EU votes to leave energy treaty as green rules pushed through via Financial Times
on.ft.com/3WjEQ3T

Ecosystems are subject to 'tipping point' dynamics where, after a certain threshold, small pressures lead to dramatic and irreversible state change.
Our UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose Global Systems Institute report examines the potentially devastating economic and financial consequences.
ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/publi…

I spoke with the economist Joseph E. Stiglitz about his new book, 'The Road to Freedom,' a timely effort to retake the language of individual liberty from the right. 'Neoliberalism is on the defensive,' he said. 'But it's going to be a battle.'
newyorker.com/news/our-colum…

#Nature -related risks are not priced into financial markets means that #finance continues to flow unhindered to activities that destroy nature. We show today that these activities seriously undermine the #finance system itself, with shocks of 12% GDP+ greenfinanceinstitute.com/wp-content/upl…

This is stunning, and not in a good way:

The triple planetary crisis is not just an environmental issue, it's a financial risk too.

UNEP Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)'s new Risk Centre offers tools and learning opportunities for financial institutions: unepfi.org/risk-centre/

Good news today from the #ISSB that they will work on #nature over the next 2 years.

Great news that they will draw from pre-existing initiatives including #SASB , CDSB and (critically!) TNFD

The rise of extreme wealth in the United States in one simple chart

(Source: gabriel-zucman.eu/files/PSZ2021J…, updated to 2023)

The “Epic Row” Over a New Epoch newyorker.com/news/the-weeke…

As natural sounds disappeared over the past 30 years, one man was listening and recording it all.

This is the story of a silent spring in one Californian park & how we got there theguardian.com/environment/20…

“Antarctic sea ice is ‘behaving strangely’ and might have entered a ‘new regime,’ the director of the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) tells Carbon Brief.” carbonbrief.org/antarctic-sea-…

“Myself and other climate scientists are asking whether this year is a blip, a phase change, whether the climate system is broken and behaving in a different way to what we expect,” said Samantha Burgess, deputy director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service.

“In much of western-central Europe, summer temperatures have surged three times faster than the global mean warming since 1980, yet this is not captured by most climate model simulations.” nature.com/articles/s4324…

Really good chart this from BloombergNEF. It really is that simple (and that complicated).

The Transition Plan Taskforce publishes its final set of transition plan resources

Explore all materials - ow.ly/i3rp50RbiLf

As a member of the Nature Working Group , we welcome the release “The Future for Nature in Transition Planning” guidance.

Download - ow.ly/sxPZ50RbiLh

A good piece of work from an excellent BIOFIN team 👇

“Health security, economic security and even national security are imperilled when infectious diseases spin out of control.”

The next pandemic is coming. Will we be ready? via Financial Times on.ft.com/3xpv85y

Let's end 'biocrastination'! The Planet Tracker’s Nature Scorecard ranks 373 companies based on their engagement in nature-related initiatives, whether voluntary or involuntary. Analysis showed that only 1 company is a member of 4 initiatives so far.
planet-tracker.org/the-nature-sco…

'Global warming in 2010-2023 is 0.30°C/decade, 67% faster than 0.18°C/decade in 1970- 2010.' columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings…

Protect biodiversity to prevent future pandemics. Lessons from an important new study for the World Health Organization (WHO) #PandemicAccord

nature.com/articles/s4146…