For two consecutive days, July 21 and July 22, the daily average global surface temperature record set on July 6, 2023 (17.08°C) has been broken. You can read more about this here New record daily...
Mitigation and Adaptation
12 Jul, 2024
At a recent mitigation/adaptation workshop we used the EnROADS (Energy-Rapid Overview and Decision-Support) simulator to help plot a course of action to limit loss and damage from extreme weather...
Facing reality head-on
9 Jul, 2024
10 New Insights in Climate Science 2023/2024 “Multiple lines of evidence indicate that, due to insufficient mitigation of GHGs, no pathway remains that avoids exceeding 1.5°C global warming for at...
South Africa is not immune
29 Jun, 2024
This past week I had the opportunity to attend the GREF 2024 Climate Change and Environmental Management Indaba where I presented a shortened version of our climate literacy workshop During this...
Why we risk being caught off guard
17 Jun, 2024
As ever increasing climate chaos is making adaptation critical, these barriers are standing in the way of the needed adaptation: limited resources lack of private sector & citizen engagement...
Major leadership challenges ahead
27 Apr, 2024
“Business-as-usual” since the Covid-19 pandemic has created this situation as described in the most recent UNEP Emissions Gap Report: “The lack of stringent emission reductions means that the...
Adaptation conversations are becoming urgent
25 Apr, 2024
Adaptation to extreme events is becoming an urgent conversation in many places. Take the Pearl River basin in China for example. This is a densely populated area, with some of the largest cities in...
How to prepare for a heatwave
2 Apr, 2024
The IRI’s seasonal forecast for the period Apr-Jun 2024 through Jul-Sep 2024 has this to say: “Regarding temperature, strongly enhanced probabilities for above-normal temperature are forecasted...
Getting ready for a world at 1.5°C of heating
18 Mar, 2024
This week in South Sudan all schools have been closed as the country faces an extreme heatwave: South Sudan shutters all schools as it prepares for an extreme heat wave This will unfortunately not...
Early warnings saves lives and infrastructure
26 Dec, 2023
Right now the instruments a providing a crystal clear signal of impacts ahead which we would ignore at our own peril. Background from the team at Berkeley Earth: "Prior to the start of 2023, the...