Nelson Mandela, like Oliver Tambo, knew that defeating the apartheid government on the battlefield was not possible and sought a way of ending the bloodshed by trying to create conditions for talks. This is the fifth in a six-part series on Mandela’s leadership.

#ClimateJustice: In just ten years, climate litigation has evolved from a handful of complaints before domestic courts to a global accountability system recognised by the highest international courts and tribunals. climatelitigationnetwork.org/tenyearsclim...

Yep, it's fog season. Gotta get above it every now and then ...

Will the pink microbes save us? No. The only way to quickly reduce methane is to stop taking it out of the ground via more oil and gas production.

📣 New publication! The second article of my postdoc project on the far right and anti-gender mobilization is now out #openaccess in #GermanPolitics doi.org/10.1080/0964... It examines antifeminism in far-right party politics through the case of AfD Key findings: Antifeminism ✅ Radicalization ✅

COP30 vibes be like ... insideclimatenews.org/tags/cop30/

COP30 reminded me of some small kids on a beach facing a tsunami with toy plastic shovels and pails … insideclimatenews.org/news/2211202...

Fuck you, @nature.org.

Buen día! youtu.be/blUSVALW_Z4?...

Indigenous People protesting on the last day of COP30 said it ended the same way it started, a lot of promises, but still no real seat at the table ...

Belém breakfast. Don't know what the rest of you were eating, but this was my go-to meal ...

Steel town, eh …

Back from COP30. The speeches on the last day made me think of how how we are living a tragedy, and so, to paraphrase the Bard ... Do we keep going as we are, absorbing disaster after disaster, or do we finally confront the system that’s breaking the planet? insideclimatenews.org/news/1211202...

Wakey-wake, back in industrial reality land …

Without the spirits of the forests and oceans we are nothing ... Adeus Belém, até nos encontrarmos novamente.

Hey, @nature.com, regarding your COP30 editorial, it might be worth acknowledging that countries with a "legitimate concern" about a transition away from fossil fuels have had 30 years. You make it sound like that's somehow a NEW thing.

A mais de um ano setores do governo decidiram flertar com a possibilidade de enfraquecer pontos do licenciamento ambiental e abriram mão de influenciar enquanto o projeto estava na CMA do Senado. De lá pra cá, o governo engoliu traições em série e agora temos a pior versão de licenciamento possível.

This is a bit what COP30 felt like, asking existential questions, but making excuses for doing nothing ... insideclimatenews.org/news/1211202...

👂onderhoudend en goed verhaal van ‘the queen of peat’, over veen dus - een veel sterkere co2-spons dan 🌳🌲 Tien minuten die je goed besteed, no doubt about that

Meat sticks and cold green coconuts. Life can be good at the Sunday market at the Praça da República in Belém ...

After spending my entire adult life working on climate,I saw how real progress came from people, never from plenaries. From communities moving faster than govts. From organisers who refuse to wait for another round of negotiations to finish arguing over commas. jennytuazon.medium.com/are-we-waiti...

🔴⚠️🌋🇪🇹After more than 10000 years,the 1st historical #eruption of #HayliGubbi #volcano has occurred in E. #Ethiopia, producing an eruptive column that reached more than 18km of height on Nov.23.⬇️Meteosat12 animation of RGB Ash product of the huge gas & ash plume moving eastward.

Cooking with gas. Well-oiled machine. Burning the midnight oil. Step on the gas. Too many everyday expressions reek of fossil fuels. Help me come up with cleaner alternatives, please! I'm taking suggestions at Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/watch-your...

"There is robust evidence that globally coordinated deployment of SRM could reduce global-mean surface temperature, and associated impacts such as sea-level rise, wildfires and extreme precipitation, and so mask part of human-induced climate change." royalsociety.org/news-resourc...

Fueling, with electrical wire and other gear, workers smoking cigarettes, all within a few feet of the COP30 tents.

Epic take-down of Roger Pielke Jr's appallingly shoddy academic "work", which he's used--as an attack dog of the Koch Brothers-funded think tank AEI--to discredit the case for climate action:

"Amazon" coffee from one of the world's most destructive corporations ... That's where we are, people ...

If you’re in Leiden www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

Kind of weird, I wrote this data before I knew how poor the I door conditions would be at COP30. insideclimatenews.org/news/1111202...

US Is (Officially) Gone, But Not Forgotten, at COP30 Scoville Fellow '22 @rsanta.bsky.social of the @nsarchive.bsky.social comments in @insideclimatenews.org article by @bberwyn.bsky.social. insideclimatenews.org/news/2011202...

Frantically trying to re-bury carbon that formed over millions of years reminds me of cat scratching to cover its poop in the kitty litter. Good luck with that!

Gonna miss your Mangos, Belém!

Wasn’t really sure WHAT to make of this on my last night in beautiful Belém after COP30 …

Not looking great for Santa's workshop 😳

NOW I'm in Belém! Trying to wash away the COP30 tears with some agua de côco and a little verdinho ...

Belém, que experiência linda. Obrigado pelo acolhimento no COP30. open.spotify.com/playlist/4mC...

We waited all night at COP30 for this weak sauce? Seriously? insideclimatenews.org/news/2211202...

Want some thrilling reading? Here's the link to all the official COP30 documents. unfccc.int/documents

It did not go as planned, but it DID go as expected ... insideclimatenews.org/news/2211202...

A “sustainable” conference about saving the global environment …

For all its virtue-signaling about transparency, the UNFCCC really keeps a tight lid on things. The transparency, like so many other aspects of the process, is performative, because we NEVER get to see the discussions that really matter at COP30 or any other COP.

Here we are, arguing whether to mention "fossil fuels" in the COP30 draft deal...

COP30 "living room." I'd rather be in one of Belém's awesome street food zones.But seriously, the stress of getting something done at the last minute is one (of many) of the UNFCCC's deep structural flaws that prevents good results. insideclimatenews.org/news/1111202...

Indigenous blood, corporate and state oil.

Wow, these COPs are becoming more like spring break for climate geeks every year. It’s like an and of the world party given the non-outcomes.

More than half of Belém's population live in often flood-prone Baixadas, with limited services like sanitation. Yet the biggest and newest building in my (temporary) neighborhood is for cars.That's where we are as a society ...

Will humankind's short, self-destructive journey on this planet continue, or will we change course today? I'm guessing the first, because apparently COP30 can't even decide whether to have a discussion about voting rules. just kickin' the can ... enb.iisd.org/belem-un-cli...

Olá Belém! Tudo bom?

Is the U.S. still a ghost in the climate machine at COP30? insideclimatenews.org/news/2011202...

Man, I would LOVE to join in cheering the Tropical Forests Forever Fund, but I'm hard-pressed to see how you can fix broken capitalism with MORE capitalism. Help me out, peeps, wash away my cynicism!