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 ThoughtsGood COP, bad COP: The future of climate action looks shakyUbuntu Thoughts / Article / 8 min readNovember 30, 2022 Author Simon Lodge Founder & Strategic Creative Director COP27 has been heralded as arguably the least transparent process seen so far since the formation of the Collation of Parties. Observers — and even some of the delegates — were reported to have …
Back to ThoughtsCOP27: A haven for hypocrisy or an avenue to action?Ubuntu Thoughts / Article / 8 min readNovember 7, 2022 Author Simon Lodge Founder & Strategic Creative Director Author Callum Berry Social & Media Manager COP. Three seemingly innocent letters that have somehow spun more controversy in the past few years than the slew of prime ministers revolving one after another through the …
Back to ThoughtsChina’s going green, but is it fast enough?Ubuntu Thoughts / Article / 6 min readOctober 31, 2022 Author Callum Berry Social & Media Manager Over the past few weeks, climate eyes have been fixed firmly on China — the world’s biggest CO2 emitter — as it held its party congress where President Xi Jinping was confirmed as the party leader for a …
Back to ThoughtsKing Charles III: A King not cool with global warmingUbuntu Thoughts / Article / 8 min readOctober 19, 2022 Author Callum Berry Content & Media Manager No matter what you thought about our former reigning monarch, Elizabeth II, no one could deny that she played the role of impartiality extremely well. The mere thought of the Queen expressing an opinion or political …
The emissions no one seems to like talking about Ubuntu Thoughts / Article / 12 min readJuly 27, 2022 AuthorSimon Lodge Chief of Creative Sustainability Author Simon Lodge Chief of Creative Sustainability When it comes to climate change, the focus tends to be on carbon dioxide. But hot on its heels is methane (CH₄), the second most important greenhouse gas contributing to the climate …
What we can learn from the IPCC’s latest reportUbuntu Thoughts / Article / 13 min read Author Simon Lodge Chief of Creative SustainabilityThe UN’s climate science body has released a major report on ways to curb greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the worst-case warming scenario. This is the last of three instalments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) sixth assessment report. Together, …
