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Paul V 🇿🇦/🇳🇱 now in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 always 🇪🇺 @earthplan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
11 contributors. 10 sectors. 4 continents. One book for engineers navigating sustainability on real projects. EarthPLAN is available now → earthplan.net/the-book
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Paul V 🇿🇦/🇳🇱 now in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 always 🇪🇺 @earthplan.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Sustainability isn't a constraint. It's a design opportunity! 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐍: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫'𝐬 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 is due in July. A practical reference for engineers. Built around the full project lifecycle. Written without jargon. #EarthPLAN #Engineering
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/tuesday-november-11th-we-cave
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Paul V 🇿🇦/🇳🇱 now in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 always 🇪🇺 @earthplan.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Safari njema, Mama wa Mazingira - Safe journey, Mother of the Environment. (Swahili blessing, widely spoken in Tanzania) www.linkedin.com/posts/earthp... Images courtesy of @femalequotient.bsky.social
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Paul V 🇿🇦/🇳🇱 now in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 always 🇪🇺 @earthplan.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
✅ What does last weeks' micro-plastics treaty breakdown mean for you? ✅ How do lobbyists influence talks like this 🚨 clue, they outnumbered the scientists 4:1 and 🚨 most at risk nations by almost 7:1 ✅ What's next? Read all about it in our latest TLDR: earthplan.net/f/global-pla...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Erasure takes many forms, but this is quite blatant.
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Paul V 🇿🇦/🇳🇱 now in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 always 🇪🇺 @earthplan.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
This wasn’t just another sustainability conference. It was London’s declaration that, amid geopolitical instability and uneven climate ambition, it is ready to lead on the global stage. earthplan.net/f/london-cli... 2/2
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London Climate Action Week 2025
Momentum, Grit, and the Urgency to Deliver
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Paul V 🇿🇦/🇳🇱 now in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 always 🇪🇺 @earthplan.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Momentum, Grit, and the Urgency to Deliver This years London Climate Action Week (LCAW) 2025 felt like stepping into a pivotal moment in global climate history. earthplan.net/f/london-cli... 1/2
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London Climate Action Week 2025
Momentum, Grit, and the Urgency to Deliver
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Paul V 🇿🇦/🇳🇱 now in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 always 🇪🇺 @earthplan.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
📢 Latest Blog 🚨🚨🚨 How can we use stories to advance climate change and adaptation? Learning from South Africa’s narrative approach to using Climate Science for Adaptation 🔗 earthplan.net/f/using-clim...
earthplan.net
Using Climate Science for Adaptation: Lessons from Africa
At EarthPLAN, we know that climate science isn't just about understanding the planet, it's about protecting people, economies, and ecosystems from the threats of climate change. Nowhere is this more u...
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Paul V 🇿🇦/🇳🇱 now in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 always 🇪🇺 @earthplan.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
What are the Tipping Points, and why do they matter? Read more below, in your very own TLDR... Climate Tipping Points: earthplan.net/f/climate-ti... via @earthplan.bsky.social #ClimateACTION #ClimateScience #TippingPoints #TLDR #IPCC @carbonbrief.org
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Climate Tipping Points:
How close are we to nature’s critical thresholds?
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Paul V 🇿🇦/🇳🇱 now in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 always 🇪🇺 @earthplan.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
There is nothing clearer than this... If a picture tells a thousand words, this video should scare the hell out of your inaction !!! Carbon Dioxide Move Through Earth’s Atmosphere science.nasa.gov/earth/watch-... via @nasawebb.extwitter.link #ClimateAction #GlobalSouth @mikehudema.bsky.social
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 14/04/2025
The crisis for UK steel is exposing another – perhaps even bigger – crisis for the UK Our news media seems incapable of even the most basic factchecking YES energy for UK steelmakers is costly NO it's not due to net-zero YES it is due to GAS Here's what UK media isn't telling you🧵
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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 01/04/2025
Average person will be 40% poorer if world warms by 4C, new research shows #Climate
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Average person will be 40% poorer if world warms by 4C, new research shows
Experts say previous economic models underestimated impact of global heating – as well as likely ‘cascading supply chain disruptions’
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 01/04/2025
🌍📈🌡️ Another month at +1.6°C! The next few months will likely remove most doubts about crossing 1.5°C of global warming.. @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 12/03/2025
‘Global weirding’: climate whiplash hitting world’s biggest cities, study reveals #Climate
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‘Global weirding’: climate whiplash hitting world’s biggest cities, study reveals
Swings between drought and floods striking from Dallas to Shanghai, while Madrid and Cairo are among cities whose climate has flipped
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Paul V 🇿🇦/🇳🇱 now in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 always 🇪🇺 @earthplan.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Real felt impacts, where you live... • an example of wet-to-dry cities since the early 80s www.theguardian.com/environment/... #ClimateChange #ClimateWeirding #ClimateWhiplash
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 26/02/2025
Weather forecasts have become much more accurate. A four-day forecast today is as accurate as a one-day forecast 30 years ago.
Line chart showing improvements in the accuracy of weather forecasts over time. These have improved in the North and Southern Hemisphere.
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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 26/02/2025
Floods in the midwest, hurricanes in Appalachia: there were never any climate havens #Climate
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Floods in the midwest, hurricanes in Appalachia: there were never any climate havens
Analysts and investors have long trumpeted ‘climate-proof’ US communities, but recent disasters show the need for a different way of thinking
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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 26/02/2025
The US is destroying climate progress. Here’s a strategy to win over the right | Erin Burns #Climate
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The US is destroying climate progress. Here’s a strategy to win over the right | Erin Burns
It’s time to rethink how climate action succeeds. The key is to acknowledge that it’s never the sole force driving political decisions
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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 26/02/2025
‘The forests are going up in flames – so is the rule of law’: Argentina’s climate of fear #Climate
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‘The forests are going up in flames – so is the rule of law’: Argentina’s climate of fear
Wildfires are devastating Patagonia. In response, Argentinian authorities are removing environmental protections and raiding Indigenous communities
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 26/02/2025
It's not just the Mediterranean Sea. I wish people would wake up. "This is a time – as the world focuses on cultural and shooting wars – to gain the scientific understanding needed to address climate change, if and when the world comes to its senses" James Hansen
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Paul V 🇿🇦/🇳🇱 now in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 always 🇪🇺 @earthplan.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
• Apricot jam & a mature chedder (no other wil do) • Marmite & peanut butter (or also mature chedder) // for both, you don't want to make it for lunch at work, eat them right away <grin> #IYKYK
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 25/02/2025
Hold on to your hats, China
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 25/02/2025
17.5 MILLION Hiroshima bombs worth of heat accumulated in the Mediterranean Sea from 2023 to 2024. Sea Surface Temperatures increased more in the past 15 years than over the preceding 150 years. On May 1st, 2025, sulphur emissions from shipping will decrease again by about 80%
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Paul V 🇿🇦/🇳🇱 now in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 always 🇪🇺 @earthplan.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
#ClimateChange #CarbonEmissions #Sustainability #NetZero
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Paul V 🇿🇦/🇳🇱 now in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 always 🇪🇺 @earthplan.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
However, emissions have declined over the past two decades due to cleaner technology, policy changes, and a shift toward service-based economies.⁠ ⁠ Here, we visualize over 60 years of per-capita CO2 emissions by region, based on data from Climate Watch (via the World Resources Institute).⁠ 2/
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Paul V 🇿🇦/🇳🇱 now in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 always 🇪🇺 @earthplan.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Posted @withregram • @visualcap North America has led the world in per-capita CO2 emissions since 1960—driven mainly by the U.S. and Canada 🏭⁠ ⁠ However, emissions have declined over the past two decades due to cleaner technology, policy changes, and a shift toward service-based economomy 1/
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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 10/02/2025
Climate Adam: Is it Game Over for the 1.5 Degree Climate Limit? #Climate
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Climate Adam: Is it Game Over for the 1.5 Degree Climate Limit?
This video includes personal musings and conclusions of the creator climate scientist Dr. Adam Levy. It is presented to our readers as an informed perspective. Please see video description for references (if any).
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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 10/02/2025
UK insurers paid out record £585m last year as climate breakdown intensifies #Climate
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UK insurers paid out record £585m last year as climate breakdown intensifies
Insurers blame ‘significant and consistent bad weather’ after year of 12 named storms
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Normalize pronouncing DOGE as DOUCHE.
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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 09/12/2024
‘I feel dizzy but I can’t stop’: global heating is already making kiln workers’ lives unbearable. And it will only get worse #Climate
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‘I feel dizzy but I can’t stop’: global heating is already making kiln workers’ lives unbearable. And it will only get worse
Researchers mapped brick kilns across India and used climate models to forecast the levels of heat stress workers face between now and 2050
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Very British Problems @soverybritish.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I don’t know how to stress this enough to the culprits, but when you look at an item on a supermarket shelf, your trolley does not need to turn out sideways across the whole aisle at the same time.
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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 10/12/2024
Sabin 33 #6 - Are solar projects harming biodiversity? #Climate
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Sabin 33 #6 - Are solar projects harming biodiversity?
On November 1, 2024 we announced the publication of 33 rebuttals based on the report 'Rebutting 33 False Claims About Solar, Wind, and Electric Vehicles' written by Matthew Eisenson, Jacob Elkin, Andy Fitch, Matthew Ard, Kaya Sittinger & Samuel Lavine and published by the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School in 2024. Below is the blog post version of rebuttal #6 based on Sabin's report.
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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 10/12/2024
Small island nations face climate-induced ‘catastrophe’, warn experts #Climate
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Small island nations face climate-induced ‘catastrophe’, warn experts
First comprehensive study on health and climate change in small island developing states lays bare impact of the crisis and calls for action from richer countries
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
The renewable energy transition is dominated by solar. Look at the @iea.org modelling for renewable electricity capacity addition. And yes, I know capacity is not generation!
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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 02/12/2024
Over 100 countries want an ambitious plastics treaty. Oil-producing nations are getting in the way. #Climate
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Over 100 countries want an ambitious plastics treaty. Oil-producing nations are getting in the way.
“If it wasn’t for Saudi and Russia we would have reached an agreement here.”
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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 03/12/2024
Australia accused of undermining landmark climate change case brought by Pacific nations in international court #Climate
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Australia accused of undermining landmark climate change case brought by Pacific nations in international court
Vanuatu leads the charge of several nations arguing developed nations have a legal responsibility beyond non binding promises
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Dean Rizzetti @deanrizzetti.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
#COP29 finance discussions focused overwhelmingly on the quantum - not the mechanism. But the experience in Vietnam and Indonesia - who have both signed major Just Transition Partnerships - suggests that progress will be much more challenging.
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COP29 Finance Goal Falls Short of Addressing Southeast Asia’s Needs
The conference put more money on the table for developing countries, but this will not solve the “chicken-and-egg” dilemmas facing the region.
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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
We just posted a new paper in @bioRxiv providing the first comprehensive estimates of global genetic diversity loss Just in time for @UNBiodiversity Convention on Biological Diversity @CBD #COP16 Ping me if you are here at Colombia! doi.org/10.1101/2024... Read key messages:
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Thomas Boettcher @thomas-boettcher.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
#3S19 @UNBiodiversity 🏜 Ecological succession transforms ecosystems: 1. Each stage prepares for the next. 2. Biomass builds soil. 3. Mature soil supports stable communities (e.g., forests). Microbiomes aid this process, and regenerative farming preserves natural soil formation.
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Squidge Rugby @squidgerugby.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
One test on its own after club rugby has already returned is weird. Vibes are off. Why are we doing this.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 30/11/2024
Bluesky is winning because both twitter and threads have gone out of their way to make their platforms inhospitable to reputable journalists and news. @kattenbarge.bsky.social reports: www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...
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Journalists flock to Bluesky as X becomes increasingly 'toxic'
Journalists are finding more readers and less hate on Bluesky than on the platform they used to know as Twitter.
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Paul V 🇿🇦/🇳🇱 now in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 always 🇪🇺 @earthplan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
do you want to do something about it? Sign the petition below: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship
Advertisements encourage the use of products and sponsorship promotes a positive reputation & creates a social licence of trust & acceptability. In 2003 a ban on all tobacco advertising was introduced...
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Paul V 🇿🇦/🇳🇱 now in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 always 🇪🇺 @earthplan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
this - 1,700 fossil fuel exec's 😮
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Paul V 🇿🇦/🇳🇱 now in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 always 🇪🇺 @earthplan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
... and position themselves for success in a rapidly evolving economic and environmental landscape. Source: Thinkstep hashtag#sustainability hashtag#sustainable hashtag#business hashtag#esg hashtag#climatechange hashtag#climateaction hashtag#emissions
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Paul V 🇿🇦/🇳🇱 now in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 always 🇪🇺 @earthplan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Measuring and reducing carbon emissions is not solely a regulatory or environmental imperative—it is a strategic business opportunity. Organisations that integrate these practices into their core operations can reduce risks, embed efficiency gains, ...
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Investors increasingly prioritize sustainability performance in their decision-making, and employees value alignment with organizational values. A credible approach to emissions reduction can enhance investor confidence, improve employee engagement, and secure a stronger social license to operate.
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This differentiation enhances brand reputation, strengthens relationships with suppliers and customers, and opens opportunities for market expansion. Furthermore, transparent emissions management builds trust with stakeholders.
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