US opposes mentioning rule of law in the #UNSC: " #Somalia circulated a draft presidential statement on the rule of law on 17 January. ... the draft was withdrawn on 22 January. It appears that the #US indicated that it was opposed to the text" 👇 www.securitycouncilreport.org/whatsinblue/...

"Even before ICE cut its training schedule to just 47 days last year — a length, remember absurdly chosen to honor Donald Trump as the 47th president — ICE’s “1801” deportation officers were among the least educated and least trained federal law enforcement in the country" 👇

NEW | Wind and solar generated more power than fossil fuels in the EU for the FIRST time ever. 🌪️ and ☀️ made up a RECORD 30% of 🇪🇺 electricity, up from 20% just five years ago. https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/european-electricity-review-2026/

A milestone we didn't want to see - Russia has made one trillion euros on fossil fuel exports since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. All the more reason to shift away from dependence on dirty energy and to strengthen sanctions on Russia.

"Trump’s express revisionism is more dangerous than his predecessor’s familiar hypocrisy. For all the double standards, the core tenets of the post-World War II legal order need U.S. buy-in": a peek at what spheres-of-influence politics entails across various fragile contexts 👇

"edited for length and clarity" 👇 & very well so, from the headline to the conclusion that what’s troubling "is not just that the President has used force in clear violation of domestic law and international law but that it’s clear he couldn’t care less about the fact that he’s breaking these rules"

This piece by @attackerman.bsky.social on both past & contemporary censorship is very much worth your time, whether in 2025 or next year

"A lot of people who are worried about democracy in America want to relax the constraints on military subordination. [...] [but] the military can’t save us from the civilians we elect" Very interesting points from @kschake.bsky.social on civ-mil relations 👇, and it comes w/ some silver lining...

"The empowerment of Smotrich, an energetic settler leader and a proponent of annexation, as both finance minister and de facto West Bank governor has allowed him to advance far-reaching institutional changes. ... To have any real [...] impact, foreign governments will have to be much bolder." 👇

On the weaponization of energy and information👇 "The EU and its Member States should counter Russian energy-related disinformation with a dedicated, coordinated approach. ... Member States should break decisively with Russian fossil exports and communicate this shift through a positive narrative"

Since everyone is asking for "data-driven analysis", @data.ft.com went all in 😉 👇

"the preliminary damage and economic loss estimate for the hurricane is $48 to 52 billion" in #Jamaica On a nominal GDP of some 20 billion. www.accuweather.com/en/hurricane...

This is about long-term sea leve lrise, but "highly likely", "committed" & "more than 3m" are all grim news 👇 As per the summary: "Immediate and sustained climate change mitigation (decarbonization) offers the best hope of delaying this ice loss" &avoiding initiating sth similar in East Antarctica

The Weathering Risk Peace Pillar session at #BCSC2025 is HAPPENING NOW. Session info: berlin-climate-security-conference.de/en/weatherin... 📹 WATCH LIVE: adelph.it/BCSC25Livestream

Opening the #BCSC2025 panel "Bridging the Gap: Innovative climate finance for fragile states", Almut Wieland-Karimi emphasizes that the countries least responsible for climate change are the most vulnerable & receive the least money. We need to make finance fit the context, not the other way around

UP NEXT at #BCSC2025 Don’t miss our next plenary session - “Bridging the gap: Innovative climate finance for fragile states”, feat. speakers from @greenclimate.fund & more. Session info - berlin-climate-security-conference.de/en/bridging-... 📹 WATCH LIVE: adelph.it/BCSC25Livestream

German @diplo.de State Secretary von Geyr kicks off #BCSC2025, underlining that climate change negatively affects all three core German interests: security, freedom, and prosperity - meaning that the Climate, Peace and Security nexus will become more important & Germany will invest in addressing it

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Today, the annual #UNSC debate on #WPS takes place, against a backdrop of violence against children & women in armed conflicts surging. It quadrupled btw 2023-2024 compared w/ 2021-2022, with 80% of child deaths & 70% of women's deaths recorded in #Gaza alone 👇 www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Holy smoke. This is something else: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o.... If you read anything today, read this. Just ordered the book.

"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"

An interesting synthesis of how geopolitics, the ecological crisis, technological change, demography and populism intersect & boost the need for cooperation even while they currently seem to make it harder 👇 dansmithsblog.com/2025/09/22/f...

To be consistent w/ limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees, governments collectively need to produce less than half of the fossil fuels they are planning for 2030 (5 years from now) and then double down to halve production again by 2050, @unep.org, @sei.org, @climateanalytics.org & @iisd.org show 👇

"We are missing the peace in climate action " 👇: a great overview by @nazaninemoshiri.bsky.social in the @newhumanitarian.bsky.social on the importance of the Climate, Peace and Security agenda, in #Africa and beyond. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...

The Gaza strip’s population, serially uprooted, starved and bombed, is reeling from a war whose cruelty has few parallels in modern history. www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...

"Before the earthquake, Afghanistan had 23 million people in need, many suffering from acute food insecurity and lacking basic health care. So the resources that exist are very stretched." IRC Afghanistan Director Sherine Ibrahim on @npr.org with @jsummers.bsky.social: www.npr.org/2025/09/01/n...

Lieber noch einen Kilometer Stadtautobahn mehr 🫠

Technical question: does GPT 5 rely on the average or the median spelling of US states by tech bros?

Scientists for the first time have attributed a number of deaths due to #climate change to the recent heatwave in #Europe. Heatwaves kill. But climate change increases death toll by making heatwaves even hotter & more frequent. These are literally thousands of people who would still live.

Latest @climatediplo.bsky.social newsletter 👇, featuring - new report on Climate, Peace and Environmental Resilience in the #Asia #Pacific - podcast on water diplomacy & climate finance in South & Central Asia - LCAW event on green finance in fragile contexts climate-diplomacy.org/magazine/coo...

Later today, the #UNSC will discuss how "to strengthen international awareness of the link between critical #minerals and insecurity in #Africa and to identify actionable policy measures to address the issue", convened by #SierraLeone 👇 www.securitycouncilreport.org/whatsinblue/...

No surprises here - #Arctic Ocean stripes are off the scale. The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else in the world. #ShowYourStripes ➡️ Explore your own climate change stripes from around the world! showyourstripes.info (Global) and observablehq.com/@climatecent... (U.S.) What's in your area?

ICYMI: very nice read on Moldbug 👇 "Whatever gift #Yarvin has for attracting attention, his work does not survive scrutiny. It is full of spurious syllogisms and arguments retconned to match his jaundiced intuitions." Comes across as rather whiny & incoherent ... www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

"There is a forecast 70% chance that the five-year average warming for 2025-2029 will be more than 1.5°C, according to the report. This is up from 47% in last year’s report (for the 2024-2028 period)", driving heatwaves, extreme rainfall events, droughts, rising seas etc. 👇 wmo.int/news/media-c...

"What you can say about the new aid plan is that this is way of moving from an ad hoc and chaotic deprivation strategy to a more systematized and regularized one", Rob Blecher summarizes in good update on the military, diplomatic and humanitarian situation 👇

Over the last 50 years, temperatures have been warming across most land areas during the month of May. However, there is also some spatial variability (not too surprising). Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...).

Great episode analyzing the latest clash between #India & #Pakistan 👇 Much of the military action remains murky amid both sides claiming victory, but the sense that domestic politics rather than strategy drives dynamics is uncomfortable wrt/ the likely next clash www.crisisgroup.org/asia/south-a...

Pope Leo XIV's Inaugural Homily will be pored over by people much more expert than me, but a couple of things struck. First - a warning against being "an autocrat". Sadly no reaction shot from JD Vance.

"it’s really the combination of authoritarian political institutions and an economy based on fossil fuel extraction that seem to make authoritarian regimes incapable of developing strong climate change mitigation policies" 👇 Plausible, though I wonder whether it's not ultimately a ? of rationality

A nice overview on the history and dynamics of and incentives in the #Kashmir conflict 👇 TL;DR: While #India & #Pakistan have managed to limit escalation, bouts of fighting have achieved very little

Great synthesis 👇 on where negotiations stand: the #US proposal (v vague on key issues), the response by #Ukraine & #Europeans, the positional adjustments on all sides, the #Trump administration's (potential mis-)reading of the #Russian position & interest, and its internal frictions. Listen in!

"the EU has a unique opportunity to show even greater soft-power leadership – standing in contrast to Chinese transactionalism and US isolationism", @casparhobhouse.bsky.social writes 👇, and the policy is starting to pay off in terms of climate ambition, prices for renewable energy & derisking

Good to see this new polling getting some coverage. It's a global survey of business executives, which shows 97% support a fast and direct shift away from fossil fuels. More info here: 🔗 powering-up-business-poll.com #PoweringUpPoll

incredible scenes when you have a president who hasn't achieved object permanence

No delusional broligarchs spending their weekends feeding the state into the woodchipper. No kow-tows required. No tariffs organized around a personal favour system. @spignal.bsky.social lists a few things going for #Europe 👇, though you'll have to cope w/ more free time, free speech and rule of law

"The abrupt #US turn to #protectionism offers a chance to strengthen the international role of the #euro as a global reserve currency, and of euro assets as an appealing haven. #Europe has the motive, means and opportunity to do it. The question is if it also has the will." (1/2) 👇

"If, like everyone else in #British politics, one is looking for right-leaning, #Leave-voting non-graduates with particularly authoritarian views to attend a focus group, then the best place to find them is the morgue. To understand British politics, one must understand Dead Man." Great column 👇

Great if depressing @crisisgroup.org episode on #Myanmar 👇, looking at the devastating earthquake, the visible loss of #US soft power, the domestic situation, and the military leader's positioning vis-à-vis #China, #India & #Russia www.crisisgroup.org/asia/south-e...

Pivot to Asia, the new approach...