“Reaffirms the Paris Agreement goal to (..) limit the temperature increase to 1.5C” What an absolutely useless document, why even bother stating a goal that we’re going to sail past probably next year? It also doesn’t contain a single mention of oil, coal, (natural) gas or fossil fuels. Brilliant.

COP30 BREAKING NEWS The presidency has just dropped a new package of texts including the "global mutirão" cover, which makes no mention of fossil fuels or roadmaps Here's my snap analysis (pic) unfccc.int/sites/def...

🚨Worrying news in Brussels. The EU Commission is proposing to quietly slash Europe’s vital #pesticide safety laws – granting unlimited approvals & sidelining independent science. This puts nature, workers safety & people's health at risk – just when stronger protections are needed. #FoodSafety

This is utterly outrageous by the Group of Eight unis, and deeply insulting and undermining for environment and climate experts trying their hardest to achieve a more sustainable future for society. Shameful stuff.

🚨The global rise of #UltraProcessedFoods isn’t accidental – it’s powered by a corporate playbook. ⚕️A must-read @thelancet.com paper maps how junk food giants block regulation, control narratives & reshape food policy in their favour. And what we can do about it👇 👉 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

To those who advocate deregulation... "Deregulation is a euphemism for destroying the effective capacity of the state to protect us from chancers, conmen and criminals. Empowered to cut corners, fishy businesses outcompete responsible ones and we begin to shift towards an organised crime economy."

We need to be pushing back on this hard. Bloody centre-right (EPP) parties all over Europe are supporting this stripping away of rights. Our digital rights are currently the envy of many, we don’t need to remove them in the name of corporate profits. www.techpolicy.press/why-civil-so...

The European Commission seems to believe that rights are an obstacle to competitiveness and innovation, but real innovation means finding ways to make new technologies work for everyone’s benefit, writes Amnesty Tech's Joshua Franco.

Listening to some world-famous "climate leaders" and I’m absolutely exhausted by how we’ve strapped ourselves inside a careening plane made up of neoliberal climate solutions. Basically, they’d rather we die than divorce capitalism. The parallels w the Democratic party could not be more obvious.

People really don't understand what an extraordinary energy revolution China is creating right now. They're installing 1GW of solar a DAY. It's not slowing down either. They just peaked their emissions and we could see them phase out coal by the end of the decade.

That's more than 1,100 jobs lost at the CSIRO over the last two years. "Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third." This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government. www.smh.com.au/national/csi...

"Unfortunately, the 'good' models, the more realistic ones, are the ones where the AMOC weakens most... even for an intermediate emissions scenario, the probability of shutting down the AMOC is way above 50%... we will probably pass the point of no return for an AMOC shutdown in the next 10-20yrs" 😱

Pretty remarkable how high Australia sits on the scale for lifestyle carbon emissions globally - and how little this gets mentioned in domestic climate discourse. hotorcool.org/publications...

"The pace of change is already at about a 30% decline. This just tells you how critically urgent carbon emissions reductions are, because we need to give this overturning circulation every chance of not tipping over what seems to be a very perilous & near tipping point" #ClimateEmergency #Antarctica

“COP30 in Belém may well be remembered as the moment that the world accepted the leading role of China in addressing humanity’s most important challenge.” “China is helping enable the energy transition, while the U.S. tries to force countries to buy U.S. oil and gas. Global trends favor China.”

The Pacific Islands pavillion at COP30 just had to close due to flooding. Seriously...

All (climate) COPs are bastards. I've been threatening to write this for years. Here it finally is. "Just as communities, acting together in concert for common security, can make the cops obsolete, a globe of communities acting in concert for the climate can make the COPs obsolete."

Thank you for writing this, @timhollo.bsky.social. I've been very critical of COPs for a long time, and you've articulated the fundamental issues with precision. "A globe of sovereign states is no true globe...a globe of communities acting in concert for the climate can make the COPs obsolete."

Not new information, apparently, but TIL: "Australia arrests more climate protesters than any other country in the world"

“Flooded homes lose value. Overheated cities become uninhabitable. Entire asset classes are degrading in real time, which translates to loss of value, business interruption, & market devaluation on a systemic level"- Günther Thallinger @kmac & I dig insurance: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...

I’m on @thedigradio.bsky.social. We talk about the intertwined histories of capitalism and extraction; the origins of OPEC & new geopolitics of supply chains; what I think about degrowth; green development in the Global South; green economic populism in US; Chinese industrial policy & much more

Global average temperature update through October.

Climate change is the world's most pressing issue because it makes everything else worse. It enables dictators, it drives inflation, it makes survival harder for the poorest people in the world. And the new data are clear: the rate of climate change is accelerating.

First frogs died then people got sick wapo.st/47Slsij the story of amphibian declines in Panama by @dinograndoni.bsky.social covering some of our release trials.

The RATE of CO₂ increase keeps increasing. It's not exponential (like the @clubofrome.org 1972 'Limit's to growth' projection), but there is little indication of the growth rate stabilizing (let alone decreasing) any time soon either.

Just the hugest congrats to @greenpeace.no - who've had their historic win against three massive oil fields confirmed in a court of appeal y'day 100,000 will die early if the fossil fuels in these fields are dug up and burned -->> www.greenpeace.org/norway/nyhet...

More big news today as the Land and Environment Court makes orders, by consent, overturning approval of Glencore’s Ulan Coal Mine expansion. Johnson Legal proudly represented Mudgee District Environment Group, in their fight for a clean, healthy and safe environment. www.smh.com.au/environment/...

It's day 5 of #COP30 and here's what I'm watching today: 1️⃣ Partnerships for a Just Transition: Accelerating Action on Methane Reduction and Planning for the Transition Away from Oil and Gas - 10:30am in the Nigeria Pavilion Interested to see if there are any announcements to be made at this event.

Assessments of government action on climate change—and public desire for climate action—should always explicitly consider how much cajoling and lobbying and pressure from oil and gas there is to do nothing. This is a fight; not (just) a technological transition. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I post this and then five minutes later I read this, then EU throwing away its own economic advantage “while China accelerates its efforts, Europe risks slowing down, seemingly forgetting that climate principles and economic prosperity are intertwined.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Can anytime explain to me why all countries don’t enforce a carbon price, including on all imports for all products (if it hasn’t already been paid), and especially countries with lower emissions relative to others? #climate

And here is the second, 'Mr. Hyde' part of today's votes - where the EPP sides with the far-right, ranging from the ECR, to Orban & Le Pen's 'Patriots for Europe' and the AfD's 'Europe of Sovereign Nations' for a centre-right to far-right majority on the Omnibus 'deregulation':

🚨For the first time, @europarl.europa.eu has adopted a legislative mandate thanks to an alliance between conservatives & the far right This vote marks a dangerous turning point for EU democracy. When anti-EU forces & lobbies write the rules, accountability dies corporatejustice.org/news/press-r...

Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead. Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

Bullshit. Or, in Rubio's case, reptile shit. In the first half of 2025 there was a surge in US imports of Russian commodities, including fertilisers, certain radioactive materials, precious metals, aircraft engine parts, plywood and soya beans. (see below)

"certain forces in the West are less concerned with the global climate future than with protecting their own interests in the emerging green competition" - punchy editorial from China's Global Times www.globaltimes.cn/page/202511/...

Say thanks to @eppgroup.bsky.social for throwing away EU leadership on sustainability. We were going to embed transparency on company impacts into the entire EU economy and its supply chains, but now it’ll probably only apply to companies making €450m/yr. www.politico.eu/article/far-...

📢Global Carbon Budget 2025📢 Fossil CO2 emissions continue to rise in 2025 while the terrestrial carbon sink recovers to pre-El Niño strength. The key findings are covered in two reports this year: * ESSDD (preprint): essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es... * Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/

@eppgroup.bsky.social should be deeply ashamed. Working with the extreme right to disband green policies which will likely lead to a worsening of the climate crisis. www.politico.eu/article/far-...

This is why people who don’t vote infuriate me. I simply don’t understand deciding to give no input on how society should work. It’s also extremely privileged. If you don’t vote, IMO you void all rights to complain how anything in society works.

The @albomp.bsky.social govt's lack of preparedness & reluctance to provide material support in the face of a devastating, climate-induced algal bloom disaster stands in ugly contrast to their unceasing approvals of Coal & Gas projects & accommodation of industry-friendly conditions #NorthWestShelf

Impossible to pick just one picture from tonight’s northern lights show, but this one stood out as it got so bright that the snow was glowing pink🤩

I really need to get to bed, but I just poked my head out the back door again. This is the view from my deck. All of this is looking south. When the geomagnetic storms are like this, the oval overshoots me and stretches into the US, which is why so many are seeing it tonight. #aurora

A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people. Sound efficient? HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social

Just here to remind you that, with “net zero”, we’re having a meaningless argument about a meaningless frame in order to distract from the single most important and meaningful issue confronting us. This is politics today. We should stop wasting time and energy and build a new system.

The new IEA data confirm the Emissions Gap Report 2025 message: Global efforts remain far short of what’s required. To stay near 2°C, emissions must still fall roughly 5 – 6 % each year this decade, far faster than the trajectory reflected in current national plans. www.iea.org/reports/...

This is such a good thread on SO2, IMO2020 and stuff. Sadly interrupted by (my) comments. I hope, Daniel finds the time to create a real top-level thread that displays in 1 string of posts, and can be extracted by the threadreader app on a single page too.

🇪🇺 #Deregulation plans break #EU law and weaken social and environmental protections, legal scholars warn “rolling back existing #humanrights and #environmental protections without proper justification.” @euobserver.com @alemanno.bsky.social euobserver.com/green-econom...

Finally driving my first EV and can’t be the only middle aged dad now *obsessed* with regenerative braking and getting as many miles as humanly possible.

Almost half a billion people live within 1km of fossil fuels sites incl drilling wells, processing plants & pipelines Most active projects have created heavily contaminated areas where low-income & marginalized groups bear a disproportionate burden of pollution www.theguardian.com/environment/...