Thursday 16th January 2025

Mega-polluters exploit green loans, Nobel laureates urge increased food production, and AI’s role in climate transition spotlighted—while BeZero Carbon raises €48M, Yale survey reveals UK climate attitudes, and EU, Ofgem, and MPs clash over net-zero infrastructure strategies.

24 Hours In Sustainability

Worldwide Highlights

UK Highlights

  • The Yale Program on Climate Change Communication conducted a nationally representative survey of 10,660 British residents and have released their detailed full report. Expect this to feature in the mainstream news over the coming weeks, here is Yale’s own executive summary, including:

    • 80% of British population are somewhat worried about climate change

    • 86% believe climate change is happening

    • 75% believe climate change is mostly human-caused

  • What is the Heartland Institute? Inside the climate change denying think tank supported by Nigel Farage

  • Ofgem’s Strategic Innovation Fund has announced further £4.1mn investment in net zero projects

  • Miliband blasts Farage and Tories for turning net zero into a ‘culture war’

  • Build more roads to hit net zero, MPs told by the Government’s infrastructure tsar who wants less of a focus on pushing people to travel by train [Paywall / Cached Copy]

The Daily Climate Sceptic

  • Is Net-Zero Banking Dead? Todd Cort, co-director of the Yale Center for Business and the Environment, and Daniel Esty, the Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy, discuss the potential impacts of big U.S. banks pulling out of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance.

Long-Read of the Week

A non sustainability recommendation this week, but a book that can reaffirm if what you’re doing is making a difference!

 Bullsh*t Jobs, by David Graeber, is a provocative exploration of the rise of meaningless employment in modern economies. A renowned anthropologist, Graeber examines how countless jobs—despite being well-paid and prestigious—add little to society, leaving workers unfulfilled and questioning their purpose.

He delves into the societal and economic structures that perpetuate these roles, arguing they are not just wasteful but psychologically damaging. This sharp critique challenges conventional ideas about productivity and work, urging us to rethink what truly contributes to a meaningful and equitable economy.

"How can one even begin to speak of dignity in labor when one secretly feels one’s job should not exist?"

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