
Hannah Ritchie
Deputy Editor at Our World in Data
Deputy Editor @OurWorldinData / Researcher at @UniofOxford / Honorary Fellow at @EdinburghUni @EdCentreCC / Not the End of the World: https://t.co/FoINhggvoR
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1 week ago |
bigthink.com | Hannah Ritchie
HANNAH RITCHIE: For me personally, I tend to think that the 1.5 degree target is no longer feasible. I think the key point is that doesn't mean game over. For every increment of warming, the risk of climate change increase. So that means that we need to fight for 1.6, and 1.7 and 1.8, because it reduces the risks and impacts of climate change. - [Narrator] Are the goals set by the Paris Agreement still achievable?
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3 weeks ago |
sustainabilitybynumbers.com | Hannah Ritchie
Driving a mile in an electric car uses around one-third of the energy than driving a mile in a petrol one. As a result, it’s usually cheaper to run and fuel an electric car. I’ve written about this before. A remaining hurdle for electric cars has been their higher upfront costs. If people don’t have the money for the car in the first place, it doesn’t matter how low the running costs are.
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3 weeks ago |
ourworldindata.org | Hannah Ritchie
China is often the poster child for rapid reductions in poverty, and for good reason: in the early 1980s, over 90% of its population lived in extreme poverty, but by the early 2020s, that number had dropped to nearly zero. Some people assume that China is the only reason global extreme poverty has declined. But that’s wrong: many other countries have seen dramatic reductions in poverty. Indonesia is one clear example; it’s shown alongside China on the chart.
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3 weeks ago |
sbs.com.au | Hannah Ritchie
Senator Cory Booker made history overnight when he spoke on the United States Senate floor for a record-breaking 24 hours straight to protest Donald Trump's presidency. Since taking office, Trump has defied constitutional norms by ignoring Congress, defying court orders, and unilaterally implementing a string of policies on everything from immigration to foreign policy.
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3 weeks ago |
ourworldindata.org | Hannah Ritchie
The HIV epidemic — which started in the early 1980s and continued into the 1990s — has had lasting impacts that continue today. Almost one million people still die from HIV/AIDS every year globally. However, some countries were hit much harder than others. In the chart, you can see the share of all deaths in a given year that were caused by HIV/AIDS in four countries in Sub-Saharan Africa that were badly affected.
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RT @vintagebooks: Not The End of the World @_HannahRitchie's radically hopeful, bestselling book is out in paperback today! We took to th…

📚🇬🇧 Very happy to see my book coming out in paperback in the UK today! It looks at 7 of our big environmental problems (not just climate) and charts the journey of how we got here, progress that has been made (yes, there has been some) and importantly, what we need to do next. https://t.co/aWNX8gVJdM

Excited to be starting on a new project this week – focused on clean energy & dismantling delays in tackling climate change ☀️💨 I’ll be working on that in addition to my full-time roles, so I'll be away from here for a bit. See you on the other side! Keep decarbonising!