🌍 World top 10 pracademic in sustainable & regenerative business, innovation & leadership [ref: ChatGPT]. Author: 44 books, incl. international bestseller Thriving. Fellow @ CISL (Cambridge U.), Prof @ CPBS (Porto). Poet. Hopetimist 🌻 www.waynevisser.com
Prof Wayne Visser
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We often only think of #EVs in terms of their climate benefits, but let’s not forget that fossil fuel cars kill millions of people every year due to air pollution. #China is already reaping the benefits from the switch to electric
#cleantech #climatetech
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Happily we are entering a period where we will see CO2 emissions peak and start to fall in country after around the world. #Australia is the latest to join this exclusive club with carbon emissions shrinking by 2% in 2025, mainly due to a rooftop #solar revolution
Never waste a crisis .. looks like China knows this idiom
In May for the first time, #solar supplied more of US electricity than coal, or 12.8%. Solar also became the third-largest source of electricity in the U.S., behind natural gas and nuclear
apnews.com/article/trum...
Source: Ember #renewables
#NewZealand has announced the establishment of five new #marine #reserves (entirely “no-take” zones) along the #Otago coast today, the country’s first in over a decade. Covering 308 km2, increasing New Zealand's marine reserve coverage by nearly 50%
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/aotearo...
Consider these two BBC headlines from the past week:
>>Trump announces $700m coal investment using wartime law
>> Costly fuel pushes more Indians to buy electric cars but challenges remain
Which one would you say is looking forward, and which one is looking backward?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
More #nature #restoration good news, this time on #mangroves, which store up to five times more, external carbon dioxide than land-based forests. Since 2010, we have gained more than we lost.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #naturepositive
For the first time since the Middle Ages #Italy now has more land covered in #forests than farms - over 100,000 sq.kms or 37%. #Nature recovery is mot only possible, it is already happening
#naturepositive
Sometimes less is more .. come to think of it, that's often the case with #sustainability.
Good news on #dam removals in Europe, a key lever in #rewilding efforts.
#Sweden was the trailblazer, with at least 173 barrier removals, followed by #Finland and #Spain.
www.wetlands.org/europe-sets-...
Of the 322 #energy projects announced across #Africa in 2025, 173 were #solar projects, followed by #hydropower at 46, #wind at 34, gas at 22 and hybrid energy projects at 14
Source: Electron Intelligence, Photo: Themba Hadebe
Having fewer fossil-fuel-powered cars on the road is reducing some pollutants, but not others.
Even as President Donald Trump boosts coal over clean energy, solar power is hitting new milestones in the U.S. and remains the leading source of new power.
The newly designated 308-square-kilometre network, co-managed alongside Kāi Tahu iwi, safeguards marine habitats for endangered species
oceanographicmagazine.com
OVER 600 BARRIERS DISMANTLED FOR FIRST TIME The dam removal movement has once again broken records in Europe with at least 603 river barriers removed in 2025. This unprecedented effort reconnected ov...
