Ran Boydell

How gender inequality and climate change are interconnected | UN Women – Headquarters The climate crisis is one of the most pressing issues of our times. It threatens to reverse progress on human rights and sustainable development and worsens gender inequality – posing specific risks t...

”Feminist climate justice brings a gender lens to the fight against climate change, acknowledging how the drivers of the climate crisis are also the drivers of gender inequalities.”

Something to keep in mind on International Women’s Day.

#WomensDay

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Every economist screams. Again.

Instead of subsidising consumption, to keep bills vaguely similar, subsidise reducing demand.

A huge missed opportunity the first time round when the government did nothing until it utterly had to, and was left with one lever... helicopter money.

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“Royal Society statement on the US Administration’s repeal of the endangerment finding”

Thanks to everyone who came to the London launch party for The Good Building Book. Really touched by the turnout on a wet evening. This time we had books which all sold! Great spending a couple of days with my fellow author Jon Broome and wemanaged to record a podcast with @benadamsmith.bsky.social

Microplastics and nanoplastics in urban air originate mainly from tire abrasion, research reveals Although plastic particles in the air are increasingly coming into focus, knowledge about their distribution and effects is still limited. Chemical analyses from Leipzig now provide details from Germa...

Study finds 2/3 of microplastics in urban air is caused by car tires phys.org/news/2026-03...

UK must stockpile food in readiness for climate shocks or war, expert warns Prof Tim Lang says country produces far less food than it needs to feed population and is particularly vulnerable

The UK relies heavily on imports of food. Recent events have shown, in an increasingly volatile world, you can't always count on ships being able to move about.

Some countries are stockpiling food to prepare for climate shocks, the UK should too, says Prof Lang:

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Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.

Plaid Cymru plans to share wind farm profits with local people – here’s how that idea has been tried elsewhere In Nepal, local shareholding in a hydropower project changed how communities regarded it.

In Nepal, local shareholding in a hydropower project changed how communities regarded it.

UK must stockpile food in readiness for climate shocks or war, expert warns Prof Tim Lang says country produces far less food than it needs to feed population and is particularly vulnerable The British government should be stockpiling food, according to a leading expert on food policy, as it is not prepared for climate shocks or wars that could cause the population to starve. Prof Tim Lang of City St George’s, University of London said the UK produced far less food than it needed to feed itself, and as a small island that relied on a few large companies to feed its giant population, it was particularly vulnerable to shocks. Continue reading...

UK must stockpile food in readiness for climate shocks or war, expert warns

Price of Crude Oil WTI (USD/Bbl) over a five-year period, spanning from 2021 to early 2026. The chart shows a significant price peak in 2022 reaching over $120, followed by a general downward trend with various fluctuations, eventually hitting a low near $55 in late 2025 before a sharp vertical spike to the current price of 90.900. This recent surge represents an increase of +23.880 (+35.63%), highlighted in green text above the blue line graph.

The real insanity isn’t how much oil prices have spiked, it’s that we’re still burning oil for energy.

Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, reveals study - Carbon Brief An acceleration in human-caused global warming could see the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C limit breached before...

I'm not suggesting this is an open secret within the climate science community, but it's remarkable how little impact this sort of research is generating. Because if the rate of warming really has *doubled* then you can kiss goodbye to 2°C. www.carbonbrief.org/pace-of-glob...

Four years and $880m later, what did the Resilient Homes Program achieve? Communities say being the "guinea pig" of a flagship disaster recovery program has taken a toll.

...the process had delivered lessons in how best to manage retreat from the flood plains, but raised questions about what to do with the people and the land left behind.
Janelle Saffin

For 50 years, the entire energy world has gamed out this exact scenario, and yet, there doesn't seem to be a plan? Seems bad. rdcu.be/ehooz

'The new tobacco': The cities banning fossil fuel adverts Cities across the world are clearing their billboards of flight ads, SUVs, cruise ships and petrol cars in an attempt to cut emissions.

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RIP to Jesse Jackson. His funeral is today. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.

I find it likely that future wars will not only be fought over earth’s resources but over earth itself - between those who desperately want to stabilise and heal various earth systems, and those who insist on destroying them.

The Apartments at the Center of Mamdani’s Affordable Housing Crisis The mayor’s call to ‘freeze the rent’ galvanized the 69 percent of New Yorkers who don’t own their homes. But the city’s landlords claim the math doesn’t add up.

During his campaign for mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani's call to 'freeze the rent' galvanized the 69% of residents who don't own their homes. Can he remake the city's housing market for them? nyti.ms/3OSIDn6

‘A space of their own’: how cancer centres designed by top architects can offer hope Exhibition at the V&A Dundee celebrates Maggie’s Centres created by Zaha Hadid, Richard Rogers, Norman Foster and others

“Even when facing a life-threatening illness or thinking we might die, in the moment we still need hope. Even if it’s a distraction, if your eye is taken by a plant in the garden or a piece of art you’re not sure you like, life still has value in that moment.”
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German homes to get 3% pricier each year through 2028, squeezing affordability German home prices will rise about 3% a year through 2028, likely outpacing overall inflation and worsening affordability for first-time buyers while keeping rents high, according ​to property analysts polled by Reuters.

German homes to get 3% pricier each year through 2028, squeezing affordability reut.rs/4rl1JzD

Amazon, Google, JPMorganChase, and Salesforce join $100m superpollutant pledge US corporate giants sign up to new initiative to tackle harmful methane, black carbon, and refrigerant emissions

Big new $100m corporate push to tackle superpollutants launches. www.businessgreen.com/news/4526599...

‘An oasis of calm’: What it costs to live in Melbourne’s most liveable suburb

📢 There’s plenty of green space, and it’s not far from the CBD, but some residents would like more affordable housing.

This new waterfront suburb will reshape Sydney, but who will get to live there?

📢 If we are sacrificing a working harbour to build this shiny new precinct, we cannot sacrifice working Sydneysiders too.

Forest damage in Europe to rise by around 20 percent by 2100 even if warming is limited to 2°C 06.03.2026 – Forest damage in Europe caused by wildfires, storms and bark beetle outbreaks is projected to increase compared to recent decades under all analysed climate scenarios, according to a new ...

Forest damage in Europe from wildfires, storms & bark beetles could rise by ~20% by 2100 even if warming is limited to 2°C: new study with PIK scientist Christopher Reyer.
In high-emissions scenarios, the damaged forest area could even double.
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Marsupials previously thought extinct for millennia discovered in New Guinea The chances of finding one mammal species thought to be lost was ‘almost zero’ and finding two is ‘unprecedented’, biologist Tim Flannery says

Turns out there are good reasons to leave some places to be wild.

Why Trump won’t clean up his own mess Chaos and instability are a feature, not a bug, of the US president’s approach to foreign policy

As F Scott Fitzgerald noted, great wealth can induce “carelessness”.

Big EU lobby groups exaggerated industry support for attack on carbon price A letter to EU leaders was issued ‘on behalf of’ 1,300 signatories. Some firms deny they supported the demands.

An influential industry petition criticizing the European Union’s core climate policy implied its demands were supported by some 1,350 companies and associations.

Now some firms deny they signed up.

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Building to Zero: making sustainability 'normal' in the built environment | Event #2. Selling like hot cakes: Marketing + Media · Luma THIS IS EVENT #2 OF A TWO PART SERIES AT CAWS26 #2. Selling like hot cakes: Marketing + Media > Public perception and understanding about ‘big’ issues like…

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Tues 10 March 15:30-16:00 in person at UTS as part of #CAWS26 with @icleioceania.bsky.social