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Marc Kodack
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I have hopped, skipped, and jumped through life making stops in archaeology, sustainability, water and energy security, and most recently, climate change.
Sustainable investment: plateauing or poised for growth?
www.lseg.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:47 AM
State of the Climate in the Arab Region 2024
State of the Climate in the Arab Region 2024
wmo.int
December 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Flexible Data Centers: A Faster, More Affordable Path to Power

Using real utility transmission models and system-level capacity analysis, this reveals how flexible grid connections and bring-your-own capacity can unlock faster, more affordable access to power.
Flexible Data Centers: Research Report
Research by Camus, encoord, & Princeton ZERO Lab shows that flexibility unlocks faster data center interconnections and helps internalize 100% of system costs.
www.camus.energy
December 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Implications of policy-driven transmission expansion for costs, emissions and reliability in the USA
Implications of policy-driven transmission expansion for costs, emissions and reliability in the USA - Nature Energy
Interregional transmission is key to a cost-efficient, reliable and cleaner US grid. Senga et al. find that current legislative proposals can increase reliability while capturing some of the cost and ...
www.nature.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Removing Support for the National Definition of a Zero Emissions Building

The goals that underly the National Definition of a Zero Emissions Building are not consistent with current Administration priorities, and, as a result, DOE no longer supports the definition.
www.govinfo.gov
December 5, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Already a Multi-Trillion-Dollar Market: CEO Guide to Growth in the Green Economy
Already a Multi-Trillion-Dollar Market: CEO Guide to Growth in the Green Economy
Despite recent headlines suggesting the climate transition is stalling, overall growth in green investments has not wavered. Worth over $5 trillion per year – the green economy is the world’s most dyn...
www.weforum.org
December 5, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Breaking the Plastic Wave 2025. An Assessment of the Global System and Strategies for Transformative Change
Breaking the Plastic Wave 2025
Our analysis also finds that plastic is interconnected with other global challenges, and that solving the plastic pollution problem will have broad implications for improving the health of people, the...
www.pew.org
December 5, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Extreme Heat, Gender and Health - A dialogue towards climate resilient adaptation
Extreme Heat, Gender and Health - A dialogue towards climate resilient adaptation
Executive Summary India's rapidly growing cities are becoming dangerous for pregnant women as extreme heat combines with inadequate housing and fragmented health systems to create life-threatening con...
zenodo.org
December 5, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Smart Buys: High-Value Actions for Health Sector Adaptation

The authors offer countries a set of options of adaptable, cost-beneficial actions to strengthen health sector adaptation and resilience in the face of climate change.
Open Knowledge Repository
openknowledge.worldbank.org
December 5, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Projected increase in cooling demand to 2050 in C40 cities
C40 Knowledge Community
www.c40knowledgehub.org
December 5, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Global Cooling Watch 2025

The second edition of UNEP’s Global Cooling Watch Report takes a deep dive into one of the decade’s most urgent challenges: surging heat, soaring cooling demand, and stark inequalities in access.
Global Cooling Watch 2025
The second edition of UNEP’s Global Cooling Watch Report takes a deep dive into one of the decade’s most urgent challenges: surging heat, soaring cooling demand, and stark inequalities in access.  Bui...
www.unep.org
December 5, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Highlights from the extreme heat and agriculture report (FAO/WMO)
Highlights from the extreme heat and agriculture report
This report explores the impact of extreme heat on agricultural producers and on crops, livestock, fisheries and aquaculture, and forests worldwide. Drawing on recent scientific evidence and country c...
openknowledge.fao.org
December 5, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Rising heat, rising risk : policy pathways for regional resilience (Asia/Pacific)
www.unescap.org
December 5, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Abyei

The Abyei Administrative Area, a disputed territory that lies between Sudan and South Sudan, faces complex interconnected challenges.
Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Abyei (2025)
This Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet is focused on Abyei and the series of conflict- and climate-related issues that face the country. The fact sheet offers a range of recommended actions for t...
www.sipri.org
December 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Litigators build toolkit to fight AI data centers
Litigators build toolkit to fight AI data centers
The Trump administration’s plans to advance data centers and the energy to support them are sparking a legal backlash.
www.eenews.net
December 3, 2025 at 2:06 AM
AI and the Power Grid: Where the Rubber Meets the Road
AI and the Power Grid: Where the Rubber Meets the Road | BloombergNEF
A new wave of early-stage data center projects is reshaping US electricity demand – and it’s doing it quickly.
about.bnef.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Trump dismantles programs designed to cut electricity demand
Trump dismantles programs designed to cut electricity demand
Federal energy efficiency programs that once enjoyed bipartisan support are disappearing as data centers ramp up power consumption.
www.eenews.net
December 3, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Who Bears the Burden of Climate Inaction?
www.nber.org
December 2, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Regional aspects of climate change beliefs in the U.S
Regional aspects of climate change beliefs in the U.S
We examine U.S. climate change beliefs and their covariates from a regional perspective. We consider six dimensions of these beliefs, measured using s…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
A climate scientist reflects on 30 years fighting the ‘forces of unreason’
A climate scientist reflects on 30 years fighting the 'forces of unreason'
Thirty years ago, the IPCC agreed on a historic finding: “The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate.”
thebulletin.org
December 1, 2025 at 3:05 AM
New Global Report Highlights Urgent Need for Disaster-Resilient Infrastructure in Mountain Regions
New Global Report Highlights Urgent Need for Disaster-Resilient Infrastructure in Mountain Regions – Mountain Research Initiative MRI
mountainresearchinitiative.org
December 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Environmental Outlook on the Triple Planetary Crisis. Stakes, Evolution and Policy Linkages
Environmental Outlook on the Triple Planetary Crisis
Climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution – the three elements of what is now called the triple planetary crisis – are a growing risk to human health, the environment and the economy. While thes...
www.oecd.org
November 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Solutions Under the Forest. The Tropical Forest Forever Facility’s Potential for Keeping Fossil Fuel in the Ground.
The TFFF and Fossil Fuels - LINGO
LINGO works towards a world without fossil fuels. We identify and develop game changers to address the climate emergency and introduce new framings that help accelerate the fossil endgame and defuse c...
www.leave-it-in-the-ground.org
November 28, 2025 at 2:43 AM