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Climate | Cities | Coffee | Cycling | The Blue Pacific | Maps A/Director International of the Melbourne Centre for Cities; working on urban climate resilience. Mostly in Narrm, Unceded Wurundjeri Land, Australia.
Major threats to our well being from climate change can be avoided, or hugely reduced, by rapid action.
Our Nature comment calls for a global risk assessment, effectively communicated to governments, the media and the public, to make clear what is at stake.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Cover of The Lancet:
@thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
BREAKING: After being shut down by Melbourne University Publishing in September 2025 amid controversy over alleged Gaza-related censorship, literary journal Meanjin has been given a lifeline by QUT, which says it has โa long history of supporting progressive and new voices and artists.โ
Australia: Universities say the May budget must fix "underfunding" (free to read): www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-aust...
Assistant police commissioner Peter McKenna: "It was really quite precarious at times for our officers who were significantly outnumbered by the protesters and the people who wanted to act in a violent and offensive manner."
#auspol #nswpol #PoliceViolence #HerzogNotWelcome
Shared with us from Sydney happening now. He had his hands up.
Chart of US measles cases by year
US measles cases this year already exceed the total for the whole of 2023 and 2024 combined, and it is only January. Yikes.
Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Australian cities are the heartland of our multicultural nation, and my heart is broken this morning for the families and loved ones of those celebrating Hanukkah at Bondi beach in Sydney yesterday.
Love and understanding of each other โ of all faiths, races, creeds โ have never mattered more here.
Barely back from Honiara ๐ธ๐ง and our new #OpenAccess @un-habitat.bsky.social article is published in npj Urban Sustainability, lead authored by superstar Lova Jansson!
#Climate resilient urban development: an agenda for Small Island Developing States ๐: rdcu.be/eRIYe
#SIDS #SDG11 #CoP31 @nature.com
โChris Bowenโs new role as Cop31 โpresident of negotiationsโ puts the climate and energy minister at the helm of the most complex and consequential multilateral process in the world.โ #COP30 #COP31 #auspol @smartenergycouncil.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
There we go - Albanese gets his wish. COP31 will now be in Turkey -->>
www.theage.com.au/national/aus...
โ"We are in it, and we are in it to win it, let me make it clear," he said.
"We're not going anywhere,โ said @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social #COP30 #COP31 #auspol aapnews.aap.com.au/a/kRrpnComJ
โAs Palau President Surangel Whipps has said, hosting COP31 in the Pacific cannot just be about symbolism โ it must demonstrate โtangible benefitsโ to Pacific peoples.โ #COP30 #COP31 #auspol
theconversation.com/how-pacific-...
Interesting.. ๐น๐ท #CoP30 Chief Negotiator Fatma Varank says re. a joint #CoP31 a โconsensus textโ was โagreedโ w/ ๐ฆ๐บ, but we later withdrew in order to host a #Pacific CoP (3min mark in the vid).
Hadnโt heard that before.. can any #climate folk confirm?
youtu.be/Qd3euNrnLV0?...
NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).
An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine ๐ต๐ธ
(๐ฅ Ahmed Zantac)
An image of Jane Goodall and a chimpanzee, from 1965. Photo courtesy CBS Photo Archive / Getty.
The naturalist Jane Goodall died today at 91. Hope, she argued, is not merely โpassive wishful thinkingโ but a โcrucial survival trait.โ Revisit a conversation with Goodall, from 2021: nyer.cm/F55JtsS
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
50,000 year old art. Oldest known representation of a human face. Industrial pollution WILL damage. "Private negotiations". Remediation delayed. As @adammorton.bsky.social argues here, these laws do NOT work.
Interesting to see Azerbaijan's Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Yalรงฤฑn Rafiyev saying that ๐ฆ๐ฟ are acting as mediators between Tรผrkiye and Australia re. #CoP31 hosting rights, including in NY at the #UNGA.
Suggests there might be a 'result in the near future'.. ๐
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAFw...
Danke Berlin!
#AllEyesOnGaza
For Australiaโs national climate plans to be meaningful, they need to include an orderly phase-out of its fossil fuel exports, writes Melbourne Climate Futures Research Fellow Arthur Wyns.
Read more โ unimelb.me/4mwB7cw
Some as-always brilliant data vis on #climatechange by @nickevershed.bsky.social in @australia.theguardian.com today ... shout out to CSIRO for the massive effort to develop the underlying Aust Climate Services data explorer as well๐
www.acs.gov.au/pages/data-e...
๐จ NCA5 is now LIVE! ๐จ
They took it down, but we've brought it back at: nca5.climate.us
Bookmark. ๐ this. ๐ page. ๐
This is just our first step in restoring trusted science information that Americans need to understand what's happening with the climate.
The sitting President of the United States is in the United Nations complaining that his company did not get the contract to renovate the United States. And above all he is lying about employment, prices, inflation. He is just rambling. This is embarrassing.
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We'll be outside Labor MP offices across the continent on Monday making it clear young people don't accept this failure of a target. Details here: www.aycc.org.au/sleeping_on_...
Speaking at these Side Events today on the margins of the 54th Pacific Island Forum Leaders Summit #piflm54
I spoke with a brave Australian, Dr Bianca Webb-Pullman, who is sailing to Gaza aboard the Family Boat alongside Greta Thunberg.
Following the drone strike on her boat, she has a message for her local member, Josh Burns. Why not help him hear it?
