I am back enjoying sharing what I find interesting in the worlds of environmental monitoring and adaptation, data engineering, and software engineering...even the occasional post about outdoor fun and my day job at #UKCEH. @kitmacleod.bsky.social.

Farewell friends,☹️to be leaving Twitter after 10 years on this key knowledge exchange platform. I will gradually start using mastodon.scot/@KitMacleod. Twitter has been great for keeping up with tech + env news, learning about your work, + was an impt social geodata research tool.

Revere and Respira are already working with landowners in the Cairngorms with a view to issuing the first carbon credits under this facility during the current year. Revere and Respira believe that this work will encourage other landowners to use this. respira-international.com/pe…

Fascinating to hear about ecometric's soil carbon MRV working with Respira International to sell Blaston farm's voluntary carbon credits @BBCFarmingToday @JYeluripati @aitkenhead_matt bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001dwv…

Yes important list of potential headline indicators, scored according to their level of development and the capacity-building requirements

Good news😀: results for 2022 show numbers of breeding waders have remained relatively stable over the last five years, contrary to declines elsewhere. cairngorms.co.uk/waders-buck…

Impressive message: renewable are the cheapest, renewable deployment is staggering, need to flip to exploit near-free power (the data centre must “dance with the grid”), so FLOPS per watt is not necessarily the only way to decarbonise. Found through @gsfcommunity podcast Ep1 thx.

I am looking forwards to these updates and discussions at this #COP27 event.

Thanks @JoanaKollert @GEOMAR_en for summaries of recent @TwinDitto #DigitalTwin related meetings ditto-oceandecade.org/blog

Looking forward to working with the @UK_CEH team on enabling this flood and droughts infrastructure.

"We are not winning in any sector," said Ani Dasgupta, head of @WorldResources one of half-a-dozen climate policy think tanks that contributed to the report. "an urgent wakeup call for decision-makers to commit to real transformation across every aspect of our economy".

To address this 22% wedge of global emissions, the SBTi FLAG Guidance: A whole sector approach covering all corporate land-related emissions+removals across ag+forestry 11 mitigation pathways for major commodities with significant carbon footprints incl. beef, chicken, dairy etc

Secretary General António Guterres was speaking in New York ahead of a major climate conference in Egypt. "There has been a tendency to put climate change on the back burner," he said. "If we are not able to reverse the present trend, we will be doomed."

The Lancet Countdown report says the world's continued reliance on fossil fuels increases the risk of food insecurity, infectious disease and heat-related illness.

If interested in learning #iOS #SwiftUI development, then @twostraws #100DaysOfSwiftUI is excellent. Several marathons..a grounding in how #Swift simplifies development compared to #UIKit..a massive expanse of old and new APIs to understand and use to unlock amazing iPhone +APIs.