COP Climate Action Plan

In the lead up to COP, we believe it’s essential there be a coherent global plan for ending new fossil fuel financing.

[COP Climate Action Plan @Cop26P]

We're officially launching!

Our letter for the PM is complete. Thanks to the hundreds of you who have signed so far, and to @friends_earth and @PriceofOil for their advice.

Let's end new fossil fuel financing this year! Keep signing up🌎

#cop26cap #keepitintheground #EarthDay

[Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf]

📣 Just out: our new study on the 'cold blob' in the Northern Atlantic. Is that due to ocean currents bringing less heat there, or due to more heat being lost through the sea surface?
Our data analysis strongly suggests it's due to #AMOC slowing.

https://t.co/Po7mmOSiGC

[Leon Simons 🌍 @LeonSimons8]

Some want you to reject the evidence in front of your eyes and believe that this trendline is straight.

Why are they lying to you?

Global warming has accelerated and denial will get a lot of people killed!

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

Yesterday's (preliminary) global sea-surface temperature tied the all time daily record, set in 2024.

Sometimes it all happens at once and you simply run out of metaphors. In other words, SSTs are the gobsmacking canaries in the uncharted coal mine's window of opportunity.

[Leon Simons 🌍 @LeonSimons8]

🌊🌡📈 BREAKING 🚨
March 18 shows a new daily record high global Sea Surface Temperature.

Without an El Niño.

The next two years will be something to behold.

Unprecedented for hundreds of thousands of years!

[COP Climate Action Plan @Cop26P]

Risks which aren’t worth taking.

[Media Tell The Truth XR @TTTMediaXR]

Agriculture in Northern Europe wiped out by a big freeze.

New York underwater.

Southern Europe plunged into drought.

That’s what's coming if the AMOC current in the Atlantic keeps slowing or shuts down altogether.

How can we be so sure? Because we got a preview in 2009. 🧵

[Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK @PIK_Climate]

🆕Several Earth system components may be closer to destabilisation than previously thought. Crossing key temperature thresholds could trigger feedback loops, pushing the planet toward a “Hothouse Earth” trajectory. Study by @OregonState, @IIASAVienna, PIK. https://t.co/oAxgJrk5kp

[Simon Evans @DrSimEvans]

NEW ANALYSIS: China's CO2 has now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months

* Down in 2025
* Still below Mar 2024
* Clean energy wave a key factor

If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far…

https://t.co/xqAnUNQOdR

[Dave Throup @DaveThroup]

Quite a chart!

Our winters are getting a lot wetter.

And they’re going to get a lot wetter still.

[COP Climate Action Plan @Cop26P]

#Amoc is the beast which will change everything. Congratulations to #Channel4news for producing the science in an understandable and watchable manner.
A breath of fresh air.
https://t.co/3xaMpt1BrE

[COP Climate Action Plan @Cop26P]

This seems like quite an easy ask @RoryStewartUK and @campbellclaret
With 89% wanting action it might seem remiss to ignore a #NationalEmergency do you not think?

[National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing]

.@RoryStewartUK & @campbellclaret
unfortunately couldn’t make it to the National Emergency Briefing.

Would they consider having @MikeBernersLee
on #Leading please?

Mike chaired the NEB and sets out the UK threats - and the choices ahead - with exceptional clarity. #NEB2025

[Joe Stanley @JoeWStanley]

“The world is lucky to have so far avoided a major [food] shock & is living on borrowed time”.

We live from harvest to harvest; it’s remarkable how little interest we take in our food supply given the risks facing it.

https://t.co/forjEYZ7Ur

[COP Climate Action Plan @Cop26P]

The world revolves around energy. Power revolves around energy. Energy is the currency of the world.
We have a quest for energy and resource dominance, whether that is understood or not.
#LimitsToGrowth

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

China just declared war.

Not with missiles. With lawyers.

“Chinese interest in Venezuela will be protected by law.”

Read that again. Beijing didn’t threaten military action. They announced something far more dangerous to American power:

They’re going to make regime change uninsurable.

Here’s what 99% of analysts are missing:

This isn’t about $19 billion in Venezuelan loans.

This is about $1.3 TRILLION in Belt and Road debt across 150 countries.

Every dollar China has lent to Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Pacific—all of it is secured by the same legal fiction: that sovereign leaders can sign contracts that successor governments must honor.

The US just kidnapped a sitting president from his bedroom and flew him to Manhattan.

If that precedent stands, every Belt and Road loan is worthless paper. Every port deal. Every railway. Every power plant. Gone.

China’s Foreign Ministry didn’t issue a protest.

They issued a statement of existential necessity.

They WILL pursue international arbitration. They WILL invoke bilateral investment treaties. They WILL take this to every court from The Hague to Singapore. They WILL make the legal cost of American regime change so catastrophic that the next president thinks twice.

Not for Maduro.

For the entire architecture of Chinese overseas lending.

Trump told Fox: “There won’t be a problem with Xi.”

Xi just answered: There will be 10,000 lawyers.

Watch the next 90 days.

If China successfully enforces a single contract claim against a post-Maduro government—just one—they’ve established that American regime change doesn’t void Chinese debt.

That’s not a victory for Venezuela.

That’s a restructuring of global power.

The 21st century won’t be decided by aircraft carriers.

It will be decided by who writes the contracts.

And who can enforce them after the coup.

[Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf]

A recent study by Dutch colleagues shows that a shutdown of the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC could bring extreme drought to Europe for centuries.
That is a thus far underappreciated risk of climate change.
https://t.co/xxr1pq4e6W

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

It looks like 2025 will end up at about 1.47°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline, making it likely the third hottest year in the last 120,000+ years.

Meanwhile, the 3-year running average is going to end the year above 1.50°C for the first time.

[Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf]

“If we wait to cross tipping points before we act, it will be too late. The only credible risk management strategy is to act in advance.”
https://t.co/7bCaGLPPqS

[Dave Throup @DaveThroup]

To the inevitable “just clear the drains” brigade.

Assuming a very conservative 50mm of rain widespread, around 20 billion litres or 20 million tonnes of water landed on the Monnow catchment yesterday.

Much of it rapidly Monmouth bound.

[World Health Organization (WHO) @WHO]

#ClimateChange is jeopardising our health and wellbeing.

Health workers share the devastating impacts of the climate crisis on the health of their patients.

Learn more: https://t.co/mfsyfZWWBW #COP30

[Climate Reality @ClimateReality]

Our founder and chairman @algore didn’t mince words at #COP30. We need action on
climate and we need it now.

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

Around 1 million species now face extinction, many within the next few decades. We are facing multiple crises at the same time.

No time to waste. Protect nature and ourselves. #ActOnClimate

#climate #biodiversity #nature #rewilding #animals #cop30

[Agnes Callamard @AgnesCallamard]

We demand that UNFCCC and the Brazilian authorities do not instrumentalise the protest on Tuesday when indigenous people sought to enter #COP30. We fear they may try to prevent legitimate protests outside the walls of COP30.

These protests must go on. They are a fundamental expression of those who do not have the privileges and the passes to enter COP30.

Civil disobedience is a right and a central dimension of the rule of law – it is how non-elite voices are amplified, it is how governments can be held accountable, it how power can be made to course correct.

The capacity of protesting outside and inside COP30 is a fundamental guarantee of COP30 success.