"Either global leaders and the public still do not understand the scale of threat from cryosphere loss, or have become resigned to such global destruction." drive.google.com/file/d/1FdpL...

Apparantly cutting policies for a sustainable future and a healthy planet have become so important for the EPP that they are willing to work with the extreme right get it done. History will not judge kindly www.politico.eu/article/epp-...

"Climate sceptic countries got their wish list of loopholes approved. [...] The damage done to the EU’s credibility in the international arena, and to the trust of its citizens demanding climate action is substantial." carbonmarketwatch.org/2025/11/05/e...

NEW: The latest climate pledges under the Paris Agreement have driven only a slight fall in predicted global temperature rise over the course of this century. The UN Emissions Gap Report finds that implementing current policies would lead to up to 2.8°C of warming, down from 3.1°C. 🧵

🌊 Ocean warming threatens the viability of 60% of Antarctic ice shelves If global temps stay <2 °C, nearly all 64 ice shelves survive by 2300. But above ~4.5 °C, ocean melt causes 38 shelves to collapse by 2300, risking up to 10 m sea level rise. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Expert comment about more destructive tropical cyclones as the world warms: theconversation.com/hurricane-me...

"We are hurtling toward climate chaos. The planet's vital signs are flashing red. The consequences of human-driven alterations of the climate are no longer future threats but are here now." academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Verzekeraars roepen politiek op: maak nu eens echt koersvast klimaatbeleid

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

The UN sees the world's planet-warming greenhouse emissions falling at far too slow a pace.

"We find that a transition from sink [.] to source [.] has occurred for the aboveground woody biomass [.] The transition was driven by increasingly extreme temperature and other climate anomalies, which haveincreased tree mortality and associated biomass losses [.]" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"All global modelled pathways that limit warming to 1.5°C (>50%) with no or limited overshoot, and those that limit warming to 2°C (>67%), involve rapid and deep and, in most cases, immediate greenhouse gas emissions reductions in all sectors this decade." #Sufficiency www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/s...

"Antarctica is starting to look a lot like Greenland—and that isn’t good" arstechnica.com/science/2025...

As expected Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) pump out 5 times more planet-heating pollution than official figures show. Data shows PHEVs emit just 19% less CO2 than petrol and diesel cars Under laboratory tests, they were assumed to be 75% less polluting www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"The WMO Greenhouse Gas Bulletin said continued emissions of CO2 from human activities and an upsurge from wildfires were responsible, as well as reduced CO2 absorption by “sinks” such as land ecosystems and the ocean – in what threatens to be a vicious climate cycle." wmo.int/news/media-c...

"Global warming will soon exceed 1.5°C. This puts humanity in the danger zone where multiple climate tipping points pose catastrophic risks to billions of people." global-tipping-points.org

"World’s tropical forests are getting younger and that’s a major problem for the climate -- 140 million tons of above-ground carbon are lost per year because old-growth forests are being replaced by younger stands." 🌍 www.zmescience.com/ecology/worl...

How Mark Carney is complicating Canada’s climate progress: thenarwhal.ca/mark-carney-...

“I think China is using it in a very, very geopolitically savvy way, taking advantage of America’s stupidity and regression back into a petrostate,” he says, adding: “China just wins. America has abrogated the playing field."" www.ft.com/content/013e...

@henri.cda.nl Hoe past dit in uw wereldbeeld waar christendemocraten niet zouden moeten samenwerken met extreemrechts en hoe ziet u het actief terugdraaien van klimaatwetgeving ihkv christelijk rentmeesterschap? www.politico.eu/article/soci...

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

“The new EAT Lancet report gives clear guidance on how to feed a growing population without breaching Earth’s safe limits,” says PIK Director Johan Rockström. “What we eat can save lives, cut emissions, halt biodiversity loss, and build a fairer food system.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFVL...

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

Food must be taken seriously as an environmental problem. It uses ~38% of Earth’s land, drives ~70% of water use, and emits ~22-34% of greenhouse gas pollution globally. And beef and dairy alone drive a huge proportion of this. But there are solutions. Lots of them. go.ted.com/jonathanfoley24

For literally decades, the political right accused the political left of subsidizing new industries that offered a product that was valuable: power production without atmospheric pollution. Now, they're literally subsidizing the opposite, with your money: www.utilitydive.com/news/doe-bea...

A new study provides a critical and previously underestimated connection between Antarctic sea ice, cloud cover, and global warming. The work reduces uncertainty in models based on observations over the last four decades. esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/... #seaice #antarctica #climatechange #clouds

🚨New paper 🚨@natgeosci.nature.com Greenlandification of Antarctica - comment by me + colleagues @dmidk.bsky.social @eo4cryo.bsky.social + @universityofleeds.bsky.social showing how Antarctica increasingly resembles Greenland- drawing on a mass of work from @esaclimate.bsky.social rdcu.be/eJiqJ

A new assessment of land-use changes in Europe, accounting for small-scale changes, indicates a 50% higher loss of green spaces. euobserver.com/green-econom...

This is significantly below the at least 30% below 2024 levels that experts had said was needed to be in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement www.carbonbrief.org/experts-what...

NEW: China's president Xi Jinping unexpectedly joins the UN climate summit, by video, to offer his nation's 2035 climate pledge * Cut GHGs to 7-10% below peak by 2035, "striving to do better" * Raise non-fossil share of energy to at least 30% * Boost wind/solar to 3,600GW

"But its internal divisions will undermine the bloc’s influence, especially when it comes to efforts to sway China, the world’s largest polluter, said Li Shuo, director of the China Climate Hub at the Asia Society Policy Institute in Washington." www.politico.eu/article/euro...

🔥💯 Jon Stewart's prophecy from 2022: "When a democracy is under threat: comedians are the ones who get sent away first. Authoritarians are the threat to comedy, to art, to music, to thought, to progress. It ain't the pronoun police, it's the Secret Police. It always has been & it always will be."

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"We estimate the economic impact of three types of extreme weather events [...] that occurred in Europe during the summer of 2025. We calculate that these events will lower gross value added (GVA) in the affected NUTS3 regions by a combined EUR43 billion in 2025" drive.google.com/file/d/16Bxt...

@hugoreitsma.bsky.social Mooi onderwerp voor B&DW? Door terugdraaien klimaatbeleid geeft Westen haar economische en geopolitieke leiderschap op aan China. En natuurlijk een leefbare planeet voor toekomstige generaties, maar dat lijkt tegenwoordig soms wel van secundair belang. Zie draad.

1/ New report from @bentleyallan.bsky.social's Net Zero Policy Lab: As the US withdraws from green tech industries and pressures allies to follow suit, China is stepping in to power the developing world's energy transition. The scale is staggering. www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

The delay of decision on 2040 EU climate target has consequences far beyond EU: on international process. EU could have generated new momentum for other countries' climate targets at UNSG summit 24 Sept. Missed opportunity. Hope delay leads to a strong target. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Here is the starter pack you have all been waiting for: IPCC AR7 Scientists (the scientists that will write the next assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the next few years) Thanks @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social bsky.app/starter-pack...

NEW: European carmakers sold 38% more electric cars in the first seven months of the year, ensuring that all but Mercedes-Benz are on track to comply with the EU’s 2025-37 emission targets. So why is the car industry launching an all-out attack on the EU’s car CO2 targets? 🧵⤵️

Tata vergiftigt Nederland met staalslakken waar generaties last van gaan hebben. De Staat overweegt miljardensubsidie aan Tata voor proceswijziging, die nog voor veel meer staalslak gaat leiden. De Staat (dat zijn wij) wordt dan medeplichtig. Aan de politiek om staatssteun voor Tata te voorkomen

When Reform & Tories talk about domestic gas, they like to say that it's cleaner than LNG. But most of the UK's imported gas (~87%) is piped from Norway, and has *less than half the carbon intensity of UK domestic gas*. Imported gas is mostly cleaner!

"Here we establish a prudent planetary limit of around 1,460 (1,290–2,710) Gt of [geological] CO2 storage through a risk-based, spatially explicit analysis of carbon storage in sedimentary basins." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Politicians are fiddling, while the world burned. www.politico.eu/article/fran...

🌊 In 2023, the ocean carbon sink weakened for the first time in a record-hot year 🌡️🌎 Our new study in Nature Climate Change quantifies this unexpected decline and explains how it came about. 👇 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

🇪🇺President ⁦‪⁦‪@vonderleyen‬⁩'s former digital commissioner eviscerates her 'surrender deal' with Trump (and also, by implication, Keir Starmer's surrender deal). "We were told to accept humiliation to avoid instability. Now we have both."

"As far as current models suggest, we conclude that the risk of a northern AMOC shutdown is greater than previously thought [1, 48], at least when concerning the recent CMIP6 model ensemble." iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Global sea level is measured by satellite with precision since 1993. A new study compares the data with IPCC projections from the same time. Both the overall rise and its acceleration (the rate of rise has doubled since) are very close to the data. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

“An analysis consisting of 25 different climate models shows that the AMOC could begin to collapse by 2063 (from 2026 to 2095, 25 to 75 percentiles) under an intermediate emission scenario (SSP2-4.5)” agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

“For Europe, climate and security are interlinked. I think most people can see it when they look at our energy dependency and the need for transformation of our energy systems” “If policymakers fail to act, they risk fueling the very populism they claim to fear.” www.politico.eu/article/gree...

"Human influence has reduced natural land carbon stocks by a total of 24%—which corresponds to 344 billion metric tons of carbon...The researchers were also able to show that most of the loss is caused by the expansion of pasture & croplands, as well as forest management." 🌍 phys.org/news/2025-08...