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Danish Ali Azhar • thinking about climate change and development
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Realtors know that, in many parts of the country, if you educate people about climate risk, the housing market will collapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Energy transitions can happen faster than we think:

In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.

In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
December 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"The promise of this material could define our energy future: capturing more light means lower costs, fewer losses, and above all, much less dependence on fossil fuels"

unionrayo.com/en/new-solar...
Farewell to conventional solar panels - Spanish scientists create a material that absorbs 99.5% of light and revolutionizes solar energy
Each nanoneedle is a thousand times thinner than a human hair, but together they form a surface capable of absorbing almost all the solar radiation it
unionrayo.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
"The legislation demands that large companies like ExxonMobil implement climate transition plans aligned with the Paris Agreement's goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels - a requirement he described as technically unfeasible."

"Technically unfeasible"

Insanity
Exclusive: ExxonMobil CEO warns EU sustainability law could end Europe operations
ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods told Reuters on Monday it will be impossible for the energy giant to continue doing business in Europe if the European Union doesn't make significant changes to a sustainability law that threatens to penalize companies with fines of 5% of global revenue.
www.reuters.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Periodic reminder of why we must decarbonize. The Permian extinction was the planet killer. It was caused by - wait for it - greenhouse gas warming: >90% of all species went extinct.
Under business as usual we're 20% the way there by 2100, 35-50% by 2300.
sustainability.stanford.edu/news/what-ca...
What caused Earth's biggest mass extinction?
Scientists have debated until now what made Earth's oceans so inhospitable to life that some 96 percent of marine species died off at the end of the Permian period. New research shows the "Great Dying...
sustainability.stanford.edu
November 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Rolling back clean energy policies to “save” European industry will backfire. It may seem attractive in the short term, but it’s poor industrial policy in the long run.

Standing still on climate policy undermines competitiveness. Industry needs stability and long-term direction, not uncertainty.
October 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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To quote my friend @drkatemarvel.bsky.social, climate change won't make humanity extinct but we can do better than "not extinct". Raise your standards people!
October 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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This from the International Renewable Energy Agency is pretty mindblowing compared to a decade ago

www.irena.org/-/media/File...
October 15, 2025 at 6:39 AM
• The headline alone here is enough 😶‍🌫️

• It is important to note that the article mentions that the "Department of the Interior did not confirm that the project had been cancelled, but said it and the project developers had “agreed to change” approach"
US moves to cancel one of the world’s largest solar farms
Trump administration scraps approval for 6.2 gigawatt Nevada project
on.ft.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Another massive step backwards in the fight against climate change. It goes to show how brittle the belief was in climate change by advertising agencies.

To borrow a quote from the article

“We continue to abide by our climate principles and have not changed our course"
Advertising giants change tune on climate as industry grapples with AI
Marketing and PR groups are latest to follow shifts in politics led by US
on.ft.com
September 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
European electricity is stressed from climate change (1/7)
August 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) is a collection of global leading banks who are committed to financing climate action in order to transition economies to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2050. Barclays, the British multinational bank, (1/6)
August 6, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The EU has recently proposed an adjustment to their regulations to aim for a 90% reduction in emissions by 2040 with the eventual goal of having a completely decarbonized European economy in 2050. Their target for a 55% reduction by 2030 is still intact.

ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
EU\'s Climate Law presents a new way to get to 2040
The European Commission today proposed an amendment to the EU Climate Law, setting a 2040 EU climate target of 90% reduction in net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, compared to 1990 levels, as requeste...
ec.europa.eu
July 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Australia has created the world's first climate visa for the citizens of Tuvalu. It has been predicted that by the year 2100, 90% of this small island nation will be underwater.
What You Need to Know About Australia's World-First Climate Visa
The visa is part of a bilateral treaty between Australia and Tuvalu "in the face of the existential threat posed by climate change."
earth.org
July 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Did you know the “weekend” and working only 8 hours per day used to be considered a radical, liberal idea?

139 years ago today, in Bay View, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 7 workers (including a 13 yo) lost their lives to advance this revolutionary idea.

A 🧵
May 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The Doomsday Glacier, also known as the Thwaites Glacier, is named after the late American glacial geologist Fredrik T. Thwaites. A person who did not even actually visit the glacier itself funnily enough. (1/15)
April 2, 2025 at 5:50 PM