Back to ThoughtsDecolonising climate change: A quest for environmental justice and equityUbuntu Thoughts / Article / 5 min readOctober 30, 2023 Author Simon Lodge Founder & Strategic Creative Director Without trying to be crass, climate is a hot topic right now. Yet in our haste to alert our slumbering world to the realities the crisis is creating on a daily basis, we seem to …
Back to ThoughtsWhat does the future of our energy security look like in a green transitioning world?Ubuntu Thoughts / Article / 5 min readOctober 16, 2023 Author Simon Lodge Founder & Strategic Creative Director Nestled amidst the revolutionary innovations and startups of Silicon Valley, lies Dr. Sarah Lindholm’s laboratory. In a world heating up over the debate surrounding climate change, it stands more as …
Back to ThoughtsThe integrity gap: Research exposes widespread lack of credibility in net-zero commitmentsUbuntu Thoughts / Article / 5 min readOctober 9, 2023 Author Simon Lodge Founder & Strategic Creative Director Countries worldwide have made ambitious pledges to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, but a report by Net Zero Tracker reveals a significant lack of commitment globally. The report highlights that over 40 percent …
Back to ThoughtsThe oil company that predicted climate changeUbuntu Thoughts / Article / 5 min readJune 9, 2023 Author Simon Lodge Founder & Strategic Creative Director In the late 1970s, scientists and government agencies were beginning to study climate change more seriously. ExxonMobil, a major fossil fuel company, saw the potential disaster this could play for their oil and gas business, and subsequently formed …
Back to ThoughtsWhen indigenous peoples get caught in the middle of corporate and governmental climate strategiesUbuntu Thoughts / Article / 5 min readJune 8, 2023 Author Simon Lodge Founder & Strategic Creative Director The world’s Indigenous leaders at an annual UN summit, have warned that the west’s climate strategy is risking the exploitation of Indigenous territories, resources, and people. As hundreds of Indigenous chiefs, …
Back to Thoughts“Defenders of the Earth”: How Mitzy Cortés and the Futoros Indígenas are combating climate changeUbuntu Thoughts / Article / 4 min readMay 8, 2023 Author Simon Lodge Founder & Strategic Creative Director When I was studying at university just less than a decade ago, climate change was pretty low on the social agenda. Things have changed significantly in recent years, however, as …
Back to ThoughtsThe race to save our planet: UN’s comprehensive climate change report demands urgent actionUbuntu Thoughts / Article / 3 min readMarch 21, 2023 Author Simon Lodge Founder & Strategic Creative Director UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has declared a groundbreaking report on climate change a “survival guide for humanity” and urged all countries to bring forward their net zero plans by a decade. …
Back to ThoughtsTropical forests struggling to recover from deforestation, new research showsUbuntu Thoughts / Article / 4 min readMarch 16, 2023 Author Simon Lodge Founder & Strategic Creative Director New research published in the journal Nature has found that recovering tropical forests are only able to offset a quarter of carbon emissions generated annually by logging, wildfire and land clearing. The study, led by …
Back to ThoughtsCurrent biodiversity loss could lead to total ecosystem collapse, warns studyUbuntu Thoughts / Article / 4 min readMarch 10, 2023 Author Simon Lodge Founder & Strategic Creative Director According to recent research on the greatest mass extinction in Earth’s history, the gradual degradation of wildlife and biodiversity could quickly escalate into a catastrophic collapse of entire ecosystems. The “Great Dying,” a cataclysmic …
Back to ThoughtsIndigenous communities play key role in maintaining the Amazon’s least deforested areasUbuntu Thoughts / Article / 7 min readFebruary 6, 2023 Author Simon Lodge Founder & Strategic Creative Director A recent study published in Nature Sustainability has shed light on the critical role played by Indigenous territories and protected areas in the preservation of forests in the Brazilian Amazon. The study, which …
