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Kimberly Nicholas @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

What a treat to meet internet friend @davidho.bsky.social in real life last week!! Thank you David for the lovely lunch chat and for including me in your photography project!

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Kimberly Nicholas @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

22 feet (almost 7m). 2,000 years. One scarf. 99% blue, then the last little bit turns red. That's climate change, knitted, based on @edhawkins.org climate stripes. climateactually.com for the full story. #ClimateAction #Knitting #ClimateActually

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Kimberly Nicholas @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"The lake doesn't freeze anymore." Emily grew up ice skating on it every winter. Now it barely freezes at all. What's changed where you grew up? #ClimateChange #ClimateAction

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Kimberly Nicholas @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

In 2017, a group of knitters got together over a shared worry: government climate data might disappear 🧶 Nine years later, it's a global movement, local temperature records turned into hand-knit tapestries. New episode: how a knitting circle became a climate movement. climateactually.com

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Kimberly Nicholas @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Can a business grow and cut emissions at the same time? Jackson Family Wines' Caroline Merrell on what the company is looking at right now. New Climate Actually clip 🎧 #ClimateAction #ClimateActually

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Netzwerk Klimajournalismus Deutschland @klimajourno.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

On 29 September we start a new series of online press briefings — and for the first time, they're in English. Bring your questions for @amywestervelt.bsky.social, WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo, climate diplomat @jochenflasbarth.bsky.social and @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social (Lund University). 🎙️

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Kimberly Nicholas @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Flying to see family but dreading the emissions? The Man in Seat 61 maps out train routes all over the world. In this clip, Ed and I look to see if we can reduce the emissions of an upcoming trip. Full ep: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTqU...

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Kimberly Nicholas @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Wine = climate change you can taste. 🍷 In this week's Climate Actually, Jackson Family Wines' Caroline Merrell spoke about how heat domes, drought & fire are already reshaping how they can farm. Has climate change already shown up in something you love: food, a hobby, a place?

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Kimberly Nicholas @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Frequent flyer miles are a clever incentive. I used to chase them too, until I realized the "reward" was just more climate pollution. I cut my flying 90% & retired my card in 2012. It now lives in a museum called Carbon Ruins, which looks back on past habits. Full episode here: youtu.be/aTqUgEdgvDg

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Kimberly Nicholas @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Setting @sciencebasedtargets.org is the #1 professional climate action in SHIFT. New #ClimateActually out today: I talk to Caroline Merrell of Jackson Family Wines about what it looks like for them, such as lighter wine bottles, solar, and the challenges of reducing emissions as a growing business.

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Kimberly Nicholas @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Ed's friends want to fly across an ocean for a 40th birthday trip. He wants the same adventure w/ way less flying. He's the only one pushing for it. You can start flying less by reframing "give up the trip or not" w/ what you want from it, then look for somewhere closer. Full ep youtu.be/aTqUgEdgvDg

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Kimberly Nicholas @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Three steps to vote for climate: 1. register and plan to vote; 2. identify the climate leaders on your ballot (the League of Conservation Voters scores candidates 1 to 100), then 3. help expand the vote by getting others registered & to the polls too. Full #ClimateActually ep: youtu.be/VnwCX6fqw7A

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Kimberly Nicholas @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I’m a huge fan of @carbonbrief.org’s work, thrilled they recommend #ClimateActually! 🎧

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Kimberly Nicholas @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

You recycle. Good. But voting for a pro-climate candidate is 162x more effective, per a Canadian study. Kate's writing 200 postcards to get lapsed voters back to the polls. New Climate Actually episode is out. @environmentalvoter.bsky.social 🗳️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnwC...

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Kimberly Nicholas @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#ClimateActually launch week: done. 🎉 10,000+ listens/views across platforms in week one, episodes on switching banks and voting for climate action already live, more dropping weekly. Built on the SHIFT guide's five climate superpowers - practical, science-backed climate action.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 21/08/2026

For a customized list of the most effective actions you can take, depending on where you live and what your lifestyle looks like, check out this great resource from @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social and @projectdrawdown.bsky.social

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Home

Your guide to meaningful climate action is here! Take the quiz and discover your climate superpowers.

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Kimberly Nicholas @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Did you know your bank might be funding fossil fuels? 🏦 I recently spoke to Matt, who didn't, until a friend mentioned it. In #ClimateActually, we cover how to check (bank.green), and how to make the switch to a fossil-free bank easy. Subscribe and watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=irux...

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Kimberly Nicholas @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

How to check if your bank is a climate friendly bank: search it at bsky.app/profile/bank.... We watched Matt do it live in this episode. His new bank got a 😍! New episode of #ClimateActually 🎧 youtu.be/iruxIkB37lM

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Kimberly Nicholas @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Matt found out his bank has spent $77.8 billion on fossil fuel financing since 2021. In this episode of #ClimateActually, I helped Matt follow the 3 steps to bank fossil-free: 1. Check if your bank funds fossil fuels 2. Switch if it does 3. Tell your old bank why you left. youtu.be/iruxIkB37lM

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Project Drawdown @projectdrawdown.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Climate action! But how? 🤔 @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social answers this in her new podcast Climate ACTually, featuring people who went from "motivated to take action" to actually doing so using the jointheshift.earth framework. 🔗 www.youtube.com/@ClimateActu... Let us know what you think! 👇

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Climate Actually

You care about climate change. You're just not sure your choices actually matter. Climate Actually is here to show you they do, and exactly how to use them. Hosted by climate scientist Dr. Kimberly N...

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Kimberly Nicholas @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

CLIMATE ACTUALLY launches today! Here's where I made my new video podcast, with a fan blasting because it was HOT this summer. But we have the solutions we need to fix the climate crisis, and in this podcast, we meet real people who are putting them into practice. Listen/watch today!

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Kimberly Nicholas @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Trailer for my new podcast! In CLIMATE ACTUALLY, I speak with people like you, who share their successes & setbacks in making their next climate move. Episodes feature guests taking a high impact climate action from SHIFT - a guide I created with @projectdrawdown.bsky.social. First ep: August 17!

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Kimberly Nicholas @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

How do you know which politicians are committed to climate action & deserve your vote? If you live in Sweden 🇸🇪 or the US 🇺🇸 & want climate advice for navigating the election 🗳️, I'd love to interview you for my podcast! Drop a comment below w/ your perspective so we can follow up. Thanks!

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Project Drawdown @projectdrawdown.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

"Our research shows that the most effective approach to climate action is for people to make change within societal systems, not just as consumers. After all, what are systems made of if not people?" - @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social Have you tried SHIFT? Drop us a line below! jointheSHIFT.earth

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Teaching Sustainability @teachingsustainability.org · 18/06/2026

Some inspirational literature on the bookshelf in the background of our set: featured books are by @rmforsyth.bsky.social, @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social, @alasdair-skelton.bsky.social, @asv.bsky.social, and others. Follow us to be notified when the Teaching Sustainability MOOC launches!

A film studio set with a table and bookshelf filled with books, plants, a clip-on microphone

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

1/ The sustainability transition doesn’t just advance from the top down and the bottom up – change also happens in the middle, and that’s where most of us can make a real difference Quick thread on a great new paper showing how *everyone* has an influential role to play 🧵

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Kristian Steensen Nielsen @kristiansn89.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

🔥 Individual or system change?🔥 This debate has been at the center of much of my social media engagement for years (causing a fair bit of frustration). Yet I have never published research directly addressing it. Until now. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Back in 2012 we did a figure comparing historical emissions to previous generations of emission scenarios. rdcu.be/brDGx Surprisingly, the figure is still doing the rounds. We update it every year, with many interesting changes primarily due to revisions in land-use change emissions. 1/

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 18/05/2026

Do you work #ForNature?🌿💻 We're happy to share our new collection of virtual video call backgrounds! Showcase the beauty of biodiversity, from species to genetics and ecosystems across the regions of our planet. 🌍

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Project Drawdown @projectdrawdown.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Does packing lighter make a difference? @globalecoguy.bsky.social and @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social answered: ✈️ Flying less matters far more than how you pack 💺 Bigger levers: fly economy (2–5x lower footprint than business/first class) and book direct nyti.ms/4dfJTJi

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social

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Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities

Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.

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Renewables Electric Tractors @renewables-e2t.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Wow - awesome tool from @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social & Project Drawdown. Answer a few questions & it identifies your "climate superpowers," & gives a personalized set of actions ranked by actual impact, not just the easy stuff. It's quick & easy to see how you can help: jointheshift.earth/guide/

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SHIFT Guide - SHIFT

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Loukas Christodoulou @loukas.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Another great newsletter from @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social It's really hard to strike a balance between realism, concrete action and also readability but Kim's newsletters consistently make me feel better after reading them, without sugarcoating things.

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A garden of climate solutions

Facts: A garden of climate solutions 🌱 🚴‍♀️| Feelings: Grounded by Climate Wayfinding 👣🧘| Action: Build a coalition of the willing 🫱🏽‍🫲🏾💪🏼

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Kimberly Nicholas @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Sunny spring walk in Oslo w/ @ketanjoshi.co talking climate + AI, sustainability reporting, targets vs accountability, comms & media 🤓🌸 Forgot a photo but enjoyed harborside bubble tea w/ @glenpeters.bsky.social comparing notes on our work for @ipcc.bsky.social & @ipbes.net respectively🧋🌊

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 22/04/2026

It’s not rocket science; it’s biodiversity science. 🚀 On International Mother Earth Day, IPBES notes that to preserve life on Earth, #TransformativeChange is urgently needed and involves promoting worldviews and values emphasising care, reciprocity and harmony with nature & Mother Earth. #EarthDay

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 22/04/2026

🔥 Extreme heat is already hitting food systems. Farmers can’t work. Livestock are stressed. Yields are falling. We need more diverse, resilient food systems – and to phase out fossil fuels. 🔗 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

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World food systems ‘pushed to the brink’ by extreme heat, UN warns

Severe heatwaves in commonly hot regions could leave farmers unable to work outside, with livestock mortality rates expected to rise

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/04/2026

NEW: Fifteen laws in 11 states that could immunize the fossil fuel industry from climate-related legal claims have either been passed or are being debated. Many bills are part of a coordinated effort by groups linked to right-wing activist Leonard Leo.

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“Economic Civil War”: States Push Laws to Shield Oil and Gas Companies From Accountability

Most of the 15 bills being considered are part of a coordinated effort by groups linked to right-wing activist Leonard Leo.

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Kimberly Nicholas @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I focus on high-impact #climate actions and write a newsletter called "We Can Fix It," and I feel All the Climate Feels, including despair. Grateful for my readers who shared this feeling with me, and to be able to share some wisdom on despair. wecanfixit.substack.com/p/despair-to...

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Temporal Ecology Lab @temporalecology.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Our department at UBC is hiring for a professor of forest ecophysiology, including "tree ecophysiology; plant abiotic or biotic stress physiology; forest mortality and climate change responses; forest carbon balance; tree water relations; or nutrient use." Learn more at: tinyurl.com/5da56f5c

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Project Drawdown @projectdrawdown.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Instead of buying something on #Black Friday, have you tried SHIFT-ing? 🌍 SHIFT is an evidence-based guide that connects you with the most effective personal actions you can take. @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social 🔗 Ready to #makeSHIFThappen? Find your climate superpowers! jointheshift.earth

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Parke Wilde @parkewilde.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Kim Nicholas in Sweden always has an astute balance of systems-oriented policy action and ethical personal action. See this inspiring collaboration with Project Drawdown. @projectdrawdown.bsky.social

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🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

"Individual action supports system change" If it's ok I'm going to steal that, @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social

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Kimberly Nicholas @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Join us Monday, October 27, 10-12 in Lund for the launch of THE LONG HEAT by @wimcarton.bsky.social & Andreas Malm. I'll be on the panel, along with Alexandra Nikoleris and Mads Barbesgaard. It's a gripping, challenging and important read! www.lucsus.lu.se/calendar/boo...

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Book Launch - The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It’s Too Late

Lund University. The world is crossing the 1.5°C global warming limit, perhaps exceeding 2°C soon after. What is to be done when these boundaries, set by the Paris Agreement, have been passed? In the ...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 22/10/2025

New 'state of climate action' report gives you a much better picture than daily headlines about contextless solar panel or EV sales - Most things are going in the right direction - Most things are badly off track to the pace of change required systemschangelab.org/state-climat...

Share of electric vehicles in light-duty vehicle
sales (%)
Share of electric vehicles in the light-duty
vehicle fleet (%)
Reforestation (total Mha)
GHG emissions intensity of soil fertilization
(gCO2
e/1,000 kcal)
Ruminant meat productivity (kg/ha)
1.8x Global private climate finance (trillion US$/yr) d
Share of zero-carbon sources in electricity
generation (%)
Share of solar and wind in electricity
generation (%)
Share of coal in electricity generation (%)
Share of unabated fossil gas in electricity
generation (%)
Carbon intensity of electricity generation
(gCO2/kWh)
Energy intensity of building operations (kWh/m2
)
Carbon intensity of building operations (kgCO2
/m2
)
Share of electricity in the industry sector's final
energy demand (%)
Carbon intensity of global cement production
(kgCO2/t cement)
Share of new buildings that are zero-carbon
in operation (%)
WRONG DIRECTION, U-TURN NEEDED
INSUFFICIENT DATA
RIGHT DIRECTION, OFF TRACK
RIGHT DIRECTION, WELL OFF TRACK
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1.6x
7x
4x
N/A Green hydrogen production (Mt) b,d
Share of sustainable aviation fuels in global
aviation fuel supply (%) N/Ab,d
Share of electric vehicles in bus sales (%)
N/Ab
N/Ab,d
1.8x
5x U-turn needed Mangrove loss (ha/yr) d
Number of kilometers of rapid transit per
1 million inhabitants (km/1M inhabitants) 5x
N/Ab,d
Share of electric vehicles in medium- and
heavy-duty commercial vehicle sales (%) N/Ab,d
Share of kilometers traveled by
passenger cars (% of passenger-km)
Carbon intensity of global steel
production (kgCO2/t crude steel)
U-turn needed
U-turn needed Share of food production lost (%)
U-turn needed Public fossil fuel finance (trillion US$/yr) d
Ins. data
Ins. data Peatland degradation (Mha/yr)
Ins. data Peatland restoration (total Mha)
Ins. data Food waste (kg/capita)

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GN @w1ts3nd555.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Climate science communicator extraordinaire @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social has compiled a great set of resources on how to help preserve #democracy. It’s worth studying and implementing. Very actionable: open.substack.com/pub/wecanfix...

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Democracy is worth fighting for. Here's how

Facts: Fight democratic backsliding ⚖️| Feelings: Unthinkable Resource Hub🫶| Action: Protect democracy🗳️

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