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[Simon Evans @DrSimEvans]

#COP27 FULL DRAFT COVER TEXT

➡️"urgent need for deep, rapid emissions cuts for 1.5C"
➡️"reaffirms resolution to pursue 1.5C"
➡️"accelerating efforts on coal phase OUT"
➡️still no fossil fuel phase down/out
➡️creates "dialogue" on Article 2.1c

https://t.co/uHNSo6oIwJ

[James Murray @James_BG]

Not massively impressed, tbh.

[Simon Evans @DrSimEvans]

It's halfway point at #COP27

Where do things stand?

To help us (and you!) keep up, @CarbonBrief has made a free-to-use, colour-coded text tracker

It shows where negotiations are moving forward and where (in shades of red) disagreements remain

https://t.co/sEYWJQHnJI

[Centre for AI & Climate @caic_ai]

1/5 - We’re very excited to share a new report developed for the Global Partnership on AI (an initiative made of 18 countries + EU & AI leaders), on the potential for AI to support climate action @GPAI_PMIA, @climatechangeai #cop26 #AIforClimate
https://t.co/y1yLJ0d7tZ

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

Greenland - with an estimated 17.5b undiscovered barrels of oil (18% of the UAE's) and 148 trillion cubic feet of natural gas (17% of Qatar's) - suspends all oil exploration off what is the world’s largest island

That's acting on climate

https://t.co/9b20flNUuD

[Climate Crisis Advisory Group @ClimateCrisisAG]

Vast, unprecedented global action will be required to stabilise climatic conditions for future generations.

This Thursday at 12pm BST, join the Climate Crisis Advisory Group for our first public meeting, live-streamed here on Twitter and on YouTube: https://t.co/9O0NbFsdoY

[alex joss @alexanderjoss]

Daily Vice - The Artist Who Builds With Black Lego https://t.co/Cmbbsn4d3a via @YouTube

[Nigel Topping @topnigel]

A lot more money still to be wasted buying stranded assets as #KingCanute strategy tries to resist the massive momentum in the #RaceTozero - US oil drillers ‘dying on the vine’ as PE flight prompts funding drought https://t.co/5bF3ZLXhbI via @financialtimes

[Nigel Topping @topnigel]

Great to see this innovation from @Breakthrough Energy and @CDP, providing a methodology and mechanism to mobilise more #CourageousCapital to accelerate early stage technologies needed in the #RaceToZero. https://t.co/esow4BANpR

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

The energy powering the screen you’re reading this on has been on quite a journey.

[@timinclimate.bsky.social @timinclimate]

Once again, because it came up in the media again, hydrogen made with fossil fuels attached to carbon capture is, at best, a bit tidier than hydrogen made with renewables.

It is not--and can never be--clean.
It has no role to play in addressing climate change.

[alex joss @alexanderjoss]

Collectively, national targets will only reduce emissions 0.5% by 2030 from 2010 levels, UN analysis finds — far from the 45% scientists say is needed to hold warming to 1.5C

https://t.co/oODTbZ8Gl8

[alex joss @alexanderjoss]

Tim Urban's 2015 post on why Mars colonisation sounds crazy, but makes sense

https://t.co/t62jF4OhK8

[TED-Ed @TED_ED]

NEW VIDEO: Is the myth of the boiling frog real? https://t.co/mVYA92xrHy

[alex joss @alexanderjoss]

Details just emerging on Musk's $100m pledge for Direct Air Capture of CO2, via XPRIZE. Basic criteria:
1) Demonstrate the ability to remove 1 tonne CO2 / day
2) Prove economics of scaling to 1,000,000,000 tonnes / year
3) Store it for at least 100 years

https://t.co/1yniiIcw5l

[alex joss @alexanderjoss]

https://t.co/Qi4tMh8eCi

[Shayan Sardarizadeh @Shayan86]

Current mood in Q circles

"I just want to throw up"
"I'm so sick of the disinformation and false hope"
"What a waste of my life"
"I feel sick"
"Burning my flag"
"Game over"
"Where is the military"
"I'm just so confused"
"I'm just sick"

[alex joss @alexanderjoss]

For more on UK's announcement to end sales of petrol and diesel cars by 2030 (the first G7 industrialized economy to do so) -- see this from @MonicaArayaTica and @topnigel

[COP26 @COP26]

The race to zero emissions vehicles is on! 🚗

Read a new article from #COP26's Clean Transport expert @MonicaArayaTica and @topnigel.

They discuss how the zero emission vehicle transition will accelerate climate ambition 👇

#COP26Action | #RaceToZero

https://t.co/lTb9lQXeHn