We lost one of our community’s kindest, thoughtful people this week. Thank you @PSutoris for this beautiful essay on our friend. Lighting a candle for Arif tonight. Missing him.
It was an honour to write this essay in @scroll_in about @arif_naveed's fascinating life: from a village in Pakistan, to a prominent academic in Britain, to facing untimely death. What does it mean to win against poverty but lose against time? https://t.co/gXUxy4bZTt
Thrilled to collaborate as a co-author and have this @Microsoft white paper out this week: "Investing in Nature for Sustainability." https://t.co/UhtFuVYoB0
Along with the brilliant Barbara Haya and Stephen Lezak at University of California, Berkeley released a preprint this morning on the History of "Contribution" Approaches for Climate Mitigation. https://t.co/o18mwLPYGL Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy
Check out the Berkeley Carbon Trading Project's post on the @DNC's decision to focus on direct emissions reductions instead of carbon credits. This post grows out of two articles we collaborated on, laying the case for contributions instead of offsetting https://t.co/Av2K89ezLy
@GatesAlumni are doing amazing work across the globe to improve the lives of others. Now is your chance to nominate a @Gates_Cambridge scholar alum for the 25th Anniversary Impact Prize.
The lengthy sentences on the 'Just Stop Oil' protestors are grotesquely disproportionate. As for the judge forbidding them to explain why they were protesting, it looks. like fascism. I deplore it.
Myself and colleagues have a paper out today in @OneEarth_CP. We share three principles to shape the contributions approach for nature-based climate solutions to promote rigour and prevent harm. Check it out! https://t.co/4V1Gu5BnV3
“If humanity does not act swiftly to limit it, climate change will cost a typical child born in 2024 at least around $500,000 over their lifetime—and possibly as much as $1 million—through a combination of cost-of-living increases and reduced earnings.” https://t.co/mz154Rpcib
Today in @Nature, @WilkesCenter Director William Anderegg and his colleagues called on the trustees of @sciencetargets (SBTi) to rescind their decision allowing #carbonoffsets for business' indirect #scope3 fossil-fuel emissions.
https://t.co/rvQeLLwJrw
My first Correspondence in Nature (co-authored with the great Bill Anderegg @WilkesCenter and 32 other scientists), against @sciencetargets trustees' endorsement of #carbonoffsets for #scope3 emissions. @uofutah
https://t.co/GckK94knjz
OPEC's leaked goal to “proactively reject any [#COP28 ] text that targets fossil fuels, rather than emissions” is, I think, the 1st *explicit* admission of Big Oil's strategy to shift climate responsibility from supply/fossil fuels to demand/emissions. 1/n https://t.co/0xJXgRgAE1
When will the world really pass 1.5C (excluding year-to-year natural variability)?
The IPCC AR6 estimates it will happen around 2031 (with an uncertainty range spanning 2024 to 2043) in a current-policy-type SSP2-4.5 emissions scenario:
Our public comments on @CFTC Commission Guidance Regarding the Listing of Voluntary Carbon Credit Derivative Contracts @WilkesCenter
https://t.co/KKDSYBQHcM