Felix Dodds comments on sustainable development, coffee & life

Photograph: Richard Fitzpatrick/Biopixel Guest blog:  Alix Willemez, PhD , Plane Crash Survivor | Climate Governance Expert | Systems Thinker Making Complex Environmental Change Accessible | Optimism & Resilience Speaker | Author | College of Europe 🎓 Cambridge 🎓 Sorbonne 🎓 111 meters long. Almost 4,000 square meters. The size of a football field! And this is one single living organism. Not a reef made of multiple colonies. One individual. A “super coral” of nearly 4,000 m² has just been documented on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Impressive? Yes. Surprising? Not really. What makes this discovery even more remarkable is how it was found: during a reef census by a mother–daughter team working with Citizens of the Reef. Even in one of the most studied marine ecosystems on Earth, giants can remain hidden until targeted monitoring reveals them. To understand it better, the site has now been mapped using high-resolution imaging and 3D spatial modeling in collaboration with...

UN Climate Change, 26 February 2026  - A  UN Body  has approved the first credits to be issued under the UN carbon market established by the Paris Agreement.  The approved activity is a clean‑cooking  project  in Myanmar, which distributes efficient cookstoves that reduce harmful household air pollution and lessen pressure on local forests.   UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell said:   “Over two billion people globally are without access to clean cooking, which kills millions every year. Clean cooking protects health, saves forests, cuts emissions and helps empowers women and girls, who are typically hardest hit by household air pollution. The first credits to be issued through the UN carbon market under the Paris Agreement come from a clean‑cooking project, and they show how this mechanism can support solutions that make a big difference in people’s daily lives, as well as...