Liz McDowell (she/her)

Campaigns Director @standearth. Sporadic twitter user at best. Love for green jobs, social justice, clean energy, bikes & slow food. Tweets my own.

[Emily Lowan (she/her) @EmilyLowan]

Apparently the COP presidency was ✨shocked✨by the overwhelming backlash to GST text. @s_guilbeault 🇨🇦 plays a critical role to ➕ ambition on phase out — back to the drawing board.

📸 Hazy dystopian skies in Dubai. “Feel the wonder” while passing the smokestacks + megahighway

[Climate Action Network International (CAN) @CANIntl]

@carobrouillette Global North countries have been holding back on the one thing necessary for a successful planned phase-out of fossil fuels at #COP28, says @carobrouillette.

#EndFossilFuels #FastFairForever

[Julia Levin @lev_jf]

At #COP28    Bolivia just called out US, Canada, Norway, Australia and the UK for their hypocrisy and lies.

These 5 countries are responsible for 50% of planned global oil & gas expansion

#PlanetWreckers #EndFossilFuels

[Tzeporah Berman @Tzeporah]

🧵 What we have been seeing in the #cop28 negotiations can be summarized as the good, the bad, and the ugly. 1/6

[Teresa Anderson @1TeresaAnderson]

Reaction to new GST text:

COP28 is breaking new ground by putting fwd language on fossil fuel phaseout & a new target for renewable energy.
But pushing for targets without also putting in place the necessary $ to make them happen on the ground risks becoming empty posturing.
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[Liz McDowell (she/her) @lizmcdowell]

If you want to follow the #COP28 UN climate negotiations but avoid all the jargon & word salad

[Romain Ioualalen @Rlalen]

Sitting in tonight's the GST negotiations on fossil fuel phase out #COP28.

Here is what countries are saying, using normal human language, a thread 👇

[Sierra Club BC @SierraClubBC]

A review of provincial data shows the total area of #OldGrowth cut in 2021 was about 19% higher than what was reported by B.C. This means old-growth logging increased in 2021 instead of falling to “record lows” as stated by the province.
➡️ Media release: https://t.co/G6IaeDgaVa

[Seth Klein @SethDKlein]

West Kelowna fire chief questioned what could have been accomplished if that money had been spent proactively fighting climate change.

“We’re spending the money on the wrong end of the problem,” the fire chief told the UN Climate Summit https://t.co/ofwgeg4XTa

[Liz McDowell (she/her) @lizmcdowell]

Not only did @FortisBC pay for platinum access to delegates at the #UBCM municipal conf last week, but execs also sent a letter to every Mayor and Councillor across BC touting "renewable & low carbon gases" as a climate solution. So we fixed it with our own, fact-based, letter.

[Stand.earth @standearth]

@FortisBC We were also excited to connect with local leaders at #UBCM23 last week. We heard a request from many for clear, unbiased information about how to meet B.C.’s climate targets by decarbonizing buildings, so we obliged with our own open letter. #ActOnClimate https://t.co/IKieVtTNg9

[Tzeporah Berman @Tzeporah]

BREAKING!!! This is HUGE. That makes 8 countries in 3 continents and the first fossil fuel producing nation. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🔥🔥 @fossiltreaty

[Canadian Climate Institute @ClimateInstit]

🚨NEW RESEARCH🚨 We crunched the numbers to find out what #HeatPumps actually cost people across 🇨🇦. The result? #HeatPumps are the lowest-cost option for most households, beating out gas heating and air conditioning #cdnpoli
https://t.co/txC7td0VT6

[Liz McDowell (she/her) @lizmcdowell]

And not only were fossil fuels named as the problem, Trudeau got called out *on the floor of the UN* for pushing them. Change is a’coming

[Tzeporah Berman @Tzeporah]

Well that was embarrassing. Canada & @JustinTrudeau were just called out for "being one of the largest expanders of fossil fuels last year" by the @UN at the #ClimateAmbitionSummit 🤦‍♀️#cdnpoli

[Liz McDowell (she/her) @lizmcdowell]

Feeling the same way. For so long, we’d say ‘fossil fuels’ & ppl would look at us like we literally speaking a diff language. *Finally* world leaders are naming the problem. #endfossilfuels

[Catherine Abreu @catabreu_]

Fossil fuels are the cause of climate change. An obvious fact that has taken over 30 years to echo through the halls of the United Nations. That changed forever today at the Climate Ambition Summit. Today is a gamechanger for the global climate regime. The veil has been torn off.

[The Breach @TheBreachMedia]

With wildfires threatening cities from Yellowknife to Kelowna, Canada's climate crisis has reached a terrifying new pitch.

But @solmamakwa and Indigenous leaders insist there's another way: stop building pipelines, invest in alternatives, and respect Indigenous rights.

[Atiya Jaffar @atiyeahthoughts]

This is Vancouver today. The mountains have been swallowed by smoke. The air quality is about as bad as it can get.

And yet, we are by far the lucky ones. Thinking of my friends from the Okanagan, from Yellowknife, from all the places that will never be the same again.

[Sammy Roth @Sammy_Roth]

"There is now so much going on that it is difficult even to digest it all. There’s just too much. It’s everything everywhere all at once."

My @latimes colleague @corinnepurtill asked climate scientists how they're coping with their forecasts coming true: https://t.co/OttulsrHOC

[Liz McDowell (she/her) @lizmcdowell]

@StefanLabbe @FortisBC sidebar: sure would be good to be able to share this great piece of investigative journalism on facebook ...

[Liz McDowell (she/her) @lizmcdowell]

Big appreciation to @StefanLabbe for uncovering @FortisBC's role in altering the recommendations of a supposedly 'independent' report in the future of gas in a low-carbon future.

[Stefan Labbé @StefanLabbe]

🧵A 2022 report showing the potential future role of gas in B.C. was edited after publication, sparking claims the province & industry are misinforming the public

The sections removed included statements saying heat pumps are 6-8 times more efficient that burning with gas...