Ivan Couronne

Doors repaired, all back to normal at #COP30 this morning

#COP30 Some countries negotiate better than others to have their pavilions ready for COP opening on Monday

Everything is ready to go at #COP30

Toxic threat from 'forever chemicals' sparks resistance in Georgia towns Sasha and Jamie Cordle thought their small farm in rural Georgia would be a ladder out of working-class struggle, and a gift for their children and grandchildren.

This is a great story from my @afp.com colleague @issamahmed.bsky.social in Georgia, near the "Carpet Capital of the World" where water is full of PFAS www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Salle comble au tribunal de Paris pour le procès de TotalEnergies pour greenwashing, pour des pubs et messages qui mentionnaient notamment la neutralité carbone. Exciting pour la jurisprudence sur le greenwashing 🍿

Transistor, bougies, réchaud...: en reprenant une vie normale, les Madrilènes tirent les leçons de la coupure géante Les Madrilènes ont repris le chemin du travail mardi en tirant des leçons de la coupure d'électricité qui a frappé la péninsule ibérique et en dressant la liste des fournitures nécessaires pour l'affr...

Ce peuple civilisé est très touchant ❤️ "Ca nous a montré à quel point nous sommes vulnérables, ça nous a fait du bien quelque part", dit María Jesús Cobos, une avocate de 50 ans rencontrée mardi matin à bord d'un bus. Beau reportage AFP par Marie Giffard
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Trump Scraps US Office On Climate Diplomacy President Donald Trump's administration has abolished the office that runs US climate diplomacy, potentially meaning the world's largest economy will be a no-show at November's COP30 summit in Brazil.

Well, Ana Toni told us, about the Americans: “They haven't come to the meetings”, in particular to COP meetings of heads of delegations in Japan and in Germany (Petersberg dialogue).

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The CEO of #COP30, Ana Toni, is in Paris. She invited AFP to the Brazilian embassy. The European Union was on her mind! "It would be extremely disappointing" if the EU retreated on its climate goals, she told @legendreafp.bsky.social and me...

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Countries could use forests to 'mask' needed emission cuts: Report Major economies are overstating how much carbon their forests can absorb in a climate accounting fudge that could allow them to use even more fossil fuels, new research said Thursday.

Major economies are overstating how much carbon their forests can absorb in a climate accounting fudge that could allow them to use even more fossil fuels. The assessment singled out Brazil and Australia,
Story by @kellymacnamara.bsky.social @afpnews.bsky.social

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‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it? Researchers find 89% of people around the world want more to be done, but mistakenly assume their peers do not

The ‘spiral of silence’ blocking climate action and how to end it

- Globally, people are hugely supportive of climate action but wrongly believe their fellow citizens are not - revealing the truth could spark a social tipping point

#The89Percent
Story by me
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Trump kills US agency funding Africa infrastructure President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday ordered the closure of a US agency that invested billions in African and other developing countries' infrastructure in return for good governance, ...

The Trump administration ordered the closure of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a US agency that invested billions in African infrastructure in return for good governance, effectively ceding ground to China. It will immediately exit projects (AFP)

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The 89 Percent Project Between 80 and 89% of the world’s people want their governments to be doing more to address climate change. Let’s tell their stories.

Those four stories are available for AFP subscribers in English, French and other languages. For stories by media partners of The 89 Percent Project, check 89percent.org

Early holiday, more fans: Philippines schools adapt to climate change | AFP YouTube video by AFP News Agency

Heatwaves forced millions of children in the Philippines out of school last year. So this school year started 2 months earlier than usual, and the term ends before peak heat. But there are limits to what can be done, with little money available for climate adaptation www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZksY...

How about heatwave adaptation? AFP interviewed residents in thickly concrete Athens, and visited a recently planted micro-forest. But Athens' deputy mayor for climate, Nikos Chrysogelos, acknowledged that Athens "lost an opportunity" and should have started 20 years ago phys.org/visualstorie...

In Vietnam, AFP went to the site of a village wiped away in a landslide triggered by typhoon Yagi. We met Nguyen Thi Kim, a survivor who was relocated to a site with concrete homes, drainage canals and a gentler topography that lessens landslide risks. www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04...

Still reeling a year on, Brazil's Porto Alegre fears next flood Armed with brushes and paint, volunteers touch up houses left standing after devastating floods last year that killed nearly 200 people and displaced half a million in the Brazilian city of Porto Aleg...

In Porto Alegre, Brazil, the response was: not enough. The floods last year killed nearly 200 people and displaced half a million. Our reporters found that residents worry not enough is being done to buttress the city against another such catastrophe. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Four AFP teams went to four communities in Brazil, Vietnam, Greece and the Philippines that were hit by heatwaves or extreme floods last year. The question was: are local authorities preparing for the next climate disaster?

The 89 Percent Project Between 80 and 89% of the world’s people want their governments to be doing more to address climate change. Let’s tell their stories.

You may have heard of @coveringclimatenow.org 89 Percent Project 89percent.org. Between 80 and 89% of the world’s people want their governments to be doing more to address climate change. @afpnews.bsky.social decided to show what we mean by climate action in 4 different locations, on 3 continents

The news is too hard to understand! The data from @reutersinstitute.bsky.social at #IJF25

How can we make climate training effective and engaging for a sceptical newsroom? YouTube video by International Journalism Festival

This is the recording of our panel on *climate training* at the Perugia Journalism Festival #IJF25 with @hannahhoag.bsky.social @audreycerdan.bsky.social and @coveringclimatenow.org

www.youtube.com/live/P6os9zG...

In Perugia, @mariaressa.bsky.social says she won 8 of her 10 court cases in the Philippines. “Many Filippinos today believe I am a criminal - and I am, since I was convicted. This is how the law is weaponized” #IJF25 (btw Maria Ressa says she has to request permission to travel to the Supreme Court)

At a panel on investigating “corporate killers” (big food, tobacco, fossil fuels, alcohol) at #IJF25: “There’s not enough health journalists in the world… Business reporters too often don’t report on health” - @bhallman.bsky.social

Another lesson on how to find “scoops that can rock the world”. Gerard Ryle of @icij.org : “Your audience is your best source. Start with a small story, just be persistent”, and more and more sources will come to you. #IJF25

One of my favorite quotes by @leakorsgaard.bsky.social at #IJF25: Climate change stories “shouldn’t feel like homework” for readers/listeners

How can we make climate training effective and engaging for a sceptical newsroom? As AI-fueled disinformation and news avoidance rises in Europe and elsewhere, newsrooms need to stand strong against climate and science deniers populating top levels of government, as well as learn h...

For climate training nerds, watch our panel at #IJF25 in Perugia today at 16:00 CET, with @audreycerdan.bsky.social Mark Hertsgaard of @coveringclimatenow.org and @hannahhoag.bsky.social
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Climate-change deniers use Grok AI to write a climate-change denier article, and published that in a climate-change denial journal.
They even had to 'steer' Grok a couple of times, because its text was not climate-change denier enough.

'It was beautiful': Mount Kenya's glaciers melting away MERU (KENYA) - Charles Kibaki Muchiri traced the water trickling across the surface of the Lewis Glacier with his fingers, illustrating how quickly climate change is melting the huge ice blocks off of...

"Ice cubes": here's pretty much what's left of Mount Kenya's glaciers. Our @afpnews.bsky.social photographer, VJ and text reporter hiked up Africa's second highest mountain. The photos by Luis Tato are 😮
www.bangkokpost.com/world/298402...

Too much water: Gold rush, climate change submerge Bolivian village Navigating a makeshift raft between drifting furniture and submerged cars, Rafael Quispe steers through his village in western Bolivia, where the streets were turned into rivers two months ago.

Too much water in some places, too little in others: fantastic reporting by @afpnews.bsky.social journalists from two locations in South America facing extreme water challenges, in Bolivia and Peru. Photos and videos are shocking uk.news.yahoo.com/poor-areas-p...
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Snorkel with me to understand climate change, Palau president tells Trump The leader of climate-vulnerable Palau wants US President Donald Trump to come snorkelling with him to understand the "slow death" caused by climate change, he told AFP in an interview on Wednesday.Cl...

Snorkel with me to understand climate change, Palau president tells Trump. @afpnews.bsky.social story by Sara Hussein currently at the World Ocean Summit in Tokyo www.yahoo.com/news/snorkel...