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Also in this issue... Carbon Brief interviews Dr Joyce Kimutai, a Kenyan climate scientist and lead author of a new attribution analysis investigating the role of climate change in recent floods in west Africa. Read more here ⬇️ buff.ly/OOFCxFU
In 2009 I was part of a large interdisciplinary team at UCL publishing a paper called “Managing the Health Effects of Climate Change” hoping for coordinated political action: a hollow dream. It has never been more pertinent. In fact it’s now cited most days. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Managing the health effects of climate change
Effects of climate change on health will affect most populations in the next decades and put the lives and wellbeing of billions of people at increased risk. During this century, earth's average surfa...
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Unions and members of the Western Cape Coalition Against Xenophobia are urging people to reject the “fabricated” deadline of 30 June set by March and March for all undocumented immigrants to leave the country. Read groundup.org.za/article/cosa... by Liezl Human
COSATU urges workers to reject “fabricated” 30 June deadline
Xenophobia is “intended to distract attention from the abject failures of government” says COSATU’s Malvern de Bruyn
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South African and American researchers have published the results of a clinical trial in the New England Journal of Medicine. Read groundup.org.za/article/impo... by Nathan Geffen
Important advance in TB treatment
South African researchers publish trial results in world’s leading medical journal
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What would a Climate Week look like in your city? Climate Week Network helps local organizers launch and grow their own Climate Weeks with free tools, promotion, resources, and a global network across 20+ cities. Start your own climate week at climateweeknetwork.org
Climate Week | Upcoming Climate Weeks Around the World
Discover upcoming Climate Weeks across cities worldwide, explore local event communities, and find official city Climate Week pages.
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We can’t keep preaching about diet quality as if it’s a free choice once the information is provided. This is out of touch. In the most deprived fifth of the population families need to to spend 70% of their disposable income to afford healthy foods guidelines. foodfoundation.org.uk/press-releas...
Dietary inequalities worsened in last two years as healthier foods grew more expensive
The Broken Plate 2025 report is the Food Foundation's flagship annual report about the state of the food system
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The climate crisis does not wait. And neither can the evidence to tackle it. We are thrilled to announce the 2nd What Works Climate Solutions Summit will be hosted by ASCEND at the University of Cape Town — 13–16 April, 2027. whatworksclimate.solutions/wwcs-summit-... #WWCS2027
West Coast small-scale fishers and environmental organisations have taken the government to court over its decision to grant authorisation to TGS Geophysical Company for a seismic survey off the West Coast. Read groundup.org.za/article/seis... by Liezl Human
Fishers in court to stop West Coast oil search
Environmental impacts of offshore seismic surveying debated in court
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Imagine if our best engineering minds were working on stuff like this www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkVPRk85/
Japan just figured out how to turn saltwater into electricity and it runs twenty-four hours a day without stopping Meet Kenji Hirokawa director of the Fukuoka Seawater Desalination Center which became...
TikTok video by Nic Conley
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Full details of the vacancy: Sir Anthony Habgood Professor of Climate & the Environment A fantastic research‑focused position within our friendly, vibrant & interdisciplinary climate research community at UEA Happy to chat informally if you’d like to know more vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/21...
Sir Anthony Habgood Professor of Climate and the Environment (ATR1739) in University of East Anglia | UEA
View details and apply for this Sir Anthony Habgood Professor of Climate and the Environment (ATR1739) vacancy in University of East Anglia. Faculty of Science School of Environmental Sciences ...
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These are just impressions there is much more in the proceedings than this thread can convey. Discussions on philosophy, law, narrative, modelling and finance, all in one place. Openly available, well worth reading. #ClimateEquity #ClimateAmbition #IPCC 📄 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Informal Seminars on Narratives, Scenarios and Models of Fair Ambition. Proceedings
An informal seminar series on “Scenarios, Narratives and Modelling of Fair Ambition” was held over the course of 2024-2025. The aim was to generate a more shared understanding of complex issues of equ...
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Want to know what ACDI has been getting up to in the first quarter of 2026? Read our newsletter hot off the press 👉 mailchi.mp/5db577acf7ca... #ClimateAction #ClimateResearch #Adaptation #ClimateResilience
1/ New paper in @PLOSClimate worth reading: Pachauri et al. 2026, "Advancing representations of equity and justice in climate mitigation futures." Congrats Shonali Pachuair, @joerirogelj.bsky.social @gidden.bsky.social @wflamb.bsky.social and author team doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000763 🧵
Advancing representations of equity and justice in climate mitigation futures
In this work, we conduct a narrative review of pressing equity and justice issues within global modelled scenarios and propose a new research agenda to strengthen their consideration in future model d...
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What if one of the most powerful energy solution is simply using less and using it better?⚡️ Energy efficiency is the cornerstone of resilient societies and a #JustTransition. It’s not just about finding new sources,it’s about how we value every Watt. #WorldEnergyEfficiencyDay
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South Africa’s carbon tax should stay: climate scientists explain why... theconversation.com/south-africa...
South Africa’s carbon tax should stay: climate scientists explain why
Polluting companies in South Africa have had to pay a tax on their carbon emissions since 2019. This gives them a good incentive to reduce emissions.
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Sjoe: Why 15% of South African Grade 3s can’t read a single word — and what’s being done about it www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...
Why 15% of South African third graders can’t read a single word — and what’s being done about it
With national reading goals slipping out of reach, a new report reveals the stark reality of South Africa’s literacy crisis and how proactive provinces and private donors are teaming up to save a gene...
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You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 6mo agoBreaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu
Minister Godongwana: Strengthen SA's carbon tax, don't weaken it. Suspending shifts pollution costs to poor households. Use revenues for energy efficiency for the poor & transition support for firms. We're in a climate crisis—polluters must pay. #TipsForMinFin #Budget2026 #ClimateAction
This is a horrendous political (not scientific) decision. After dangling rights before them under the #SmallScaleFishers policy for 14 years, this sector is about to be *even further* impoverished. This is a low-impact, handline sector that supports whole communities, materially and culturally.
GroundUp News@groundup.org.za · 6mo agoThe Department of Forestry, Fisheries, and the Environment (DFFE) has reduced the number of small-scale fishing vessels allowed to go to sea from over 547 to just 77. Read groundup.org.za/article/smal... by Liezl Human
“Where the GOP learned to lie as a matter of course is an interesting question, and I’m afraid I’ve had a front row seat. I think it’s the climate fight, more than anything else, that taught them to regard reality as optional.” Read @billmckibben.bsky.social on how we reached this moment
Thinking about lying
Climate denial taught our leaders shamelessness
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
Thanks to a scifi fixation and @alicefraser.bsky.social, I now regularly drink half a glass of water.
No one before Sam successfully raised a child, which is why the human species went extinct in Mesopotamia. Seriously, the best way to read this is that countless billions of humans did just fine but Sam is not as competent and self-reliant as them, and that's what AI wants us to be: dependent.
More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 8mo agoJimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?" Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
ACDI postdocs Tesfaye Tessema Gintamo and Collins Matiza joined the Forecast4Africa workshop in Pretoria, contributing to discussions on integrating local knowledge with AI-driven climate tools to enhance data-informed decision-making across Africa.
Gina Ziervogel delivered a lead talk at the 6th National Global Change Conference on building resilient communities amid rising disasters. She highlighted the need for strong local action alongside coordinated cross-scale interventions, noting that local and municipal priorities often misalign.
RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.