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Antony Gormley, Amazonian Field, 1992, Terracotta, Courtesy of the artist and White Cube, London

One way to combat the unusual winter cold in London, while griping about climate change, is to curl up under a handmade rug and a hot water thermos in the portico of the Royal Academy of Arts at 6 Burlington Gardens, where Sketch has opened a pop-up café to coincide with the exhibition Earth: Art of a Changing World funded by GSK Contemporary. Above me – while I nibble oysters and sip champagne, seated on recycled cardboard chairs -  is CO₂morrow, an LED-lit, virus-like installation clinging to the façade of the building, showing the fluctuating levels of CO₂ in the atmosphere. The display (by Lutyens and Marianantoni) is fed by data from external monitoring systems, and inspired by the idea of a zeolite, a scrubber molecule that “scrubs” CO₂ from pollutants, which may be yet another engineered hope for our future.

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