This year,
🌅 TX surpassed CA as the leader in utility-scale solar
🌞 China installed more solar energy in one year than the US has in its entire history
🌏 Mongolia committed 30% of its land to conservation
📚 Universities—and the state of NJ—are making climate education a must
Every week I have more:

We are here, and we are ready.

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Trump's election could spur far-right Latin American leaders to “sideline environmental protections, fueling a race toward unchecked exploitation,” said Natalie Unterstell, a policy analyst in Brazil.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/c...

EU needs to set a climate target that will reduce GHG emissions by at least 90% and preferably 95% by 2040 (compared to 1990 levels, including sinks). By 2035, the EU should reduce its net emissions by at least 76% and preferably 78% - more details in new paper: www.germanwatch.org/en/90194

The world’s countries have today, in Rome, endorsed the Voluntary guidelines on gender equality and women’s empowerment for food security and nutrition:

September 2023 was not only the warmest September on record by a staggering 0.5°C margin, but at 1.82°C (3.28°F) above the 1850-1900 preindustrial average, it also set the record for the largest monthly temperature anomaly ever recorded.

This chart shows the biggest drivers.

- Berkeley Earth

Read my brilliant colleague Matthew’s insightful reflections on - building resilient food systems in uncertain times:

Monday at lunchtime @rahmstorf.bsky.social and I will be at PIK, discussing a topic near and dear to both of our hearts: what (more) can science contribute to catalysing meaningful climate action? eveeno.com/lunchtime_en...