Last year, Canada’s wildfires unleashed a staggering 640 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere —more than any country except China, the US, and India by NASA Earth via The Independent bit.ly/3MwcQ6Y Swiss Re GHGSAT GHG Protocol Climate Connections UN Climate Change

How Air Conditioning Took Over the American Office bloom.bg/4cUDJw1 Swiss Re National Association of Insurance Commissioners Elizabeth Kolbert Fiona Harvey Anders Wijkman Cliffton Mandola U.S. Mayors The Aspen Institute WRI Climate #LeadershipMatters

US climate envoy John Podesta is expected to visit China for three days from Wednesday to “bridge gaps on issues such as #climate #finance” with his counterpart Liu Zhenmin via Reuters and Carbon Brief bit.ly/4gdtnuc Peggy Liu Tom Kerr ICLEI C40 Cities

Home insurance prices rocket in the UK. The backdrop is soaring payouts linked to adverse weather, with the Association of British Insurers flagging that claims for weather-related damage to homes hit £144m in the second quarter of this year via The Guardian

Dangerously hot’ weather roasts US west as brutal summer continues via The Guardian bit.ly/3z81pPO The Aspen Institute SOCAP Global World Resources Institute U.S. Mayors Svante Axelsson

Mark and Spencer's M&S removes more than two million additional pieces of plastic packaging via edie bit.ly/3XcFf6Q Co-op Tesco Sainsbury's Morrisons @LidlGB Clean Air in London #LondonNetworker Svante Axelsson Alliance To End Plastic Waste EARTHDAY.ORG

Carbon capture projects for waste plants in London and Italy move forward via edie bit.ly/3Z8aiDx Defra UK Pierre Schellekens Stockholm Exergi Anders Egelrud Energy Cities Covenant of Mayors - Europe ICLEI Europe Eurelectric World Resources Institute International Energy Agency Climate Group #LeadershipMatters

Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Salesforce are collaborating on nature-based carbon removal efforts, including reforestation and revegetation. However, these methods are more vulnerable compared to others. bit.ly/4ef7mt9 We Don't Have Time Fridays For Future #reforestation

The @NYTimes "Announcing the 2024 Climate Forward Speaker Lineup". Nope, your eyes aren't deceiving you. That's Kevin Roberts, head of #Project2025 nytco.com/press/2024-cli…

Understanding the Role of Carbon Dioxide Removal in Long-term Climate Planning via World Resources Institute bit.ly/3Zgg2em Anders Egelrud Pierre Schellekens ICLEI Europe Eurelectric Energy Cities Octopus Energy International Energy Agency Energy Cities Covenant of Mayors - Europe U.S. Mayors #LeadershipMatters

Investors guided to measure and cut Scope 3 emissions via edie bit.ly/4ef8KvU Why is it so critical to learn and work with Scope 3 and GHG Protocol Visit bit.ly/3vxjmFw to know why! Tetra Pak World Resources Institute Swiss Re We Don't Have Time ICLEI CDP

University funding from fossil fuels slowing switch to #green #energy – report via The Guardian bit.ly/3ZfiQbJ Yale Program on Climate Change Communication Yale Environment 360 Chalmers University of Technology Cambridge University University of Oxford UCLA Lund University We Don't Have Time #LeadershipMatters

Solar farms can combat climate change while supporting wildlife. Developers, biologists, and environmentalists are now using native plants on solar sites, offering animals both food and shelter. bit.ly/3TeFvBd LocalScale We Don't Have Time This person does not exist Fridays For Future

Summer of 2024 was world's hottest on record, EU climate change monitor says. Unless countries urgently reduce their planet-heating emissions, extreme weather "will only become more intense. bit.ly/4dRkzZi Mr. Climate We Don't Have Time Fridays For Future Global Citizen ⭕