The world doesn't have to be this way. Climate & biodiversity science, risk &resilience, societal/planetary futures. Prof Univ Washington; research assoc African Climate & Development Initiative/ Fitztitute, UCapeTown, building global futures collaborative
Prof Phoebe Barnard
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"...under the Biden Administration carbon drawdown and the importance of soil. You wouldn't see that in this administration under Trump, I'm afraid." www.youtube.com/watch?v=imOZ...
Peacebuilding, and even unifying activities couldn’t be more important right now in our destabilising world.
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"We drew some parallels, but also some contrasts between the North American Dust Bowl, and the degradation over centuries of the Loess Plateau in China. And we went and interviewed John D Liu, such a champion of ecosystem restoration, and looked at how governments were engaging or not engaging...
Climate talks are about to start in Bonn. Progress towards a fair transition away from fossil fuels is still on the line. @EdMiliband can, must, continue to back a strong plan. Please join me to encourage courageous leadership: @friends-earth.bsky.social action.friendsoftheearth.uk/target/suppo...
"...with the problems & the lessons that they should be learning. I found that really satisfying to work on. But also we interviewed soil scientists like a woman at the University of California system called Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, an Eritrean-American scientist who'd worked in the White House...
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The fifth of a series of substack articles that delves into the 6 silent majorities and how they can unlock the deep changes our systems desperately need.
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"It's so much less expensive than throwing billions $$ at direct air capture plants of huge size & probably no significant future. We're looking at those kinds of things, but also the mindset shift, the system shift that's required to bring us into a better, humbler, kinder, wiser civilization..."
Take action Last autumn, thousands of us helped win a big step forward at the UN climate talks. We got energy secretary Ed Miliband to commit the UK government to the Belém Action Mechanism (BAM). Nam...
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"We concluded that Nature is still the only real game in town - we need to conserve, to rewild, to restore Nature because we already have a lot to work with." - a 🧵 on #TheClimateRestorers documentaries in my conversation w @julespretty.bsky.social on his great new podcast, Heat! Camera! Action!
