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Nafeez Ahmed is a British investigative journalist, author and academic. He is the creator of the Age of Transformation, a newsletter offering systems-thinking for the global phase-shift.

Nafeez Ahmed

May 09 2023

The hidden climate bomb: carbon footprint of world’s armies higher than Russia

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Carbon · Environmental Sustainability

A new analysis of undocumented military carbon emissions estimates that they are equivalent to 85% of all carbon emitted by the world’s passenger cars, reports Nafeez Ahmed.

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The COP28 Agenda is a Recipe for Economic Armageddon: An Open Letter to Sultan Al Jaber, UAE President of COP28

Nafeez Ahmed

Mar 27 2023

The COP28 Agenda is a Recipe for Economic Armageddon: An Open Letter to Sultan Al Jaber, UAE President of COP28

Energy Transition

The world has a problem: Big Oil’s hijacking of the climate action narrative. The power of the legacy energy industry means that mountains of flawed and backwards thinking – much of which contributed to the climate crisis – are preventing major institutions from recognising the most transformative pathways forward. It’s also exposing them to gigantic financial risks which are about to unfold in the next few years. I decided to write directly to Sultan Al Jaber, the UAE President of the upcoming United Nations COP28 climate summit, to provide them with an economic and technological reality-check. Here’s my open letter:

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Nafeez Ahmed

Mar 27 2023