As we witness climate obstruction in real time at #COP30, this @cssn.org presser w/ @timmonsroberts.bsky.social, @daniellefalzon.bsky.social, @maxboykoff.bsky.social and Carlos Milani to discuss a new global assessment on climate obstruction is rather timely. Details: cssn.org/news-researc...

So far 12 countries have signed the Declaration on Information Integrity on Climate Change launched at #COP30 including Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden & Uruguay and also hundreds of NGOs. www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...

Acompáñanos en el Pabellón Colombia, en la Zona Azul de la #COP30, este sábado de 5:30 a 6:15 pm para un evento sobre los discursos de demora en el debate sobre la transición energética justa en Colombia y cómo enfrentarlos.

Two years ago Colombia's president pledged to stop awarding new exploration contracts for oil, gas, and coal. On the world stage, this was a big deal. Now the question is: how is Colombia's energy transition going? NPR went to Colombia to find out 🇨🇴 Read and listen here - only on @npr.org

It was a pleasure to share a few thoughts for this piece on the politics of Colombia's just energy transition and also discuss some new research published in @climdevjournal.bsky.social on discourses of climate delay in the country's media: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

California just signed a new climate MOU with Colombia at #COP30. With this partnership, we're doubling down on the fight against climate change — collaborating on innovative solutions for methane reduction and clean energy.

Check out this event at Colombia's pavilion this Saturday led by CSSN stalwart @guywhedwards.bsky.social, which will present a new study on discourses of climate delay in Colombia's energy transition debate in the media funded by the CSSN. We need more studies like this for global South nations.

💡 @timmonsroberts.bsky.social makes 3 points at the @caadcoalition.bsky.social & @ucs.org presser #COP30: 1 Disinformation is everywhere 2 Those w/ structural power deploy disinformation to maintain status quo. 3 Solutions exist & they're urgent. More info @cssn.org & cssn.org/news-researc...

Happening NOW! @ucs.org and @caadcoalition.bsky.social press conference on Information Integrity at #COP30. Watch the livestream ⬇️ unfccc-events.azureedge.net/COP30_109680...

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“El gas natural no es un combustible de transición, es un retroceso”, afirmó Javier Dávalos Gonzalez hoy en una rueda de prensa de Climate Action Network Latinoamérica en la #COP30.

🚨Colombia just supported in #COP30 plenary the fossil fuel roadmap idea. That brings the number of countries supporting it out loud in negotiations to 8 (that I have heard)

¡Acompáñanos en el Pabellón Colombia, en la Zona Azul de la #COP30, el próximo sábado 15 de noviembre, de 5:30 a 6:15 pm! 🇨🇴🌍 Conversaremos sobre los discursos de demora en el debate sobre la transición energética justa en Colombia y cómo enfrentarlos. @redcfal.bsky.social @cssn.org

Stunning @desmog.com story from @geoffdembicki.bsky.social - showing how oil major ExxonMobil bankrolled climate science denial in the global south prior to crucial global summits... www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...

NEW: Exxon funded efforts to spread climate denial across Latin America, @geoffdembicki.bsky.social reports, "according to hundreds of previously unpublished documents that reveal a coordinated campaign to make the global south 'less inclined' to support the UN-led climate treaty process."

Many thanks to the author of this piece, Fermín Koop, published by @dialogueearth.bsky.social , for the opportunity to share some comments on the participation of Latin American countries in the COPs and the impact of their regional groups, such as AILAC. dialogue.earth/en/climate/c...

Finally, a primer on obstruction tactics in the #UNFCCC negotiations. Just in time for #COP30. Now this is enough to fill a bingo card. #COP30 delegates and attendees: Know what you're watching! Way to go @cssn.org colleagues.

Not since 1935 has anyone experienced a storm like Melissa. Melissa's record wouldn't have happened without climate change, which made the hurricane's winds about 10 mph stronger, according to a rapid attribution analysis by Climate Central. yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/cata...

🔴 NEW 🔴 From regenerative agriculture to ‘efficiency is enough' and ‘we feed the world’ narratives - check out these 8 big greenwashing terms ahead of COP30 👇 📝 by @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & @hazelhealy.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/10/26/b...

Must read on the Trump supremacy. The president's belligerence will cast a dark shadow over the EU-CELAC Summit to be hosted by Colombia in Nov. Huge pressure on Colombia & EU leaders to secure a political declaration reflecting so called shared priorities on intl law, climate, free trade etc.

Astonishing FT report that "nearly everyone” in Downing St. had thought PM shouldn't go to COP30, despite the climate crisis posing a huge global & domestic threat to the UK & one of his ministers having recently promised to create 400K extra jobs by 2030 in clean energy. www.ft.com/content/d80d...

Brazilian government sabotages COP30 and licenses oil in Amazon waters

This book finally got published today - free for download here cssn.org/news-researc... A monumental effort documenting climate obstruction across sectors, countries & governance levels, by 110 @cssn.org scholars I was chuffed to contribute to one of the chapters (thread)

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating - CO2 in the air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening @wmo-global.bsky.social #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🎉Congrats to the editors @timmonsroberts.bsky.social, Carlos R. S. Milani, Jennifer Jacquet and Christian Downie for pulling together this monumental volume on climate obstruction. Delighted to have been able to contribute to ch. 8 on climate obstruction in the Global South. See the link below!

Writing in @theguardian.com, Prof. Michael Jacobs is right to argue that the UK's PM Starmer should attend the crucial leaders' climate summit in Brazil for COP30. Here's a couple of other reasons the PM must attend... 🧵

Big news from #UNGA: The Colombian government has just announced its plan to host the First International Conference for the Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels in April 2026!

So 10yrs after @arusbridger.bsky.social launched the #KeepItInTheGround campaign & 6yrs after @katharineviner.bsky.social's #climate pledge The @theguardian.com finance editor @nilspratley.bsky.social is still writing apologetics for the fossil fuel industry!!! Here's a short 🧵on how dumb this is!

❗TRUMP NOT WELCOME ❗ Join Cut The Ties and the Stop Trump Coalition as we march and rally against his state visit. ⏰ Wednesday 17th September @2pm 📍London Portland Place W1B ✊ STOP TRUMP! STOP FASCISM! #StopTrump #RefugeesWelcome #EatTheRich #CutTheTies #CutTheTiesToFossilFuels

George Monbiot nails it again. @zackpolanski.bsky.social victory yesterday to lead the UK Green Party is indeed a very exciting moment.

Congratulations to the newly elected Leader of the Green Party of England & Wales, @zackpolanski.bsky.social

Un gusto compartir una parte de mi proyecto de doctorado sobre los discursos de demora en el debate de la transición energética en Colombia. Gracias a Esteban Tavera y Santiago Aldana por la invitación en el marco de la Escuela de Admin. y Gestión del Estado para las Transiciones Justas!

Happening Now! As part of the Rio Climate Action Week, the Brazilian Center for Intl. Relations (CEBRI) is hosting an event with the editors of the forthcoming book, “Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment” put together by @cssn.org with 100+ authors. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfIL...

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

🎙️Here’s a podcast episode I did w/ @landclimate.bsky.social on President Petro's bold pledge to end the granting of new hydrocarbon contracts in 🇨🇴. We looked at the motivations behind the pledge, the fierce opposition to it and whether it might last beyond 2026. www.landclimate.org/colombia-ver...

📣NEW Global Campaign Launched: #FillTheFund! The establishment of the Fund for responding to #LossandDamage was a breakthrough, but it remains critically underfunded—little more than an empty promise. Rich nations are now shirking their historical responsibility. 1/5

🎉Happy to share that I recently won the Adam Weiler Award in the Social Sciences category gifted annually to Sussex PhD students who show the potential to make an outstanding impact with their work!!

With a deep dive into what 'impact' looks like for PGRs, our Adam Weiler Impact Award winners shared their experiences and knowledge. They reflected on the importance of telling a relatable story and the ability to influence policy, as well as practice. #PHDImpact

The Petro govt's pledge in 2022 to end the granting of new hydrocarbon contracts looks increasingly like the right decision given the country produces heavy and relatively expensive-to-extract crude oil and is therefore more exposed to the global energy transition.

New in @reuters.com: Spain’s April blackout tied to grid manager REE’s planning gaps, says gov’t report; gas and nuclear plants didn’t meet the moment as expected. 🔌💡 www.reuters.com/business/ene...

A HISTORIC MILESTONE: For the first time, solar power generated more electricity globally than nuclear, making it the world’s 4th largest power source. In just 5 years, solar output nearly tripled—from 79 TWh (Apr 2020) to 233 TWh (Apr 2025). The energy transition is speeding up. @ember-energy.org

Looking forward to presenting some of my doctoral research funded by @cssn.org on exploring discourses of climate delay in the energy transition debate in Colombia’s media as part of this roundtable discussion next week organised by the LAC Research Network at Sussex.

🇨🇴 Looking forward to this talk by former Colombian Minister of the Environment, Susana Muhamad, on the challenge of moving past fossil fuels this Friday at 3pm at the LSE. ➡️ Registration and details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/susana-muh...

An absolute masterclass in how the UK media platforms and normalises far right politics. This is how Farage wins.

We’re very proud of this one.

The Beef Industry Knew Its Climate Impact as Early as 1989 — and Worked to Obfuscate the Science Keep in mind that 74 percent of respondents to a WaPo poll believe — contrary to the evidence — that eating less meat has little or no effect on climate change. sentientmedia.org/beef-industr...

Brazilian indigenous leader Raoni Metuktire, who has been mentioned as a contender for a Nobel Peace Prize, said in an interview that, "he will ask [Lula] not to encourage that oil exploitation project in the Amazon" when the president comes to visit him. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

With the Climate Information Integrity Summit getting underway in Brasilia tomorrow, here's our new @climatessn.bsky.social policy brief exploring climate obstruction actors in Argentina and Brazil & how civil society actors can confront climate obstruction in these countries. 📗: shorturl.at/DzYeM

BIG NEWS: A jury has reached a verdict that Greenpeace entities are liable for over $660 million in damages in our trial against Big Oil company Energy Transfer. This is far from over. We’re going to appeal. And we’re prepared to fight this all the way to victory.

Very exciting news! Sussex University is launching the UK’s first climate justice BA degree in 2026. It will equip students with expertise in climate politics, activism and environmental human rights plus practical green skills to drive change. www.theguardian.com/education/20...