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Insurers Face (Eventual) Risk Of Planetary Insolvency

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RT @ChurchillFship: 🎉Exciting news! We’re proud to announce our 118 new Churchill Fellows for 2025! From community energy to healthcare inn….

This was my London #Climate Action Week That Was:

Wonderful to see our eldest daughter Gaia interviewed by The Florist, exploring her approach to the world of #flowers and #design. #Sustainability is indeed in her DNA – and I have learned so much from her and her adventures over the decades.

RT @BoyanSlat: The Ocean Cleanup will now expand in:. 🇵🇦 Panama City.🇮🇳 Mumbai.🇵🇭 Manila.🇯🇲 Montego Bay.🇮🇩 Jakarta.🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur.🇹🇭 Bangk….

RT @dwallacewells: The race to fix the ozone hole remains a miraculous and under appreciated environmental success story. Also, at its peak….

RT @CAgovernor: Donald Trump deployed more than 700 active U.S. Marines — men and women trained in foreign combat, not domestic law enforc….

RT @GavinNewsom: The President of the United States just called for the arrest of a sitting Governor. This is a day I hoped I would never….

RT @Feargal_Sharkey: "Bidders demand Thames Water granted immunity over environmental crimes.". So these are the kind of people we are deal….

Countercurrent relaunches.

Am soft-launching my new website, re-animating a platform I founded back in 1983, Countercurrent. This will be my platform for writing, speaking and advisory board roles. For early sight of website-in-development, see: Any comments very welcome.

#Electrification is a critical part of any #sustainable #energytransition pathway, but #vultures and many other species can suffer along the way:

RIP Bob Shapiro: Lessons From The Bio-Backlash #biotechnology #leadership #sustainability

A Deep Blue Market Economy? Some thoughts inspired this week by David Attenborough about the marketisation of the blue bits of our Blue Planet: #sustainability @VolansHQ @wwf_uk

Sad to hear of the death of my friend Charles Medawar. I wrote about his work at Social Audit in New Scientist back in 1978 - and he was a founder member of the SustainAbility Council in 1996. The Guardian's obituary can be found here: Go in peace.

Just back from a @WWF_UK showing of David Attenborough's new film, "Ocean," at Selfridge's Cinema. Utterly stunning. Watch it if you possibly can. A key focus was on the urgent need to protect 30% of the world's oceans by 2030, a target known as "30by30" or "30x30". @VolansHQ.

The week so far, in Vienna and Wales, with #ecotoxicologists and #vulture conservationists. #chemistry #sustainability #toxicology

Some reflections on the implications of Patagonia's landmark change of ownership for the wider #sustainablebusiness agenda. Spoiler alert: not everyone will follow suit. An interview by Matt Barr with my colleague Louise Kjellerup Roper and I: