How can AI power change without costing the planet? We’re exploring ideas—like low-energy systems and regenerative design—to align innovation with a thriving, equitable future.
read moreThis week, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released their latest report on climate change. We need to act now The IPCC state again that we need to take urgent climate action right now. It will be a mammoth task that requires ‘genuine and global transformational change’. Yet, it offers a huge...
read moreWe are in a state of climate emergency and current predictions don’t show much chance of staying below that all important 1.5 degrees Celsius temperature rise. A lot of us are worried, frustrated and feel that our governments are not doing enough to protect us. At OnePlanet, we believe that the building of healthy, strong...
read moreBy Pooran Desai, Founder OnePlanet ‘We can regard this as the most extreme [weather] event in European history’. These are the words of climatologist Maximiliano Herrera, speaking of the heat wave which hit Europe over the New Year. Temperatures in parts of Poland on New Year’s Day reached almost 19oC, a full 18oC above average...
read moreWritten by Pooran Desai, founder of OnePlanet In 2022, we saw COP27 come and go, almost three decades after COP1 in Berlin in 1995. What might 2023 bring? After a generation of concerted effort, will 2023 be the year when we see the shift in mindset and paradigm we need? I believe there is a...
read moreHuman survival depends on the planet’s ecosystems and the essential products and services they supply us. For too long we have taken, with barely any permission or thought, from these delicate, interconnected systems. Modern society has treated the living world as an unlimited resource which we have relentlessly exploited and extracted from. This has led...
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