{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/69cd13ef3908885dc4b759ea/6aa3a7d4564171e32a4f3a02?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"EQ News: Champagne on the Titanic","description":"<p>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 <em>Limiting Overshoot</em> 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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Some questions we get into:</p><p><br></p><ul><li>What \"overshooting\" 1.5°C actually means for the next decade, not just the headline number</li><li>Why carbon removal keeps getting sold as a fix it isn't</li><li>What has to be true for a climate solution to go from niche to mainstream</li><li>Whether we can toast a good vintage and reckon with a bad summer in the same breath</li></ul><p><br></p>","author_name":"Jamila Brown"}