Floods in Texas. Fires in Canada. Droughts in the UK. Hope outsourced to AI. Decency still on back-order: Welcome to the week ending 11th July 2025, where our climate news-feed feels like the Book of Revelation. So what now? Do we want to be the generation that adjusted ESG powerpoints on sustainability-linked bonds while Texas drowned . . . OR . . . do we connect Decency + Data & DO-ers? Climate Action is not a partisan issue. Climate Action is a test of character.
i) Invite your mayor, alderman/alderwoman, _ _ _ _ _ to a local SDG town hall.
ii) Teach at least Youth about heat-domes and hope.
iii) Comment below: Which SDG are you most committed to this week?
SDG 1 – No Poverty: Extreme heat + no safety net = slow-motion disaster. Extreme heat caused tens thousands of excess deaths in 2022. In Texas, flash floods killed over 100. Poverty doesn’t just mean lack of money . . . it’s lack of protection. And denial costs more than resilience.
SDG 2 – Zero Hunger: Britain imports 40% of its food. UK droughts (and Asian heat domes wilting rice) aren’t distant threats. Climate chaos is not a blunt instrument. Climate chaos is selective, systemic and surgical: every missed crop becomes a price spike . . . with the poor first in line to go hungry.
SDG 3 – Good Health and Well-Being: The weather event that kills more people than anything else is heat. In Europe, US, and China: it’s not the flames but the fever that claims the most lives. Systemic cooling means systemic change.
SDG 4 – Quality Education: Teaching kids about heat domes, green bonds, and stranded assets shouldn’t be homework for activists. Heat domes, green bonds, and stranded assets must be part of the national curriculum. Financial literacy without climate risk is malpractice. And science class needs to catch up to 2025.
SDG 5 – Gender Equality: Who bears the brunt of failed water systems, food shocks, and unpaid care in extreme weather? Women. Always. From London’s hosepipe bans to Texas’s flood refugees, adaptation plans that ignore gender are guaranteed to fail.
SDG 6 – Clean Water and Sanitation: Yorkshire and Thames Water are rationing water in a country known for rain. This is not just about leaks or lack of rain: this is about governance, planning, and justice.
SDG 7 – Affordable and Clean Energy: Extreme heat cuts wind power output, warps rail lines, and melts our illusions. And while the world needs everything electric, Bloomberg’s EV Outlook 2025 reminds us that US rollout still faces cultural, political, and charging bottlenecks.
SDG 8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth: $200 billion in flood damages . . . $22 billion from Texas alone, and rising climate-linked bond risks. That’s not the cost of decarbonizing. That’s the price of delay. Job creators . . . meet your biggest disruptor: climate inaction.
SDG 9 – Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure: 83% of commercial buildings in UK cities are failing energy standards. No surprise. We built monuments to “efficiency” AND then forgot to weatherize them. If infrastructure doesn’t adapt, it collapses. No app will insulate your basement from rising groundwater.
SDG 10 – Reduced Inequalities: The people in Texas who drowned? Not hedge fund managers. The Londoners left without water? Not the board of Thames Water. Vulnerability isn’t evenly distributed. The climate doesn’t discriminate . . . but society does.
SDG 11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities: Copenhagen’s bikeable design. Gdańsk’s mobility courage. Meanwhile, America’s cities are getting pummeled by storms and heat . . . while pretending zoning laws are still sacred. We can’t retrofit decency overnight.
SDG 12 – Responsible Consumption and Production: Foreign companies in Q2 2025 make up 89% of ESG-labelled bonds sold in the US. Why? Because American firms fear backlash more than breakdown. “Greenhushing” is the new greenwashing . . . and it’s more dangerous because it wears silence like a badge of strategy.
SDG 13 – Climate Action: The Bank of England warns of 20% losses in G7 bond portfolios from abrupt climate repricing. But that’s just one ledger. The real deficit is moral. Because central banks don’t print new polar bears, coral reefs, or coastlines.
SDG 14 – Life Below Water: Every flood ends up somewhere. Coastal cities from Louisiana to London are living proof that water management, pollution runoff, and sea-level rise don’t respect our land-based myopia.
SDG 15 – Life on Land: Add soil loss, tree-cover collapse, and desertification to the costs of wildfires. Life on land is suffocating in a heat dome of our own denial.
SDG 16 – Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions: Concerns are growing that the US is suppressing the collection and processing of billion-dollar climate disaster data since Trump’s return. That is not leadership. It’s sabotage.
SDG 17 – Partnerships for the Goals: What do Toyota, Deutsche Bank, and the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China have in common? They’re leading on US ESG bonds. What’s missing? United civic voices in solidarity demanding that public, private, and planetary interests be aligned . . . AND not traded off like pork-barrel budgets.
News articles curated from https://www.bloomberg.com/green and https://www.ft.com/climate-capital:
- Whale poo reveals rise in toxins entering marine food chain https://www.ft.com/content/9b1c5867-098e-499e-83db-8d92e0082e88
- Texas Disaster Adds to US Flood Costs Topping $200 Billion as Climate Risks Rise https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-08/texas-disaster-adds-to-us-flood-costs-over-200-billion-as-climate-risks-mount?srnd=phx-green
- China is building 74% of all current solar and wind projects, report says https://www.ft.com/content/e51744d9-e585-4622-91f9-e1f57c0269d9
- US ESG Market Is Dominated by Foreign Companies More Than Ever https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-10/us-esg-market-is-dominated-by-foreign-companies-more-than-ever?srnd=phx-green
- Western Europe keeps setting new heat records as fastest-warming continent https://www.ft.com/content/2ecef3b2-c50e-4be9-bd75-9cf113530c34
- Londoners Could Soon Face Water Limits Due to Dry Weather https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-08/londoners-could-soon-face-water-limits-due-to-dry-weather?srnd=phx-green
- Texas floods show why a warmer world will need more sirens https://www.ft.com/content/f9d9605d-02d7-4476-b109-23957b9c201c
- Why Armed Forces Can No Longer Ignore Climate Change https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-10/why-armed-forces-can-no-longer-ignore-climate-change?srnd=phx-green
- US utilities plot big rise in electricity rates as data centre demand booms https://www.ft.com/content/c5f20c78-7931-492f-9153-675f3046e245
- Life-Threatening Heat Domes Confound Forecasters as Climate Change Intensifies https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-10/life-threatening-heat-domes-confound-forecasters-as-climate-change-intensifies?srnd=phx-green
- Heat deaths in England could rise 50-fold in next half-century, study warns https://www.ft.com/content/7d8496cc-df03-46b5-a2b8-ea72bd4d7097
- BOE’s Breeden Warns Bond Prices at Risk From Climate Change https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-10/boe-s-breeden-warns-g-7-bond-prices-at-risk-from-climate-change?srnd=phx-green
- Auditors Fail in Role of Safeguarding Carbon Offsets: Study https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-10/auditors-are-failing-the-carbon-market-academic-study-finds?srnd=phx-green
- Climate change poses growing threat to UK economy, says BoE official https://www.ft.com/content/947fd05f-5fbb-40d1-b341-c641d438cbe4
- Extreme Heat and No Benefits: The Hidden Cost of China’s Booming Gig Economy https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-09/extreme-heat-and-no-benefits-the-hidden-cost-of-china-s-booming-gig-economy?srnd=phx-green
- The rocky path to global carbon pricing https://www.ft.com/content/6d868644-e49b-4d23-a0c0-76e77a7dc516 https://www.ft.com/content/6d868644-e49b-4d23-a0c0-76e77a7dc516
- EU’s 2040 Climate Law at Risk After Far Right Takes Control https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-08/eu-climate-skeptics-to-oversee-divisive-2040-goal-in-parliament?srnd=phx-green
- Britain and Europe need to get serious about air conditioning https://www.ft.com/content/50f69324-8dc8-4ef1-b471-d78e260adae0
