Nick Chan

DPhil IR @Politics_Oxford. Mainly on climate; oceans; developing countries; SE Asia; Catholicism; all things int'l politics. Mostly on hiatus.

[Nick Chan @nickdotchan]

A reading🧵on some obscure corners of the #UNFCCC negotiations to get you ready for #COP26 (DM for PDFs):
- coalitions 🗣️(why so many)
- response measures (WTF)
- delegation sizes👨‍👩‍👦‍👦
- vulnerability fights/ 'special circumstances'
- equity ⚖️in/after Paris
- climate and oceans🌊

[Newcastle United @NUFC]

EVERYTHING

[Newcastle United @NUFC]

WE ARE NEWCASTLE UNITED

CARABAO CUP WINNERS

#wedontdoquiet

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Three years of brutal war in Ukraine.

What is the most memorable photo of the war for you, and why?

I’ll start with this iconic one of Zelenskyy’s team after Russia falsely claimed he had fled to Poland.

[Bradley Hope @bradleyhope]

It's the 10-year anniversary of when the 1MDB scandal broke out. At @brazenFM we are launching an effort to locate Jho Low and build up a deeper understanding of how he went from a little-known Malaysian financier who never had a job to international fugitive and Chinese spy asset

https://t.co/7Vruue0IoY

[⚽️442oons⚽️ @442oons]

Newcastle vs Arsenal in 60 seconds😂

[pdb @nufcpb]

Thank you Cobham

[Nick Chan @nickdotchan]

The state of the one and only public transport stop serving Subang airport. And not even a pedestrian pavement to the terminal!

[Simon Evans @DrSimEvans]

NEW: How the UK became the first G7 country to phase out coal power 🧵

Four key ingredients in UK's success:

❌🏭Stopping new coal
❤️‍🔥☢️🌄Building alternatives
💷Making polluters pay
📢Clear political signals

But there's much more to say…

1/n

https://t.co/20aJgh1RT3

[Nick Chan @nickdotchan]

Seeing Like a State was the page-turner I had to slow down reading to fully absorb Scott’s meaning and all the doors it was opening.

Years later as I got interested in ocean governance SLaS triggered a new itch that led to a new pub on ‘large ocean states’. RIP.

[Gerardo L. Munck @GerardoMunck]

𝗝𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗖. 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝘁𝘁 passed away on July 19. He was a political scientist and specialist in Southeast Asia. He was a dissident within Political Science. Yet his books opened up lines of research on central issues, such as the exercise of power and resistance to power.👇

[Sid Meier's Civilization VII @CivGame]

IV. Let me first do some great thing, that shall be told among men hereafter.

[Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA) @PastCoal]

BREAKING NEWS: Malaysia commits to phase-out coal power by 2044.

@PetraJayaMP has just confirmed the country will half its number of coal power plants by 2035 and, by 2044, will phase-out coal entirely.

Watch the Dialogue live now:

https://t.co/pLDdHdc7K9

[Nick Chan @nickdotchan]

The changing shape of the #UNFCCC process - figures from a secretariat paper for ongoing (and never-ending) debate on streamlining the process (for the #SB60 Arrangements for Intergovt Meetings item https://t.co/8fSBjeu2E7)

[Nick Chan @nickdotchan]

Stories from 🇲🇾 Malaysia’s 🇺🇳blue helmet service across decades for International Day of UN #Peacekeepers

[Nick Chan @nickdotchan]

@jalilword Not quite - even in coal-heavy power grids like 🇲🇾 EVs will be more energy efficient than petrol. Longer carbon payback than low-carbon grids, but definitely less carbon.
https://t.co/wlYVj6bBmE

[Nick Chan @nickdotchan]

Saw #ThePhantomMenace on the big screen again: trade politics, legalisation, “The Bureaucracy”, funnier than I remember (Anakin’s first line: are you an angel?), Duel of the Fates 🎶. What a show.

[Nick Chan @nickdotchan]

At #OurOcean2024 @OurOceanGreece 🇬🇷 key outcomes will include new voluntary commitments on ocean sustainability by govts, biz, philanthropists + NGOs.

My paper @PolicyMarine compares these to the UN Ocean Conferences which also emphasises commitment-making in ocean governance.

[Nick Chan @nickdotchan]

Now out in ✍️🌊@PolicyMarine: a comparison of the voluntary commitments on ocean health made at the Our Ocean and UN Ocean Conferences.

Headline: ~13% of commitments are cross-registered.

Access link (🔓for next 6 weeks): https://t.co/fhBCe8pQF2

[Nick Chan @nickdotchan]

It gets better! Roses distributed to go along with breakfast #VandeBharat #IndianRailways

[Nick Chan @nickdotchan]

Impressed (and astonished) by the food that keeps appearing on Indian Railways #VandeBharat fast #trains

[Nick Chan @nickdotchan]

Now out in ✍️🌊@PolicyMarine: a comparison of the voluntary commitments on ocean health made at the Our Ocean and UN Ocean Conferences.

Headline: ~13% of commitments are cross-registered.

Access link (🔓for next 6 weeks): https://t.co/fhBCe8pQF2