The latest Securing our Climate! We cover Australian climate risk assessment, the carbon cost of the Ukraine war and a preview of COP30 open.substack.com/pub/securing...
Climate security digest October 2025
Australia's climate risk assessment, Ukraine war's carbon cost, and a very brief COP30 preview
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October 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
The latest Securing our Climate! We cover Australian climate risk assessment, the carbon cost of the Ukraine war and a preview of COP30 open.substack.com/pub/securing...
Sunday reading to opine on leadership, great power politics, techno fundamentalism and the implications of not dying for awhile. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘To them, ageing is a technical problem that can, and will, be fixed’: how the rich and powerful plan to live for ever
When Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin were caught on mic talking about living for ever, it seemed straight out of a sci-fi fantasy. But for some death is no longer considered an inevitability …
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September 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Sunday reading to opine on leadership, great power politics, techno fundamentalism and the implications of not dying for awhile. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Listen on Substack! Matt Anderson, Founder and CEO of Cryogenx, joins to talk about the dangers of heat exhaustion and how his company’s innovative cooling vest is starting to make an impact with militaries, first responders and beyond.
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The fight against heat exhaustion
A conversation with Matthew Anderson, Founder and CEO of Cryogenx
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September 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Listen on Substack! Matt Anderson, Founder and CEO of Cryogenx, joins to talk about the dangers of heat exhaustion and how his company’s innovative cooling vest is starting to make an impact with militaries, first responders and beyond.
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New post out of the latest links and commentary around climate security! I talk about the evolving role of intelligence teams (geopolitics, climate, business etc), the fallout of the Texas floods, Alabama data centres guzzling water, and more!
New post out of the latest links and commentary around climate security! I talk about the evolving role of intelligence teams (geopolitics, climate, business etc), the fallout of the Texas floods, Alabama data centres guzzling water, and more!
Alan Leung (@securingclimate)
New post out of the latest links and commentary around climate security! I talk about the evolving role of intelligence teams (geopolitics, climate, business etc), the fallout of the Texas floods, Ala...
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July 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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New post out of the latest links and commentary around climate security! I talk about the evolving role of intelligence teams (geopolitics, climate, business etc), the fallout of the Texas floods, Alabama data centres guzzling water, and more!
New post out of the latest links and commentary around climate security! I talk about the evolving role of intelligence teams (geopolitics, climate, business etc), the fallout of the Texas floods, Alabama data centres guzzling water, and more!
Officials Feared Flood Risk to Youth Camps but Rejected Warning System www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/u...
Officials Feared Flood Risk to Youth Camps but Rejected Warning System
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July 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Officials Feared Flood Risk to Youth Camps but Rejected Warning System www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/u...
⚽ A football team won something! And oh yes what caught my eye this month in Securing our Climate: new intrigue in the Arctic, Britain likes it hot and dry, Europe finds out drought is bad for the economy, and a major survey on India’s climate change worries and why security folks should care.
What caught my eye - late May bank holiday edition
Britain likes it hot and dry, Arctic intrigue, an ECB report on how economies don't like droughts, a timely snapshot of what Indians think about climate change.
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May 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
⚽ A football team won something! And oh yes what caught my eye this month in Securing our Climate: new intrigue in the Arctic, Britain likes it hot and dry, Europe finds out drought is bad for the economy, and a major survey on India’s climate change worries and why security folks should care.
🇺🇸🇨🇳 Climate power shifts: Michael Collins from Energy Intelligence joins me in this month’s Securing our Climate to share his incisive analysis exploring how US-China competition is influencing the future of the energy transition and the future of conflict.
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US-China and great power climate competition: where do we go from here?
Michael Collins, Head of Energy Transition Research at Energy Intelligence, talks climate and the US-China rivalry, defence v net zero and China's climate leadership
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April 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
🇺🇸🇨🇳 Climate power shifts: Michael Collins from Energy Intelligence joins me in this month’s Securing our Climate to share his incisive analysis exploring how US-China competition is influencing the future of the energy transition and the future of conflict.
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What caught my eye this month in the world of climate security: open.substack.com/pub/securing...
What caught my eye - March 2025
Climate risk missing from ODNI annual report, Canada, submarines and water along the US-Mexico frontera
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March 30, 2025 at 7:18 PM
What caught my eye this month in the world of climate security: open.substack.com/pub/securing...
Reposted by Alan Leung
Interesting example of a climate hazard opening an opportunity for malign disinformation -- a Chinese influence operation calling for the overthrow of the Spanish gov't for their response to flooding in Valencia last year.
www.reuters.com/world/chines...
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Chinese online influence operation called for overthrow of Spain's government, Graphika report says
A Chinese social media operation that aims to whip up political anger in the West has called for the overthrow of a foreign government when impersonating protesters criticising flood relief efforts in Spain, online analysis outfit Graphika said.
www.reuters.com
January 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Interesting example of a climate hazard opening an opportunity for malign disinformation -- a Chinese influence operation calling for the overthrow of the Spanish gov't for their response to flooding in Valencia last year.
www.reuters.com/world/chines...
www.reuters.com/world/chines...
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One of the better takes on DeepSeek and its disruptive potential
One of the better takes on DeepSeek and its disruptive potential
The Rise of DeepSeek: What the Headlines Miss
TLDR: timing is political but tech is real, compute constraints bite differently than you think, and the story is more complex than "export controls failed."
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January 26, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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One of the better takes on DeepSeek and its disruptive potential
One of the better takes on DeepSeek and its disruptive potential
Reposted by Alan Leung
California has a very strong anti-wildfire “home hardening” law on the books, but it’s never been enforced because insurance models can’t account for it — and because people *hate* what it tells them to do. Fascinating @emilypont.bsky.social story: heatmap.news/climate/los-...
The Five Feet That Could Prevent the Next Palisades Fire
California passed a new fire safety law more than four years ago. It still isn’t in force.
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January 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
California has a very strong anti-wildfire “home hardening” law on the books, but it’s never been enforced because insurance models can’t account for it — and because people *hate* what it tells them to do. Fascinating @emilypont.bsky.social story: heatmap.news/climate/los-...
Happy new year - sharing some of the books on my reading list - climate, people power and of course cats.
New year readings
And themes for 2025
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January 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Happy new year - sharing some of the books on my reading list - climate, people power and of course cats.
With fires still raging, adaptation and what it really means in practice for communities should be top of mind. Worth a listen
Preparing for the Inevitable: Why Adaptation Matters
Just a week into 2025, and the inevitable impacts of climate change are already hitting painfully close to home.
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January 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
With fires still raging, adaptation and what it really means in practice for communities should be top of mind. Worth a listen
Something insurance tech and disaster tech should focus more on toward community (and ultimately, national) resilience
Looks like they didn't pay sufficient attention to the price signals of their insurance policy and move away or cut down that tree.
Kidding... mostly. This is the kind of logic undergirding our current disaster insurance system, the absurdity of which this picture helps demonstrate.
And...
Kidding... mostly. This is the kind of logic undergirding our current disaster insurance system, the absurdity of which this picture helps demonstrate.
And...
January 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Something insurance tech and disaster tech should focus more on toward community (and ultimately, national) resilience
Reposted by Alan Leung
There is money to be made off climate disasters:
🚨shoddy infrastructure repair
🚨utility privatization
🚨scammy insurance
🚨exploitative credit offers
Guess who is set to benefit?
🚨shoddy infrastructure repair
🚨utility privatization
🚨scammy insurance
🚨exploitative credit offers
Guess who is set to benefit?
Trump won't confront the climate crisis. He'll feast off it.
Floods, fires, financial collapse—the MAGA crowd can't wait.
www.motherjones.com
January 2, 2025 at 6:37 PM
There is money to be made off climate disasters:
🚨shoddy infrastructure repair
🚨utility privatization
🚨scammy insurance
🚨exploitative credit offers
Guess who is set to benefit?
🚨shoddy infrastructure repair
🚨utility privatization
🚨scammy insurance
🚨exploitative credit offers
Guess who is set to benefit?
Reposted by Alan Leung
How to handle difficult climate conversations this Christmas
How to handle difficult climate conversations this Christmas
Do you engage with climate deniers that come your way this Christmas? And if so, what’s the best way to do it?
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December 24, 2024 at 10:10 AM
How to handle difficult climate conversations this Christmas
Merry Christmas / festivus to all. Long year behind us and a likely tough year ahead. Thanks for being here and into the breach once more in 2025!
December 24, 2024 at 11:22 AM
Merry Christmas / festivus to all. Long year behind us and a likely tough year ahead. Thanks for being here and into the breach once more in 2025!
2024 has flown by! In the latest Securing our Climate reflect on why a cartoon sponge in Syria portends a more geopolitically fractured world, and what it means to solve for climate problems in our new reality.
Climate in a time of shifting global order
And why Damascus is just the first stop of Spongebob's world tour
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December 18, 2024 at 11:13 PM
2024 has flown by! In the latest Securing our Climate reflect on why a cartoon sponge in Syria portends a more geopolitically fractured world, and what it means to solve for climate problems in our new reality.
Geopolitics x energy x climate.
December 12, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Geopolitics x energy x climate.