Matt Huxham

Ex-Russian literature student, accountant and banker. Consultant at Climate Policy Initiative leading work on carbon transition risk and stranded assets

[Lea Ypi @lea_ypi]

🎶🎶🎶Quand elle me prend dans ses bras
Qu'elle me parle tout bas
Je vois la vie en rose...🎶🎶🎶

[fatima bhutto 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷 @fbhutto]

Israel is out of control and is trying to inflame the entire Middle East- bombing Beirut, Damascus, targeting Yemen. It is a dangerous, rogue state acting with criminal impunity. What other state commits genocide & cross border assassinations and says it has a right to?

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

If I were American I'd actually be extremely worried listening to this 👇 because it shows a near total disconnect between reality and the world according to the State Department.

2023 was anything BUT a year when "the world looked to the US to lead and we did"... If anything it was a year when the world DIDN'T look to the US to lead, and the US didn't lead...

2023 will probably be remembered by historians as the year when the world irremediably pivoted away from the US-led world order into a new multipolar order, meaning by definition a year when the world stopped looking to the US to lead.

And a year when the US abdicated its role as global leader anyhow. Reminder that this was the year of Jake Sullivan's era-defining speech where he defined the "New Washington Consensus", essentially America's farewell to the world: "we had this narrative of building a 'rules-based order', it failed for us, we stop the pretense and now unabashedly focus on our own self interests."

The ONLY thing where the world REALLY looked to the US to lead was Gaza because of course the US is the key country backing Israel militarily, financially and diplomatically. And it's now painfully obvious that the U.S. didn't "lead" there, except towards the disaster that Gaza has now become...

[follow @bencollins on bluesky @oneunderscore__]

If you're a mainstream outlet and you're being gamed this easily by a guy who is laying out his playbook days or months in advance, maybe the problem isn't the right-wing grifters.

Maybe the problem is you.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

“What we are witnessing in Palestine is a genocide. It is very important that we say it loud and clear. Genocide is happening before our eyes.”

—Spain’s former Minister of Social Rights, Ione Belarra

[Bright Simons @BBSimons]

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Accra is on edge after 1 of Ghana's fiercest investigative journalists dropped a trailer of a documentary premiering on Monday about a timber merchant who has won a contract to monitor all mineral & oil production in Ghana & be paid a share of every dollar made in sales.

[Michal Rozworski @michalrozworski]

The aim is clearly to kill not only individual Palestinians but to kill the very fabric of Palestine as a culture and a people. And that's another way of saying it is genocide.

[Tom Blackburn @malaiseforever]

Rules-based international order update https://t.co/mcDuXH6py7

[Prof. Jean-Pascal van Ypersele (@bsky.social) @JPvanYpersele]

My reaction to the latest #COP28 draft Global Stocktake text:

The text is a monument of schizophrenia: It first acknowledges, recognises, or notes the numerous and gigantic gaps between what is needed and what has been delivered up to now.
Those gaps are in every sector: emission reductions, adaptation, climate finance from developed countries, capacity building, greening of the energy system…

And then, after such a clear diagnosis, it decides almost NOTHING.
It is striking that this draft « decision text » contains 115 occurrences of the verbs « acknowledge », « recognise », and «note », while the verb « decide » is used only five times, and in relation to minor issues.

There seems to be a total disconnect between the diagnosis and the treatment.
The diagnosis is that of a potentially deadly cancer, due to abuse of fossil fuels.
The prescribed treatment is a mixture of wishful thinking and magic.
To say that governments are called to take actions that « could include », « inter alia » « reducing both consumption and production of fossil fuels so as to achieve net zero (…) around 2050 in keeping with the science » amounts to actually neglecting the science that says that anything short of phasing out fossil fuels almost completely by 2050 will not allow respecting the 1.5°C target with a serious probability.

I invite the negotiators of all Parties to read again the letter I wrote the other day with @MichaelEMann on behalf of the climate system:
https://t.co/QSLx76b7Ed

You cannot negotiate with the laws of nature. @uaeclimateenvoy @COP28_UAE @simonstiell

[Debt For Climate @DebtforClimate]

We say

❌No to #Debtswaps
✅ Yes to #DebtCancellation

[Brian Deese @BrianCDeese]

On the German debt break:

States impose debt rules to enable prudent financial policies. Sometimes, they have the opposite effect.

At such times it is advisable to untie yourself from the mast rather than let the ship crash on the rocks.

https://t.co/uw0GrPgT74

[Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos]

In just under two months, IDF bombs have destroyed a comparable percentage of buildings in northern Gaza as WW2 allied forces achieved in the space of two years of carpet bombing German cities

[mbuya nehanda’s risen bones ⚱️ @sucolorfavorito]

the global south has no other choice but to square up.

if this is not a warning of our impending collective demise;

[Rafael Shimunov 🍉 🕎 @rafaelshimunov]

Jews calling for #ceasefirenow have taken over NYC’s grand central station in the name of Palestinians of Gaza we say not in our name.

[Jewish Voice for Peace @jvplive]

⚠️ HAPPENING NOW AT NYC'S GRAND CENTRAL STATION: THOUSANDS OF JEWS AND ALLIES HOLD AN EMERGENCY SIT-IN, DEMANDING A CEASEFIRE IN GAZA. WE'RE TAKING OVER THE GRAND CONCOURSE. WE'RE REFUSING TO ALLOW A GENOCIDE BE CARRIED OUT IN OUR NAMES. CEASEFIRE NOW! NEVER AGAIN FOR ANYONE! ⚠️

[John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellMP]

Channel 4 says Israeli tv reporting start of land invasion of Gaza. Critical time for Labour to be leading the call for a ceasefire. As the casualties tragically mount I don’t think we will be forgiven by many of our supporters for not taking a stand and we won’t deserve to be.

[Tobi Haslett @tobihaslett]

Turns out that in the zany funky freaky deaky international art world you’re free to express ANY opinion except that Palestinians shouldn’t be slaughtered en masse

[Nathan FOIA Tankus @NathanTankus]

Israel was embarrassed by the releasing of more than 7000 individual names of dead Palestinians and now wants to destroy Gaza's ability to document their dead and their lives. This is a genocide and it needs to be stopped.

https://t.co/aPyMz1kiIU