What’s happened this week in climate change? 🌎 DeBriefed | Pakistan floods hit 1.8m people; UK ‘eco-populism’; How warming threatens a man-made lake ✍️ Written @solomon.elusoji.carbonbrief.org 💻 Edited @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org Read here ➡️ buff.ly/8p6iUzW

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She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.

DeBriefed | India and Pakistan heat ‘tests human limits’; UK steel crisis sparks net-zero attack; Why Nigerian households are turning to solar ✍️ Written by @solomon.elusoji.carbonbrief.org 📝 Edited by @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org ➡️ buff.ly/CkloLYm Sign up to our newsletters: buff.ly/19Qg1Rh

NEW: The UN has confirmed to me that there are no US officials present at #COP16 in Rome US is not signed up to the UN biodiversity convention, but usually attends to participate in negotiations To my best of my knowledge, this is the first time the US has been missing at biodiversity talks

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NEW – IPBES nexus report: Five takeaways for biodiversity, food, water, health and climate ✍️ @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org 🔗 Read here ⬇️

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What’s happened this week in climate change? DeBriefed: COP29 disappoints developing countries; Plastics treaty talks; Brazil’s rocky road to COP30 ✍️ Written by Yanine Quiroz 📝 Edited by @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org Read here ➡️ buff.ly/4fMHdmF Sign up to our newsletters ➡️ buff.ly/4eCwdqq

I have my platform biases like everyone. But I’m slightly puzzled how little coverage the global plastics treaty talks is getting. Either we get this right or every other story on each site doesn’t matter www.carbonbrief.org/five-charts-...

NEW – COP29: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Baku #COP29 ➡️ https://buff.ly/3V5jndk

+CLIMATE FINANCE TARGET AGREED AT COP29+ Several draft texts swirled around last night, and a day of fraught negotiations resulted in this: 💰 Core goal of "at least" $300bn/year for developing countries 💰Developed countries "take the lead". Developing can contribute voluntarily