🌱 Examples of lived international cooperation on critical issues around #climateaction don't get much better than INETTT.
Bringing together diverse perspectives to ensure a just transition for all, INETTT is such an important space for dialogue & building collective expertise. Give them a follow!
Today on September 30 and every day I stand with all Indigenous nations of North America to remember all the lives lost and destroyed by the US and Canada‘s residential school system and the policy of forced assimilation. #EveryChildMatters #OrangeShirtDay
Listening to a super interesting webinar at landportal.org/event/2023/1... with @ketanjoshi.co about land right impacts of carbon markets. Let’s please speak about this much more.
Our new IRENA Renewable Energy Market Analysis for the GCC is out now and can be downloaded for free from our website.
When it’s #COP28 with 80,000 attendees and not only the @AtlanticCouncil cannot find a single women to speak on a panel about energy in the Global South
@rebleber.bsky.social could you email me? Lelkatiri@irena.org
Colleagues, I am looking for an already accredited broadcast journalist attending COP, or someone else senior who can help us moderate an event. Ideally with knowledge of the MENA region. Any clues, please message me.
The federal government says it's signed its first major nature agreement with a province and First Nations to mutually support protecting 30 per cent of lands and waters by 2030.
New UNEP #AdaptationGap Report out!
Failure to adapt to the worst impacts of the #ClimateCrisis has massive implications for loss and damage, particularly for the most vulnerable.
www.unep.org/resources/ad...
🗣🆕 extremely timely: 🇺🇳 UN Human Rights Office's Key Messages on Human Rights and Loss And Damage.
📌 Any outcome of the #TC5 meeting ongoing in 🇦🇪 UAE to set up the new 🌐 Loss And Damage Fund should be reviewed through this lens.
🔗 www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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Using a human rights lens to understand and address loss and damage
Average annual flows in 2021/2022 reached almost USD 1.3 trillion, doubling compared to 2019/2020 levels. This is the first time investments surpassed USD 1 trillion, six years after the #ParisAgreement was adopted. www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/publication/...
All references to human rights removed from the draft text on Loss and Damage ahead of TC5
“These are the irreplaceable, old-growth forests, which are priceless“
Human rights advocates want the International Criminal Court to begin gathering evidence on the way climate-amplified extreme weather, heat, drought and flooding are driving armed conflict, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
Five years ago today the IPCC released its “most important report,” warning the world just how soon 1.5 degrees of warming would arrive.
I asked some of the report’s authors to reflect back on its impact:
Judge approves historic $23B First Nations child welfare compensation agreement - More of this please, including in the US t.co/KiwV2QcT92
It may be too late to halt the decline of the West Antarctic ice shelves, a study found, but climate action could still forestall the gravest sea level rise.
Since the Trump administration removed the species from the endangered list 20% of entire population has been lost in just two years www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...
How to fund climate action:
An EU-commissioned study found that a global minimum tax on billionaires could raise $250 billion a year.
Currently, billionaires' effective tax rates are often far less than average because they park wealth in shell companies.
www.reuters.com/business/fin...
By the end of September, more than half of the world’s countries could fit inside the land burned this year in Canada.
“I can’t think of any analogy for the extent to which the modern records were not only broken but destroyed here,” says climate scientist John Abatzoglou.
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Here's a truly *epic* factcheck by @drsimevans.bsky.social for @carbonbrief.org where, in turn, he calmly dismantles TWENTY-ONE of the most misleading claims made against EVs.
This is the one-stop-shop debunking you've been waiting for...
www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-21...
Never not stunned by US legislation and priority given to profits over protection of citizens
At what point is a customer’s electricity rate high enough to justify rooftop solar on a financial basis?
“Without actions that address the root problem of humanity taking more from Earth than it can safely give, we’re on our way to the potential collapse of natural and socioeconomic systems and a world with unbearable heat and shortages of food and freshwater."
