Alice Larkin

New paper on international catering waste and climate impact | Lois Pennington posted on the topic | LinkedIn Really pleased to share our new paper published today in Waste Management - "Beyond the runway – Quantifying the climate impact of international catering waste" https://lnkd.in/eQzXrTps Eve...

New work published by @loispennington.bsky.social presents a first national-level estimate of the volume and climate impact of the waste generated from international flights....read on... www.linkedin.com/posts/lois-p...

How ‘net zero’ sidelines equity when it comes to flying by @aliceclimate.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

How petrostates succeeded in watering down the world’s plan to cut shipping emissions The UN has agreed to charge ships for the greenhouse gases they emit – but the price is far too low.

"The IMO has well and truly failed the most climate vulnerable" - a new blog about the latest development in tackling greenhouse gas emissions from shipping: theconversation.com/how-petrosta... Sadly an outcome completely at odds with stated ambitions & its 2023 strategy @uomscieng.bsky.social

The Sainsbury Centre and campus buildings of the University of East Anglia (UEA), in Norwich, UK, foregrounded by wildflower meadow

Explore the sessions at our upcoming Critical Decade for Climate Action Conference, this September 📜

Full agenda and registration info: tyndall.ac.uk/events/criti...

Speakers include @goneri76.bsky.social
@neiladger.bsky.social
@aliceclimate.bsky.social

#Tyndall25UEA

How mine water could warm up the UK’s forgotten coal towns Funding gaps, regulatory red tape and a shortage of skilled workers are stalling the UK’s mine-water heating projects.

"The solution is simple but not easy" @jingyi-climate.bsky.social discusses the opportunity of using warm water from disused coal mines to heat homes in areas hit hard with job losses when mines were closed. She addresses barriers to implementation. theconversation.com/how-mine-wat...

The Conversation Weekly A show for curious minds. Join us each week as academic experts tell us about the fascinating discoveries they're making to understand the world, and the big questions they’re still trying to answer. ...

This is a big week for the shipping sector & the IMO; a chance for a whole global sector to agree a carbon price. While waiting on news, have a listen to @theconversation.com's weekly podcast focused on why short-term decarbonisation - thinking 'beyond fuels' - is essential pod.link/1550643487/e...

World's first-ever global emissions tax is on the table at crunch shipping talks Although far from a foregone conclusion, a robust pricing mechanism in the shipping sector would be considered one of the climate deals of the decade.

🛳️ The UN shipping agency is on the cusp of introducing binding regulations to phase out fossil fuel use in global shipping — with the world’s first-ever global emissions levy on the table.

🗣️ "It would be an absolute game-changer."

✍️ Take a look at the full story:

www.cnbc.com/2025/04/09/c...

​A ‘Google maps for the sea’, sails ​and alternative fuels: ​the technologies steering shipping towards ​lower emissions – podcast From sails, to route optimisation and alternative fules, Daniel Precioso and Alice Larkin talk to The Conversation Weekly podcast about strategies to reduce emissions from global shipping.

Did you know 3% of global emissions come from shipping? This is more than the 2.5% from aviation 🚢✈️

💬 Professor @aliceclimate.bsky.social was interviewed by @uk.theconversation.com to explore how shipping emissions can be reduced to meet Paris agreement targets.

theconversation.com/a-google-map...

At a pivotal meeting, the world is set to decide how to cut shipping emissions But some countries are more on board than others.

It's all going on this week at the IMO in discussions on decarbonising shipping; issues include aligning intensity with absolute targets & the thorny issue of putting a price on carbon theconversation.com/at-a-pivotal... @simonclimate.bsky.social @uniofmanchester.bsky.social @uomscieng.bsky.social

The Critical Decade for Climate Action Conference - Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research At our conference on 8-10 September, we will showcase cutting-edge, evidence-based ideas and opportunities for climate action now.

Join The Critical Decade for Climate Action Conference to celebrate 25 years of the Tyndall Centre and evaluate opportunities & challenges for climate action NOW ⏳🌍

📅 8-10 September 📍 UEA, Norwich 💳 Early-bird cost at £350 opens soon

#ClimateResearch #Tyndall25UEA

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Some interesting shifts in language in the CCC's Seventh Carbon Budget report, compared to the Sixth.

- the emphasis on UK "leadership" has almost gone ⬇️
- references to "justice/fairness" have plummeted by 85% ⬇️⬇️⬇️
- references to "households" have skyrocketed by 400% ⬆️⬆️⬆️

A short 🧵

Airport expansion would wipe out carbon savings of government’s clean power plan Claimed growth benefits of expansion don’t stack up and will create major climate damage

statistic of the day:

approving the expansion of Heathrow, Luton and Gatwick airports would wipe out ALL the benefits of the government’s 2030 "clean power" target within five years of expanded operation, according to analysis by the New Economics Foundation (NEF)

neweconomics.org/2025/01/airp....

Well this captures it unfortunately ..."we are not even moving in the right direction, let alone at the required pace".

There isn’t enough ‘sustainable’ aviation fuel to make a dent in our emissions – and there won’t be for years It’s better than regular jet fuel, but beware the hype.

There isn’t enough ‘sustainable’ aviation fuel to make a dent in our emissions – and there won’t be for years, says @benpurvis42.bsky.social

#climatecrisis
theconversation.com/there-isnt-e...

Interesting paper showing how safeguarding planetary boundaries such as freshwater or land system change reduces BECCS potential to close to zero - in contrast to huge potentials generated by IAMs.Picture would be even worse for low conversion efficiency biofuels for transport.

The great climate disconnect [FREE TO READ] New attempts to prolong the fossil fuel era have come at precisely the wrong time

The gap between climate risk and response has never been wider than it is today on.ft.com/3COob0Y

A clear indication of increasing derailment risk theconversation.com/a-doom-loop-...

Why farmers are beginning to take their government to court over climate change How a Swiss lawsuit is recasting agriculture’s role in climate policy.

Lesson for us all: Climate warming has been particularly bad in Switzerland, where “a group of farmers turned to the Swiss courts to force the government to do more to act on climate change before their farms become unviable.”

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Encouraging growth in a sector with such limited opportunity for decarbonisation at present not only ends up cancelling out CO2 reductions made in other sectors, but also flies directly against the 'equity' framing enshrined in the Paris Climate Agreement journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

What would Heathrow third runway mean for pollution, emissions and noise? As UK chancellor backs expansion at London’s biggest airport, we assess possible environmental impacts

What would Heathrow third runway mean for carbon emissions, air pollution, and noise?

More, more, more ...

Analysis by me
#climatecrisis
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And if this isn't sufficiently worrying, don't forget atmospheric CO2 concentrations over the past 800,000 years ...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Beyond fuel: the case for a wider perspective on shipping and climate change

⚓ The international #shipping sector must shift emphasis to short-term energy efficiency and #emission reduction over fuel and 2050 targets in order to play its part in meeting Paris Agreement goals, argue @simonclimate.bsky.social, @aliceclimate.bsky.social & Jonathan Kohler

Read more⬇️

2/2 As the IMO is yet to align its Carbon Intensity Target with its revised 2030 & 2040 absolute targets, there remains a "fundamental disconnect" in its decarb strategy that needs urgent attention.Open access link here tinyurl.com/BeyondFuel2 (system needs a little patience but loads eventually!)

Beyond fuel: the case for a wider perspective on shipping and climate change In July 2023, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) set a new climate change strategy for the international shipping sector. Critically, this strategy now includes ‘checkpoint’ and ‘strive’...

1/2 We are thinking about maritime decarbonisation but beyond alternative fuels, to deliver CO2 cuts in the near-term. See here for why we think a new emphasis on innovation focused on *existing* ships/maritime infrastructure is essential tinyurl.com/BeyondFuel @imohq.bsky.social

New article – Met Office: Atmospheric CO2 rise now exceeding IPCC 1.5C pathways

✍️ By @richardabetts.bsky.social from @metoffice.bsky.social

Read here ⬇️
https://buff.ly/4hjNiHm

This seems like good news but isnt it problematic to characterise science that illustrates woefully inadequate mitigation efforts, as ‘doomsday’ stories?To constructively engage stakeholders with the scale of what’s needed, we need honesty about where we are(as per @richardabetts.bsky.social report)

A better world is possible

Exclusive: Norway’s Equinor Forced to Withdraw Key Carbon Capture Claim This story is the tenth part of a DeSmog series on carbon capture and was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. Equinor has retracted a claim that it stores about a million tonnes of ca...

This post makes a huge "Gotcha" out of an uncaught error on a webpage. The idea that a comms person writing the web page used old data is totally believable. The word "static", simply means that the webpage was written manually, and isn't connected dynamically to a data source. 1/3

Insane heat in the Mozambique Channel

Juan de Nova Island unbelievable
MINIMUM 30.3
HOTTEST NIGHT IN HISTORY OF FRENCH SOUTHERN TERRITORIES (beaten,rebeaten,re-re-re-re... beaten)

More High Tmins records in SOUTH AFRICA
23.5 Babanango
19.9 Lady Gray

More records coming....

Chart showing timescale for return on investment in emissions abatement is on the order of a century whereas the timescale for return on investment in adaptation is about a decade or two.

We reduce emissions to reduce long-term damage from climate change.

We adapt to reduce near-term damage from climate change.

New open access paper discussing how emissions mitigation and climate adaptation are complementary approaches to reducing climate damage:

www.nature.com/articles/s43...