Interesting article on cigarette filters. Says they don’t protect smokers - all they do is pollute our lands and waters and they should be banned www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...

Saudi Arabia’s former climate negotiator Mohammed Al Sabban is still denying humans are causing climate change. Despite the more nuanced rhetoric from the current crop of Saudi negotiators arij.net/investigatio...

More than 400 people suspected to have died from extreme heat so far this summer in Phoenix, Arizona, and surrounding county - Temperatures have at least 110F (43C) nearly every day in August #climatecrisis Story by @ninalakhani.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Once again, governments have failed to reach agreement on a treaty to reduce plastics pollution. The US, Russia, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries would not accept a deal that limitied plastic production. Others chose no deal over their bad deal. www.climatechangenews.com/2025/08/15/p...

No mention of climate change (or fire service cuts) in this BBC article on a big fire in England. This failure is why all reporters - not just climate reporters - need knowledge of climate change. Journalists need to say why things are happening www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This article alongside an advert for the Total oil company 🤦🏻‍♂️ www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/08/...

The EU doesn't buy any energy and no intention to. Private companies based in EU countries do. So a European Commission promise to buy US energy isn't worth much, is it? But it allows Trump to tell his voters and fossil fuel financial backers that he got the EU to buy US gas.

Well-connected Brazilian climate campaigners here blaming Lula's chief of staff - Rui Costa - for the government's pro-oil stance. With finance minister Haddad and environment minister Silva on the side of the climate. piaui.folha.uol.com.br/cop30-andre-...

In a major speech making the case for the “unstoppable” shift from fossil fuels towards renewables, Guterres urged policymakers around the world to supercharge the new “clean energy era” despite geopolitical turmoil.

This is very sad news👇

The world’s top court has just opened the door to compensation from countries responsible for climate crisis www.climatechangenews.com/2025/07/23/w...

Oil companies end their involvement with the Science-Based Targets Initiative's oil standard as - in Shell's words - it "did not reflect the industry view". I would argue it should reflect the science rather than the industry view! Story from @kenzabryan.ft.com www.ft.com/content/21c8...

"The move has reinvigorated Bolsonaro’s leftwing rivals, given Lula a bounce in the polls and prompted a wave of public anger, largely focused on the Bolsonaro clan who have spent years portraying themselves as flag-loving nationalists." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

This is an unhinged front page from the UK’s Daily Mirror. Giving the hundreds of deaths and the boost to beach economies equal prominence

🌎 Four months before the climate conference in Belém, I interviewed the #COP30 President André Corrêa do Lago for @climatechangenews.com The story, worked with @meganrowling.bsky.social and @joeloclimate.bsky.social: climatechangenews.com/2025/07/09/c... Some highlights 🧵

I remember certain #GCF board members warning of this exact issue – twelve years ago. Good to see it’s being addressed. @joeloclimate.bsky.social #climatefinance

Big milestone in Poland, where renewables overtake coal www.ft.com/content/ae92...

Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030. Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.

The BBC pretending Kneecap aren’t playing at 4pm on the West Holts Stage #Glastonbury

London Zoo highlighting a huge problem (top) and a completely inadequate solution (bottom). To keep plastic from the ocean, we need to stop making so much of it - not just cleaning up beaches.

Spoke to many people about finding accomodation for #COP30 and found three ways to get it: 1. Know someone with an aunt in Belem 2. Be a huge Christian NGO with links to the Anglican Church in Belem 3. Be part of the Brazilian government and get the military to let you sleep in their houses

Spoke to many people about finding accomodation for #COP30 and found three ways to get it: 1. Know someone with an aunt in Belem 2. Be a huge Christian NGO with links to the Anglican Church in Belem 3. Be part of the Brazilian government and get the military to let you sleep in their houses

The US has been entirely absent from these climate talks in Bonn

Yesterdays update from the Bonn climate talks: - Turkiye makes pitch for COP31 - What happened to fossil fuel transition? - Saudi Arabia opposes budget increase for UN’s climate arm www.climatechangenews.com/2025/06/25/b...

How can we get the minerals we need for the energy transition in a way that’s fair to the people mining them and their communities? Find out at this #LCAW event now: www.youtube.com/live/3NjfKqs...

If extreme weather had a capital, it would be Mumbai. We’ve got it all: floods, sea-level rise, cyclones, heat islands. Mumbaikars are sick of being called resilient and being caught off-guard. But forecasting the monsoon is fraught, more so with climate change. My dispatch for @carbonbrief.org👇🏽

NEW: Campaigners to issue mass call for reforms to rescue UN climate process Groups want governments to make decisions by voting, not just through consensus, to enable more ambition in negotiations under fire for not delivering enough climate action

Absolutely packed room for an event on scaling up adaptation in national climate plans. Is adaptation no longer the Cinderella of the climate debate?

Europe’s green flying plans depend on used cooking oil. But can we be sure about what’s in the barrel? #earthinvestigations @journalismfund.bsky.social

Yet Polands state utility just wants to turn Europe’s biggest coal mine into a lake. What a waste! www.climatechangenews.com/2024/11/01/p...

E-fuels “indispensable for modern defence readiness” – German arms maker "As fossil fuel supply chains become increasingly vulnerable in the event of conflict, ability to produce CO2-neutral synthetic fuels locally is critical," Rheinmetall says

The annual mid-year climate talks in Bonn have got off to a bad start with negotiators unable to agree on what should be on the agenda www.climatechangenews.com/2025/06/16/b...

AGM at Mitsubishi Corp on june 20th. The norwegian oil fund (NBIM) owns shares worth $1.1 billion (1.33%) and intends to vote AGAINST: "Amend Articles to Add Provision on Disclosure of Financial Impact resulting from Failure to Meet 1.5 Degree Celsius Target under the Paris Agreement" Why??

Reminder that oil tankers can be stopped but the sun and wind can’t. Renewables are energy security.

Spotted at London Victoria train station. The journey to the airport is not the environmentally damaging part of air travel!

It looks like this year's Hajj has passed without heat-related deaths. Unlike last year, when 1,300 people died. It was slightly cooler this year, plus tougher border checks and extra cooling measures. www.climatechangenews.com/2024/07/03/s...

Statistics show deforestation caused by Bolivian fires are soaring. “Why is no one talking about this?” I’ve been thinking. Luckily the Gecko Project are m.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyyg...

I asked Macron what he thought about the US skipping the UN Ocean Conference. He said UNOC would pass the High Seas Treaty & "it will be enforced, no choice." "We have 92% of the property rights, you cannot block with 8% of the property rights, even when you live in one big flat of the building."

Watching BBC News coverage of #UNOceanSummit over my Wetherspoons breakfast. They’ve cut away from Lula to go to analysts talking about Prince William’s speech. Lulas in charge of a major country - William is just a celeb!

📢 Join our in-person London Climate Action Week event with @climatechangenews.com, where we’ll be asking: how can the world rebuild trust in mineral supply chains? Register here: www.business-humanrights.org/en/events/br...

'Copacabana pode, mas Amazônia não?', questiona Barbalho sobre exploração de petróleo na Margem Equatorial oglobo.globo.com/economia/not...

Greta Thunberg on why it’s essential for climate activists to speak out on Gaza: "The reason I am a climate activist is not because I want to protect trees. I'm a climate activist because I care about human, planetary well-being and those are extremely interlinked."

The EU just told finance companies they can't call their funds "sustainable" if they're invested in fossil fuels. So companies got rid of fossil fuels from some funds. But for others, they just dropped words like "sustainable" from the name. www.climatechangenews.com/2025/06/03/a...

The @iea.org's "World Energy Outlook' massively revised down its assumption of the amount of fossil gas burned globally for all of its scenarios, between the 2023 report and the 2024 report (this is true even for the assumed use of CCS)

We’re soon going to need a successor to “keep 1.5 alive”. Keep 1.6 in the mix? Keep 2 in view?

Some companies with even more responsibility for climate change than RWE: Saudi Aramco, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Gazprom, BP, Shell, Coal India, Pemex, CHN Energy, CNPC, ADNOC, Peabody, Total, Petrobras, BHP, Eni, Petronas, Pertamina, Lukoil, Anglo American, Equinor carbonmajors.org/Entities

1.5C is no longer a distant threat — it’s a near-term possibility, forecasters warn.

Comment: The claim that “women are 14 times more likely to die in disasters” is often repeated, but it doesn’t come from global data. It’s based on a single 1991 event in Bangladesh.

Cobalt and nickel free batteries are booming, which is good news for rainforests. And reduces the truthfulness of the DRC child labour criticisms of electric vehicles www.climatechangenews.com/2025/05/29/c...

🧵4/4 Some great background reporting on this by @joeloclimate.bsky.social & @climatechangenews.com www.climatechangenews.com/2025/05/23/b... Full letter: cop30.br/en/brazilian...