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 […]
Dear US State Attorney Generals READ MORE
While elections around the world in 2024 produced results, they did little to heal societies’ divisions. From politics to planning, there’s turf war being waged in most countries. In their respective camps, both sides gather armies and arguments, preparing for combat with those seeking to ‘steal their future’. Is it unrealistic to attempt to ‘find
Finding Common Ground READ MORE
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
Whatever targets you set, how you show up is what determines success READ MORE
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
Data Overwhelm Leaves Little Space or Energy for Curiosity READ MORE
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
Hope Utd v Despair Rovers: A climate game of two halves READ MORE
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
#GreenWussing – where are the leaders we’re waiting for? READ MORE
