GCF's Locally Led Climate Action Framework and Guidance was launched this week at Belem. It's a good piece of work... www.greenclimate.fund/document/gcf...

First call for funding requests from FRLD at COP30 www.frld.org/nodebim

China's GHG emissions will fall in 2025... www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

The fact that all large UK broadcasters continue to use X, an openly white supremacist platform that has been redesigned specifically to amplify far-right elites, is doing massive, real-time harm to the country.

Well, given that the process of agreeing a timeline for the next IPCC assessment cycle has become extremely politicised we can expect negotiation of the text to be far more fraught than in previous ones for sure. www.carbonbrief.org/ongoing-fail...

Only the most optimistic scenario in the 2025 Emissions Gap Report has warming being halted over the course of this century. www.unep.org/resources/em...

Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions rise again in 2024, up 2.3%. This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement. www.unep.org/resources/em... 1/

Nice piece on Zohran Mamdani by the always-excellent David Wallace-Wells. The author knows NYC well and I learned a lot from his account of the way Mamdani sits in the political landscape of the city. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/o...

November's #Climate Diplomacy Brief is out - all you need to know ahead of #COP30 - daily from 10 Nov Inc focus on what LDCs, Africa Group + AOSIS want in Belem

Following on from my post yesterday, in case there was any doubt, Trump is threatening war with Nigeria. Nigeria has a population of nearly 233 million.

The political crisis in Mali is getting worse - grim report here. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

US team deployed threats to individual negotiators to derail the deal on shipping emissions... www.lloydslist.com/LL1155148/Th...

Jack DeJohnette was an astounding musician - never seen a more remarkable drummer. Love the quotes from him here. RIP. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker. And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows. No more.

Heart wrenching human stories from the fisheries of South Korea. The profits of fossil fuel companies and the corruption it has bred particularly in the US killing livelihoods and decent humans - just one little scene in a global tragedy. www.bbc.com/news/article...

FT editorial (gift link) on the US killing action on maritime emissions. More broadly we can clearly expect the US to back fossil fuel interests anywhere, any time for the rest of this presidency. Bleak. on.ft.com/4ngBAQs

Awful news, but why would anyone be surprised? US with assistance from Saudi Arabia has effectively killed the deal to decabonise shipping. & what a joke for the US to claim their concern in consumer prices after applying tariff taxes at massive scale to US consumers www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pretty depressing end to the week, as the Trump administration gets the diplomatic thumbscrews out and forces a delay to previously agreed plans for the IMO to at least try and do something about the shipping industry's greenhouse gas emissions. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520604...

Shipping climate levies deal in London likely to go through... on.ft.com/479Zx5P

So in our wisdom we have given the main contract for NHS data management to a company run by this malevolent fruitcake www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Musk meeting Yaxley-Lennon / Tommy Robinson court case legal costs is another sign of undue political interference in the UK. That continues to bode ill for the future.

"Loss has become a pervasive condition of life in Europe and America. It shapes the collective horizon more insistently than at any time since 1945" Especially environmental loss & the impact on wellbeing. Andreas Reckwitz www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/o...

On benefit sharing & community ownership in renewable development www.business-humanrights.org/en/blog/bene...

6 EDs (out of 25) don't sign up to continued World Bank engagement in climate finance www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Let nothing be called natural in an age of bloody confusion, ordered disorder, planned caprice, and dehumanised humanity, lest all things be held unalterable! - Brecht

Offsets: worst problems were with issuing credits for projects already in the pipeline; impermanent projects, e.g. planting trees that later burn; projects with leakage, such as protecting part of a forest but pushing loggers elsewhere; & double-counted projects. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Losing glaciers in the Alps. My mother grew up in Vienna before the war and her parents loved the mountains. We have a little album of black and white family photos showing the wonder of this landscape in the early 30s. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Poll. 61% of American Jews say Israel has committed war crimes, 40% say Israel is guilty of genocide against the Palestinians. That's not antisemitism. That's moral and ethical responsibility. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Rogue state committing extra-judicial executions in international waters. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Michael Jacobs on the fight in No10 about whether Starmer attends Lula's 'leaders summit' that will preceded Cop30 & why it's so important that he does go www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Neil Postman crops up so much in analysis of cultural and democratic crisis these days & it's merited. "Amusing ourselves to death" is painfully prophetic. This is a good piece. jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...

Latest New Statesman pod on links between the Tony Blair Institute and Oracle/Ellison is worth a listen. How it put their funding on steroids and the implications for UK and global politics. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

A compelling piece on the 'battle between power elites for control of the future'. Giuliano da Empoli. Gift link. on.ft.com/4nI2kdT

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

China's NDC and expert reactions - basically 'could be better, could be worse'. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Two steps forward and two steps back. Wryneck on Papay yesterday, a lifer for me. Old world woodpecker island birds. Thanks to @papaybirder.bsky.social for the finding skills.

Some good news. High seas treaty comes into force as the 60th country ratifies. Well done Morocco and time for the UK to get a move on! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/c...

The list of war crimes just keeps growing . cpj.org/2025/09/isra...

The age of indifference www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

As you might expect from David Wallace-Wells this is an excellent piece on climate politics & how startlingly different things look now from 2015. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...

Achim Steiner - higher defence spending is pointless without funding climate aid is pointless. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

US seeking to stop global deal on green levy for shipping fuel. Key vote at the IMO is next month. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Melvyn Bragg, who invented the podcast in the early Middle Ages, is stepping down. I'll miss him. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Listening to Labour Home Sec Cooper talk about suspending family reunion processes it strikes me that there is a view taken independent of context that refugees should be able to get a job and a house before they can bring their children to the UK. (1)

Guardian coverage of the new study greatly increasing assessed likelihood of AMOC shutdown www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100. Our paper on that is out today.🧵