Yes, yesterday.

Not the Beatles’ song though.

Basically, climate policy, since decades, relies on two main things: pledges and voluntary reporting.

What could go wrong hence?

Well, greenwashing as first. But this era should effectively end as of yesterday, when the UN’s Climate Data Hub was officially launched: an AI-integrated platform developed in partnership with major tech leaders and 190 participating nations

By centralizing satellite imagery, national carbon inventories, and corporate investment flows into a single, public-facing dashboard, the UN has eliminated the "data silos" that previously allowed countries to hide or delay reporting their emissions.

This "Industrial-Scale Transparency" means that for the first time, a citizen in any country can compare their government’s actual carbon output against their Paris Agreement targets in near real-time.

Beyond policy and law, a sobering scientific consensus emerged yesterday regarding the health of our planet’s natural "sponges."

New data suggests that the global land carbon sink - the forests and soils that traditionally absorb about a quarter of human emissions - is weakening.

Due to the record-breaking heat of late 2025 and the early 2026 wildfire season, many northern forests are becoming net carbon sources rather than sinks.

This "tipping point" warning underscores a harsh reality: we can no longer rely on nature to bail us out. As the earth’s natural ability to sequester carbon diminishes, the pressure on human industry to achieve absolute zero emissions becomes more urgent than ever.

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