General Motors Chief Executive, Mary Barra (pictured), talks about the shift to electric vehicles. Listen to Mary tell the story behind GM's awe-inspiring transformation.        

Emma Thompson says burning trees for energy is anything but clean, just or green. She argues that politicians are subsidizing the forest biomass industry internationally to the tune of billions of dollars a year, and pretending it’s a climate solution - listen to "Beyond Burning".

Diplomat, architect of the Paris Agreement on climate change, and former Executive on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Christiana Figueres is a force to be reckoned with, draw some inspiration from her here when she talks about Australia being the energy centre of the world.

Other Quick Climate Links for today are:

"Poland’s border wall to cut through Europe’s last old-growth forest";

"‘My apartment is literally baking’: calls for minimum standards to keep Australia’s rental homes cool";

"Coalition calling for moratorium on Ontario's gravel quarries";

"Melbourne’s hot January nights smash record";

"Carbon Colonialism";

"Coming of Age at the End of the World? A Generation Faces COVID, Climate Change, and the Anthropocene";

"How 3 Cities Can Turn Downed Trees Into Revenue";

"Renewable Energy Shouldn’t be Blamed for Spiking Energy Prices — It's the Solution";

"‘More money than ever’: gas companies made almost $1m in donations to Labor and Liberals";

"Supercell storm tears off roofs, downs trees and cuts power across Brisbane and Logan";

"NSW's Blue Mountains could lose World Heritage status if Warragamba dam plan goes ahead: experts";

"New metric shows how severe global warming is getting";

"Why we resigned from the ARC College of Experts after minister vetoed research grants";

"Queensland has an important network of private conservation areas, but they’re dangerously exposed to mining";

"The $1 billion Great Barrier Reef funding is nonsensical. Australians, and their natural wonder, deserve so much better";

"It’s summer, so bushfires and COVID collide. 3 ways one affects the other";

"Sir David Attenborough, Greta Thunberg, WHO among Nobel peace prize nominees";

"Forests will have smaller trees in the future";

"Global Schools Case-Study Guide";

"Winter Updates from SDSN Switzerland";

"This home and studio in Thailand is energy efficient";

"Plant Prefab aims to make housing accessible and affordable";

"Kyrsten Sinema courted Republican fossil fuel donors with filibuster stance";

"What Can One Teenager Do About Climate Change? Adah Crandall Will Find Out";

"No climate change refuge for coral reefs: study";

"NSW to co-fund 1,000 electric vehicle charging stations across the state over four years";

"Morrison Government missing in action as Reef outlook goes from bad to catastrophic";

"Australia’s hottest temperature this century ‘sounding alarm’ for action on emissions reduction";

"New Look commits to becoming climate positive by 2040 in new sustainability strategy";

"Hotter summer temperatures prompt fly fishing restrictions in Montana";

"Repeat photography shows climate change impacts on real places";

"Epic week of snow: High Plains hammered, Northeast nailed";

"North Sea Abigail oilfield plan approved despite climate goals";

"UK beer and meat producers breathe sigh of relief after CO2 deal is struck";

"Extreme heat in oceans ‘passed point of no return’ in 2014";

"A new Tory faction is ‘scrutinising’ net-zero – with tactics learned from Brexit";

"Paris Agreement limits still catastrophic for coral reefs: study".

Enjoy "Music for a Warming World".

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