“Redirecting revenues from oil production to finance a just…equitable transition will be essential...oil companies worldwide, including Brazil’s Petrobras, will transform into energy companies…a growth model based on fossil fuels cannot last.”President Lula #COP30 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Well that was a fascinating morning. President Lula has put the question of fossil fuel phase out front & center where it belongs. It might not be a formal negotiated outcome but high level political attention to fossil fuel phase out means we should expect a political outcome. #COP30

I’m so excited to be speaking at #TEDCountdownHouse during #COP30 My session highlights the experience of local activists halting fossil fuel exploration in the Amazon, the impact on biodiversity, indigenous lands, and climate goals. Join me by requesting an invitation: luma.com/COP30-haltin...

@tzeporah.bsky.social on the developments since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015. It’s a piece about hope and despair. We need a Fossil Fuel Treaty, now. Here’s hoping COP30 in Brazil will deliver! www.linkedin.com/pulse/ten-ye...

NEW: Exxon funded efforts to spread climate denial across Latin America, @geoffdembicki.bsky.social reports, "according to hundreds of previously unpublished documents that reveal a coordinated campaign to make the global south 'less inclined' to support the UN-led climate treaty process."

Your daily dose of climate hope. From the team at RMI: rmi.org/wp-content/u...

There has never been a more exciting, devastating and terrifying time to be working on climate and the energy transition. We can get super cynical about COPs and about our progress since Paris or we can dig in and try and build hope.

Ten years since the Paris Agreement was signed. Let’s review where we are at, a thread 🧵 We breached the 1.5ºC global temperature for the first time in 2024, exceeding the threshold set in 2015 under the Paris Agreement.

▶️ WATCH: the room broke into applause today at the World Mayors Summit hosted by @c40cities.bsky.social as @tzeporah.bsky.social welcomed the diplomatic participation of mayors in the First International Conference for the Phase Out of Fossil Fuels, to be hosted by Colombia next April 🇨🇴

Bank of America, Citi, JP Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs are four of the ten.

We have long needed a way to pair private investment in solutions with government leadership on fossil phase out. Big announcement today, we’ve created it! The new Journey Fund will invest in projects for countries participating in the Fossil Treaty Initiative. First $10M committed today!

🔥🌎Breaking news from Belém 💸Just one week before #COP30, at the Global Citizen Festival: Amazônia, the first ever fund pairing government fossil fuel phase-out commitments with private investments was launched — the Journey Fund, developed in partnership with the #FossilFuelTreaty Initiative!

Rising heat kills one person a MINUTE. That’s millions every year because we continue to expand fossil fuels. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Make this make sense?? 🤦‍♀️ and we wonder why we aren't on track. "The U.S., Canada, Australia, and Norway collectively increased their oil and gas production by nearly 40 percent since the Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015 to 2024" #cop30 oilchange.org/publications...

One of the most dangerous things Bay Street has done is stolen our ability to imagine a world that is functional beyond fossil fuels. My conversation with @broadviewmedia.bsky.social shied away from nothing: carbon capture fraud to climate anxiety, we tackled it broadview.org/tzeporah-ber...

The wealthiest and most powerful industry in history is not going down without a fight. But that's why we need a clear plan that hits at the root of the climate crisis: endless expansion of fossil fuels

Does your MP think we can keep expanding fossil fuels? Watch @fossiltreaty.bsky.social explain why need a PLAN to unwind. “The atmosphere doesn’t care how many solar panels we build. It only cares how many fossil fuel projects we don’t build.” – @tzeporah.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOOZ...

“Protecting mangroves while expanding offshore drilling is a contradiction.” -Ralph Regenvanu For the first time, a major international body has formally recognized fossil fuel production as a threat to nature, and given us a road map to fight this threat. www.context.news/nature/opini...

“You pollute, you pay” Tuvalu Minister Maina not holding back on oil industry “They take control of the narrative. They take control of the process. They try to water down all the texts.”

A big welcome to the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan who has joined the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative as our Special Envoy for Fossil Free Cities!! 🎉

Just 10 banks are responsible for nearly 75% of the $15 billion in Amazon oil financing from the last decade. We know who they are. We know what this will cost us. We can apply pressure to make them stop #KeepItInTheGround Read the report: stand.earth/wp-content/u...

📢 The 4th episode of @overshootpod.bsky.social is out now! Last year, Spain was hit by one of the worst disasters in its history It was driven by climate change But it ended up boosting climate deniers... How can the world stop this from happening again? Listen now: overshootpod.com

We have to stop expanding the problem and pretending we are committed to a transition. If we are trying to meet Paris goals, new projects don't fit. This will cost lives. Read the super helpful analysis of Brazil’s new oil blocks by IISD WBA and WWF here www.iisd.org/articles/pre... (7/7)

As we head towards #cop30 in Belem, Brazil is approving new oil drilling in the mouth of the Amazon. The licensing decision on block 59 is today. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... 🧵👇 (1/7)

About time we had some good news. Historic win for the climate and nature 💪🏻

Historic win for nature and climate! Today, at the IUCN World Conservation Congress, the world’s largest environmental network of governments, civil society, and Indigenous Peoples voted to recognise fossil fuels as a root cause of the biodiversity and climate crises for the first time in history.

Thank you to Tom Howell and CBC Ideas for having me on to talk through the contradiction at the heart of new Canadian pipeline projects. Believing we can escape the consequences of expanding fossil fuels doesn’t make a 2 degree future less deadly! Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Unreal. Our fresh water is FAR more valuable than fossil fuels. To be allowed to use it and destroy it FOR fossil fuels is an utter fail.

🌐 The 4th Senior Official Meeting of the countries participating in discussions towards a Fossil Fuel Treaty begins in Brasília, Brazil on Monday Oct 15. It takes place on the sidelines of the pre-COP, where heads of delegations from around the world meet to align on key issues for the COP30 agenda.

In 2024 the oil and gas industry paid BC taxpayers $20,000 for fresh water. They used and poisoned 9 Billion litres of fresh water. Fracking companies should not be allowed to do this. If you want to call in the government to stop letting them you can here act.stand.earth/page/89100/a...

“The world’s wind and solar farms have generated more electricity than coal plants for the first time this year, marking a turning point for the global power system” Boom 💥⚡️☀️ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The majority of heat related deaths in European cities this summer were caused by climate change. These figures should terrify us. This shows us that heat plans not enough – we need strong EU climate targets to cut the emissions causing this dangerous heat. www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

I'm excited to be at The University of Copenhagen's Center for Applied Ecological Thinking on the 21st! I'll be talking about how the Trump regime manipulates the language of famous climate scientists to advance their fossil-fascist agenda. If you're around, come out! cape.ku.dk/eng/calendar...

(Español abajo) “The entire financial and political system depends on fossil fuels,” warns Colombia’s former Environment Minister — calling for a Fossil Fuel Treaty to tackle the root of the crisis.

She inspired millions with her fierce compassion, grace and perseverance. May her memory be a blessing and an inspiration.

And whilst they borrow money to further-enrich fossil fuel oligarchs, western countries will also be rapidly accruing net-zero carbon debt 🤦‍♂️ www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-h...

I paid $4.19 for gas last week. It's about 40 cents more than it has been for the past month. I put in solar at home last September. I haven't had an electric bill in a year, and that includes four days when the power was off during the wildfires last January. Sure -- fossil is cheaper. 🙄

What does it mean to say fossil fuels are affordable? Affordable to whom? How much is the cost of their deadly impact on our environment? The sun won't send you a bill at the end of the month.

And then there's all the carcinogenic nanoparticles that are emitted during wildfires (long but terrifyingly enlightening read). www.wired.com/story/the-la...

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Our children and communities are literally choking. The real ‘con job’ is 8.7m people a year dying from fossil fuel burning. It’s PM2.5 dumped into the homes of billions. It’s our urban centres dosed with toxic air from power plants, oil refineries and mines. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Congratulations Emily ⚡ The BC Greens just gained a leader who is a fierce and compassionate climate advocate who won't be afraid to stand up to Big Oil!

Political progress requires bold leadership. And as @rregenvanu.bsky.social says, this is on behalf of everyone. Even obstructing nations have citizens dying from fossil-fuelled disasters *cough* america *cough*

“We’re not getting anywhere with consensus-based decision-making because a few states can hold everyone else to ransom and stop new environmental safeguarding conventions” It's about time someone said it... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

"You can't transition by building more of the problem." @tzeporah.bsky.social, International Program Dir. at Stand.earth & Chair of @fossiltreaty.bsky.social, talks climate change, COP30, & the fight for a #FossilFuelTreatyNow on the latest episode of Adam Walsh's podcast The Signal on CBC News.

Nature👏 Bats 👏 Last 👏 No one is insulated from the climate crisis and the backtracking of NDCs and corporate climate commitments is not only irresponsible, it's illegal under international law.

I thought the #ClimateWeekNYC weather felt strangely warm. @zentouro.info told us that yesterday NYC was 7 degrees hotter than normal. She also mentioned that US scientists can no longer contribute to IPCC and that a couple months ago she was kicked out of her office by DOGE 😡🤬😤 Dystopian much?

Not sure why BC Premier David Eby is speaking at #ClimateWeekNYC Fracking has expanded dramatically under his admin and B.C.’s latest Climate Change Accountability Report says the province will miss its 2030 pollution reduction target by 50% & this doesn’t even account for future LNG terminals.

This is such an exciting signal of what's to come with COP30 and beyond. It's about time that countries came together and made a plan to phase out fossil fuels based on science and fact, without the influence of those that stand to benefit from continued expansion, who have been holding us back.

This is why we need the Conference to Phase Out Fossil Fuels like Colombia just announced. A COP Climate Summit where fossil fuel CEOs and Albertan politicians can’t go to try and greenwash their BS CCS distractions. @tzeporah.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...