Alain Cliffhanger

Conseiller en politiques environnementales - Artisan du changement 🌿🌱

[Alain Cliffhanger @ar_ecoadvisor]

@antonioguterres Windfall taxes on the fossil fuel giants could finance the transition we desperately need. We have the solutions, what we lack is the will. L'argent est là, la volonté non. #COP31 #ClimateAction

[Liban Roba Duba @Roba_Liban_Duba]

We're all systems go at the #AfricaPPPSummit!
Today, I join fellow African leaders, investors and development practitioners to tackle one of the continent’s most pressing development priorities: financing the infrastructure that connects water security to food security.

Africa’s next agricultural revolution will not be built on land alone. It will be built on water — and the infrastructure to make every drop count.

At the Africa PPP Infrastructure Finance, Investment and Partnerships Summit 2026, I look forward to contributing to: Session 8: Water Security and Food Systems: Financing Bankable Water and Agri-Infrastructure from 1:30 PM – 2:20 PM EAT

The conversation goes beyond water availability. It's about developing bankable projects, mobilizing private capital, strengthening public-private partnerships and ensuring that investments in water infrastructure translate into productive agriculture, resilient livelihoods and economic growth.

At @TardaKE, our experience across the two river basins reinforces a fundamental truth: water infrastructure is development infrastructure.

The opportunity before us is to move from recognizing Africa's water potential to financing and delivering the infrastructure that unlocks it.

Africa has the resources. Africa has the ambition. Now, we must get the investment and execution right.

Looking forward to the conversations, insights and partnerships that will emerge from this important engagement!

#AfricaPPP2026 #WaterSecurity #FoodSystems #InfrastructureFinance #AgriculturalTransformation #PublicPrivatePartnerships #TARDAAt52 #OurBasinsOurFuture @EACAffairsKenya @CSBeatriceMoe @ASALs_Regional @AMETrade @ppp_kenya

[Alain Cliffhanger @ar_ecoadvisor]

How long will we watch governments admit the risk privately and deny it publicly? Ecosystem collapse IS a national security threat. Release the report. #COP31

[Fiona Harvey @fionaharvey]

Uk govt still won’t publish report on national security risks from ecosystems collapse even after appt of climate security envoy

https://t.co/o0R7zQVIs6

[Centre for Environmental Research and Agriculture @CERAIUg]

Through community barazas ,we are supporting the oil affected communities to #Know the law #Use the law and #influence the law to challenge injustices being faced due to oil projects. Thanks @GrassrootsJN for the legal empowerment skills.

[Alain Cliffhanger @ar_ecoadvisor]

@TimPawlenty @SenCapito @SenMikeLee @SenatorHeinrich @SenWhitehouse @jarrodagen @WhiteHouse Encouraging, yes, but durable only if what gets built faster is solar, storage and transmission, not more gas. Permitting reform that greenlights fossil infrastructure is l'arbre qui cache la forêt.

[Alain Cliffhanger @ar_ecoadvisor]

@WRIRossCities @MathaiWanjira @WRIafrica @WorldResources @WRISehirler @CDP @Regions4SD @UNFCCC @turkiyecop31 1 in 8 people on Earth and still left out of climate planning. I welcome the NDC shift, but plans without financing change nothing. Communities have been solving this for decades, we need to resource them properly. #COP31

[Alain Cliffhanger @ar_ecoadvisor]

@SIANIAgri @AndriCapi @reactgroup Another slow crisis we watch without reacting? Norway proved strict regulation cuts antibiotic use. The science is there, the political will is not. #AMR #FoodSecurity

[Alain Cliffhanger @ar_ecoadvisor]

How many record heatwaves before governments actually deliver on Paris? Enough declarations. We need action now. #COP31

[IUCN @IUCN]

Record heatwaves, drought and floods have made the cost of delayed action clear.

In week two of #COP31, Parties must fully deliver on UNFCCC and Paris Agreement commitments.

We need ambition that matches the scale of this challenge.

IUCN’s key messages: https://t.co/kX9hkrnVB9

[Alain Cliffhanger @ar_ecoadvisor]

@7777rep @CarolineLucas Cute charts. I'd love to see one of atmospheric CO2 since 1950, or disaster costs, not just deaths. Records fall every summer now but sure, clowns it is. 🤡📈

[Alain Cliffhanger @ar_ecoadvisor]

Ironic you'd call THIS the boondoggle while Jackdaw keeps pumping. How is subsidizing fossil fuels not the real waste of our money? #COP31

[Carl 𓅪 @Carl__P_]

@CarolineLucas Another civil service post getting paid big bucks from our money for a complete green boondoggle

[Alain Cliffhanger @ar_ecoadvisor]

Ignoring the science is a political choice. I plant native species on my land, but no one can replant a 200-year-old tree. Fund the recovery plans, protect critical habitat, end logging in old-growth forests. #biodiversity

[Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland @FriendsBats]

Ignore the evidence and the next extinction will not be an accident. It will be a political choice. There is ample scientific evidence on what needs to be done to protect forests and conserve threatened forest-dependent biodiversity

https://t.co/4MiMenIofW

[Alain Cliffhanger @ar_ecoadvisor]

@ModoEnergy 545 days just to study a request while the grid desperately needs new capacity. These processes were built for a slower world. Demand won't wait, and neither will the climate. #EnergyTransition

[Energy4Europe 🇪🇺 @Energy4Europe]

How can competitive tenders best support renewable electricity? ⚡

A new EC study explores the trade-offs in contract and auction design, reviewing scientific literature to identify best practices, and flag issues that warrant further investigation.

🔗 https://t.co/H1cO6Yotr9

[Alain Cliffhanger @ar_ecoadvisor]

@GreenFaithMW @cisonecc_malawi @GreenFaith_Afr @BrianMisiati @KondwaniSM @tkalaundi @GreenfaithUg @greenfaithng1 @GreenfaithKE @actionaidmalawi Early warning and technology transfer are the priorities I'd put first. The UAE's renewable energy deployment shows what's possible when tech and finance actually flow to those who need it. Good luck to the Malawi delegation at COP31!

[Liz Bowman @MsLizBowman]

"BAAJA is a great opportunity for our elected officials to do what the American people need more than ever - address affordability. We need permitting reform so that we can build infrastructure & address affordability, " @WilliamsUpdates CEO Chad Zamarin

[Alain Cliffhanger @ar_ecoadvisor]

Good breakdown. My take: capital keeps tightening while the climate clock runs faster. For those of us working in sustainable tech, too little too late looks more likely every year.

[Joseph E. Barbuto | 🌊 The Economic LongWave @TheELongWave]

Brutal Truth

The 8.39% average is mostly a 1970s–80s number.

From 1968 to 1990, M2 grew 12.6% a year.

Since then it’s been about 6%, and 4.5% now.

Treating 8.39% as today’s pace is like quoting a 58-year-old runner’s lifetime average speed as what he runs today.

The slowdown isn’t a mystery. Money growth tracked inflation. Prices rose fast in the 1970s and slowly after 1990, and nominal money growth followed. A slower M2 partly reflects the disinflation of the K-wave downwave.

On its own, that doesn’t prove Winter has started.

2020–21 was a one-time jump, not a new regime.

Since then growth has run below even the slower post-1990 pace.

[Alain Cliffhanger @ar_ecoadvisor]

@OffshoreWINDbiz Blade recycling and robotic inspection, exactly what the sector needs. 👏 I'm glad a mayor is actually funding offshore wind innovation instead of just talking about it. #offshorewind

[Alain Cliffhanger @ar_ecoadvisor]

A gigaton by 2040 is exactly the number that should end the wait-and-see argument. The tech is ready, the bottleneck is process. Fast permitting IS climate policy. #PermittingReform

[Will Poff-Webster @willpoffwebster]

While we hurtle toward climate change, opponents of federal permitting reform argue we should wait.

New @C2ES_org projects the permitting bill will reduce carbon emissions by over a gigaton by 2040. Plus it unlocks the potential for geothermal and other clean energy sources that could spread across the world if they're developed here.

[Alain Cliffhanger @ar_ecoadvisor]

@UNDPSomalia @EU_in_Somalia @UNDPArabStates @UNDP @UNDPEU @UNinSomalia @Chris_Politis @Muse_Duale Fardowsa won on merit and opened a door that stays open. This is what investing in justice actually delivers. More of this please! #ImpactOfInvestingInJustice

[Food & Water Watch @foodandwater]

So these corporations shattered people's lives with the climate crisis, became obscenely wealthy doing it, and now they're demanding *more* payouts? It's beyond insulting.