James Vaccaro

Ocean bottom trawling is not just a bit fishy, it’s proper disgusting. When the amount of bycatch that gets thrown back dead every year is the animal biomass of 9 billion cats 😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿*, it should be an outrage. The ratio of dead discarded bycatch to the catch sold is as much as 5:1. Which makes […]

“Buy the dip!” v “Beware the dead cat bounce” – the dissonant chorus of newly minted experts are shouting into the market confusion of recent weeks. While the tariff row is behind the current market chaos, the separation between the financial markets and the real economy goes far deeper. Financial capital has been deceptively stable

At least, those of you who broke up the Net Zero Insurance Alliance 18 months ago. I didn’t respond to your original letter in the heat of the moment. But the heat of the moment keeps returning in increasingly distressing ways – devastating people’s lives and safety. You made accusations of collusion in the insurance

I was struck by a narrative at #ClimateWeek24. It’s one I’ve heard before and anticipated would get louder. Now that we’re in a period of political volatility, the volume is on full blast. Whilst there are different strains, the basic story goes like this: “we set our climate targets in good faith, but there’s only

As the world’s IT system temporarily grinds to a halt, it’s maybe time for a brief pause to reflect on our reliance on the digital realm. Not least the constant deluge of data that we rely upon even as we are drowning in it. *(see below for the data on that!) Somehow the systems we

Here’s some climate punditry on the fascinating match of climate action hope vs climate disaster despair (0-3 after half time) Jonathan Porritt argues that scientists are being too ‘glass half full’ about the empty glass currently representing our hopes of 1.5-degrees. In striking language there’s a parallel drawn between the panglossian protestations of still being

It’s show & tell time at COP27. Are the big guns wimping out on commitments? There’s an air of depressingly little anticipation about the forthcoming COP27 global climate conference at Sharm El Sheikh this year. The cliff-hanger from COP26 in Glasgow was whether the raft of commitments made towards net zero targets in the Race