“Last week, I shared dinner with some of the most powerful men and women in the world. It was a gathering of chairmen and CEOs of major European and global companies, titans from the energy, mining and retail sectors, all there to discuss the greatest challenge facing civilisation - climate change. Almost as one, they spoke of the need for governments to take action to reverse global warming and for the carbon to be taken out of the world economy.” Sir David King speaks of business as a force for good in tackling climate change.

The only survivors in the wild of an order of reptiles that scampered with dinosaurs could be wiped out because climate change will turn them all into males.  Modelling showing the likely impact of climate change on the last remaining homes of tuataras showed that the last female could hatch by 2085 for at least one of the two surviving species.

At Tallberg I had the great, great pleasure of hosting a session with Ray Anderson, together with Dianne Dillon-Ridgley and Shailja Patel.  Ray ended our session by asking: “If I own a tree, do I also own the bird on the tree; and if I own the bird on the tree, do I own the water falling on the bird and the air above the bird …… And if I own all of these, then when I cut down the tree that I own, do I own the soil erosion that results, the silting of downstream waters, the mosquitoes now flying overhead”

 The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile, and it can tell us everything about America — except whether we are proud to be Americans.”

Well you have probably figured out it’s an American, and it comes from a while back...

Penguin populations have plummeted at a key breeding colony in Argentina, further fuelling concerns over the impact that climate change and pollution are having on the flightless marine birds.   The world’s warming climate is only one of the penguins’ problems. Factors such as oil pollution, depletion of fish stocks and coastal development in breeding grounds are also threatening their survival.