By Jeremy Williams Sadiq Khan has been mayor of London since 2016, and in this book, he outlines his action on climate in the city. It’s a mix of the personal, the political, and the possible – cities can lead on climate change in ways nations can’t, and mayors can be a powerful influence. Breathe begins with Khan’s own experience […]
A displaced girl carrying water. Photo credit: Reuters / Akhtar Soomro. By Anders Lorenzen The number of internally displaced people (IDPs) has reached a record high of 71.1 million people worldwide. The increase was driven by global crises such as the war in Ukraine and the monsoon floods in Pakistan. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), an organisation based in […]
A woman pours water over her head to cool off during soaring temperatures in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 11 April 2023. Temperature records have been broken across Asia in recent weeks. Photo credit: Habibur Rahman /Alamy Live News. By Aditi Mukherji The heatwave sweeping across Asia has forced schools in India to shut down. With our children already paying a terrible […]
The launch of Adapting Industry to Withstand Rising Temperatures and Future Heatwaves. Photo credit: Anders Lorenzen. By Anders Lorenzen The UK engineering body the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) has in a report released on Wednesday warned about the climate impacts facing the Engineering industry. The report was launched last week at IMechE’s central London location, only a stones-throw away […]
A failed wheat harvest in Ronda, Spain. Photo credit: Reuters / Jon Nazca. By Anders Lorenzen Temperature records have been set in Portugal and Spain, as the region continues to endure early Spring heat. The Iberian peninsula has broken temperature records for April as they swelter in an early-season heatwave which has exacerbated a long drought in some regions. The […]
The German nuclear power plant Grafenrheinfeld before it was decommissioned in 2015. Photo credit: Christian VisualBeo Horvat – CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia. By Anders Lorenzen As Germany completed its nuclear phase-out earlier this month, it becomes clear that Europe’s economic and industrial powerhouse is further away from climate action than almost every single EU member country. It is also […]
climate change Photo credit: UN. By Anders Lorenzen On Earth Day (22nd of April), the UN’s Secretary-General Antonio Guterres continued his rhetoric that tackling the climate crisis is more urgent than ever. In the below video message, Guterres explained that currently, our actions are laying waste to forests, jungles, farmland, wetlands, oceans, coral reefs, rivers, seas, and lakes and that […]
Flooding in the US Midwest. Photo credit: Don Becker, USGS – via Flickr. By Amanda Abrams Rising seas, fires, and outdated government policies threaten a repeat of the subprime mortgage meltdown. Liz Greene hadn’t originally intended to buy this house. She’d been looking at another one here in the River Haven subdivision, 20 miles northeast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. […]
I made Cool For You, a new animated film that explains the cause of the climate crisis in a simple story children can understand and enjoy, to help my kids prepare for the world in which they’ll live. Like so many people, my life and my motion design business came to an abrupt halt in March 2020, with the pandemic. […]
How we think and feel about the climate response, whether optimistic, pessimistic, cynical, or pragmatic, shapes our perceptions of possible solutions. Too often, we argue over emotional perceptions and not hard climate data. But hard data is sterile, it doesn’t necessarily engage the passions that move us to act. So, we tell stories, often focusing on what can go wrong. […]