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Laurie Laybourn @laurielaybourn.bsky.social · 1d

Episode 2 of @overshootpod.bsky.social is out!

I ask: who’s going to clean up the mess?

We hear the story of how climate plans are dependent on one big idea

But it might not even work, and we didn’t vote for it

And it all started in Swedish paper mills...

🎧👇
open.spotify.com/episode/49H1...

Episode 2: Carbon Suckers

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Laurie Laybourn @laurielaybourn.bsky.social · 1d

No worries! Direct Apple link here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...

Overshoot: Navigating a world beyond 1.5°C

Science Podcast · In 2015, the world agreed to limit global heating to 1.5°C. Ten years later, temperatures are spiralling beyond this and climate chaos is wreaking havoc across the globe. How did w...

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Laurie Laybourn @laurielaybourn.bsky.social · 2d

For 10 years, the world's been warned about overshooting 1.5°C

It's now happening

So, does that mean the world is doomed...?

Or can it be saved very quickly?

Tune in to episode 1 of Overshoot: Navigating a world beyond 1.5°C👇

Available on all major platforms
www.overshootpod.com/part-1-uncha...

Part 1: Uncharted Territory

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Laurie Laybourn @laurielaybourn.bsky.social · 4d

Apple? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

Overshoot: Navigating a world beyond 1.5°C

Documentary Podcast · In 2015, the world agreed to limit global heating to 1.5°C. Ten years later, temperatures are spiralling beyond this and climate chaos is wreaking havoc across the globe. How d...

podcasts.apple.com

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Laurie Laybourn @laurielaybourn.bsky.social · 6d

“An essential guide to a critical issue. Please tune in.”

- @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Listen to the trailer on overshootpod.com and follow @overshootpod.bsky.social

Episode 1 coming soon

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Laurie Laybourn @laurielaybourn.bsky.social · 6d

Follow @overshootpod.bsky.social to catch all the upcoming episodes and bonus essays

Laurie Laybourn @laurielaybourn.bsky.social · 7d

The world missed its goal for tackling climate change

What happens next?

That's the question I'm asking in a new documentary series

We uncover the fantasies that brought us here and meet the people with ideas to navigate what's next

Listen to the trailer👇

open.spotify.com/episode/2ICK...

Overshoot: a new podcast about a world beyond 1.5°C – trailer

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Laurie Laybourn @laurielaybourn.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks, Dave! Happy to chat about it

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 7d

This new podcast, Overshoot, promises to be both vital and fascinating, given that it's from @laurielaybourn.bsky.social

Strategic Climate Risks Initiative @climate-risk.bsky.social · 7d

The world missed its goal for tackling climate change. What happens next?

Ten years after agreeing to limit global heating to 1.5°C, the world is overshooting.

How do we navigate what comes next?

Welcome to Overshoot.

Listen to the trailer now 👇

open.spotify.com/episode/2ICK...

Overshoot: a new podcast about a world beyond 1.5°C – trailer

open.spotify.com

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Laurie Laybourn @laurielaybourn.bsky.social · 7d

The world missed its goal for tackling climate change

What happens next?

That's the question I'm asking in a new documentary series

We uncover the fantasies that brought us here and meet the people with ideas to navigate what's next

Listen to the trailer👇

open.spotify.com/episode/2ICK...

Overshoot: a new podcast about a world beyond 1.5°C – trailer

open.spotify.com

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Joeri Rogelj @joerirogelj.bsky.social · Sep 3

NEW STUDY: How much CO2 can we safely store in geological formations?

In a new @nature.com study, we cross-check established academic and industry estimates with various risk factors.

We find a prudent geological CO2 storage limit that is about 10x smaller. /1

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University of Exeter News @uniofexeternews.bsky.social · Jun 24

Our climate experts will be at this year's #Glastonbury festival, with Professor @richardabetts.bsky.social and @laurielaybourn.bsky.social both appearing at the Speakers' Forum in the Green Fields area.

news.exeter.ac.uk/university/e...

Exeter climate experts to speak at Glastonbury

Two Exeter climate experts will speak at this year’s Glastonbury Festival.

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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · May 15

New film 'Systems Update: rebooting our future'
With:
Danise Baden
Alice Bell
@richardabetts.bsky.social
Manda Brookman
Kathryn Brown
Dylan Hamilton
@jasonhickel.bsky.social
Farhana Jamin
@laurielaybourn.bsky.social
Col McCail
Leo Murray
Dylan Plummer
Max Wakefield
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub5I...

System Update | Rebooting Our Future

YouTube video by Global Documentary

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Faculty of Public Health @fphuk.bsky.social · May 9

We are entering a new climate reality affecting us beyond the immediate impacts. As a society we need to develop certain capabilities that have been underdeveloped, including:

- Situational awareness
- Resilience
- Speed

@laurielaybourn.bsky.social (Executive Director, @climate-risk.bsky.social)

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Laurie Laybourn @laurielaybourn.bsky.social · Apr 30

Today @thecccuk.bsky.social releases its assessment on UK climate adaptation

It shows a dangerous apathy to systemic risks

E.g.; "there aren’t enough indicators to assess overall progress accurately" on becoming more resilient to systemic risks in the food system

www.theccc.org.uk/publication/...

Progress in adapting to climate change: 2025 report to Parliament - Climate Change Committee

Footnotes have been removed from the HTML version of this report. For the footnoted version of this report,…

www.theccc.org.uk

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Laurie Laybourn @laurielaybourn.bsky.social · Apr 24

“Our security depends as much on tanks as it does on energy stability and an affordable supply. Whether or not you think the world is a more dangerous place, you can still improve the security of your society through renewables.”

It was great talking with @wsj.com

www.wsj.com/articles/sus...

Sustainability Investors Eye Defense Stocks as Geopolitical Tensions Rise

In a fast-changing world amid the onset of tariffs and a pushback against green initiatives, some renewables-focused companies are forging new relationships.

www.wsj.com

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Laurie Laybourn @laurielaybourn.bsky.social · Apr 24

Essential reading👇

The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · Apr 23

LAUNCHING…. The first issue of our new journal – now available to pre-order on The BREAK—DOWN website 👇

linktr.ee/breakdownradio

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Laurie Laybourn @laurielaybourn.bsky.social · Apr 23

I'm delighted to be speaking at the Bloomberg Sustainable Business Summit in London on 26 June.

Join me to explore whether we need a new 'North Star' for climate change in light of the increasing overshoot of the 1.5C global goal.

Learn more and sign up👇

events.bloomberglive.com/sustainable-...

Bloomberg Sustainable Business Summit London 2025

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Laurie Laybourn @laurielaybourn.bsky.social · Apr 11

The Q is whether institutional risk assessments (which only partly draw on climate modelling) will be improved. Eg in finance, these also rely on the consultant’s black box modelling, academic models, qual stuff. Then the Q is whether an assessment that includes, say, AMOC risk would be published

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · Apr 4

1/ The view from our bedroom window earlier this week was the eerie sight of a blaze across Garth Hill, South Wales.

The weather conditions preceding the fire were extremely dry leaving the grass & bracken to turn to tinder.

Here's a 🧵putting this fire context...

(Photo credit: Ryan Davies)

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Laurie Laybourn @laurielaybourn.bsky.social · Apr 10

Will climate risk assessment actually be improved?

We need it: eg, pension funds think 4C will shave ~1% off assets

But even if assessments were improved, there might be a material disincentive to disclose

Are we in a 'delayed disclosure trap'?
strategicclimaterisks.substack.com/p/are-we-in-...

Are we in a ‘delayed disclosure trap’?

The risk that better institutional climate risk assessments will not be done

strategicclimaterisks.substack.com

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Inside Track @insidetrackuk.bsky.social · Apr 4

From @businessgreen.bsky.social this morning:

'The somewhat secretive Inside Track went public today with the publication of a nine page memo to investors from an anonymous group of over 20 senior executives from across the food industry.'

1/2 cont.

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Laurie Laybourn @laurielaybourn.bsky.social · Apr 4

“It is widely understood that current [climate risk] assessments [on pension investments] may not be credible," said British Business Bank's Leandros Kalisperas, "but the question is, what is better than what we have, and how can it be implemented?”
www.pensionsage.com/pa/Current-c...

PLSA IC 2025: Current climate risk assessments ‘may not be credible’

Current climate risk assessments on pension investments “may not be credible,” according to British Business Bank chief investment officer, Leandros Kalisperas

www.pensionsage.com

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Laurie Laybourn @laurielaybourn.bsky.social · Apr 3

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · Apr 2

Hope @davidho.bsky.social doesn't mind me quoting him but I spotlight his take as an excellent way of thinking about what happened in the Senate.

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Laurie Laybourn @laurielaybourn.bsky.social · Apr 1

That's right! The world is currently heading on a 3C+ future (at the very least). Flawed institutional risk assessments are offering cover to financial institutions employing the fiction that financial markets can be in anyway stable in a 3C+ world (and in doing so justify continued fossil use)

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