Trump’s war in Iran has driven a decline in gas and oil demand, and even with a rise in coal use in some places, global emissions from fossil fuels are expected to fall by 0.5% this year. He may be a climate denier and fossil fuel booster, but luckily for the world he is incompetent.
They’re running for the sixth time and its probably the sixth time I’ve mentioned them, but don’t miss the list of winners of Covering Climate Now’s Climate Journalism Awards.
India’s supreme court ruled this year that walking safely in the street is a constitutional right, prompting a new focus on pedestrianisation and questioning the centrality of cars in urban design.
It doesn’t have a presence in the UK as far as I can see, but the Stellantis car manufacturing group has a circular economy car dismantling plant in Italy that supplies refurbished spare parts across Europe. You used to have to visit a junkyard and hope for the best for that sort of thing.
Nothing to do with sustainability, but I love to seek out good books from a wide range of perspectives. I read books by authors from 22 different countries last year, and so I like the look of World Editions’ Read the World A-Z of translated novels.
Recent highlights
How Fyffes is adopting regenerative agriculture
Regenerative agriculture is an approach to farming that maintains and even enhances nature. Much of the pioneering work on it has happened on small farms, often set in opposition to ‘big ag’. But to really make a difference, regenerative agriculture needs to be practiced at large scale and the big boys need to learn from…
Learning to live as a hot country: Madagascar
Earlier this year the Climate Change Committee, the UK’s climate advisory body, published a report on adaptation. Britain’s progress on reducing emissions has not been matched on the adaptation side. “There has been little progress on preparing ourselves for the changing climate,” they warn. As one of the guests at the launch event put it,…
Book review: Lifehouse, by Adam Greenfield
Books on climate change have gone through several phases over the last twenty years. There were the awareness raising books, then the alarm ringing ones as those were ignored. Then came the climate grief and anxiety books. On the other side of all three of those previous waves, there’s demand for something practical. Given that…
The Earthbound Report 