How Data Centres and AI Models Are Reshaping Global Energy Demand — and What Sustainable AI Must Look Like
By Amb. Canon Otto Convener, Global Sustainability Summit Commentary in partnership with Cleancyclers
Artificial Intelligence is often presented as invisible. Clean. Weightless. A product of code, algorithms, and innovation floating somewhere in the cloud.
But…
How Roads, Dams, and Energy Projects Can Either Heal or Divide Societies
By Amb. Canon Otto Convener, Global Sustainability Summit Contributor, SustainabilityUnscripted
We often speak about infrastructure as if it were purely technical: roads move goods, dams generate power, grids deliver electricity, waste systems manage materials. In policy documents and investment decks, infrastructure is…
A Sober Assessment of Offsets, Credits, and Accountability
By Amb. Canon Otto Convener, Global Sustainability Summit Contributor, SustainabilityUnscripted
For more than two decades, carbon markets have been presented as one of the most elegant tools in climate policy: put a price on pollution, reward reductions, and let markets do what they do best—allocate capital…
Why Water Scarcity Will Redefine Global Economics, Agriculture, and Geopolitics
By Amb. Canon Otto Convener, Global Sustainability Summit Contributor, SustainabilityUnscripted
For most of modern economic history, water has been treated as abundant, inexpensive, and endlessly available. It has been priced as a utility, managed as an afterthought, and consumed as if scarcity were a distant…
By Amb. Canon Otto Convener, Global Sustainability Summit Contributor, SustainabilityUnscripted
Climate change is no longer a future risk. It is a present reality — and nowhere is this more evident than in the global insurance market.
Across continents, insurers are quietly redrawing maps of risk. Flood zones are expanding. Fire-prone regions are being reclassified.…
By Amb. Canon Otto , Convener, Global Sustainability Summit & Founder, CleanCyclers
Real sustainability does not wait for perfect policies or ideal conditions. It begins with people who care enough to act — right where they live.
Every weekend, across our cities and communities, streets quietly fill with waste. Gutters clog. Open spaces lose their…
By Amb. Canon Otto, Convener, Global Sustainability Summit & Founder, CleanCyclers
Sustainability does not always arrive with grand announcements or complex systems. Often, it enters quietly — through the small gadgets we install in our homes, the choices we make at the store, and the habits we practice daily.
At CleanCyclers, we believe that the…
By Amb. Canon Otto, Convener, Global Sustainability Summit & Founder, CleanCyclers
The most powerful sustainability lesson does not begin in a conference hall or a policy document. It begins at home.
In living rooms, kitchens, school runs, and weekend routines, children are quietly learning how to relate to the world around them. At CleanCyclers, we…
By Amb. Canon Otto, Convener, Global Sustainability Summit Contributor, SustainabilityUnscripted
The global race to decarbonise is accelerating, and with it comes a renewed search for energy solutions capable of addressing sectors that renewable electricity alone cannot easily reach. Heavy industry, long-haul transport, shipping, and aviation remain among the hardest to abate.
In this evolving energy…
By Amb. Canon Otto, Convener, Global Sustainability Summit & Founder, CleanCyclers
The circular economy is often spoken about in conference halls, policy documents, and sustainability reports. Yet, its true power does not live there. It lives in our homes. In our markets. In our daily decisions.
At CleanCyclers, we believe that the future of sustainability…
By Amb. Canon Otto, Convener, Global Sustainability Summit & Founder, Clean Cyclers
Every morning, without much thought, we open our wardrobes and make a choice. What to wear. What to discard. What to replace.
Yet, few people pause to consider this simple truth: our wardrobes shape our world more than we realize.
Across Africa’s growing…
By Amb. Canon Otto Convener, Global Sustainability Summit | Founder, Cleancyclers
Africa is no longer standing on the sidelines of the global energy transition. It is stepping into the spotlight.
Across the continent, renewable energy is moving from promise to practice — powering homes, businesses, schools, and entire communities that were once excluded from reliable…
