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Election Day in Norway 🇳🇴 The outcome will have consequences for Norwegian climate governance. If the Progress party take part in a new government climate policy may be dismantled. If the Green Party+two small socialist parties gain influence on a Labour gov ambitions will increase. 1/n

Norge sett fra utlandet 🫣

Trump cold-called a Norwegian minister to ask about his bid to win a Nobel Peace Prize.

American friends, remember when you thought that your capitalists coming to China would teach us “freedom?” And instead they all learned how to be super comfortable with authoritarians? Good times!

Following heavy rain and flooding in the outskirts of #Beijing at least 30 people have been killed. The worst hit areas are in the nearby mountains like around Miyun reservoir. 130 villages have lost electricity, many cut off with roads closed and 80,000 people moved to safer areas. #China

I applaud this:

now that's a headline for the Trump era if I ever saw one

It’s ok, I couldn’t afford to travel to the US World Cup anyway… www.theguardian.com/football/pic...

"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it" @hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Just finished Lyndal Roper's new book about the @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social, which was excellent. Think it must be the first time I ever see the phrase "fobbed off" used in a history book like that. All round very enjoyable.

We don't have a country anymore. It's been replaced by a reality TV show called "Murica: No Ragrets." www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIvJ...

What if we measured progress not just by income or life expectancy - but by how well we live with the rest of nature? A major new paper proposes the 'Nature Relationship Index (NRI)' - a bold rethink of development metrics. Here’s why it matters.👇 #NatureRelationshipIndex #GlobalThreads

Raising climate ambition would BOOST global GDP in the short, medium and long term, says a major new OECD analysis This excludes the benefits of avoided climate impacts, which it says would further increase the advantages of greater action www.oecd.org/en/publ...

Thankfully, the village was evacuated already, but one person is missing and everyone else’s homes are destroyed. Make no mistake: this is a climate disaster.

One of the hazards of medieval banking was that borrowers had a habit of running into halberds and other sharp objects at the most inopportune times. Such an event was the battle of Nancy, January 5, 1477 when the Medici Bank lost another one of its customers, Charles "le Temeraire" duke of Burgundy

Watch the planet breathe as it shifts through the seasons. Atmospheric CO2 oscillates annually due to the skew distribution of land (the breathing), but it is rising over time due to CO2 emissions with El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) adding variability. robbieandrew.github.io/ppm/

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

I 9. klasse fikk jeg penger av mamma til å kjøpe en genser da vi skulle ta klassebilde. Kjøpte en billig (og ganske stygg) en sånn at jeg hadde råd til Strength-plata til The Alarm. Riktig valg. RIP Mike Peters. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...

‘As if a silent snowfall has descended’: more than 80% of the world’s reefs hit by historic bleaching event

Want to know how Trump gets in? Just look at the coverage of Le Pen iandunt.substack.com/p/want-to-kn...

There was one singular person the Trump team wanted to kill. They thought they tracked him to his girlfriend’s place, presumably in a civilian apartment building in Sana’a. So they dropped bombs on the neighborhood and leveled the building. Reactions from the group: “amazing job” “Excellent” “👊🇺🇸💥”

Compared to Europe, the US has weak environmental and climate regulations, but strong science. Now what has worked is ripped apart. The American population will be exposed to more pollution and health risks and the whole 🌎 will suffer due to less knowledge. It is 💔 to watch this play out.

Holy shit. This is *the* gold-standard measurement of atmospheric CO2 -- the one in all the charts.

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

2024 saw dwindling support from asset managers on climate and nature/biodiversity shareholder resolutions according to this new report from @shareaction.bsky.social. For a brief period in early 2020s they were all for it, but guess they’ve moved on to other stuff. shareaction.org/reports/voti...

Historic attack on Norwegian nature, and a direct violation of any Montreal Nature Agreement commitment www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

2024 ended with an early warning for EU climate policy as a succession of ministerial meetings in December revealed tensions between European countries over the bloc's future direction. A thread 🧵:

Absolutely recommend this for anyone who's into that kind of thing - maybe up your street, @skog.bsky.social ?

#China has approved a new dam on the Tibetan Plateau which will apparently generate THREE TIMES AS MUCH ELECTRICITY as the Three Gorges Dam. #India and #Bangladesh criticizing the decision saying it could alter the flow of major rivers downstream.

If it was not clear before, then it is now. Every single well-meaning post on that hate speech platform is direct support to the extreme right in several European countries. No public institution should be posting there.

If foresters want to take credit for the Norwegian forest sink, then they have to take responsibility for its collapse in the last 10 years (green). And yes, including LULUCF in Norwegian emissions means net GHG emissions have risen since 2010 (black line)... www.nationen.no/norges-skoge...

Trump announces that billionaires no longer have to comply with environmental regulations

And there it is - Busan is officially a failure, though some observers say they would rather have an extra round next year than accept a bad deal on plastics now. TBC in 2025, possibly in Panama. Story by @giadafer.bsky.social and Sergio Colombo. carbon-pulse.com/347949/ #INC-5

In a development almost impossible to foresee, it looks like the UN plastic talks in Busan – known as INC-5 – will end today without a global deal to reduce plastic pollution. Instead it looks like there will be an INC-5.2. Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia getting much of the blame. @giadafer.bsky.social

1985 – Svenske Imperiet forutser Trump-Musk alliansen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4y9...

WWF court case against Norway over its deep seabed mining plans starts today.

The climate talks are carrying on in Baku, but next week UN negotiators meet in Busan to try and agree an absolutely crucial global deal on reducing plastic pollution. Check out what’s at stake in this tremendous preview by @giadafer.bsky.social and Sergio Colombo. carbon-pulse.com/343971/ #INC-5

France has announced it will be setting up a domestic scheme for trading voluntary biodiversity credits, in a bid to drive more private investment in nature restoration. It becomes the second EU member to do so, with Finland beating it by a couple of weeks. carbon-pulse.com/343128/