Countries cleaning up more climate pollution than they are producing? That is the idea behind achieving net-negative emissions. Though an ambition for the far future, its pursuit starts with deep emissions cuts over the next decade. Explainer by @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org for @carbonbrief.org 👇

For @mongabay.com w. Nehru Pry: the case of Ouk Mao, an environmental journalist in #Cambodia whose reporting on forest crimes has seen him physically attacked, ignored by the police and sued by the government. His family had to move out after an anonymous caller threatened to burn down his home.

This is a must-read article, by @corbintrent.bsky.social znetwork.org/znetarticle/...

Israel is planning to bomb near two schools in Beirut. Both in session. Students are being evacuated in terror right now. Lycee des Arts and St Georges School. This is what the Israelis mean by ‘ceasefire’ F- everyone who continues to support that barbaric, genocidal state

German police beating up women who were supporting Palestinian justice during an international women’s march in Berlin on #InternationalWomensDay 🎥 Unpublished.de

Plundering Africa – Income deflation and unequal ecological exchange under structural adjustment programmes roape.net/2025/02/28/p...

The boss of a monopolist company who has workers in semi-slavery worldwide glorifies liberty and free market. #Amazon

German public TV just published this poll of first-time voters. A massive lead for socialist Left party on 27%. Left + SPD + Greens on 54% among first-time-voters. Those voters were also slightly less likely to vote AfD than national average. So much for the “far-right youth”.

#Germany turning into an illiberal democracy. Under a supposedly left-wing government.

Last week Lula urged for swifter drilling for oil in the Amazon, this week Brazil announces it will join OPEC+ and the energy minister boasts about how much oil it produces. This is the quid pro quo petrostates accepted to host the last 3 COPs. Dealing our way to disaster www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

At least we don't have to read about this on a federal government website: At 2°C of warming, the area on Earth that is too hot for humans will triple. This is fine. 🔥🧪

Who is going to pay for climate inaction? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The world is currently tracking the "Double Resources" scenario of the 1972 "Limits to Growth" report, in which collapse is driven by pollution rather than resource scarcity. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Hasta acá llegué.

At least 5 newborns have frozen to death in Gaza in the past week alone. 30 day old Juma al-Batran died in his father’s arms due to lack of heating and his twin is in medical care. These babies have never known any other existence. Their moms spent their entire pregnancies surviving a genocide.

Is this a forest? #Colombia #Amazon www.lasillavacia.com/silla-amazon...

Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.

I didn't sign up for a plutocracy. www.politico.eu/article/cons...

📢There’s now more man-made mass in the world than all living things combined. New research finds we're adding more fossil carbon to that mass at an accelerating pace - mostly in the form of plastics.

Or... global.insure-our-future.com/worlds-large...

Rafah.

We have always relied on the oil and gas industry to self-report methane emissions. Now we have independent ways to of measuring those emissions and it turns out they were lying about the emissions. By a lot. The blue lines are actual measurements. The pink are industry numbers.

The archaeology of capital.

EU should ban space mirrors and other solar geoengineering, scientists say - European Commission scientific advisers say technology to offset global heating could wreak havoc on weather #ClimateCrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Italian PM Meloni has been pressing other countries to re-establish ties with Assad's regime... www.thetimes.com/world/middle...

Israel’s war in Gaza amounts to genocide, Amnesty International report finds | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian

Gorgon CCS is the world's largest pure carbon capture and storage operation. Since 2019, it has been weakly sputtering away out on Barrow Island at Australia's highest emitting industrial facility. You may have heard it's a failure. Do you know why it's a failure? A long article and accompanying 🧵

A working-class former history teacher now rules Uruguay.

A call to abolish climate summits “is dangerous and plays directly into the hands of populists like Trump, Milei, or the AfD, who seek to dismantle global climate protection. [These summits] are the “sole platform where poorer nations can directly challenge [the] US [and] EU” (via @carbonbrief.org)

Learn about degrowth. So next time you won't say it's about "going back to the bush" (cfr. Varoufakis). degrowth.org/degrowth-onl...

Too little, too late: The Baku Agreement fails on several accounts. The results are at best the avoidance of a diplomatic disaster. Statements on the outcome of #COP29 by PIK directors Johan Rockström and Ottmar Edenhofer: www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

Samir Amin - The liberal virus (2003)

COP29 is wrapping up this week and people are (finally) calling for the process to be overhauled to *maybe* reduce oil industry influence over it. New documents we uncovered reveal they used a little known UN org to infiltrate from jump. First of three stories: drilled.media/news/IPIECA1

More than 61,000 dead in Khartoum state alone, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine's Sudan Research Group finds: 26,000 of them killed as a direct result of the violence. Leading cause of death across Sudan is preventable disease and starvation. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Military emissions 🐘 www.newarab.com/features/war...

#COP29: But, where can we get all that $$ for climate finance? Hmmm.... Gimme a minute.

Softening the definition of Net Zero won’t stop global warming. As authors of the 2009 “Net Zero Papers” we call on countries and companies to recognise the need for Geological Net Zero, balancing flows of carbon into and out of the Earth’s crust. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A disgrace for Germany, for feminism, and for humanity. jacobin.com/2024/11/germ...

"The world's first industrially drilled oil well, 1846" in Baku, Azerbaijan. Not far from the site of COP29, where countries have spent a week fighting about whether to bring the age of fossil fuels to an end.

I strongly suggest that you check out the #COP29 website... www.cop29.com

Under Biden, the US became the largest petrostate in history. I'm not saying Trump won't be bad for the climate. But can we at least stop pretending that the US was ever good?

As a climate scientist, here’s 3 things I wish everyone knew: 1. How much of our current warming is human-caused? All of it + then some. 2. What happens from year to year? That’s weather. For climate, see decadal trends. 3. What’s the most important thing you can do? Not recycling; this ⬇️

Something good - is how many researchers working on geo-engineering are proactively calling out the bozos trying to make a sort of new carbon market out of atmospheric modification archive.ph/WGUhm EG these folks: link.springer.com/article/10.1... www.silverlining.ngo/insights/sci...

"even if all people in the world have minimum access to resources and no more, the climate [boundary] would still be crossed by 2050, in the absence of technological and societal transformations" The Lancet Planetary Health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

"Unequal exchange [...] intensified in the 80s and 90s with the imposition of structural adjustment programmes [that] devalued Southern currencies, cut public employment and removed labour and environmental protections, imposing downward pressure on wages and prices" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🆕Evaluation of #climatepolicy over 2 decades: A global PIK study of 1,500 #climatepolicies, published in the journal Science, shows most failed to cut emissions. Only 63 cases saw a 19% average reduction. The key? Tax & price incentives in smart policies. www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...