲

Finland has a climate target to be net zero GHG emissions in 2035. The target requires reductions in emissions, plus an enhancement in the sinks. It was all looking good, until... www.treasuryfinland.fi/investor-rel... 1/

Always good to hear a Karl Polanyi name drop when discussing contemporary crisis. This time by @nickdearden.bsky.social on @macrodosepod.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/tariff...

Blair's false solution is techno fetishization. These 'solutions' are not proven at scale and there is no evidence they can scale in time. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The consequences of this are potentially catastrophic...

Presented my research at a great conference a couple of weeks ago on Eco-emancipation at Duke-Kunshan Uni and met some wonderful people! The campus, however, not so eco-emancipated...👀

1. Because this issue is critical, but has received remarkably little coverage, here's a thread pulling out the key themes from my article yesterday, on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which puts decades of environmental protections to the torch. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Very happy to see our co-authored review of Paddy Ireland's great book 'Property in Contemporary Capitalism' (@brisunipress.bsky.social) published in @journallawsociety.bsky.social. Give it a read! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....