Thomas Smucker

Three key near-term actions could bend the warming curve; bringing… Tripling renewables, doubling energy efficiency and cutting methane by 2030 and beyond would cut warming rate by a third in ten years, and halve it by 2040. This would cut projected warming this centu...

ICYMI "Three key near-term actions could bend the warming curve; bringing projected warming below 2°C" via @climateanalytics.org: climateanalytics.org/publications...

Upcoming Sustainable Admin hub seminar! Join a discussion on sustainable investing w/ Assoc Prof of Finance David Stowe, members of the Student Equity Management Group and Student Fixed Income Management Group. 2/24, 5pm @ the Front Room. @ougeography.bsky.social @ohiosustainable.bsky.social

Long line up of people on bikes waiting for the light to change on a Paris street, in a separated bike-lane.

Paris definitely wasn’t always this way. This is very recent. It wasn’t magic. It just took vision and leadership. Your city could choose leadership too.

Great pic via @JBPssx

The Mystery of Food Deserts They didn’t materialize around the country for no reason. Something happened.

1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.

G20 Leaders’ Summit: Brazil, UN and UNESCO launch Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change | United Nations

Commercially motivated climate disinformation is such a severe issue that the COP30 host Brazil, the United Nations and UNESCO have now launched this Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change:
www.un.org/en/climatech...

The global carbon budget 2024 is out

Oil Companies Are Preparing for a Lucrative Decline The industry is not doubling down on the future of fossil fuels. Far from it.

The most powerful oil producers claim demand won’t peak for decades, but their actions tell a different story. I wrote about it for @heatmap.bsky.social
heatmap.news/economy/oil-...

Did capitalism write this?

How Southasia and Oman intertwined In ‘Sovereigns of the Sea’, the histories of Omani sultans in the age of empire speak to the interconnectedness of Southasia, West Asia and East Africa

It is an insufferable travesty that global lenses on history and various other domains of knowledge remain overwhelmingly West-centric, placing the arduous task of decolonisation on the shoulders of the Global South.

A review essay by Namrata Raju:

Join us tomorrow at 8.30am for our @AdaptFutures session — exchange by young researchers and adaptation practitioners. Presentations will focus on Ghana, Tanzania, Gambia, and Kenya and chaired by @tsmucker.bsky.social
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