The Weekly Climate

Welcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!

This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.

We go back to the original news focussed format this week but augments the newsletter with a blog that describes which actions to take based on the news items you read.

News you can’t miss:

🙀 Only 31 out of 190 countries have submitted more ambitious NDCs at the deadline of Dec 31 2020.

😻 Sale of EVs in Norway passed 66% in December 2020.

😼 Satellite look at how the climate crisis (and a few volcanoes) have changed the surface of the Earth.

💩 The Darth Vader of PR companies, FTI Consulting, are also behind the pro-hydrogen push in EU.

For the full shownotes please go to https://www.weeklyclimate.com

Welcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!

This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.

We go back to the original news focussed format this week but augments the newsletter with a blog that describes which actions to take based on the news items you read.

News you can’t miss: 

🙀 A new study is showing that large part of the ground on the Earth is literally sinking mostly due to groundwater depletion and it seems likely that sea level rise will exacerbate this problem.

😻 7 major EU truck makers have decided to stop making diesel trucks by 2040 a full decade before prior plans.

😼 A detailed look at two fertilizer plants, one in Uzbekistan and one in the US. One of them emits as much nitrous oxide as 430.000 cars. Guess which one.

💩 Exxon is trying to downplay a Bloomberg article I also highlighted last week about how they hid emissions from investors and the public. And they’re doing this by buying ads on SoMe’s in yet another propaganda play.

For the full shownotes please go to https://www.weeklyclimate.com

Welcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!

This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.

We go back to the original news focussed format this week but augments the newsletter with a blog that describes which actions to take based on the news items you read.

News you can’t miss: A part from the excellent Exxon ad above, there’s more Exxon news such as the fact that it doesn’t want to tell anybody about how much it’s new projects are going to pollute. In fact it sells some of them as climate-beneficial. Former Exxon CEO, Lee Raymond steps down from the biggest fossil fuel supporter in the world, JP Morgan’s, board — yay! And shipping-gate may be underway aaand finally, the worlds ecosystems may not be sequestrating CO2 as fast as it used to. 🐙 ... also octopusses have been found guilty of punching its fish hunting buddies out of spite. The videos are adorable in some way. But also it’s kind of bullying. 🤨

For the full shownotes please go to https://www.weeklyclimate.com

Welcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!

This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.

We go back to the original news focussed format this week but augments the newsletter with a blog that describes which actions to take based on the news items you read.

News you can’t miss: The IEA releases its first Electricity Market report and it has some interesting numbers, some of which can be seen in the Weekly Climate Numbers. The UN Climate Ambition Summit was held last weekend and it led to number of companies upgrading their ambitions. A new UN report finds that 39% of all emissions are related to buildings. That’s close to 2x that of all modes of transportation. And the fossil fuel industry is caught in another ugly propaganda scandal (that nobody seems to care much about except those of us who are obsessed with seeing the industry die).

For the full shownotes please go to https://www.weeklyclimate.com

Welcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!

This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.

We go back to the original news focussed format this week but augments the newsletter with a blog that describes which actions to take based on the news items you read.

News you can’t miss: This week saw the release of two important reports: (1) The UN’s Emission Gap report for 2020 and (2) the Global Carbon Projects Carbon Budget for 2020. None of the reports are particularly happy reading. As Greta says, we’re still speeding as fast as we possibly be can in the wrong direction. But there’s hope. If countries chose to incorporate a green recovery plan into their COVID response and recovery plan then 2020 will mark the year where the world started taking the climate crisis serious. This week also marked the 5 year anniversary of the Paris Agreement and let’s just say there’s good and bad news surrounding that one too. Finally, a big U.S. offset company is being blamed for protecting trees that doesn’t really need protection and therefore selling useless offsets.

For the full shownotes please go to https://www.weeklyclimate.com

Welcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!

This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.

We go back to the original news focussed format this week but augments the newsletter with a blog that describes which actions to take based on the news items you read.

News Summary: The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres held a fiery speech at Columbia University on the State of the Planet where he cited just about all the recent major climate science news such as the Production Gap report 2020 (out this week), the news that this year is on track to be the top-3 hottest ever and Brazils deforestation of the Amazon hit a 12-year high. To fill the gap that the cancelled COP26 has left, youth activists held their own Mock-COP26 and agreed on a treaty which was submitted to the real one. Finally, an interesting study has shown that replacing fossil fuel power plant in the US might be easier than thought as 73% of all fossil fuel power plants needs to retired before 2035 anyway and much much more.

For the full shownotes please go to https://www.weeklyclimate.com

Welcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!

This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.

We go back to the original news focussed format this week but augments the newsletter with a blog that describes which actions to take based on the news items you read. 

News Summary: Hybridgate is rolling, Joe Biden picked John Kerry to be special climate envoy who will now go on to sign the Paris agreement for the second time. The drop in CO2 emissions this year represents a tiny blip that’s hardly measurable in the atmospheric levels of CO2. So it’s “great” that we keep up wasteful games such as Bitcoin which starves entire cities in developing countries of electricity and, you know, buying tons of stuff that we don’t need at Black Friday. And the EU has gotten a series of well-deserved bad press this week such as for running an ad that urges people to become ‘beefatarians’ and much much more.

For the full shownotes please go to https://weeklyclimate.substack.com

Welcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!

This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.

This one features a new format in which we go into detail about one particular theme or news item from last week at the cost of making the news section shorter but with the same amount of news (just less comment on them).

News Summary: New initiative to stop PR and agencies from working with big fossil, climate scientists debunks “point-of-no-return“ paper, EU targets 300GW offshore wind by 2050, Agrivoltaics is the new hot topic, Bezos announces first recipients from his 10B$ fund, 1% of people responsible for 50% of aviations emissions, court gives the government of France 3 months to act on climate change and much much more.

One Action Summary: Help yourself and your friends to an EV

For the full shownotes please go to https://weeklyclimate.substack.com

Welcome this weeks edition of The Weekly Climate!

This is a podcast version of the newsletter The Weekly Climate. It is meant to be your monday morning news overview of the most important climate crisis news from last week. Each podcast episode comes with a detailed newsletter wherein you can dive deeper into each news item.

This one features a new format in which we go into detail about one particular theme or news item from last week at the cost of making the news section shorter but with the same amount of news (just less comment on them).

News Summary: Climate change threaten great tits, US Central Bank acknowledges climate risk for the first time, deep dive into the consulting company that led the fossil fuels industry assault on humanity, leading climate scientists urges political leaders to do more, Korean palm oil company buys rainforest just to burn it down and much much more.

One Action Summary: Ged rid of your gas stove

For the full shownotes please go to https://weeklyclimate.substack.com