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Recommended read: The Guardian explored whether stand-up comedy can alleviate climate anxiety.
Climate anxiety was consuming me. Then I learned to laugh about itThe daily dread pushed me to enroll in a standup class. Could I channel my despair into something lighter?buff.lyRecommended read: Grist reported on how the Trump administration’s “makeover” of a global hunger programme meant abandoning agricultural and climate research.
Inside the ‘America First’ makeover of a global hunger programIn remaking USAID’s Feed the Future Innovation Labs, Trump is abandoning an agricultural research effort built to benefit the world.buff.lyDeBriefed: ‘Apocalyptic’ wildfires | Daily Telegraph’s ‘rollercoaster week’ | How heat impacts disabled people ✍️ Written by: Amy Rushton 💻 Edited by: @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org Read here ➡️ buff.ly/i9GkH6a Subscribe to DeBriefed ➡️ buff.ly/J6uB9Kc
NEW – Correcting climate ‘misperceptions’ may not boost climate action | Jess Milligan Read here: buff.ly/u8rqNF4
Daily Briefing: Fires threaten Europe’s ‘way of life’ | England nears heat-deaths record | Global EV sales ‘jump’ Read today's briefing here ➡️ buff.ly/uzJB4cM Sign up to our email briefings ➡️ buff.ly/k84LIFK
NEW – Correcting climate ‘misperceptions’ may not boost climate action ✍️ Written by Jess Milligan Read here: buff.ly/u8rqNF4
Correcting climate ‘misperceptions’ may not boost climate action - Carbon BriefMost people "underestimate" general support for climate change and "overestimate" actual, real-world climate action.buff.lyNEW – Factcheck: No, Europe is not having its ‘quietest’ year for wildfires ✍️ @giulianaviglione.bsky.social and @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org 💬 With comments from @calxcunningham.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/pDQGTR3
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Daily Briefing: Europe’s wildfires spread | China ‘to lead’ global climate action | Half of England in drought Read today's briefing here ➡️ buff.ly/WP3YtPC Sign up to our email briefings ➡️ buff.ly/k84LIFK
Cropped: Nairobi nature talks | Europe’s wildfires | Seabed mining stalemate ✍️ @giulianaviglione.bsky.social Amy Rushton @arunacsekhar.bsky.social Read here ➡️ buff.ly/ZLvy4C3 Subscribe to our newsletters ⬇️ buff.ly/GARRy2F
NEW – Climate change is driving a ‘shift’ in childhood malaria risk across Africa ✍️ Written by @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org 💬 With comments from @colincarlson.bsky.social Dr Teresa Yamana, Dr Adugna Woyessa and Dr Janey Messina Read here: buff.ly/CORfkfm
Climate change is driving a ‘shift’ in childhood malaria risk across Africa - Carbon BriefRising temperatures are redistributing the risk of childhood malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, resulting in areas of “new risk” in the east and south of the continent, but also “relief hotspots” in weste...buff.lyNEW – World falling short on 22 of 23 nature targets for 2030, says draft UN report | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org @arunacsekhar.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/D2XVoGo
NEW – Q&A: What does China’s 15th ‘five-year plan’ for renewables mean for climate change? ✍️ Written by @anikanpatel.carbonbrief.org and Lekai Liu 💬 With comments from Yao Zhe @jamesnorman.bsky.social Pan Jiahua, Cosimo Ries and Isadora Wang Read here: buff.ly/qVU3RTg
Daily Briefing: More wildfire evacuations | India floods death toll rises | ‘Tories have gone Trumpian’ Read today's briefing here ➡️ buff.ly/bzByG0A Sign up to our email briefings ➡️ buff.ly/k84LIFK
NEW – Analysis: Wind and solar power overtake fossil fuels in Germany for first time ever ✍️ By Ho Woo Nam and @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social 🔗 Read here: www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-win...
NEW – Analysis: 84% of nations miss deadline to identify ‘nature-harming’ subsidies by 2025 ✍️ Written by @giulianaviglione.bsky.social and @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org 💬 With comments from @evazabey.bsky.social @ronsteenblik.bsky.social Paul Elton & Prof Jessica Dempsey Read here: buff.ly/RFf8Nor
Daily Briefing: Daily Briefing: Wildfires ‘rage’ | UK’s ‘fourth heatwave’ | Typhoon Noul Read today's briefing here ➡️ buff.ly/CuX6q5s Sign up to our email briefings ➡️ buff.ly/k84LIFK
Daily Briefing: France-Spain fires | US heatwave | China’s ‘green-energy deals’ Read today's briefing here ➡️ buff.ly/NpRV7RW Sign up to our email briefings ➡️ buff.ly/k84LIFK
Recommended listen: Former Green Party MP Caroline Lucas discussed what the UK’s changing electoral map means for future climate action on the Political Heat podcast.
What does the changing electoral map mean for the climate? With Caroline LucasPodcast Episode · Political Heat · 22 July · 49minbuff.lyRecommended read: Sara Yassi – chair of the UK’s youth delegation to COP30 – warned in the Los Angeles Times that “air conditioning alone won’t save us from killer heat”.
Contributor: Air conditioning alone won't save us from killer heatClimate control isn't the problem. The mistake was designing cities that require more and more energy to cool our homes each year.buff.ly