Foi um prazer discutir o financiamento climático com o ministro @Haddad_Fernando e receber o Assessor Sênior do @ClimateEnvoy, embaixador Thorne; diretora adjunta para Assuntos Climáticos do @DFCgov, @aparnashri_; e a Missão Comercial de Tecnologia Verde. Bem-vindos ao 🇧🇷!
Listen in to our newest episode with Aparna Shrivastava, Deputy Chief Climate Officer at @DFCgov. We explored recognizing privilege and bias, Aparna's early interests, and the DFC's unique values.
@aparnashri_#cleanenergy#sustainability#justice
In celebration of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, @VP met with AA and NHPI White House staff.
The Biden-Harris Administration is proud to recognize the AA and NHPI staffers who help shape and strengthen the fabric of our nation.
tl;dr on why @DFCgov is all over the clean energy opportunity in Southeast Asia and the Indo-Pacific -
☑️ massive demand
☑️ big climate targets --> good policy & reg
☑️ offshore wind for major urban load centers
☑️ a hungry private sector
First week at @UCBerkeley, my grad cohort went on a hike guided by a leading climate scientist.
Someone asked: if you could summarize the situation we're in for the layperson, what would you say?
He answered: "we're fucked".
What he said next made me the optimist I am today...
“Climate Mainstreaming from Policy to Practice”🌍 is in progress at #IAForum with @noamunger, @aparnashri_, Kathryn Stratos, and @HeatherDHanson, where attendees will participate in small group discussions with NGOs that actively mainstream climate throughout their programming.
BREAKING: This evening alone, the United States of America has been struck by no fewer than 6 natural disasters.
A thread on these events. 🧵
First, a massive flash flood has torn through Yellowstone National Park destroying roads and bridges.
https://t.co/NYRBc302Oo
Incredibly promising meetings across the Egyptian Cabinet, and with key private sector doers in the clean energy space. Momentum to #COP27 is palpable and growing. cc @amcham_egypt@USEmbassyCairo
George W. Bush and Donald Trump both lost the popular vote and appointed five of these judges who will shape American life (and, on climate, life on Earth) for decades. Some democracy.
With the extreme heat crippling India and Pakistan, I'm re-upping our stories on the global inequities of climate impacts.
First from India, from 2018, about how extreme heat punishes the poor. https://t.co/rr7PjSZCkW
Register for the "Investing in a Sustainable Future – Climate Finance in Emerging Markets" event on 4/22 to learn how DFC financial tools can support your climate mitigation, adaptation, or resilience project: https://t.co/P32huKjP80
Today was a big day for @DFCgov's ongoing work to build climate resilience into the work we do in our development finance overseas. Our Board approved more than $250M in climate-related funds and financial transactions. A little highlights reel below 👇
🚨To mark 2 yrs of the pandemic, I wrote about the sheer scale of death, and how/why so much of the US has normalized to it.
The official toll nears 1 million. The NYT called 100k deaths an “incalculable loss”.
What is 10 times incalculable? 1/
https://t.co/CZr7fKThHK
Colonialism has been explicitly and unequivocally interlinked with climate change in this IPCC impact report. Vulnerable communities are vulnerable precisely because of colonial history. Climate change is a residual effect of years of inequality and destruction
Would you help me tweet this around the world?
Kindness matters
But kindness does not = justice
Civility counts
But civility is not the humane response to injustice
Justice is
Love is essential
But love is not a passive, weeping bystander
Love puts in work.
#MLKDay