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Robin Lamboll

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Climate sciences research fellow at Imperial College London. UK poetry slam champion 2019. linktr.ee/rlamboll

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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'll be helping out in a little poetry workslop on AI poetry. It's this Wednesday, on a boat.
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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
How is agriculture coping with the heatwave/drought in the UK? My dad is hand-watering whole fields of courgettes and pumpkins repeatedly. Normally he only needs to do this when he plants them.
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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I'll be at the Beth Chatto symposium next month, on a panel discussing how gardening and food production can continue under a changing climate! www.bethchatto.co.uk/symposium/sy...
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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
1/ Predictions of future climate improve over time, but this shouldn't weaken the Paris Agreement. But in several widespread interpretations of "well below 2C", it does. New (short!) paper with @joerirogelj proposes a fix. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵
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Future-proofing interpretations of the Paris Agreement’s limit of well below 2 °C - Nature Climate Change
Here the authors show that a common interpretation of the Paris Agreement’s ‘well below 2° C’ target is changing with time, which could lead to higher overall warming. They propose that using median t...
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Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment @granthamicl.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Future-proofing Paris Agreement requires focus on median warming In a new paper, Prof @joerirogelj.bsky.social & Dr @robinlamboll.bsky.social warn that global warming closer to 2°C is at risk if countries don't use median temperature targets to guide reductions in emissions 🧵 buff.ly/pbNssJf
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Future-proofing interpretations of the Paris Agreement’s limit of well below 2 °C - Nature Climate Change
Here the authors show that a common interpretation of the Paris Agreement’s ‘well below 2° C’ target is changing with time, which could lead to higher overall warming. They propose that using median t...
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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I'll be doing a half hour of science poetry at Morden Family Fun Day in the Poet's corner from 3pm - come along if you're nearby! www.mertoncharityevents.org.uk/morden-famil...
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Morden Family Fun Day — Merton Charity Events
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Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial @ic-cep.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Professor @joerirogelj.bsky.social and Dr @robinlamboll.bsky.social have contributed to the latest Indicators of Global Climate Change (IGCC) assessment, showing human-induced warming reached 1.37°C in 2025. At current emissions trends, 1.5°C could be exceeded within around four years.
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Earth's climate continues to warm as heat accumulation reaches record levels
Researchers from Imperial College London have contributed to a major international climate assessment showing that the Earth is accumulating heat at...
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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Next weekend I'll be at the Great Exhibition Road Festival, taking part in the science ballet show - free tickets at www.greatexhibitionroadfestival.co.uk/event/dancin.... (Plus a short stint on the stall exploring links between ecology and pets.)
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Dancing Nature: Science Storytelling Through Ballet - The Great Exhibition Road Festival
Join our Biology Ballerina for an exploration of the natural world through pliés and pirouettes.
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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
After YEARS of climate scientists using '1% CO2 growth per year' to calculate atmospheric constants to TERRIFY us, the UN's TOP climate scientist (Detlef Van Vuuren) just admitted that scenario was WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! I hope henceforth we will calculate TCR using TRUTH, SCIENCE and SSP2-4.5!
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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Every word of this paper on how a sea lion can beat humans at dancing is a gem, but best of all is the general tone that it was written by a proud sea lion's mum using science words to describe a rave. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Strong legal ruling from the Dutch courts, obliging the government to strength climate targets and provide climate resilience for the residents of Bonaire! www.rechtspraak.nl/organisatie-...
Text block: The Dutch government is not doing enough to protect the residents of Bonaire from climate change and its consequences. In addition, Bonaire's residents have been treated differently than residents of the European Netherlands without good reason. This violates the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). This follows from a ruling by the District Court of The Hague in a substantive case brought by Greenpeace against the government. The government must incorporate binding interim targets into national legislation within 18 months to reduce greenhouse gas emissions for the entire economy. The government must also have and implement a detailed plan by 2030 to make Bonaire more resilient to the effects of climate change.
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 28/01/2026
This is absolutely HUGE news – a court in the Hague has ruled that the Dutch government is failing the people of Bonaire, and must set up a climate adaptation plan for them AND raise its climate targets Major victory for #ClimateJustice, and for the people of Bonaire
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Historic victory: Dutch court declares climate policy inadequate in Bonaire climate case | Greenpeace Nederland | Voor een groene, leefbare aarde 🌍 - Greenpeace Nederland
The Hague, 28 January 2026
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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Just a few quotes from the Declaration of Independence
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
I wish little chocolates didn't come individually wrapped. (Not for environmental reasons, just to make it harder to see how many I've eaten.)
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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 02/12/2025
If Ireland's emissions are "too small to matter" then I might as well evade my taxes and eat doughnuts for lunch. Read my latest column about the laziest excuse in the climate debate: www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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‘Too small to matter’ is the laziest-possible excuse in climate debate
At a time of crisis, co-operation is the only way to resolve the climate collective-action problem
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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
This COP has been deeply disappointing. It claimed to be a COP of action, but all comments on fossil fuels, and even most comments on deforestation that this COP was supposed to highlight, have been removed from the final text. Being literally on fire at one point was a fitting metaphor.
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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Kenya have got their text into the loss and damages agreement and it looks unanimous now, so there will be an agreement coming out of COP!
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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
On Wednesday, I'll be on a panel about climate justice at COP30 in Belem. We'll be talking about indigenous rights, community judgement of COPs and what climate justice looks like - I'll be more on the metrics and less on the social side of these questions!
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Johannes Emmerling @johannesemm.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Tracking market reactions to COP30 in real-time! As COP30 unfolds in Brazil (Nov 10-21), our live tracker shows how different stocks respond. Updated daily. 👉 johannesemm.shinyapps.io/HowStocksJud... Credits: @robinlamboll.bsky.social (Imperial College) & @johannesemm.bsky.social (CMCC) #COP30
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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
I'll be presenting on including AI effects in energy models at IAMC this Wednesday. Then next Wednesday I'll be in Belém to give a short talk as part of an event on COPs, indigenous activism and climate justice in the Blue Zone GUAC pavilion at 10.30. If you are around, catch me for a chat!
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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Do climate conferences actually achieve anything? A lot of people have strong opinions, but we wanted measurements, so we look at how the stock market moves during yearly international meetings called COPs – explanation below, or read the paper here: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment @granthamicl.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
📈COP delivers stock market boost for ‘green’ companies but renewables unaffected, Imperial College London study shows 🧵 Read it here: ow.ly/o6xY50XnEuH
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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Something that's worth flagging about this report is the subtle pivot from "current policy" being the worst-case scenario to including discussions of backsliding. Most calculations presented include the USA meeting its new-but-Biden-era NDC commitments, which will formally elapse in Jan.
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Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment @granthamicl.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
NEW: The latest climate pledges under the Paris Agreement have driven only a slight fall in predicted global temperature rise over the course of this century. The UN Emissions Gap Report finds that implementing current policies would lead to up to 2.8°C of warming, down from 3.1°C. 🧵
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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 04/11/2025
New national climate plans have barely moved the needle on limiting global warming. Yet there is hope. According to UNEP's latest #EmissionsGap Report, accelerated adoption of renewable energy and falling costs mean we have the tools to cut emissions now: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
Illustration of a dart missing the bullseye on a colorful target, symbolizing global temperature goals at risk due to inaction.
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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
There's an informative paper by Bossy et al out today, probing the emissions pathways compatible with keeping earth within five different planetary boundaries: www.nature.com/articles/s41... I wrote a little context-setting piece about it, which you can find here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Spaces of anthropogenic CO2 emissions compatible with climate boundaries - Nature Climate Change
This study explores pathways of emissions and mitigation compatible with four climate boundaries—planetary boundaries for the climate system. The results highlight the importance of peak emission timi...
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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
In case anyone is wondering why I'm up and tweeting at 2am, my attempted veganisation of the recipe for Paradise Pumpkin Pie takes a million years to set but hopefully has fully caramelised now
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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Giving a talk at TechUK tomorrow on the latest in climate science and emissions for their Tech and Net Zero conference www.techuk.org/what-we-deli...
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Tech and Net Zero Conference 2025
Our third annual Tech and Net Zero Conference will take place on 22 October
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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
I'll do a little talk about the science of carbon budgets before a team of dancers lead by Eleonora Moratto and her team of dancers reinterpret science in ballet at this free event: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/livin...
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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Performing at the Patras World Poetry Festival this week - quite a lot of it should be livestreamed in case people want to see it abroad! pwpf.gr
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Hamish Beath @hamishbeath.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Sharing our new paper in #NatureCommunications on solar-based mini-grids interconnecting with national grids can boost reliability, cut costs + emissions, and reduce the risk of asset stranding, co-led by @benwinchester.bsky.social & with @shivmit.bsky.social, + others! @natureportfolio.nature.com
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Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment @granthamicl.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
🙌Imperial has more authors contributing to a crucial climate report than any other organisation in the world. Once finished, the IPCC Assessment Report 7 (AR7) report will help shape policies to tackle climate change throughout the 2030s 🧵 📰 ow.ly/BlYz50WIMpk
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Imperial researchers take leading role in major IPCC climate report | Imperial News | Imperial College London
Imperial has more authors contributing to a crucial report on climate change than any other organisation in the world.
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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
What's the best tiramisu recipe? Can people tell if you make vegan versions? We ran an "experiment" to find out. scienceisshiny.wordpress.com/2025/08/15/a...
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An investigation into the optimal tiramisu
Introduction Tiramisus taste great. But which is the best one? We recently ran an experiment (or, as some might call it, party) to find the best tiramisu. The aims of this experiment were: to estab…
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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Honoured to be selected as a lead author in the upcoming IPCC report chapter on scenarios and projected temperatures (AR7 WG1 Ch5) - looks like we'll have a great team! For the complete list of authors, see apps.ipcc.ch/report/autho...
A table of IPCC authors for WG1 Chapter 5
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Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial @ic-cep.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
If 1.5°C warming is the safety line and 2°C the cliff edge, how far into the danger zone can we go? @joerirogelj.bsky.social and @robinlamboll.bsky.social say we need a clearer, stricter upper limit, around 1.7°C, to guide policy beyond 1.5°C The question: how close to the edge is too close?
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Is it time to aim for 1.7°C as the new limit for global warming?
With the world on the cusp of passing 1.5°C of warming, scientists are turning their attention to defining a new limit for temperature rises – but not everyone agrees that we should
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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Last summer I visited my cousin's wedding in Vanuatu, an intricate and fascinating event which involved a fairly high fraction of all living speakers of the endangered language Mele. I've written a description of events here: scienceisshiny.wordpress.com/2025/07/21/m...
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Mele Wedding Customs
Intro In 2024 I attended the wedding of my cousin Serah, from the South Pacific nation Vanuatu. Vanuatu has a huge cultural and linguistic diversity, with its 80 islands containing over 130 languag…
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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Here's a little article on what the very small carbon budget means about 1.5C and what happens after we get there. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
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We're within 3 years of reaching a critical climate threshold. Can we reverse course?
A report published in June found that the world only has three years before it crosses the 1.5 C climate target. So what should we do now?
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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
I'll be at Scenarios Forum in Leeds from tonight - let me know if you want to meet up to discuss things!
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Prof Elizabeth J Z Robinson @profejzrobinson.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
More frequent & intense heatwaves are already having a measurable effect on the UK's economy. Workers' health is not sufficiently protected, affecting productivity & putting pressure on health services. We need adaptation + investment in a low-carbon economy & an equitable transition to net zero.
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Joeri Rogelj @joerirogelj.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
⚠️Global warming caused by humans is advancing at 0.27°C per decade – the highest rate since records began. This is one of the indicators updated every year by over 60 international scientists in the annual Indicators of Global Climate Change report – published today. doi.org/10.5194/essd... /1
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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
In case anyone is confused by the different headlines on carbon budgets today, the Guardian's 2 years value is based on a 66% chance, the 3 years comes from a 50% chance.
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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Over the weekend I talked to people at Elmbridge's citizen's assembly, giving an introduction to climate change suitable for a general audience which included several climate change skeptics. I thought I'd share some principles I work from when giving these sorts of talks:
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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
🧪 Lead author Hamish Beath explains our paper with a system for evaluating scenarios for climate action in a thread here:
Multidimensional graph of two scenarios ranked against a range of environmental, fairness and feasibility metrics
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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Dr Eleonora Moratto will show us how ballet can be used to tell science stories at the Great Exhibition Road Festival! Featuring nature and climate research by her, @mattcscience.bsky.social, @morenamills.bsky.social and me! www.greatexhibitionroadfestival.co.uk/event/dancin...
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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I'll be doing poetry with the deeply evocative Fiona Broadhurst at Homebrew Poetry next Wednesday. It will be the last instance of Homebrew for a while, so if you've been meaning to visit now is a good time to go! www.eventbrite.com/e/homebrew-p...
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Homebrew Poetry ft. Fiona Broadhurst, Dr. Robin Lamboll & Open Mic
A poetry open mic and feature night in Bounds Green, North London. Hosted by Laurie Eaves. LAST GIG FOR A BIT!
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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
What is "carbon debt" and who is responsible for overshooting climate targets? A short blog: granthaminstitute.com/2025/04/09/w... based on research in www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... (with @setupelz.bsky.social, @cjsmith.be, @gidden.bsky.social, @wimthiery.bsky.social, @joerirogelj.bsky.social etc.)
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Who is responsible for overshooting the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C warming limit and minimising the harm this causes? - Climate and environment at Imperial blog
The world is on course to exceed the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C warming limit within a decade. The increasing likelihood of at least a temporary temperature limit exceedance, or overshoot, raises critica...
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 09/04/2025
NEW – Guest post: How to apportion ‘net-zero carbon debt’ if global warming overshoots 1.5C | @setupelz.bsky.social @robinlamboll.bsky.social @wimthiery.bsky.social @gidden.bsky.social @cjsmith.be @shonali-p.bsky.social Read here:
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Guest post: How to apportion ‘net-zero carbon debt’ if global warming overshoots 1.5C - Carbon Brief
Our findings show that some regions, such as western Europe and North America, will accrue net-zero carbon debt as soon as 2030.
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Undaunted: Tackling climate change with innovation @undaunted-hq.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Got a green idea? Gain skills to see if it can evolve into a successful startup - apply now for Climate Launchpad! Don’t worry if you don’t have a business plan just yet, or if your idea is still on the back of a napkin. Apply before the UK deadline on 5 May ➡️ climatelaunchpad.org/application-...
Call for start-ups. Apply now! Deadline: 05 May 2025Turn your green idea into a successful startup - get the knowledge and skills you need! You have a green idea or business to take to the next level. Perfect, you should enter! Don’t worry if you don’t have a business plan just yet, or if your idea is still on the back of a napkin. Be sure to apply before the UK deadline on 5 May.ClimateLaunchpad is the world’s largest green business ideas competition. Our mission is to unlock the world’s cleantech potential that addresses climate change. We fill a gap in developing a pipeline of early-stage climate ventures and provide a platform for those ideas to flourish.
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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This Friday I'm headlining Slamden (sober metal poetry)! ravenrecordshop.com/product/slam... At the same time, the lovely @beesmade.bsky.social will be launching her new book online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/allographi... I wrote a poem inspired by a poem of hers: stepawaymagazine.com/archives/5627
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Slamden - the UK's only Sober Metal Poetry Slam
Support independent record shops and purchase your ticket to Slamden - the UK's only Sober Metal Poetry Slam from Raven records today!
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Setu @setupelz.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
📢 New paper w/ G. Ganti @robinlamboll.bsky.social L. Grant @cjsmith.be @shonali-p.bsky.social @joerirogelj.bsky.social K. Riahi @wimthiery.bsky.social @gidden.bsky.social We examine a forward-looking measure to guide collective efforts in the era of climate overshoot: net-zero carbon debt. 🧵
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