EQ News: Champagne on the Titanic

This year's heatwaves have produced what English wine growers are calling a genuine vintage year for sparkling wine, and that's not a coincidence. Jamila and Jenn get into three reports that landed this week and what they add up to. The UN's new Limiting Overshoot report says the world is on track to blow past 1.5°C, likely reaching 1.8°C or higher under current policies, and lays out what actually has to happen to bring warming back down once we overshoot it. Copernicus confirmed August 2026 as the joint-hottest month ever recorded globally, tied with July 2023, with ocean temperatures at their highest August level on record, alongside the human cost of a hotter world, including this year's glacial flooding disaster in Nepal. And The Earthshot Prize and the University of Exeter released a more hopeful counterpoint, "The Tipping Points Playbook," mapping five areas where climate solutions could hit a point where they become cheap, accessible and self-sustaining if the conditions are right. Jamila and Jenn talk through why a great wine harvest and a terrible barley harvest are the same story, why clean energy is closest to its tipping point in the UK, and what a good vintage really costs. Some questions we get into: What "overshooting" 1.5°C actually means for the next decade, not just the headline number Why carbon removal keeps getting sold as a fix it isn't What has to be true for a climate solution to go from niche to mainstream Whether we can toast a good vintage and reckon with a bad summer in the same breath Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.