Many leadership teams underestimate climate risk

Leadership teams in many places are in for very rude awakening. Take Australia for example. There is a climate crisis freight train heading straight at the country. 9 major risks have been...

Global temperature records continue to tumble

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...

Climate Literacy – Nuclear Energy

In some quarters you will often hear some people say that nuclear energy is the solution to the climate crisis. Where does nuclear energy fit in and what impact does it have on what we are trying to...

Mitigation and Adaptation

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

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...

Climate literacy is sorely lacking

The recent IPCC AR6 reporting made it very clear what is required for us to attempt to keep global temperatures below 2ºC of heating. Here it is: Notice the wording here: rapid, deep and immediate...

South Africa is not immune

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...