Good climate news brought by @assaadrazzouk.bsky.social No2 here is a first - forecast of global emissions decline if 10% by 2035

Great stats below on the carbon capture of forests. And China has doubled its forestry coverage this century, demonstrating what can be done with concerted effort. If we let the oceans recover also we would be on to a winner.

This is very interesting. If a truck driver rests up during the middle of the day whilst charging and drives during the night when roads are little used, this is a win-win for energy and congestion...

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One of the under-appreciated figures of the environmental movement of the 1960s, Lady Bird Johnson was born today in 1912. As First Lady, she told a bold stand against the billboards proliferating along America’s highways – & spoke often of protecting “public” landscapes. Johnson passed in 2007.

👀 Important statement by Vanuatu following ICJ ruling on states' obligations for GHG emissions reparations: take the ICJ ruling back to the UN General Assembly, & pursue a resolution to implement this decision to set structural change for a sustainable future... pacific.scoop.co.nz/2025/07/stat...

Our annual @iipp-ucl.bsky.social‬ Forum #RethinkingTheState (18-20 June) will bring together global thinkers to explore how we can build entrepreneurial, purpose-oriented states that co-create public value. Learn more ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...

If you're incensed after watching David Attenborough's latest documentary 'Ocean', then here's something to do about it from @oceana.bsky.social I tweeked the standard text to plea for a socio-economic cost benefit analysis of restoration v bottom trawling 🧵👇🏽 act.for-the-ocean.org/act/protect-...

Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Excellent opportunity here for a research assistant in NBS...

Next Friday, May 16th, @naturebasedsols.bsky.social's Nathalie Seddon will be talking to us about Transforming Nature-based Solutions. Join us in-person or online. Register here: oxfordbiodiversitynetwork.bookwhen.com @biology.ox.ac.uk @ecioxford.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

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Full report: ember-energy.org/app/uploads/... So very well done @kingsmillbond.bsky.social @sambutl3r.bsky.social @daanwalt3r.bsky.social

Our (preemptive) response to David King: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Friends from France, can you share whether this information is accurate? If so, please help spread it. It is important that Russian narratives are shut down. actualitte.com/article/122719… lemonde.fr/actualite-medi���

Honestly, if there's one thing to do today on International Water Day, take a look at the inaugural report out recently by the Global Commission on the Economics of Water. How we understand virtual water trade in green- & blue-water stocks & flows is vital against drought 💦 watercommission.org

This is surely Putin’s Achilles heel? The media should ask Trump about this again and again.

Russia and China have e been waging a propaganda war against democracy. Trump just surrendered www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

"What exactly are #Tariffs? How do they work? Who ultimately pays the price? And what could happen to #USMCA if similar tariffs are imposed? Let’s break it down," write @diegotmec.bsky.social and Valeria Moy. buff.ly/yWuZPWH

@wilsoncentermep.bsky.social's Faria Nasruddin introduces the publications for this year’s #InternationalWomensDay and reflects on this year’s theme, “For ALL women and girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment.” buff.ly/7WmjUEq

People write to ask how they can help Ukraine. The country's soldiers face renewed attacks from Russia. There is a simple way to make sure that more Ukrainian soldiers survive, and to send a message that we support them: by funding armored evacuation vehicles. snyder.substack.com/p/armored-am...

Today, on the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, we're proud to be launching our show in both Ukrainian and Russian. We're using cutting-edge AI technology to bring our original journalism to new audiences. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02...

Volodymyr Zelensky's Oval Office visit ended early when Donald Trump and JD Vance began angrily yelling at him. Here's why women like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton are too emotional to be president.

Want to protect 50% of our land and seas? Petition here: globaldealfornature.org/petition/

🎬 Don’t miss the public premiere of #OneLastFarm – a poignant documentary which tells the story of Yew Tree Farm – Bristol’s last working farm – and its fight to survive. 📍 Taking place on Friday 28th February at Bristol Megascreen (located at Bristol Aquarium).

🚨 Are you a horticulture business interested in taking on an apprentice? @landworkersuk.bsky.social, Plumpton College and Coleg Cambria have been working together to develop their Horticulture Apprenticeships and now they're looking for employers and prospective apprentices to take part.

Does anyone know of work done to calculate green water stocks around the world (especially the Middle East) over the last 10 millennia? Thanks.

This year's TCUP ("teacup") 🇺🇦 conference by @harvard.edu Ukrainian Research Institute saw me, Olga Khakova, Babu Suresh & @polinabeliakova.bsky.social speak at the opening panel on Geopolitical Landscape. Moderator: Margarita Balmaceda. Thread with links to the panels www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkDN...

@ipbes.net is seeking nominations of experts for its second global assessment of biodiversity and ecosystem services. BES can nominate qualified experts, so get in touch if you’re interested in submitting an application. The deadline is 28 March. www.ipbes.net/second-globa...

We're hiring at the FT! Come and work with our fantastic social media and video teams in London. Social media video producer: job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim... Multimedia reporter: job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

Roll up roll up...a paid 6-month fellowship - love writing? love science? this is for you...

Watching people defend USAID solely in terms of 'Great Power Competition' with China is like mourning a burned-down library and condemning the arsonist because now your rival has more books. Maybe — just maybe — foreign aid should have been about, you know, helping people?

Major regenerative farming study by @martymatlock.bsky.social et Al shows potential for US agriculture to be carbon negative without changing farming stock or reducing yield. Surely other countries can do the same/better considering how depleted a lot of US soils are? news.uark.edu/articles/729...

Just finished the first panel this morning @harvard.edu on the geopolitical context affecting the 'Landscapes of War, Landscapes of Victory'. Now listening to Panel 2 on Ecocide - speaking now is Anna Ackermann of @ecodiya.bsky.social Register and tune in here www.huri.harvard.edu/tcup-confere...

Let's be clear-eyed over the bid to take over Gaza - yes, it's 'great' real estate and has a 'great' shoreline, because off that shoreline are untapped gas fields. The US would not be interested in it if it was just to rebuild it for holiday homes. #ResourceWar unctad.org/news/unreali...

Bumper crop of good climate news, as the rest of the world gets on with harnessing stable prices from free wind and sun.

Always ♥️ it when @assaadrazzouk.bsky.social does his end of year Top 10 Good Climate News Stories. Happy listening.

Peak oil in China: "China’s thirst for crude is reaching a peak sooner than expected, a development that has sent shockwaves through the oil market" www.ft.com/content/341f...

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Notable point here by Paul Peyramayou: war is advancing some social norms - women in Ukraine for instance are filling roles previously mostly the domain of men (such as construction work) and this is changing outlooks, habits, and possibly even the industry. open.spotify.com/episode/7iHA...

CCDH showed that platforms played an active role in amplifying lies about the Southport tragedy, enabling the violent UK riots in 2024. Our CEO @imranahmed.bsky.social will appear before the Science, Innovation & Technology committee today, at 10:15am GMT, to provide expert testimony. Watch here⤵️

Final call !! Apply for this funded PhD at University College London @UCLarchaeology.bsky.social on Establishing limits of Neanderthal presence in Britain. Deadline 20th Jan 5pm Uk time www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/est...

At the 2024 UnConference held by @chathamhouse.bsky.social's Sustainability Accelerator, I put forward a topic on 'A grand strategy to tackle climate change: harnessing decentralised power within planetary boundaries'. Here's the results. Now to next steps. www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

Event | The Director’s Annual Lecture 2025 Join @bronwenmaddox.bsky.social as she presents her perspective on the prospects for global governance and international order in 2025. Date 📅: 14 January Time⌚️: 18:00 Find out more🔽

Anyone know of work being done in theory or practice on regenerating the hydrological cycle of the Middle East? i.e. rebuilding the Fertile Crescent? E.g Regional Hydrological Cycle over the Red Sea in ERA-Interim (2017) journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

My co-authors and I are putting together an APSA panel on comparative grand strategy and we're looking for one more paper. We're especially interested in case studies of rising/middle powers in comparative perspective and comparative analyses of multiple cases. Interested? Please message me!

“The Russian economy is now beginning to see the full effects of international sanctions,” writes Mark Temnycky. “The ruble has weakened, with the Russian currency having lost more than half of its value against the US dollar and the euro.”

#UkraineAlert – If Western leaders choose to sacrifice Ukraine in a misguided bid to placate Putin, the shift from a rules-based international order to the law of the geopolitical jungle will be complete, writes Victor Liakh.