Author
Quico Toro
Director of Climate Repair
Quico Toro leads Anthropocene’s Climate Repair effort, focused on gigaton-scale phytoplankton carbon solutions, and writes the climate substack One Percent Brighter.
Biography
Quico Toro leads Anthropocene’s Climate Repair effort, where his focus is on developing new gigaton-scale phytoplankton carbon solutions. He’s the writer behind One Percent Brighter, a leading climate substack in the Ecomodernist space.
A journalist by training, he founded Caracas Chronicles, an independent outlet covering Venezuelan news. His journalistic work has appeared in Foreign Affairs, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and many other publications, where he’s covered a full range of topics from politics, energy, agricultural development and next generation climate techniques.
His book Charlatans, co-authored with Moisés Naím, appeared in 2025. He is currently a Contributing Editor at Persuasion, based in Tokyo.
