Dr Laura James's writings

 The other COP was last month: https://twitter.com/UNBiodiversity/status/1448189233026437120 I enjoyed the Talking Politics episode with Jason Bordoff , on the energy transition. The scale of the big changes needed and how challenging it is to see how they could be made quickly - outside the shift in consumer choices side of things - is fascinating. Jason notes that we cut emissions with pandemic lockdowns, but that carbon emissions need to reduce by more than they did in 2020, every year for 10 years.  Affordability of energy is a real tension too, as gas and oil necessarily get more expensive.  Microsoft has been striving to go carbon negative; it did an RFP for a huge volume of negative emissions, and found very few indeed met its criteria for good quality removal ( Nature article ): First, the supply of solutions capable of removing and storing carbon viably is a tiny proportion of that needed to reach global net-zero emissions by 2050 (which is an anticipated 2–10 gigatonnes of