John Beckett

If we take just a fraction of the energy & talent we collectively devote to getting people to click on ads, and invest it in solving the world's most important problems we would make huge leaps forward. Look what has been achieved with the covid-19 vaccine - it's incredible

Apparently it is once again time to bring back the lesson on tariffs from Ferris Bueller

@DrAllyLouks Huge congratulations on a wonderful achievement!

Thrilled to say I passed my viva with no corrections and am officially PhDone.

1/ I’ve been wondering a bunch of things about a potential AMOC collapse: "When will it tip?" "What are the most likely effects?" "Can we stop it?" So I looked for answers in the many scientific papers published on this. Here’s a super plain language thread with what I found.🧵

This October we’ll be out in forests and woodlands gathering acorns and helping share the wonder of these spaces - come join us for an adventure in the trees!🌳 Visit i.mtr.cool/ufkwphfylm to find out more about this year's Acorn Gathering campaign!

@Fingalcoco @EVENTSinFingal Another brilliant event, well done to all who worked so hard to make it a success!

Thank you to everyone who came out to the Howth Maritime & Seafood Festival this weekend and making it an unforgettable event. We can't wait to do it again next year!

Sea level is now 10cm higher than in 1993, and the rise is accelerating. These are super-accurate satellite measurements. climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/se…

This person donated a kidney to a stranger. She says she doesn't feel like a hero, but from my perspective as a recipient of a donated kidney (from @ianbeckett - hat tip!) she very much is. Would you consider it? irishtimes.com/health/your-we…

All you need to know about effectively fighting the climate crisis in one chart: Stop the massive cash and non-cash subsidies for fossil fuels The “profits” of Big Oil are fake: they’re free riders who pollute at will and at zero cost to themselves on.ft.com/4brHxod

Today is Ireland's Earth Overshoot Day As of today, we'll have consumed all the ecological resources that the Earth can regenerate in a single year The other 243 days of this year we're stealing from our own future overshoot.footprintnetwork.org/newsroom/count… #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

I really enjoyed meeting @mrgaryfox for this @EntExperiment podcast - chatting @ChannelSight and @naturetrust_ie and generally putting the world to rights! Listen Now Spotify: spoti.fi/4d3oYZf Apple: apple.co/4b9QwdF

What are you going to tell your kids when they ask what you did about climate change and biodiversity loss? linkedin.com/posts/johnbeck… #EarthDay2024

Fantastic to see this deal done - more of this please! irishtimes.com/environment/20… #conorpass

New Zealand installed cameras on 123 commercial fishing vessels. All of a sudden this happened to self reporting of the vessels: - 6.8x more dolphin catches - 3.5x more albatross interactions - 46% more discards mpi.govt.nz/dmsdocument/61…

Good news, the Science Based Targets initiative now recommends Carbon Removal milestone targets. This is an important development. It is just as unrealistic to wait with CDR as it is to wait with emission reductions (although we of course need a whole lot more of the latter).

Fantastic news

🤩 @Forbes feature for our Head of Sustainability @Shak_Ashley From running @UN sustainability programmes, to leading our #2050Accelerator, Shak talks to the national program's success, govt. buy-in, live pilots underway with our innovation partners ➕ forbes.com/sites/jennifer…

🆓 Ireland has almost 1,000 unpaid Coast Guard on-call 24/7 for search & rescue taskings. 🙏On #InternationalVolunteersDay we want to thank our Howth volunteers who give so much of their time to protect our community from the loss of life on the cliffs, coasts, and at sea.

It was fantastic for the work we do in @naturetrust_ie to be featured on episode 3 of the new 'Heated' show on @rte last night - if you missed it you can catch up on the player: rte.ie/player/series/…

We’ve spent the last few years modelling the future of the Amundsen Sea in West Antarctica, and I regret to inform you that it’s not good news. nature.com/articles/s4155…

It’s green lights all round for our #2050Accelerator folks @wef names cohort Bladebridge in ‘5 smart renewable innovations’ for its wind turbine repurposing dogpatch.click/bladebridge-WEF 🌳 @johnbeckett, program EiR , eyes up €7M to plant new open woodlands: dogpatch.click/2050-EiR-7m