One Percent Brighter
Quico ToroA better climate substack
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The Carbon Removal Industry Has a Math Problem
You wanna try draining this with an eye-drop?
Before the Industrial Revolution, there were about 2 trillion tons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Since then, we’ve added about 1.1 trillion tons more. Each year, people emit another 40 b...
The half of the climate crisis that the Greenhouse Effect can’t explain
At New York Climate Week this year, the king of the buzzwords was clear: Earth’s Energy Imbalance.
Well, at least it was for me. New York Climate Week is a vast event: the buzzword you hear most often says something about the corner of the...
The most useful thing a climate activist can do in 2026
Is there a future for climate activism once we accept what we’ve been doing hasn’t been working? Of course there is! It’s going to imply a hard pivot for a movement not much given to pivoting, granted. It’s going to take unlearning a bunch...
Who emits the most CO₂?
I love a good visualization. Who doesn’t? Like this one, which Our World in Data put out back in 2017:
I think that’s illuminating, but I was disappointed to see they haven’t updated the treemap in almost a decade.
Never fear. We live in...
One Cheer for UNEP’s Limiting Overshoot Report
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) put out a fat report this week and I read it with the mix of trepidation and forlorn hope these reports always elicit. As always, I read it looking for signs that the Overton Window on climate is moving,...
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Quico Toro is Director of Climate Repair at the Anthropocene Institute, and the writer behind OnePercentBrighter.com Based in Tokyo. And fascinated by it.
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