What is the right way to react when climate reports are signaling we are going in the right direction - big time? The Planetary Boundaries Health Check report reported in September that a 7th boundary out of nine has been breached, and the UNEP Emissions Gap report recently concluded that the world is ‘off-track’ to meet Paris climate targets and well on its way to overshoot 1.5 degrees of warming in 2030. We discuss in today’s episode how gloomy macro-news easily makes one, very understandably so, feel powerless. The risk of avoidance and/or cynicism is real, but also very unproductive when the situation calls for change. We ask ourselves what would be productive ways instead, and how it’s also fine to feel sad.

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Sources

• Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (2025): Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone (https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/seven-of-nine-planetary-boundaries-now-breached-2013-ocean-acidification-joins-the-danger-zone))


• Visual from Stockholm Resilience Center (2025): Planetary boundaries (https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/planetary-boundaries.html))


• UNEP (2025): Emissions Gap Report 2025 (https://www.unep.org/resources/emissions-gap-report-2025))
  Press conference by UNEP for the Emissions Gap Report 2025 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sTN46S1gfw))