@theguardian.com is killin' it with coverage of #COP30. Big emitters LOVE emissions trading. This piece is consistent with my own research that shows that IETA, which has big fossil as members, and pushes for emissions trading has more delegates than any other NGO at COP *for two decades*

How the disadvantaged are disadvantaged here at #COP30 Great piece featuring insights from two of our leading @cssn.org scholars @daniellefalzon.bsky.social and @maxboykoff.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/1211202...

Mein Report vom Verfahren vor dem Verwaltungsgericht gestern

“We thus have a situation where the government’s policy not only will increase prices after it begins but did so beforehand by causing investors to try to get in first!” www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

#COP30 climate coverage @pik-potsdam.bsky.social discussing overshoot & CDR + major dissent & protest at COP venue + @iea.org stating oil&gas demand will rise w/o major policy change = UNFCCC ill-suited to address true cause of climate crisis: policy obstructionism by fossil-asset owners. 1/

Huge COPs are an equity issue. We don't hear marginalised voices above the din of who can afford the pavilions, flights, comms teams, or hosting. theconversation.com/the-un-clima...

The dominant narrative is that the world is rolling back climate policy. But what does the data say? The latest Oxford Climate Policy Monitor Annual Review from the Oxford Climate Policy Hub tells three key stories. bsg.ox.ac.uk/news/climate...

Bit late to this - but thrilled my @verfassungsblog.de piece on the history of environmental civil disobedience in Australia was cited in Le Roy v Brisbane City Council - finding the council discriminated against Extinction Rebellion based on political belief www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...

1️⃣After tough negotiations, EU environment ministers agreed on their position to amend the EU Climate Law — including a 2040 intermediate target toward climate neutrality by 2050. A hard-fought compromise, and the details show it. 🧵 data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document...

"The multimillionaires..in stark contrast to mere earthlings, saw budget deficits as the most important of the issues it listed, and climate breakdown as the least..They were..far less likely to believe .. that there should be more regulation of oil companies.. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“The atmosphere has a huge historical memory when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions,”said Carlos Milani, a professor of international relations at Rio de Janeiro State U’s Institute of Social and Political Studies. “What happened 30 years ago matters very much” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Reorienting #Climate litigation in a time of backlash, shrinking civic space & challenges to judicial independence Here's our take in Nature w/ Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, Lisa Vanhala, Joana Setzer, Ian Higham & @harrovanasselt.bsky.social Great collaboration! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So many important and interesting issues raised by my @cssn.org colleagues Ruth and Omar, bringing the question of climate obstruction in the global South right up to the present moment. Key for #COP30 drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

In summary, the outlook is grim. It is highly likely that Thwaites Glacier will eventually be lost, which will destabilise adjoining parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, increasing the committed long-term rise in global mean sea level by more than 3 m.

As I detail in Chap 6 of my new book Existential Politics (link in bio), tax policy is climate policy. Case in point👇 #COP30 #UNFCCC

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Wow, sweeping coverage of how the oil and gas industry is seeking to kill lawsuits by states and cities to recoup the costs they've had to spend to deal with climate change-worsened disasters. The oil majors knew the dangers of their products, and lied to us. insideclimatenews.org/news/2610202...

“Two weeks into the ceasefire, more than 20 Palestinians are still being killed on average each day, many of them close to the yellow line. Consequently, very few of the displaced are returning to the area under Israeli control” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Another slammin’episode of @drilledmedia.bsky.social podcast, this on the animal agriculture industry and how it’s avoided climate accountability. Great job colleagues and @amywestervelt.bsky.social Also a video on YouTube! drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

“Much of legacy media relies on the ‘debate’ itself. It’s not the substance of the debate or even the tangible damage the debate causes in the real world that matters — it is the debate itself that counts.” www.deepcutnews.com/p/australian...

There's a whole chapter of my book, Existential Politics, that explains how GHG accounting works and the fundamental conceptual problems with measuring GHGs at the firm level. This change is a drop in the bucket in addressing the issues w carbon accounting. 1/

“The NSW supreme court has struck down a law that had given police expanded powers to prevent protests near places of worship.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

“Its energy roadmap, released on Friday, can’t really be interpreted as anything other than a transparently political document, designed to placate climate deniers that have a stranglehold on significant parts of the state’s governing party.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“Lawyers and activists say these incidents fit a pattern of increased police force against protesters – including so-called ‘less-lethal’ tools such as baton rounds, flash-bang devices and capsicum spray.” 7ampodcast.com.au/episodes/why...

“Global warming from Woodside’s massive Scarborough gas project off Western Australia would lead to 484 additional heat-related deaths in Europe alone this century… our new research has revealed.” theconversation.com/for-the-firs...

“New South Wales police wrongly categorised a “significant” number of incidents as antisemitic, including anti-Palestinian graffiti and verbal abuse of pro-Palestine protesters, a parliamentary inquiry has been told.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

“A crunch is coming. In its annual report, Freedom House, the US-based rights watchdog, found that violence, poll manipulation and repression marred more than 40% of national elections held in 2024.“ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This looks like an excellent analysis of what’s going on in UK #climate politics. It’s truly disheartening, the UK was a lighthouse with its cross-party consensus on climate policy and world-leading institutional setup to enable science-based policy-making. And now it’s falling apart

“However the minister has indicated the government is unlikely to side with the Greens to see the laws passed while the party demands the inclusion of a "climate trigger" that could be used to block coal and gas projects.” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

"to see these uprisings as South Asia’s Arab Spring is misleading. They are not clones of one another, nor do they herald a uniform democratic tide. Each is written in its own dialect ... What unites them is the collapse of patience with elites, what separates them is the path that follows collapse"

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

New today on AUSPUBLAW: @lizhicks.bsky.social analyses the Federal Court’s reliance on the concept of ‘core policy’ in determining Commonwealth duties of care in relation to climate change in Pabai v Commonwealth: www.auspublaw.org/blog/2025/09...

In this post for auspublaw I share some thoughts on the recent Australian Federal Court decision of Pabai v Commonwealth. /1 www.auspublaw.org/home/2025/09...

Yesterday there have been protests for accelerated climate policies around the world. Starting tomorrow, I will post one reason for climate optimism every week to encourage people to keep up the momentum.

'“When you put together all the cases, it becomes apparent that the companies are using quite an aggressive legal strategy,” Bart-Jaap Verbeek said. “The arbitration clauses in the contracts the government signed with them allowed them to do this.”' Story via @rishpardikar.bsky.social.

“Different rules apply. After an act of violence, Democrats must be gracious, empathetic and call for calm on all sides, while Republicans can mock the victims, blame only one side and demand more violence.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Those lofty words aged like milk this week as Albanese's government revealed its plans to water down Australia's transparency laws and make secrets easier to keep.” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

“The New South Wales environment watchdog sat on a report for four years linking elevated levels of lead in children’s blood to current mining, and promised mining companies they would not do any “finger-pointing”, new documents tabled in state parliament show.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

A really clear account of the cost of English language dominance in science to non-native speakers, Indigenous knowledge holders and to understandings of #climate and #biodiversity insideclimatenews.org/news/0209202...

A column on a target www.theguardian.com/environment/...

There's a giant gas tank leaking methane in Darwin and the regulators all know but have kept it secret and now won't do anything to make Santos repair it. Oh and CSIRO knew too but didn't tell anyone. STRAYA www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

“The rise in high-fronted SUVs poses a clear and growing threat to public safety, especially for children,” states the report. “With no benefit to society, it’s time for lawmakers at all levels to act.” Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. Cap SUV/truck hood heights. And ban unsafe designs.

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“Making these copyright cases rather than privacy and defamation means that the public interest in the footage and any consumer rights to know, as well as animal rights, can rightly be ignored. This is clearly not the purpose of the Copyright Act…” www.uts.edu.au/news/2025/08...

Every country in the world that's less than 2% of the world's emissions adds up to 36% of the world's emissions (greater than China's proportion) So we're clear: it is WORSE for a world leader to say something like than to start blabbering about CO2 being plant food. This stuff *sounds convincing*

The same groups advising on how to disarm the intergenerational economic bombs that have started to explode are the same groups that helped set them, writes Amy Remeikis.

Australia's two greatest features - abundant free public toilets and solar power - in a single building

In the fight against slavery abolitionists eventually prevailed over slave owners. The fight wasnt won in the sensible centre but by ‘extremists’ who risked everything to save the lives of others. It scares me to think how the ABC would cover such a debate today. theconversation.com/friday-essay...

“This seems to be a situation where a very narrow chain of reasoning around property law leads to a really perverse outcome when it comes to freedom of speech and freedom of political communication.” www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-cri...