Simon Donner

@simondonner
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Climate scientist, writer, speaker, listener. Works at UBC, contributes to the IPCC, member of Canada's Net-Zero Advisory Body. Sorry for dragging sand into the house.
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Simon DonnerOct 11, 2023

Very excited to share the trailer for "Pacific Voices", our new podcast sharing Pacific Islands perspectives on climate change!

The ten episodes are based on interviews with local friends and youth leaders, recorded in-person in Kiribati and Fiji. Check it out!

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/pacific-voices/id1710813534
Amazon: https://music.amazon.ca/podcasts/800604de-339c-4015-9f07-9d1c45f3fb69/pacific-voices
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/17Nc11JNSTNP1F6ODq8Ex0?si=4d39fff910974c96&nd=1

‎Pacific Voices on Apple Podcasts

‎Society & Culture · 2023

Apple Podcasts
Simon DonnerSep 19, 2023
@[email protected] the main message of the IPCC report is that every degree matters, every action matters. Avoiding 2 degrees would be ideal, but 2.1 is still better than 2.2
Show threadSimon DonnerSep 19, 2023
@clayrosenthal it is changing, but not fast enough. The big banks are stuck in old paradigms.
Simon DonnerSep 19, 2023
My mother dislikes Mother's Day because she feels mothers should be appreciated every day of the year. That's how I feel about Climate Week. It needs to be every week.
Simon DonnerSep 12, 2023
In case you missed this important work from my UBC colleague Jiaying Zhao and others: Canada study debunks stereotypes of homeless people’s spending habits https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/30/canada-study-homeless-money-spending?CMP=share_btn_tw
Canada study debunks stereotypes of homeless people’s spending habits

Researchers find homeless people more likely to spend lump sum on housing and food and not ‘temptation goods’ such as alcohol

The Guardian
Simon DonnerSep 12, 2023

Renewables are, across the board, cheaper or cost-competitive with fossil fuels. If you told someone 30 years ago that this would happen, they'd say you were crazy.

Via: https://www.irena.org/Publications/2023/Aug/Renewable-Power-Generation-Costs-in-2022

Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2022

IRENA’s global renewable power generation costs study shows that the competitiveness of renewables continued to improve despite rising materials and equipment costs in 2022.

Simon DonnerSep 8, 2023

Key finding from the new UN Climate Report that may get overlooked:

Developed nations are still behind on the goal of mobilizing $100 billion/year to help the developed world respond to climate change... and not enough of the money is going to adaptation.

Text is from the technical dialogue of the first Global Stocktake: https://unfccc.int/documents/631600

Simon DonnerSep 8, 2023
The global stocktake has a series of key findings. This is among the most important.
The longer we delay emissions reductions, the steeper the slope gets, and the harder the transition will be on people. That's a key take-home point in my TEDx talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/dr_simon_donner_why_our_imaginations_are_the_key_to_solving_climate_change
Dr. Simon Donner: Why Our Imaginations are the Key to Solving Climate Change

TED
Simon DonnerSep 8, 2023

The first global stocktake - an accounting of progress to the Paris climate goals - is out. The report spells out what experts have been saying - the window for avoiding the Paris temperature limits is rapidly shrinking.

The red is the range of promised actions. The blue and teal are where we need to be for a good chance of avoiding 2 or 1.5 C warming.

Full report here: https://unfccc.int/documents/631600

Show threadSimon DonnerSep 8, 2023
@Sheril More power to you. The male experience with critiques of appearance is nothing compared to what women in the public eye face. The cultural expectations around 'orderly' anglo hair is one thing that weirdly crosses cultures and genders. I get angry tweets and comments telling me to cut my hair all the time... often from the same folks that use anti-Semitic rhetoric