Price elasticity in sustainable buying
Between what people say they'd pay for sustainable energy and what they actually do, there's a consistent gap - and the only countries closing it focus on the economics.
Topic
climate
A collection of 3 issues
The data problems in sustainability
We have mountains of data on sustainability. Yet problems persist. The pattern I see is that 80-90% of our work tackles data problems, not implementing actual solutions. This one's about why I think we're stuck solving the old problems, and what needs to change.
Solar capacity - sticky graphs
This, is my friend Mentor’s favourite graph:
It shows that between the years 2006 and 2018, when the International Energy Agency (IEA) made projections about the future capacity of photovoltaic cells (PVs) - solar panels - in their report ‘World Energy Outlook’, they were, year after year, very wrong.