Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum.

„Spirit of Dialogue“? Bullshit! As @campaxorg.bsky.social show with a projection on the ski slopes of #Davos right now, the WEF and its guest of honor Donald Trump stand for the Spirit of Plutocracy.

"You didn't give me the peace prize therefore I can start any war I want" is true lunacy. The inability of the American media to treat this man's clear unfitness for office with anything resembling seriousness will go down as a black mark in history.

Fuckers

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🚨 BREAKING: New York and Hawaiʻi are seeking to make fossil fuel companies pay for skyrocketing home insurance rates in the wake of wildfires and other extreme weather events linked to climate change.

Yes, that does say it all.

UBS is a platinum sponsor of Zurich's first climate week. Meanwhile, the Swiss bank rolls back its climate commitments, still finances fossil fuel expansion and ranks last in @shareaction.bsky.social's latest environmental scorecard. My latest blog at swissclimaterambles.substack.com/p/ubs-europe...

I still remember Ma telling me five years ago that if these insurrectionists on January 6th were Black, then they would be dead. Five years later, they are almost all alive, out of jail, and their guy is back in the White House. If that’s not White privilege, then I don’t know what is.

The astonishing self-harm of European auto industry continues. Trying to turn your home market into a museum for last century cars means you might squeeze a few more years of revenue from them, but at the cost of obsolescence as consumers at home and in export markets vote with their feet.

🚨 BREAKING: We’re outside the Royal Courts of Justice on the day that 100+ Filipino claimants are suing Shell in the UK, for the damage caused by Typhoon Odette (over 400 dead, 1.4m homes lost) - in a first-of-its-kind legal case! Shell: pay your debt for Typhoon Odette 🇵🇭🔥

Amazing: Solar prices have dropped so much that Pakistan is now facing an #LNG glut and has asked Qatar to sell off 24 cargoes which it contracted. #StrandedAssets www.thenews.com.pk/latest/13518...

HUGE WIN: UK Government pulls $1.15bn in support for the controversial Mozambique LNG project - putting pressure on the Dutch Govt to pull out too. @financialtimes.com story: www.ft.com/content/b2ea...

No joke: Switzerland to approve export credits for a giant new gas power plant in #SaudiArabia – the 10th such project since it pledged to no longer finance fossil fuels at the Glasgow COP. My latest post on #SwissClimateRambles calls out the responsible political actors. tinyurl.com/CHKlimaZerst...

Swiss politicians file a criminal complaint over a Rolex table clock and engraved gold bar presented to President Trump by business executives .

China exported $60B of batteries Jan-Sept 2025 - by comparison US exported $29B of LNG in 2024. And while all that LNG went up in smoke, those batteries are going to keep working for many years

Switzerland ranks a modest #26 on the new Climate Change Performance Index, behind the EU, Morocco, Pakistan, Nigeria or India. Among other things, "the experts criticize the absence of rules for the financial sector, to stop financing and insuring fossil fuel production and expansion." ccpi.org

Switzerland has just approved export credits for the 1,336 MW Kozienice gas project in #Poland. This saddles a country rapidly turning towards renewables with dirty, expensive power and exposes the Swiss position at #COP30 as a hoax. My comment at swissclimaterambles.substack.com/p/switzerlan....

"The fossil fuel industry & its state sponsors have argued for decades that human development requires fossil fuels. But we know that under the guise of economic growth, they have instead served greed and profits..." said @amnesty.org's Agnès Callamard www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The @iea.org’s World Energy Outlook is here ❌ Ignore the hype on an extended shelf life for fossil fuels Renewables + electrification = an energy revolution ⚡ Let’s unpack what it all means 🧵1/8

🤡OIL DEMAND WILL KEEP RISING🤡 What are the IEA assumptions that make rising oil demand so improbable?

🚨 Our new analysis reveals that Lloyd's is bucking the insurance market trend by persisting in growing its fossil fuel business. Its fossil fuel premiums continue to grow at a rate of +2.4% per year vs. -2.8% for the rest of the global insurance market. Read more: reclaimfinance.org/site/en/2025...

"As a rich country with a proud environmental tradition, world class climate science and active NGOs, Switzerland could play a leading role in fighting climate change." It's shameful that Swiss climate policies are undermined by short-sighted export promotion instead. lecourrier.ch/2025/11/02/d...

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

Switzerland plans to extend export credits for a new gas project in Cote d’Ivoire – the 7th since it pledged to stop funding such projects. Meanwhile, Swiss support for clean energy projects is stalling. My commentary at swissclimaterambles.substack.com/p/swiss-expo.... #SwissClimateRambles

New data from our Global #CoalPlant Tracker is out. A few key trends: 📉 Countries w/coal power under dev't hit a record low — only 33 remain since the Paris Agreement. 📉 New proposals fell below 2 GW in Q3 2025 — 85% below recent averages. Explore the data ⤵️ globalenergymonitor.org/projects/glo...

NEW: GLOBAL RENEWABLES OVERTAKES COAL How the heck did that happen so quickly?!...🧵

A dark-money MAGA group targets a leading insurer because it (wait for it) “recognizes the reality of climate change”. Will insurers abandon basic principles to please Trump and his fossil fuel backers? My commentary on the #SwissClimateRambles blog. swissclimaterambles.substack.com/p/will-insur...?

China has explicitly named solar, wind and EVs at the heart of its NDC. Solar and wind are not a scam, they are the real deal💪

BBC News, "The BBC World Service has compiled material on over 160 cases where children have been shot in Gaza and found that in 95 cases the child was shot in the head or the chest" "In most these cases, the victim was under 12 years old"

When the world's biggest insurer says climate change has pushed traditional home insurance to its limits, it's already too late to start preparing. And we are in no way ready for a post-insurance world. Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

#SolarPower is growing faster than any other power source in history, and is silently transforming the global energy sector. If you’re hungry for some #GoodNews, read this brief summary of the latest evidence from @ember-energy.org and Bill McKibben. swissclimaterambles.substack.com/p/how-solar-...

Excellent letter in the FT from @reclaimfinance.org’s Ariel le Bourdonnec. #InsureOurFuture share.google/nPRZubOcCvwf...

The summer is over - and for about 16,600 people across 854 European cities that doesn't mean autumn comes, but death. People who would still be alive if it wasn't for our burning of fossil fuels. - New study with @lshtm.bsky.social www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

This is a direct result of EU's carbon tariffs. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Robert Redford didn’t mince words about the fossil fuel industry. 😢

NEW: IEA reiterates ‘no new oil and gas needed’ if global warming is limited to 1.5C (but this time, it only says so quietly) 🧵quick thread www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/6

Muhammad is 7 years old and one of 2.38 million children in Gaza. I have never met him but am standing up for his right to live. #LetChildrenLive! #ChildrenOfGaza

By withdrawing from @sciencebasedtargets.org (SBTi), the gold standard setter of corporate climate targets, Swiss Re has just made a strong case for stronger climate regulation. Check out my comment on the #SwissClimateRambles blog at swissclimaterambles.substack.com/p/swiss-re-d....

"Last year, more than 90 percent of wind and solar projects commissioned worldwide produced power more cheaply than the cheapest available fossil-fuel alternative."

Ethics be dammed: if local laws allow it, our insurers can underwrite it, the new boss of Lloyd's says. Will Lloyd's, the insurer of the Atlantic slave trade, soon underwrite forced labor in NKorea and Turkmenistan? Prison labor in China? Cluster bombs in Myanmar and Syria? tinyurl.com/bp2s7der

In a pioneering #ClimateJustice case, Indonesian islanders are trying to hold cement giant #Holcim, Switzerland's biggest carbon emitter, to account for the climate damages it has caused. Read my report from today's court proceedings at open.substack.com/pub/swisscli...?

University of California should not settle with Trump. Our democracy is at stake as Trump attacks the courts, lawyers, the media, the civil service, science, and universities. UC should sue, not settle. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

To be clear what happened here. Israel bombed a hospital. They waited for paramedics and first responders to arrive. Then they bombed it again. This is known as the 'double tap'. You are watching unfathomable evil, armed and facilitated by the West.

Strong statement on the #GazaFamine: "It is a famine within a few 100 meters of food in a fertile land, watched over by drones and the most advanced military technology in history."

“In a report released this year, the Watson School of International and Public Affairs’ costs of war project said more journalists had been killed in Gaza than in both world wars, the Vietnam war, the wars in Yugoslavia and the US war in Afghanistan combined.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Our colleagues Al Jazeera reporters Anas al-Sharif & Mohammed Qraiqeh, & cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal & Moamen Aliwa have been killed in a strike on a tent for journalists near Al Shifa hospital. They worked relentlessly through bombing & hunger to document this war. Please remember them

Very bad news: US insurer breaks its climate commitment by insuring a coal power plant in Vietnam, ‪@tbij.bsky.social‬ reports. Climate hypocrites just when we need some spine!