What we learned this week

“Countries have never before agreed in UN climate negotiations to gradually stop burning all CO2-emitting fossil fuels, despite this being the main cause of climate change.” Can that change at COP28? Unlikely given it’s being chaired by a petro-state, but the EU are considering pitching for a phase-out of fossil fuels.

I’m a big fan of China’s sponge city idea, which has now spread well beyond China. Here’s NPR looking at whether or not they actually work.

Hurd is a new app that launched...