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It might feel like a new fad, but data centres are very much here to stay’so how we design them into the environment is absolutely crucial. While AI is scratching its metaphorical head to guess how much data there will be (32,000 Zettabytes or so by 2050) the bottom end of the range tends to […]

It’s been quite sobering to reflect with others on TragedyoftheHorizon – 10 years on from the original Mark Carney box-office blockbuster speech. The sequel, built on the themes of the original, revealing why we’re a decade closer to the precipice, and shining a light on what has to happen now. But I’d only really want

The dry conditions started in late February this year in Andover, Hampshire. It continued for days, then weeks, then months until it became a drought – an increasingly common feature of British weather. By July, with river levels dangerously low, the charity WildFish complained to Southern Water about it draining the River Test to meet

If we want to make sustainability cool(er) then maybe we could ❄️ make cooling cool (again). The heat is dropping off (at least in my corner of the world at the tail end of summer) which might mean it’s OK to forget about precautionary strategies for cooling. But overall – especially in Europe – extreme

Getting ill during nice weather can be a real downer. So it was pretty annoying to have recently caught Covid, again (and yes I’d been vaccinated, and infected, multiple times previously, but that’s not the point). When I returned from my (purely voluntary) self-isolation, I was met with raised eyebrows. “Oh, I didn’t think that

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