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🌎 Empowering action through climate literacy 🔗 climatewords.org/links
This week marks the start of COP30 and the tenth anniversary of the Paris Agreement. Find out more about the Paris Agreement and it’s significance on the Climate Words lexicon ~
climatewords.org/words/paris-climate-agreement
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🧵 Feeling inspired to learn more about trees? We recommend these reads.
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🌲 Each year deforestation claims around 38,000 sq miles of forest. But we can look to endemic native trees for hope. They play a unique role in reforestation by providing more ecosystem services than exotic trees and serving as important indicators of environmental health.
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🌳 Find out more about endemic native trees on the Climate Words lexicon
climatewords.org/words/endemic-native-trees
#rainforest
#biodiversity
#conservation
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Find out more about the word "Plastic" on the Climate Words lexicon
climatewords.org/words/plastic
Quote from Erica Cirino, Thicker Than Water: The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis (2021)
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🌊 Curious to learn more about ocean acidification? We recommend these books.
#booksky
#ocean
#reading
#oceanacidification
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🧵 This week world leaders gather at the UN Ocean Conference to address the global ocean emergency. Ocean acidification is a key component of this emergency.
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🌊 The entry for ocean acidification is now on the lexicon. We thank
@andrimagnason.bsky.social
for providing the definition. Read the full entry
climatewords.org/words/ocean-acidification
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🪡 Curious to learn more about the word 'Sila'? We recommend these reads …
#booksky
#arctic
#inuit
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The definition for 'Sila' is now on the Climate Words lexicon
www.climatewords.org/words/sila
#arctic
#inuit
#sila
#climate
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The Enhanced Transparency Framework is a policy reporting mechanism ensuring that the Paris Agreement on climate change is credible and based on trust among participating countries. Watch the short film we made in collaboration with the UNFCCC’s Youth4Capacity
youtu.be/MhvaWBFjBbo?...
#climate
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Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) | The Language of Climate Action
YouTube video by Youth4Capacity
https://youtu.be/MhvaWBFjBbo?feature=shared
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Sila is a pan-Inuit word with a range of meanings. For some Inuit groups, Sila personifies the weather. The phrase "sila maligdlugo" literally means “according to sila”, or, “according to the world order”.
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Curious to learn more about the term 'Climate Resilience'? We recommend Kylie Flanagan's 'Climate Resilience: How We Keep Each Other Safe, Care for Our Communities, and Fight Back Against Climate Change' (2023).
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🌨️ Curious to learn more about the term ‘circumpollutionarity’? Here are our recommended reads.
#booksky
#arctic
#climate
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We thank
@margaretatwood.bsky.social
for defining “Circumpollutionarity” for the Climate Words lexicon. Read the full entry ~
climatewords.org/words/circumpollutionarity
#booksky
#climate
#reading
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Happy World Book Day! Here are some of our favourite reads 📚 🌎
#earthmonth
#booksky
#worldbookday
#climate
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🌌 Curious to learn more about the term ‘Earthrise’? Here are our recommended reads.
#earthmonth
#climate
#books
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Join Climate Words co-founder
@pamela.bsky.social
& guests in a conversation on the Arctic’s role in the health of our planet, hosted with Arc’teryx NY. RSVP at community-events.arcteryx.com/arcticperspect…
#earthmonth
#nycevents
#arctic
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Excerpt from
@amandagorman.bsky.social
, ‘Our Purpose in Poetry: Or, Earthrise’, 2018. Find out more about the word “Earthrise” on the Climate Words lexicon ~
climatewords.org/words/earthrise
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#earthmonth
#climate
#poetry
#booksky
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🌎 Join Climate Words cofounder Pamela EA (
@pamelaea.bsky.social
) for this interactive event tailored to Explorer Cubs (age 7-11). When: April 12, 10-11.30am Where: The Explorers Club, NYC Tickets: Free! Sign up at
store.explorers.org/products/exp..
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#earthmonth
#explorers
#climate
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🌎 Happy Earth Month! “Earthrise” is now on the Climate Words lexicon ~
climatewords.org/words/earthrise
#earthmonth
#earth
#space
#climate
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🍃 📚 Curious to learn more about nature-based solutions? Here are our favourite reads.
#earthmonth
#booksky
#climate
#biodiversity
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🍃 Nature has many solutions to climate change. From forests that sequester carbon, to wetlands that serve as natural flood barriers. Find out more on the Climate Words lexicon ~
climatewords.org/words/nature-based-solutions
#earthmonth
#nature
#climatesolutions
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🌳 Nature-based solutions is now on the Climate Words lexicon! Read the full entry
climatewords.org/nature-based-solutions
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Reuben J. Brown
10 months ago
Intently trying to work through a theory of how Covid punctured the Climate Movement. I'm not sure *how* yet, I've just got a sense that it did; and it turns out the data backs me up. Big levellings-off for a range of climate terms on Google Ngram post-2019: (CC
@climatewords.bsky.social
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🌎📚 Curious about global weirding? Here are our recommended reads ~
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🌎 Have you heard of ‘global weirding’? This term captures the range of abnormal extreme weather trends and events as a result of anthropogenic climate change, beyond the rise in average global temperatures. Find out more on the Climate Words lexicon ~
climatewords.org/words/global-weirding
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🌎 Have you heard of Long-Term Low Emission Development Strategies? We made a video in collaboration with the UNFCCC’s Youth4Capacity defining the term. Watch at
youtu.be/oRJHRKc4T2U
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Long-Term Low Emission Development Strategies (LT-LEDS) | The Language of Climate Action
YouTube video by UNFCCC Capacity-building
https://youtu.be/oRJHRKc4T2U
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🌀 “Global Weirding” is now on the Climate Words lexicon. Read the full entry at
climatewords.org/words/global-weirding
We thank
@katharinehayhoe.com
for providing the definition 🌎
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💧“Water” is now up on the Climate Words lexicon. Read the full entry at
climatewords.org/words/water
Photo by
@pamelaea.bsky.social
#water
#waterislife
#worldwaterday
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📚 our favourite reads on the topic of gender and climate change. have you read any of these yet?
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🌱 Learn more about gender and climate change at
climatewords.org/gender-responsiveness
Quote from Rebecca Kormas, ‘Intertwined: Women, Nature and climate Justice, 2024)
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🌎 “Gender Respnsiveness” is now up on the Climate Words lexicon. Read the entry in full at
climatewords.org/words/gender-responsiveness
Photography by
@pamelaea.bsky.social
#climate
#iwd
#InternationalWomensDay
#policy
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📚 a selection of books to complement the latest entry in the Climate Words lexicon on ‘Ice’. Read the entry in full at
climatewords.org/words/ice
have you read any of these yet? 🧊❄️
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troubling times. As the US government seeks to silence discussions on climate change, grassroots climate education is more important than ever.
insideclimatenews.org/news/0703202...
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US Coast Guard Academy Censors ‘Climate Change’ From Its Curriculum - Inside Climate News
The terminology will be stricken in classes for future officers in a service that confronts global warming every day, a move some say will weaken it.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07032025/coast-guard-academy-censors-climate-change-terminology/
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❄️ From Line Nagell Ylvisåker, ‘My World is Melting’ (2022) Visit
climatewords.org/books
for more climate books content.
#booksky
#climate
#svalbard
#ice
#glacier
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ClimaTalk
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🧊 “Ice” is now up on the Climate Words lexicon. Read the entry in full at
climatewords.org/words/ice
Photography by
@pamelaea.bsky.social
#climate
#glacier
#ice
#science
#climateaction
#arctic
#antarctic
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Have you heard of Entertainment and Culture for Climate Action? 🌎 🎨 🎥 We made a video with the UNFCCC’s
#Youth4Capacity
defining the term. Watch now at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJVy...
#art
#climate
#climatechange
#activism
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Entertainment and Culture for Climate Action (ECCA) | The Language of Climate Action
YouTube video by UNFCCC Capacity-building
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJVyn0a9qQY&t=17s
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📚 A selection of books to complement the latest entry in the Climate Words lexicon on ‘Loss & Damage’. Read the entry in full at
climatewords.org/words/loss-damage
Have you read any of these yet? 🌍
#booksky
#climate
#reading
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🌎 From David Wallace-Wells, ‘The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming’, 2019. Visit
climatewords.org/books
for more climate books content.
#booksky
#climate
#reading
#climatechange
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✨ No weekend plans yet? Join us tomorrow (Saturday 22nd) at the Patagonia Brooklyn store (70 N 6th St). We will be tabling from 1-3PM - stop by to say hi, chat about climate literacy and pick up some Climate Words merch! See you there 😊 🌎
#NewYorkCity
#Climate
#ClimateAction
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🌎 Join our team! Climate Words is looking for a volunteer Education Engagement Co-Coordinator. If you are passionate about climate literacy and want to make a real impact in classrooms across the U.S., this role might be for you! Find out more and how to apply at
climatewords.org/apply
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🌎 The entry for ‘Loss & Damage’ is now up on the Climate Words lexicon! Read it in full at
climatewords.org/words/loss-damage
Photography by
@pamelaea.bsky.social
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📢 Youth voices are often left out of the climate conversation: co-opted by corporations or excluded entirely from conferences. In these books, youth activists share their perspective on climate change, in their own words. Do you have any suggestions of climate books that highlight youth voices?
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🌱 The definition for ‘Youthwashing’ is now up on the Climate Words lexicon! Read it in full at
climatewords.org/words/youthwashing
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Want to learn more about climate feedback loops? 🌀 We recommend these books!
#booksky
#climate
#reading
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🌎 Do you know what Climate Distress means? 🧠 Discussions about climate change focus on its physical impacts, but its mental impacts are just as real. 💫 We made a short film in collaboration with the UNFCCC’s
#Youth4Capacity
defining climate distress. 🍿 Watch now at
youtu.be/r5iwdG2Z8Mo?...
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Climate Distress | The Language of Climate Action
YouTube video by UNFCCC Capacity-building
https://youtu.be/r5iwdG2Z8Mo?feature=shared
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🌎 Excerpt from William J. Ripple et al., ‘Many risky feedback loops amplify the need for climate action’, One Earth, 6 (2023), 86-91. Find out more about climate feedback loops at
climatewords.org/words/feedback-loops
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Do you know what a climate feedback loop is? 🔁 This week, ecologist Thomas Crowther defined the termed for our lexicon. Find out more at
climatewords.org/words/feedback-loops
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