How UK cuts to climate finance could bankrupt ecosystems at home – and abroad

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China’s Two Sessions to reveal Xi’s economic and defence plans as military purge casts shadow

😢https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/25/chronic-ocean-heating-fuels-staggering-loss-marine-life-study

the core hypothesis here is unbelievably simple - AI replaces skilled human white collar labour, the tax base and housing market collapse and financial/social catastrophe ensues... do you really need a fancy scenario paper to generate this particular panic? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

UK aid cuts may be steeper than those in the US. @ianmitchell1.bsky.social asks why UK parliamentarians are not pushing back on the cuts like their US counterparts... www.cgdev.org/blog/uk-aid-...

#ITVYouthTracker EU referendum voting intention for 16-25 year olds ✅🇪🇺 Join the EU: 83% ❌🇪🇺 Stay out of the EU: 17% Savanta for ITV Youth Tracker, Sample Size: 1,040 UK based 16-25 year-olds, Fieldwork 4-9 February 2026

Sonny Rollins, John Scofield and others reflecting on the genius of Miles Davis - this year marks the centenary of his birth. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

This is such a telling sign of the rapid global collapse of trust in the US administration. Former FIFA president Blatter says fans should not travel to the US for the World Cup. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

This is even worse from the BBC! Stop giving prominence to people with a track record of lies above the videos we can all see.

I think this is the most important article I've written for a while: a trip to Sudan to report on the UN's refugee agency. Battered by Trump's cuts and western retreat, can humanitarianism survive? as.ft.com/r/f137508d-d...

Worth a read. FT's @henrymance.ft.com accompanying the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi on his last field trip - to the horrors of Sudan. Gift Link. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

10 key insights from Climate Science in 2025 www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-1...

this bloke has a nice turn of phrase - "AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok." Cory Doctorow. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

last 11 years the 11 warmest globally on record, and the top three are the last three www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBNJ now in force... www.un.org/sg/en/conten...

great work this www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

what Trump is accusing Powell of is clearly what he would have done to the Fed building if he's been in charge... www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Great news - the wonderful Anu Joshi appointed as Director of @ids.ac.uk www.ids.ac.uk/news/profess....

Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.

what comes next? the world beyond rules. @adamtooze.bsky.social "The outlook, for now, is for multipolar disorder lavishly powered with cheap energy: a polycrisis with drones and heavy crude" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

.... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The richest individual on Earth should not own the keys to the largest disinformation machine on the planet. It's not censorship to switch X off. It's common sense. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

strong statement from GCF on US withdrawal www.greenclimate.fund/statement/gr...

NATO Ambassador Whitaker on Greenland: "As the ice recedes and we do have some thawing and passageways open up in the arctic, obviously the approaches to the US in North America are more dangerous." (So global warming isn't a hoax apparently ... )

ANALYSIS: World’s biggest historic polluter by far – the US – is pulling out of UN climate treaty Historic CO2 1850-2025 🇺🇸🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 🇨🇳🔥🔥🔥 🇷🇺🔥🔥 🇧🇷🔥 🇮🇩🔥 🇩🇪🔥 🇮🇳🔥 🇬🇧🔥 🇯🇵🔥 🇨🇦🔥 Per capita, the US impact is even more disproportionate www.carbonbrief.org/...

Full list here of international organisations that US admin has announced it is withdrawing from - includes UNFCCC, IPCC, IRENA guardian.ng/news/world/u...

The optimistic take on US withdrawal from Paris ('it's just one country') always struck me as bonkers. Next step may be a US backed UNSG candidate to (at the very least) hamstring the UNFCCC process. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Young women in the UK are rapidly moving to the Left.

How the world changes - cheap kit and a new geopolitics replacing unreliable high emissions coal and diesel with solar in South Africa. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/c...

Better than nothing, provided new US backing for UN action does not undermine humanitarian principles. But also looks like the US admin gearing up to back a populist/right-aligned candidate for UNSG. That could really seriously undermine the UNFCCC process of course. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...

The UK's cuts to international development aid will kick in seriously in the second half of 2026 - analysis from the FT. Transferring this money to the UK defence budget will not make the UK or the world more secure! giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Power moves to money - higher inequality brings a fundamental hypocrisy to political culture - interview with @brankomilan.bsky.social agendapublica.es/noticia/2051...

"We are the people who save small children" says a health worker in northern Cameroon. Yes, and Elon Musk is the guy that set out to kill them. Good to see there is some chance that US anti-malarial funding can function again (albeit in a reduced way) in 2026. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/h...

The Indian parliament has just voted to replace the world's largest social protection programme - the iconic MGNRGS labour guarantee scheme, and it risks losing its rights based character. Ritu Bharadwaj on how it may change: blogs.lossanddamageobservatory.org/index.php/20...

"When the correction comes, when the US’s Icarus economy hits the cold sea, there will be a chance for other voices to be heard on the subject of risk and regulation." @rafaelbehr.bsky.social has a nice turn of phrase.

@justsand.bsky.social and I have updated our estimates of lives lost based on cuts to US foreign assistance spending through the end of the fiscal year. They look similar or worse than they did back in June: in the range of 500,000 to 1,000,000 people. www.cgdev.org/blog/update-...

@philippesands.bsky.social - really admired your interview on the Today Programme (BBC radio 4) this morning on the awful events at Bondi.... A model of how to insist on the fundamental ethical issues in the wake of tragedy.

A well written account of the evidence building up on earth's temperature before 1850 and what the implications are. edition.cnn.com/2025/12/15/c...

"EPA erases references to human-caused climate change from websites" "The agency modified sections of its website by deleting information about human-created greenhouse gases and the role they play in warming the planet. It also removed links to scientific data and information."

The global species extinction rate is 10 to 100 times higher than the historical average, accelerating due to human actions, as noted in the @‌ipbes.net #GlobalAssessment. 🏭 Since 1500, at least 680 vertebrate species, like the Pinta Giant Tortoise, have been lost.🐢 Conservation is vital #ForNature.

Indonesia and Sri Lanka badly hit by cyclones combined with heavy monsoon rains www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

This is the most powerful thing I have seen from COP30. Lina Yassin of @iied.bsky.social talking about adaptation, climate justice and later in the interview the tragedy unfolding in her homeland, Sudan, driven by the UAE's use of brutal proxies for bad ends www.democracynow.org/2025/11/19/l...

If the JTM is the most positive thing to come out of COP30 then we really aren't in a great place - it's basically an intention to do knowledge sharing, maybe at a push some initiatives to develop institutional capacity: unfccc.int/sites/defaul...

"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%" Read the Stanford report: siepr.stanford.edu/publications...

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