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March 2024
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
How we frame issues matters. Climate change may well be an environmental problem, but it is the social implications that threaten to undo us first. The impacts of climate change are happening faster than anticipated, in places that were not foreseen, and in ways that challenge our understanding.
As the carbon budget for staying within the 1.5-degree limit of warming shrinks, competition is increasing, and so are social tensions. We will not address the environmental problems facing us without attending to these tensions and the vast inequalities that are currently baked into our societal structures.
Technical solutions are not enough. That’s why at the Institute, we focus on where the environment and society intersect. We are working to eliminate carbon inequality and ensure wellbeing for all within ecological limits.
Join us.
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Dr. Lewis Akenji
Managing Director
Hot or Cool Institute
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Laugh often and out loud. It's healing and contagious.
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At the start of 2024, we take the opportunity to reflect on what we have achieved and the work that is yet to be done. Looking back at 2023 and the past 3 years since the Hot or Cool Institute was founded, it's been a wild ride.
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Aviation could be responsible for a quarter of global emissions by 2050 if current growth rates continue. Technological solutions are simply insufficient to cut emissions to the level required; demand reduction is critical.
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Managing Director of the Hot or Cool Institute, Dr. Lewis Akenji, sat down with Earth4All to chat economic transformation, creating a sustainable civilisation, and the need to redefine what matters.
Earth4All is a vibrant collective of leading economic thinkers, scientists, and advocates, convened by The Club of Rome, the BI Norwegian Business School, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the Stockholm Resilience Centre.
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Explore our flagship reports
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In a world with a limited and fast-shrinking global carbon budget, coupled with vast inequalities, how do we allocate the remaining carbon allowance in a manner that is fair while drastically decreasing our footprints within a limited time frame to avoid irreversible ecological damage?
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Current trends in fashion consumption, in particular fast fashion, cannot be maintained if we aim to achieve a fair and just transition to climate neutrality. This report links changes in fashion lifestyles to measurable impacts on climate change, in line with the 1.5-degree target of the Paris Agreement.
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March 18-22: Climate Action Week for Fashion & Apparel
Hot or Cool Programme Lead Luca Coscieme will present on March 22nd.
Get the details here.
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SET @ the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue
19 March 2024
The SET Tech Festival 2024 is a one day event that brings together a global network of innovators shaping the future of energy.
Dr. Lewis Akenji, Managing Director of Hot or Cool will be presenting.
Register Now!
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