What we learned this week

The demand for leather for the fashion industry is a driver of deforestation in the Amazon, and this new report from Slow Factory has mapped the connections to some familiar brands. Have a look, and if there are any favourites of yours in the list, get in touch with them.

A Quaker friend pointed me to this campaign to include military emissions in the Paris Agreement – despite the enormous footprints of armed forces, governments have given themselves a pass and don’t include them in their cli...