Media reports often bestow a lot of countries with the tag 'climate leader' during COP. Prudent to check IEA's energy profile of countries before doing so. For example, here is the UK www.iea.org/countries/un...

"coal & oil supply more than 70% of primary energy demand in Asia. Replacing coal & oil with LNG exported from Ksi Lisims LNG would result in a reduction of global carbon emissions" Unsubstantiated industry talking point even while studies showing otherwise grow www.lngindustry.com/special-repo...

The Canadien Government has made an ad about the proposed Ksi Lisims LNG terminal & PRGT Pipeline, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.

Governments and investors are seeking minerals, timber and oil in the Congo Basin to fuel the global economy & the green transition. However, communities that have lived in the world’s second-largest rainforest for generations are paying the highest price for extraction, according to a new report.

Brazil’s Federal Police have indicted 31 suspects for fraud and land-grabbing in a massive criminal carbon credit scheme in the Amazon, according to Brazilian national media outlet Folha de S.Paulo. It is the largest known criminal operation involving carbon credit fraud to date in the nation.

Production and export of fossil fuels, I presume you mean. Did you know, by the way, that until about 2015, Norway was a significant producer of coal (on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard), most of it exported? Norway’s annual production of hard coal, 1979–2024, in thousands of metric tonnes:

Something inherently weak about reporting & accountability mechanisms under Paris Agreement (i.e. NDCs) that allow countries like Australia & Norway to draft ambitious-sounding plans like ~70% emission reductions without stating cuts to production & exports that comprise a majority of emissions

More recent study here says the same thing.

An analysis of new NDCs in the #COP30 factsheet by @cseindia.bsky.social www.cseindia.org/cop-factshee...

Happening today! Online Pre-COP30 Media Briefing COP 30 takes place this month in Belem, Brazil. Join us for a briefing on the key issues and the agenda to follow today! 12:00 - 1:30 PM IST Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @aygoswami.bsky.social @trishant.bsky.social

LNG exports around the world need to be scrutinised for claims of displacement of coal. An earlier Biden admin study had also found that additional exports of LNG from the US would displace renewables; not coal drilled.media/news/DOE-LNG...

"Exports of Australian gas carry “substantial risks” of slowing the move to cleaner energy in Asian countries, according to a confidential report for the Western Australian government that undermines the government’s own narrative that the industry helps cut global emissions."

"@jeremyscahill.com: How Gulf Regimes Sold Out Palestine, Cashed In on Genocide” youtu.be/gqmvd29Sxbk?... via YouTube

Absolutely do not get Australian culture, especially among climate people, that puts Andrew Forrest on a pedestal. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Forrest can just FRO. #FirstNations #auspol #environment Andrew Forrest's plan to alter sacred Ashburton River under fresh legal scrutiny

India. Weak environmental laws and weak implementation of even the weak laws www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Today a story I've spent months reporting and writing runs on @desmog.com and @theguardian.com. It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South. www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...

A sovereign wealth fund generated from fossil fuels and heavily invested in weapons manufacturing www.middleeasteye.net/news/how-nor...

Rich countries have, over the years, used protectionist trade measures and industrial policy for domestic gains even while preaching and imposing free trade and open markets onto the developing world. It is what Ha-Joon Chang describes as 'Kicking away the ladder'

The growth of China's scrap market is phenomenal. Via @davidfickling.bsky.social -> www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

About Andrew Forrest's Fortescue from the book 'Title Fight'. Mining companies seizing indigenous lands and dividing communities while promising/ claiming to work with them in partnership and employ them is both an old trick and a global one

South Australia has announced a $17.5m fund to subsidise half the cost of new gas projects in the state - the same state that leads the country in renewables uptake. The decision has been welcomed by Australian Energy Producers.

Been meaning to read this book for the longest time

What I would also like to hear from Andrew Forrest is how the company could accumulate vast swathes of indigenous lands for its mining operations

I'm pleased to report that the peer reviews of the G20's efforts to phase out their #fossilfuelsubsidies are finally publicly available again. They were on the OECD's web site, but disappeared. They are now on a dedicated page of the revamped web site for the @quakerunoffice.bsky.social (QUNO).

Report updated with some additional information

More people need to watch this. It's what happens when a pipeline carrying CO2 ruptures. We need these pipelines for any carbon sequestration scheme (CCS, DAC). When the flood of heavy CO2 gas rolls over the landscape it suffocates everything in its path and shuts off car engines, which need oxygen.

Since the Paris Agreement, the U.S. drove 90% of the global increase in oil & gas extraction. 📈 +11 million barrels of oil equivalent per day from 2015 - 2024 💥 More than 5x as much as any other country oilchange.org/publications...

Reading the just released UNEP Adaptation Gap report. A criticism of the reliance on private financing www.unep.org/resources/ad...

⏮️ Catch up on our recent #IIPPInConversation event. We were proud to host the launch of the new book 'Decolonising Economics' by IIPP Professor @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @devikadutt.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social and @ingridhk.bsky.social. 📺 Watch the event recording here: buff.ly/uNiZSll

I have no idea what form the WGIII report in AR7 will take but am very curious about storylines on regional rivalry and international cooperation and projected warming

An overwhelming number of countries still seek and rely on international cooperation for climate action. Looks like the need for multilateralism remains prominent. From the new UNFCCC NDC synthesis report unfccc.int/sites/defaul...

If you need more convincing, perhaps listen to the frontline communities and nations who've been urgently calling for adaptation investment and support *along with mitigation* as climate change threatens their lives and lifeways. Adaptation is no joke to them, and it shouldn't be to anybody else.

We can point out the limits of adaptation and its misrepresentation by climate delayers without going too far and undermining its value altogether. Just because adaptation can't eliminate all harm or replace mitigation doesn't mean it isn't vitally necessary and a moral imperative.

It pains me to see adaptation used to undermine mitigation, but also to see it painted as a "false solution." Adaptation is harm reduction for climate impacts that can no longer be avoided. Climate justice demands it. AND it has limits, becoming less effective and more costly as warming proceeds.

America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam

US legacy at climate negotiations: Bush Sr. declaring during Rio Earth Summit in 1992 "American way of life is not up for negotiations. Period.” Failure to ratify Kyoto. Obama (quite proud of oil & gas boom) & Biden continuing to block loss & damage liabilities. Trump pulling out of Paris (twice)

For larger context: the US (alongside European allies) has *always* opposed loss and damage at climate negotiations. An earlier report of mine from COP26 in Glasgow www.levernews.com/the-u-s-is-b...

This is a very old culture www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Looking for reading recommendations on curtailment of renewable energy and non-curtailment of gas in Australia. Prefer simple-language explanations but please share relevant resources regardless

🎧 What if economies weren’t just forces of nature, but systems we build and shape? Behind economies lies a web of institutions. Our host Srinivasan Iyer (Senior Fellow, NPEI) talks to our @soasuni.bsky.social #Economics Professor Ha-Joon Chang. Watch on YouTube 🎥 🔗 tinyurl.com/35zjs4sy

Bangladesh has become much more resilient to cyclones, saving many lives

The industrial sector has been neglected in decarbonisation policy - relative to global emissions the fewest policies have been implemented in the industrial sector. Future Cleantech Architects graph using data from @ourworldindata.org .

Exactly. The same with CDR and overshoot...

The oil company's statements around being a major player in the energy transition & aspiring to reach net zero emissions by 2050 (while it plans to expand hydrocarbon production) were unlawful, a court ruled #climatelitigation #greenwashing www.climateinthecourts.com/totalenergie...

deeply wild clip of a fossil fuel economist on norway's state broadcaster claiming - 3 degrees of warming is a "problem we can live with" - Extreme weather is not a threat to human welfare - We need to dig up Norwegian oil and gas to help 'poor Africans in huts' get rid of polluting cooking fuels

An ibis and a seagull. Not shy at all. I could have picked them up, if I wanted to. Sydney

1/3 As #COP30 nears, calls for larger developing countries to “step up” as #climatefinance providers have been growing louder. But this framing overlooks how unmet finance promises from developed countries have shaped developing countries' emissions trajectories. thewire.in/environment/...

The U.S. isn't the only place where a right-wing government is trying desperately to turn back the clock on multiple things, including coal. Shanti Mathias on what that looks like in New Zealand, for @drilledmedia.bsky.social drilled.media/news/nz-coal

Today I learnt utilisation of fly ash (toxic residue from burning coal) is now being called 'green cement'. Climate labels are quite amazing