As we approach COP30 with its focus on reducing emissions, I want to set out a clear view of how natural and man-made landscapes can deliver meaningful climate gains under two complementary principles: reduce emissions… Read More »A Practical Agenda – Managing Landscapes to Cut Emissions and Remove Methane
“As they’re released in the soil, they capture carbon.. which eventually makes its way into rivers and the oceans where it’s stored for thousands of years.”
Welcome to this ClimateGenn episode recorded during COP29 in Baku, a conference unashamedly hijacked by the fossil fuel industry. John D. Liu is a renowned ecologist, filmmaker, and environmental advocate. Liu’s later career has been… Read More »Earth’s Emergency Exit: John D. Liu on Why Ecosystem Restoration Can’t Wait
As we move towards COP29 the urgency for making progress on nurturing landscapes as carbon sinks to help recycle the global atmospheric carbon burden. Progress, but at a glacial pace One of the most significant… Read More »A critical role for landscapes in tackling the wider climate problem
In this ClimateGenn episode I am speaking with Hydrologist, Dr Francesco Avanzi, at the CIMA institute in Liguria Italy, about the worsening multiyear drought that Italy is experiencing. [Film version & transcript below] Italy is… Read More »Italy’s Drought – A Creeping Disaster
In this episode of Sustainability in Alentejo Wine Series, I am speaking with João Roquette, CEO and Chairman of the Esporão group about the company’s transformation to organic and resilient production. Esporão is one of… Read More »Ep 5: Alentejo Wine Series Herdade do Esporão, João Roquette – Leaders in Sustainability
During my trip across Alentejo, it was a pleasure to visit the cooperative Adega de Borba. Winemaking in and around Borba has a long pedigree and is even mentioned in ‘Murray’s handbook to Travels in… Read More »Ep. 4 – Adega De Borba, Sustainability = Survivability of Communities, Helena Ferreira
In this Alentejo Wines episode, I am speaking to Iain Richardson, from the wine estate, Mouchão. Mouchão is a great example of an integrated estate in Alentejo where different flora and fauna are interwoven to… Read More »Ep 3: Herdade de Mouchão, Biodiversity, Terroir, A Scorching Climate & Struggle for Sustainability
Substituting just a fifth of meat from cattle with microbial protein – a meat alternative produced in fermentation tanks – by 2050 could halve deforestation, a new analysis by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) now published… Read More »Fungi-based meat alternatives to help save Earth’s forests
fewer animal products, less waste, and greening EU agricultural policy Food Crisis on horizon: The global food system is impacted by the war in Ukraine, adding to the direct humanitarian and security crisis caused by… Read More »Inevitable food crisis due to Ukraine creates a drive for demand-side action:
Dr Paul Behrens has just published his book, ‘Best of Times, Worst of Times’ looking at different outcomes based on the choices humanity makes today. The sobering aspect is that even if we make the… Read More »Near term threats & societal risk as the Earth changes state | Dr Paul Behrens
In this episode of Shaping The Future, I am speaking with Alice Hill who was Special Assistant to President Obama at the White House and Senior Director for Resilience Policy at the National Security Council,… Read More »Alice Hill | Adaptation Critical To Our Global Climate Preparedness Strategy
An estimated 50-100 billion tonnes of carbon has been lost from our soils since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Wine industry luminaries are now looking to start putting it back by using regenerative farming… Read More »Wine industry leaders join the global ‘Race To Zero’ effort with Regenerative Viticulture Drive
Julien Gervreau, Vice President of Sustainability at Jackson Family Wines, a company that has committed to the UN-backed pledge to Race To Zero emissions by 2050
The jet stream is responsible for what kind of weather we experience and its behaviour is changing. Dr Jennifer Francis, a research professor at Rutgers University’s Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, explains how a combination of… Read More »The weather we rely on for agriculture is only going to get worse
