The summer edition is out, the-context.com, with a focus on #security. I contributed a piece on #foodsecurity ... globally we are still producing more calories per person year on year, but our food systems are feeling increasingly insecure.

The Context

A free quarterly magazine delivering in-depth political analysis and real news with real context.

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Eliot Lord@house-of-lord.bsky.social · last mo.

We are launching The Context Summer edition in the next couple of weeks and we’ve got some big names in it. Vince Cable, @profejzrobinson.bsky.social, @andrewdwyer.bsky.social, Adel Darwish, Nishiha Jasper David, Pelle Neroth Taylor and many more. We are also looking for ads for the next issue!

Small island developing states are particularly vulnerable to climate change. Lots written on existential threats from sea level rise. In the 2025 @lancetcountdown.bsky.social #SIDS report, we highlight the food security challenge: inc. high import dependency & increasingly disrupted supply chains

Shouro Dasgupta, PhD@shourodasgupta.bsky.social · 3w ago

1/n In the 2025 @lancetcountdown.bsky.social #SIDS report, Prof @profejzrobinson.bsky.social & I track the impact of increasing frequency of #heatwaves & #droughts on access to food, through impact on crop yields, disrupted supply chains & price stability. #CMCC @granthamlse.bsky.social

Launch of the SIDS @lancetcountdown.bsky.social 2025 report. Findings from 28 indicators developed by over 100 leading researchers. Providing key evidence from small islands at the frontline of climate change impacts. 16 July 2026 🔗 Register Here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Protected should mean protected. Across Europe, Marine Protected Areas are meant to safeguard some of our most important marine ecosystems. Yet destructive bottom trawling continues in many of them. Learn more about what the The MPA Legal Coalition is doing about it. 👉 mpa-legal-coalition.org

#TrainsNotPlanes London to Lisbon and back for @eaere.bsky.social #wcere2026 feels particularly challenging just now! In part because the extreme heat seems to be following me as I head south. Trains, buses, boats ...

We are launching The Context Summer edition in the next couple of weeks and we’ve got some big names in it. Vince Cable, @profejzrobinson.bsky.social, @andrewdwyer.bsky.social, Adel Darwish, Nishiha Jasper David, Pelle Neroth Taylor and many more. We are also looking for ads for the next issue!

Europe is warming at a rate that’s more than double the pace of warming worldwide since the mid-1990s, due to melting Arctic sea ice, reduced pollution-related aerosols, and less snow cover. These changes are also altering weather patterns, leading to more frequent and intense heat waves.

Why Europe Is the Fastest-Warming Continent

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There is a proliferation of SUVs - not only are they more dangerous for pedestrians in crash but they emit more particle pollution from their fuel & their heavy weight means more dangerous brake & tyre particulate waste plus prevalence of pavement parking forcing pedestrians onto the rd…

‘Carspreading’ could lead to extra 2,600 crash deaths a year by 2040, study finds

Analysis shows cars in Europe have grown longer, taller and wider every year since 2000

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Climate.us is live. Built by members of the team behind Climate.gov, this new independent nonprofit website keeps trusted climate information easy to find, easy to use, and harder to erase. #ClimateForUs #ClimateUS

Greenhouse gas emissions, primarily from burning fossil fuels, have already made every summer and every heatwave hotter than they would have been in a world without those emissions. Imagine if the @metoffice.gov.uk were brave enough to say something like that to the media every heatwave?

The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.

The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)

The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.

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🚨 New research by us! 📣 Most British drivers don't know how dangerous SUVs are to other road users, but adding information to SUV marketing materials seems to do almost nothing to change people's plans to buy SUVs Here's a 🧵 on why harder action is going to be needed 1/10

#TrainsNotPlanes if you can, get you from London to Copenhagen in a day. I spent the following day exploring the city, then the next morning straight up to @umeauniversitet.bsky.social, for the 32nd Ulvon Environmental Economics conference. Surströmming. Sunset 11pm. Midsommar eve tomorrow!

Delighted to be giving keynote at 32nd Ulvön Environmental Economics Conference, Umea. Midsommar in northern Sweden! Long train journey to get there means lots of writing time. First leg London-Brussels. If German trains are behaving, I'll be in Copenhagen late evening. #TrainsNotPlanes if you can.

Congrats to @aliceleibian.bsky.social, @nikoh8.bsky.social, Maxine Gibb, our Philippines colleagues Cristobal Caeyetano, and Lota Creencia. @granthamlse.bsky.social policy report out today. Funding to protecting mangroves and the livelihoods of those dependent on mangroves.

Grantham Research Institute at LSE@granthamlse.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New report out today for #BiodiversityDay examines how funding can be mobilised to protect mangroves and to maximise benefits for local communities in the Philippines. @aliceleibian.bsky.social @profejzrobinson.bsky.social @gsos-lse.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...

David Shukman (former BBC now @granthamlse.bsky.social) does a great job in his new book (The Response @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social) of both making you very alarmed about the future, but also somehow less helpless. Our latest #LSEFutureProof video with him explores the risks of urban flooding.

Urban flooding and emergency preparedness: is the UK ready? | LSE Future Proof

YouTube video by LSE

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So many positives about #TrainsNotPlanes - time to power through the to do list, write uninterrupted, and post. New @granthamlse.bsky.social working paper, led by Niko Howai, with @aliceleibian.bsky.social, Arnica De Guzman-Mortillero, & me. www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst... Mangrove livelihoods, DCE

Today the @thecccuk.bsky.social's "A Well-Adapted UK report" was released this morninglaunched. I chaired the CCRA4 Economics Advisory Group, and in parallel CCC published our report on the Economics of Systemic Risk In Climate Change Adaptation. www.ukclimaterisk.org/publications...

A Well-Adapted UK - Climate Change Committee

Footnotes have been removed from the HTML version of this report. For the footnoted version of this report,…

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Care about #climatechange? You should probably care about this: Nils Pratley: "BP has fresh faces in the boardroom and a rigged strategy: it’s pivoting back to oil and gas and away from its low-carbon assets in an attempt to improve a weak share price."

Part of my @countdowneurope.bsky.social contribution w/ @shourodasgupta.bsky.social. Tracking temperature & labour supply over time in high exposure sectors (e.g. ag, construction). Higher temperatures associated with lower labour supply in Southern Europe. Yet more #climatechange implications.

Access to sufficient nutritious food is already made harder by climate change, & will get worse in the future. Agrifood systems account for approx 1/3 GHG emissions, so we need a rapid transition to low carbon diets plus greater efforts to adapt & build resilience. @countdowneurope.bsky.social

Shouro Dasgupta, PhD@shourodasgupta.bsky.social · 4mo ago

1/n In the 2026 @countdowneurope.bsky.social, @profejzrobinson.bsky.social & I track the impact of higher frequency of #heatwaves & #droughts on access to food. Compared to 1981–2010 baseline, these changes resulted in an estimated additional one million people being food insecure in 2023.

‪ #trainsnotplanes harder than it should be www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Almost half of EU’s busiest flight routes are ‘hard or impossible’ to book on trains – report

‘Stone age’ system of booking cross-border rail tickets holding back climate action by consumers, says thinktank

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Our study into Reform led councils dismantling the fight against climate change is referenced in this article about Lincolnshire residents dealing with floods.

‘Seriously wrong’: flood-hit Lincolnshire residents at odds with Reform MP over climate

Constituents’ frustration with Richard Tice reflects growing problem for party and its leaders’ climate-sceptic stance

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‘The start of the healing process’: the vital work to restore Britain’s peatlands

‘The start of the healing process’: the vital work to restore Britain’s peatlands

A project on Dartmoor to reprofile the landscape aims to return the springy bog – and carbon store – to its natural condition

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We're excited to announce this free, public event to celebrate the 80th birthday of GSoS Chair, Nicholas Stern... on 🌍#EarthDay no less! 🎟️ The ticket line will open on 14 April!

Global ideas for global challenges: a panel in honour of Nick Stern

6.30pm Weds 22 April | Kristalina Georgieva, Christine Lagarde, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Professor Joseph Stiglitz, Professor Larry Kramer | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

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Environmental levies fall disproportionately on electricity bills rather than gas bills, so electricity is artificially expensive relative to gas. In this commentary, Shefali Khanna and John Cui argue it's time to reform energy bill structure.

What can be done to reduce Britons’ energy bills and accelerate decarbonisation? - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment

The time to reform energy bill structure is now, before rising policy costs associated with the clean energy transition make the problem harder to solve, write Shefali Khanna and John Cui.

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Scientific and legal communities often use similar words differently. Research Fellow Noah Walker-Crawford was part of the team that created a glossary to clarify the scientific concepts that frequently arise in climate litigation. @nyulaw.bsky.social

Climate Science in Legal Contexts

Scientific and legal communities often use similar words differently. This resource is designed to help lawyers navigate scientific concepts that frequently arise in climate litigation.

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We’re launching a new National Heat Risk Commission, chaired by Emma Howard Boyd to investigate how to improve efforts across the UK to tackle the wide-ranging impacts of high temperatures www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...

Marginal pricing is the "worst approach to clearing markets apart from all the others", Jon Ferris at LCP tells me

Simon Evans@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 5mo ago

NEW: Why does gas set the price of electricity – and is there an alternative? Make yourself a tea (or grab a beer??) and enjoy my Friday longread on marginal pricing, ideas for market reform – & how to break the link btwn gas & power prices for good www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/8

Over 40% of global shipping by volume exists to move fossil fuels from one place to another. A huge share of the world's maritime infrastructure has been built around a system that is going to change dramatically as renewable energy and electrification displace fossil fuels.