November 1, 2024
MEERTALK November 2024
Should we attend COPs given their failure to deliver on global emissions reductions, as well as a wide range of issues relating to the just transition? What are the current and emerging themes that we are looking for at current COPs? What will be my range of focus at COP29?
Nick Breeze is a UK climate change and wine journalist/author and host of the ClimateGenn podcast that interviews experts on climate related topics. The podcast focuses on how we deal with the consequences of political failure to make structural policies to deal with climate breakdown and approaches to adaptation, resilience and intervention.

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Newsletter December 2025
This month’s update covers key developments in our field trials, partnerships, and community-led cooling initiatives as we prepare for an even more ambitious year ahead.
December 1, 2025
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Confronting a “silent killer"
This peer-reviewed article examines how extreme heat acts as a “silent killer” in urban West Africa and explores innovative, low-cost cooling interventions through the MEER pilot in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The study highlights lived experiences of heat vulnerability among low-income residents and evaluates how surface cooling technologies and community-oriented design can reduce heat exposure in informal settlements.
November 17, 2025
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