November 1, 2024
MEERTALK November 2024
Should we attend COPs given their failure to deliver on global emissions reductions, as well as a wide range of issues relating to the just transition? What are the current and emerging themes that we are looking for at current COPs? What will be my range of focus at COP29?
Nick Breeze is a UK climate change and wine journalist/author and host of the ClimateGenn podcast that interviews experts on climate related topics. The podcast focuses on how we deal with the consequences of political failure to make structural policies to deal with climate breakdown and approaches to adaptation, resilience and intervention.
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MEERTALK February 2024
The Emperor's New Climate Scenarios
Sandy Trust explains why commonly used models in financial services are underestimating climate risk, presenting the findings of a collaborative research paper between actuaries and leading climate scientists ‘The Emperor’s New Climate Scenarios’, in a talk that will be in turns absurd, scary and hopeful.
February 4, 2024
MEERTALK
Newsletter January 2024
MEER at Gaia Festival at Fergusson College in India
The MEER project in India has been making significant progress lately. The project's preliminary testing is now complete, and the data collected so far has shown some excellent results.
January 31, 2024
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Introduction to Dr. Ye Tao and MEER
In this introductory episode, we introduce Dr. Ye Tao, formerly of Harvard's Rowland Institute, who shares his scientific background and how he unexpectedly found his way into the field of climate science. Dr. Tao explains the breadth of what is at stake in the climate crisis and discusses his motivations for changing career paths and founding the non-profit MEER (Mirrors for Earth's Energy Rebalancing). Additionally, he describes the term climate and addresses some of the criticism and skepticism people encounter when trying to make a difference.
January 20, 2024
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