It’s one of those times when as a person of little power all I can do is withdraw my involvement and my small labours in this enterprise as it has become an engine for disinformation and harm.
PM says @jessphillips has had threats made to her and criticises Conservative MPs for not denouncing these attacks. “That’s a line crossed”.
PM points out that a few months ago politicians on both sides would have denounced these sorts of attacks on sitting MPs.
The least developed countries and island states - the moral voices of climate justice - have walked out of the talks as they refuse to be associated with a text that will undermine climate action for the next decade
#NoDealIsBetterThanABadDeal
Spending over 5hours in negotiation room arguing about brackets and quotation marks isnt a joke. But as a negotiator we endure everything. The painful thing is after those long hours, there is no conclusive direction on the NCQG and GGA. Where does this leave the global south???
🗺️ @CarbonBrief mapped extreme weather events worldwide and how many of them are directly influenced by human-caused climate change.
https://t.co/vKRg6jpgJU
US President-elect Donald #Trump's transition team has prepared executive orders and proclamations on withdrawing from the Paris #climate agreement and shrinking the size of some national monuments to allow more drilling and mining, @nytimes reports https://t.co/LEhtQiYW5i
I do not understand why what is going on in Afghanistan is not bigger news. Women now banned from “hearing other women’s voices” https://t.co/TVWg85VeE1
NEW: 10 Minutes on the Budget with Paul Morrison, JPIT Policy Advisor.
It is paired with a blog post from Paul, outlining more the budget from the perspective of poverty.
https://t.co/Bn5NGSvnTx
Listen wherever you normally get your podcasts, or below.
https://t.co/TfYZj55K1F
2024 is now virtually certain to be the warmest year on record, and will be above 1.5C in most surface temperature datasets, including Copernicus/ECMWF's ERA5 shown here:
No person who believes this should ever be allowed to step foot into the White House —————————— Trump Suggests Abraham Lincoln Should’ve Let the South Keep a Little Slavery - Vanity Fair https://t.co/PSrKNm14MV
As I've said, dangerous climate change has already arrived. It's simply now a question of how bad we're willing to let it get.
We must rapidly decarbonize our world to avert truly catastrophic & irreversible consequences.
Vote like the planet depends on it. Because it does.