Laura Lee Dooley

New landmark EAT-Lancet Commission warns food systems breach planetary limits - EAT The 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission today released its Report on Healthy, Sustainable, and Just Food Systems, presenting the most comprehensive global scientific evaluation of food systems to date.

The new EAT–Lancet report warns that we need a global food transformation: more plants, less waste, fairer systems.

If food can break the planet, it can also help heal it. 💚
🔗 eatforum.org/update/eat-l...
#FoodSystems #ClimateCrisis #PlanetaryHealth

I LOVE the Rurouni Kenshin movies (and anime!). Happy to meet another fan.

YouTube video by World Resources Institute The Debate Over Alternative Aviation Fuels: WRI's Stories to Watch 2025

Should we power airplanes with food crops?

Check out our new video, part of @worldresources.bsky.social’s Stories to Watch 2025 series, where I break down how crop-based biofuels are on the front line of the discussion about alternative aviation fuels and what gets to count as “sustainable.”

Growing food crops under solar panels is called Agrivoltaics. Lots of crops benefit from growing underneath them. I know in Maine they were piloting wild blueberries, and in Massachusetts cranberries. You can also graze animals like sheep or if you mount them high cows (not goats - they climb)

Fact-checking what Trump said about climate change during the UN General Assembly President Donald Trump spent a considerable amount of his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday disparaging renewable energy sources.

Facts matter.

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#ClimateChange #ClimateAction #ClimateWeekNYC #UNGA #UNGA2025

Tribal Youth Step Up to Fight Wildfires in the American West The Lomakatasi Restoration Project works to restore forest health and fight wildfires in the American West. In turn, it's providing jobs to tribal youth.

Across the American West, communities face a rising threat from catastrophic wildfire.

Lomakatsi Restoration Project's model shows what’s possible when Native leadership, workforce development and #ForestRestoration intersect.

www.wri.org/insights/tri...

#Cities4Forests #Wildfires #Megafires

Europe ‘being bullied’ over environmental action Activist and former vice president Al Gore accused the Trump administration of “bullying” countries to abandon their climate-related policies, by linking…

A roundup of recent news stories highlighting #ClimateAction challenges.

‘All action is local’: Clark to reestablish Sustainability and Climate Committee | ClarkU News Clark University has announced a major step toward ensuring the campus takes the necessary actions to assert its commitment to sustainability and stewardship of the environment.

“We need to show the world that we care about these issues in a really intimate way.”

www.clarku.edu/news/2025/09...
#ClimateAction

Food Waste and the Climate “We should not live in a world where people go hungry and food goes to waste.'

On the morning of Monday, September 22, Food Tank will host the “ #ClimateAction: A Food Waste Breakthrough” Summit during #ClimateWeekNYC.

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Forbes Sustainability Leaders 2025: Sustainability Across Sectors Forbes Sustainability Leaders List highlights global leaders combating the climate crisis across a range of sectors. See who made the list.

"Forbes Sustainability Leaders 2025" highlights global leaders, including entrepreneurs, investors, activists, and scientists, who are working to combat the climate crisis, including Wanjira Mathai, David Attenborough, Wendy Schmidt, and Kongjian Yu.

www.forbes.com/sites/elisab...

#ClimateAction

Meet The Local Heroes Leading The Way On Climate Action In 2025 These five individuals are focused on climate-related impact in their local communities, from the cloud forests of the Andes to the deserts of Egypt.

Solving the climate crisis and ensuring a livable planet for future generations is a colossal task that requires an all-hands-on-board effort. Here are local leaders who may have a smaller footprint, but they have successfully deployed smart solutions.

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#ClimateAction

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Join the online unveiling of a powerful new #AI system that will transform how we see and shape our planet — making it easier than ever to track change, guide action, and measure impact.

Today at 3:00pm ET
Register now: bit.ly/47Hvh4m

#AIForGood #gnw2025

www.karboneconomics.com is a student-powered journal that explores how economics drives real-world change—from climate policy to financial systems, inequality, and innovation.

Karbon Economics features essays, explainers and soon-to-be-published student research that explores “how economic forces shape our world—from the #ClimateCrisis and carbon markets to inequality, trade and development”—including stories of people living on the front lines of climate catastrophes.

The amalgamation of #AI with citizen science holds immense power in addressing sustainability challenges with solutions that bring together
* data accuracy,
* predictive analytics,
* real-time monitoring and
* integrated environmental intelligence.

#ClimateAction #AIForGood

It's been a bleak few weeks for climate news. So this week we ask: are there still reasons to be optimistic? And what will it take to turn urgency into real change? With Ani DasGupta of @worldresources.bsky.social
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Underestimating support for climate action limits political decision making, study says Research reveals huge disparity between perceived and actual willingness of public to contribute to fixing climate

Research reveals huge disparity between perceived and actual willingness of public to contribute to fixing climate

- "[Politicians] have more public support than they may realise"

#climatecrisis #89percent
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AI Can Help or Harm the Planet. It's Up to Us. AI doesn't have to be bad for the planet. It can help us fight climate change, protect nature and improve lives — but only if it's used with care.

"AI will not build a world where people, nature and climate thrive together. People will. And those people, from community leaders to wise companies to dedicated civil servants, will use technology, and indeed AI, to do so." ~ Evan Tachovsky

www.wri.org/insights/ai-...

#AIforGood

Action on climate change faces new threat: The doomers who think it's too late to act "Doom-mongering convinces many would-be climate advocates that climate action is a hopeless cause. But the blistering attacks against mainstream climate science and scientists advance an agenda of div...

"Action on climate change faces new threat: The doomers who think it's too late to act" | An excerpt from our @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & my) new book #ScienceUnderSiege, via @livescience.com: www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

Climate Action Has a Messaging Problem Climate action can bring real, immediate benefits for people, nature and economies. But we don't talk about it that way — and that's a problem.

"At a time of fractured geopolitics, mounting climate impacts and rising inequality, it's more important than ever that we learn from initiatives that are already working." ~ Ani Dasgupta

www.wri.org/insights/reb...

#ClimateAction #WhatsPossible #NewGlobalPossible

Climate Change - The Facts After one of the hottest years on record, Sir David Attenborough looks at the science of climate change and potential solutions to this global threat.

Climate Change - The Facts is available on @BBC iPlayer.

Presented by the legend David Attenborough.

It looks like a great place to start for anyone new to this topic.
#climate #ClimateEmergency

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Learn more about Eunice Newton Foote. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

#ClimateScience #ClimateChange #GreenhouseEffect #GlobalWarming #WomenInScience

Ani Dasgupta talked to 100 climate experts. He came away optimistic. » Yale Climate Connections In his new book, ‘The New Global Possible,’ Dasgupta shares what he learned from talking with dozens of climate luminaries and how that can reshape how we think about climate action.

Is effective action on climate change feasible in a political atmosphere overheated by a pandemic, wars, zealous partisanship, and now tariffs?

Yes, argues Ani Dasgupta.

yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/09/ani-dasgupta-talked-to-100-climate-experts-he-came-away-optimistic/
#NewGlobalPossible

Finally, a path to rebuilding optimism in the age of the climate crisis.

The #NewGlobalPossible by Ani Dasgupta, President & CEO of @worldresources.bsky.social, explores how to
orchestrate change at speed and scale.

➡️ go.wri.org/new-global-p...
#ClimateAction

Can we sustain #ClimateAction as multilateralism wanes?
Use innovation to protect nature?
Dismantle entrenched power to build a clean, resilient economy?

#NewGlobalPossible shows hope via stories of unlikely alliances, bold collaboration, and lessons from failure.

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What you need to know about AI and climate change » Yale Climate Connections We take a hard look at the good, the bad, and the whoa of AI.

AI + Climate:
✅ Good - Forecasts fires, droughts, heatwaves
⚠️ Bad - Drains energy + water via data centers
🚨 Whoa - Needs standards & carbon tracking now

yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/09/what...

#AIforGood #ClimateTech #SustainableAI

Variations in Climate Change Belief Systems Across 110 Geographic Areas - Yale Program on Climate Change Communication We are pleased to announce the publication of a new article, “Variations in Climate Change Belief Systems Across 110 Geographic Areas” in Nature Climate Change. Think of climate change beliefs like tr...

Climate action depends not just on what people believe—but how they believe it.

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#ClimateAction #ClimateBeliefs #IPCC #ScienceOfBelief

Antarctica is in extreme peril New research catalogs several “abrupt changes,” like a precipitous loss of sea ice, unfolding in Antarctica with dire implications for us all.

The loss of winter sea ice in Antarctica over just the past decade is similar to what the Arctic has lost over the last 46 years.

This extraordinary decline is kicking off a climatic feedback loop.

grist.org/climate/anta...

This is a great cartoon of the illogical narratives I hear refuting climate warming. As I have said many times, it's not "either/or" when it comes to natural variability and human contributions, it's "both/and." Grass grows naturally and it grows differently when you fertilize the lawn....