A new study in Scientific Reports says we need to pick up the pace when it comes to trading meat for plant-based options. According to the analysis, in order for the food system to make the emissions reductions necessary to hold global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees C, we’d need to replace all animal products with alternatives by 2050. New(ish) to mock meat? Here are some recipe ideas to get you started.
Nearly 120 people have died in disastrous flash flooding in Texas, raising discussions about the role of human-caused climate change in worsening flooding. Researchers at ClimaMeter have already connected the dots, noting that natural variability alone can’t explain the intensity of the events. If you want to help those impacted by the floods, the Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country is raising funds for relief and rebuilding.
Twenty companies that make a lot of noise about their sustainability efforts are obstructing climate policy, according to a new report from ClimateVoice. Many of the outfits belong to trade organizations with a history of advocating against climate policies, such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable. Heated reached out to five offenders that have made the most-vociferous public climate commitments—including Microsoft, Uber, and Johnson & Johnson—to ask them to respond to the report. Their answer? 🦗
Pope Leo XIV celebrated the first Care of Creation Mass on July 9, adding the green ceremony to the playbook of masses for the Catholic Church. “We must also pray for the conversion of many people, both inside and outside the Church, who still do not recognize the urgency of caring for our common home,” he said at the service at the Laudato Si’ Village near Rome.
The Green Climate Fund, the world’s largest climate adaptation and mitigation financing program, approved $1.225 billion for new and urgently-needed projects around the globe. This cash, which is the group’s largest amount to date, will mainly target climate-vulnerable countries and features the org’s first set of single-country projects, including efforts to reduce desertification in Mauritania.
