The latest threat to food security
By Celia Bergin | Bloomberg Green From tractors stuck in muddy paddocks to raw sewage washing up from clogged waterways, extreme rain and flooding have wreaked havoc on British farmers this year. The soggy and turbulent weather – exacerbated by climate change – has stunted their ability to provide homegrown crops for bread, beer and […]
Bloomberg: Chasing $100 (Carbon removal)
For years, researchers and founders have said $100 per ton is the key target at which using machines to capture carbon from the ambient air becomes cost-competitive. But costs remain stubbornly high and now companies are beginning to move the goalposts, which risks undercutting trust in an industry the world will almost certainly need to limit global warming.
Bloomberg: Nuclear’s last hurrah
Vogtle marks the US country’s biggest nuclear advance this generation, it will be the last reactor built for a long time. Instead, the country is set to do something more prosaic — retrofit existing plants. Big reactors like Vogtle can take a decade or more to build, and none are on the drawing board in the US. The nuclear industry is still hopeful about the next generation of fission technology — small modular reactors that can be produced in a factory and assembled on site — but a series of setbacks mean few are likely to be in service before the end of the decade. It’s a stark contrast from China, which is on track to surpass the US and become the biggest nuclear-powered nation by the end of the decade. The Asian country may add as many as four reactors in 2024, and could soon be approving as many as 10 a year.
Bloomberg: Why older adults are feeling the heat more
When a heat dome shattered temperature records across the Western US and Canada in June 2021, the resulting fatalities exposed a pattern. In Portland, Oregon, and surrounding Multnomah County, 56 of the 72 people who died were aged 60 and up. In British Columbia, people 60-plus accounted for 555 of the 619 fatalities. Just over a year later, a sizzling June, July and August in England caused roughly 2,800 excess deaths among people 65 and older. More than 1,000 of them occurred over four days in late July.
Intense heat waves in recent years offer a stark warning of what’s at stake for humanity. The planet just endured its 12 hottest consecutive months on record, and this summer threatens to be hotter than ever. But those stakes are not experienced equally across age groups. Older adults are more at risk of experiencing dangerous health impacts during periods of intense heat.
“Older adults are one of the populations that we classically see as being more vulnerable to the effects of climate change, specifically to effects of extreme heat,” says Catharina Giudice, an emergency physician and climate change and human health fellow at Harvard’s FXB Center. “As we age, our ability to adapt to heat diminishes.”
How to Minimize Your Exposure to Microplastics
From the New York Times How to Minimize Your Exposure to Microplastics Furniture, clothing and food packaging can all shed tiny particles that can end up in our bodies. By Sarah Sloat June 7, 2024 Matthew Campen, a toxicologist at the University of New Mexico, wasn’t surprised when his team found microplastics in human testicles during […]
EMCC Nordic Mentoring Series
About the It was our ambition to have 10 great speakers in the Mentoring Series and Doug fits that ambition perfectly. After this we will have 3 more, ending with how to combine mentoring projects with tacit knowledge management beginning of September from the go-tkm.org conference. I’m on the expert group and will be joined […]
HEARING: NORWEGIAN STANDARD FOR COACHING
After more than 2 years of working groups, discussions, and committee meetings, one failed attempt, and almost running out of money…finally, the Competencies standard has been released for public consultation. Here is the official link (Norwegian website): http://enquiry.standard.no/Home/Details/10609 Deadline for the hearing is 10 September 2022, so join the EMCC consultation and get the documentation now! We […]
NSC Delivery Standard
As you all know, the Competencies standard was published earlier this year and now the time has come for the next standard. The webinar will be conducted in Norwegian as the standard has only a Norwegian version.
CELEBRATING NSC COMPETENCIES
CELEBRATING NSC COMPETENCIES After three long years and a few conflicting interests, the first standard in Norwegian Standard for Coaching was approved by Standard Norway and is now available to the general public from https://www.standard.no/nettbutikk/sokeresultater/?search=NS11251 An English version will be available during February. In all of this, I want to salute Standards Norway for putting up […]
NSC HEARING: DELIVERY STANDARD
As you all know, the Competencies standard was published earlier this year and now the time has come for the next standard. The webinar will be conducted in Norwegian as the standard has only a Norwegian version.