As the world grapples with the urgent need to address climate change, it has become increasingly clear that our built environment stands both as a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions and as a sector… Read More »Reimagining Buildings: A Secret Weapon for Net Zero
As digital technologies rapidly advance and global demand for data and hardware surges, the carbon footprint of the tech sector is growing. This was revealed in a report co-authored by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)… Read More »New Report: Tech Industry’s Carbon Footprint escalating as climate impacts destroy lives
It is important to note from the outset that reducing emissions is, without question, critical. But it is equally vital to understand that it won’t be enough on its own. The simple truth is that… Read More »Greenhouse Gas Removal: a critical component to cool the Earth system
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
Preserving the Arctic sea-ice is now an imperative that must be taken seriously by both the political and scientific research community. Professor Hugh Hunt presents a pathway forward for consideration. As the impacts of climate… Read More »Geoengineering is necessary to refreeze the Arctic & stabilize the Northern Hemisphere’s weather system
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In this ClimateGenn episode I am speaking with California Climate Tech CEO, Dr Ethan Cohen-Cole, about the impact the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank had on his business and the niche climate tech sector as… Read More »Capture6 CEO, Ethan Cohen-Cole, talks: SVB bank, climate tech & being bullish on gigaton’s of CO2 removal
In this ClimateGenn episode I am speaking with Marco Simonetti, an engineer and Director of an innovative water sourcing company, called Aquaseek, based at Turin Polytechnic, in Northern Italy. Marco and his colleagues have been… Read More »Sources of Water In A Drier World | Aquaseek | Marco Simonetti
The UN Climate COP’s are not succeeding in solving the longterm problem of overshooting our Paris climate commitments. This episode focuses on the emerging voices that are defining the overshoot agenda. View here on Youtube:… Read More »2023 – The Dawning Era Of ‘Overshoot’ & ‘Intervention’ (Climate Engineering)
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In this ClimateGenn episode, I speak to Silver Lining Institute Executive Director, Kelly Wanser about the urgent need to invest billions of dollars into expanding our global coverage of climate modelling capacity. The worsening risks… Read More »… the situation is a little bit frightening! Kelly Wanser, Silver Lining Institute: climate modelling, interventions, and unlocking global south talent “quickly”
With the climate continuing to change and severe weather events becoming more frequent and more severe, there needs to be increased focus on addressing the root cause of these changes – emissions of greenhouse gases.… Read More »Addressing 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions in the built environment
In this ClimateGenn episode, I am speaking with Eden Project founder, Sir Tim Smit about the stories that need to be told to create the future we want o to have. Sir Tim sees the… Read More »Sir Tim Smit | Eden Projects for the future (come the revolution!)
In this ClimateGenn episode, I speak to Dr Ye Tao at Harvard University who is head of the Mirrors for Earth Energy Rebalancing (MEER). Please follow or get in touch at https://genn.cc or join/support via… Read More »MEER | Mirrors For earth’s Energy Rebalancing with Dr Ye Tao at Harvard University
In the run-up to COP26, we face a new onslaught of mainstream media coverage of how this conference will decide the fate of humanity. The truth is that even the best outcome being sought by… Read More »Professor Kevin Anderson: “To hell in a hand cart”
Challenge for society Globally, buildings are responsible for approximately 30% of all energy use. Some of that energy is going to be provided by electricity that comes from wind turbines which do not have any… Read More »Building Infrastructure Challenges | Getting Beyond Net Zero
In this episode of Shaping The Future, I am speaking with the Director of the Centre for Climate Repair in Cambridge, Dr Shaun Fitzgerald about how buildings can be adapted for climate resilience and the… Read More »Centre For Climate Repair, Dr Shaun Fitzgerald OBE | Flipping buildings from carbon source to sink
The level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is too high; we are currently at over 500ppm CO2e. Worse still, global emissions continue apace. This is in part due to the inertia in our societies… Read More »Greenhouse Gas Removal (GGR) at scale is complex but necessary
