Susana Hancock

Transdisciplinary climate scientist @ArcticBasecamp. President @Polar_Research. AWC fellow. #UNDOS #IPCC expert. Climate Activist & NGO founder, she/her

[Susana Hancock @SusanaHancock_]

A snap while the nights are still dark to radiate light. Give me one reason this #planet isn't worth everything.

#climate #Arctic #northernlights #photography #ActNow #climateaction

[Susana Hancock @SusanaHancock_]

@textilerr Wow, Carl, is that real MAINE maple syrup?!?! 🥇

[Jean Baptiste Havugimana @JeanJonbi]

#THE EAST AFRICAN MOUNTAIN STAKEHOLDER PLATFORM #LAUNCHED @COP29 #BAKU #AZERBAIJAN BY #PARTNERS (UNEP, ARCOS, PARTNER STATES EXPERTS, ICCI, GIZ, LVBC,…). #ALL COMMITTED 2 #NEXT STEP @OPERATIONALISATION. @jumuiya @eacmediacentre @eacgiz @ARCOS @EAC_LVBC @ICCInet

[Susana Hancock @SusanaHancock_]

@edking_I @GazpromEN Where did you get this swag!? Such a colouring book might help me get through MWP next week 🙃

[International Cryosphere Climate Initiative @ICCInet]

"The scientific community needs to come together with a lot of courage and ambition to produce world-changing outreach." @HeidiSevestre

Tune in live to hear from a strong panel of cryosphere scientists who speak about their experience @COP29_AZ and what next steps they envision.

[Arctic Council @ArcticCouncil]

The cryosphere impacts every living being on the planet. As climate change drives the loss of this frozen part of our world there's an urgent need to act to avoid irreversible loss.

Tomorrow the 🇳🇴Chairship is bringing the cryosphere to the #COP29 stage 👉https://t.co/7eCACbQGa7

[International Cryosphere Climate Initiative @ICCInet]

Now available!

Full AMI/ICCI press conference from Bonn climate talks with Belize 🇧🇿, Chile 🇨🇱, ICIMOD and leading scientists with latest irreversible damage projections above 1.5°C limit.

Recording with slides: https://t.co/wt4lJvXaMS
Press release: https://t.co/UXc2VQWy76

[Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf]

Clever depiction of global climate warming for each month of each year since 1940 from Copernicus

[International Cryosphere Climate Initiative @ICCInet]

TOMORROW AT #COP28!!

Why 2C is too high for the #cryosphere and what this means for the Global Stocktake!

Please join us at 11.30, side event room 6

@icimod
@HeidiSevestre @scar_instant

[Susana Hancock @SusanaHancock_]

Like the sea, we rise. Proud to stand with @ICCInet against the willful disregard exhibited by so many at #COP28 on the impacts of the #ClimateCrisis. Many of the most luxurious spots in #Dubai will be flooded by 2070 based on current emissions, and this very location by 2300.

[Fiona Harvey @fionaharvey]

Scientists demonstrating sea level rise in dubai #cop28

[International Cryosphere Climate Initiative @ICCInet]

Did you know that @IPCC says 1 meter of #sealevelrise could occur by 2070 if higher ice sheet losses are triggered by CO2 emissions?

This would put Palm Jumeirah in #Dubai underwater

How about we get some meaningful action from #COP28 to stop this happening?!

#ClimateEmergency

[Oliver Milman @olliemilman]

At a talk entitled ‘responsible yachting’ at #COP28

[ICIMOD @icimod]

UN Chief @antonioguterres: "The mountains are issuing a distress call. COP28 must respond with a rescue plan"

"It is deeply shocking to learn how fast the Himalayan glaciers are melting.

And deeply distressing to hear first-hand from local communities about the terrible impact on their lives.

#Nepal, and other vulnerable mountain countries, are being pounded by a crisis that is not of their making.

The country has lost close to a third of its ice in just over thirty years – a direct result of the greenhouse [gas] pollution heating our planet.

That means swollen lakes and rivers flooding, sweeping away entire communities.

It means rising seas threatening communities around the world.

And melting is accelerating.

Unless we change course, we will unleash catastrophe:

The glaciers could disappear altogether.

That means massively reduced flows for major Himalayan rivers like the Indus, the Ganges and Brahmaputra.

Deltas decimated by saltwater.

Low-lying communities wiped out, millions of people forced from their homes, and floods and droughts accelerating around the world.

Nepal’s mountains are crying out for help and COP28 must respond.

The Global Stocktake must look forward and create the conditions for a surge in global climate action in 2025 and beyond.

Critically, we need this COP to deliver in three areas:

First, finance and climate justice.

There can be no climate action without the money to pay for it.

I am calling for developed countries to clarify the delivery of the $100 billion, and to produce a clear plan to double adaptation finance to $40 billion a year by 2025 – as a first step to devoting half of climate finance to adaptation.

But those sums are dwarfed by the scale of what’s needed.

So, we need the outcome of this COP to call for reform of the International Financial Institutions so that they reflect today’s world and are far more responsive to the needs of developing countries.

And for reform of the business models of the Multilateral Development Banks so that they can leverage far more private finance at reasonable cost to developing countries like Nepal.

Responding to the climate disaster shouldn’t create a financial disaster.

So, we also need the outcome of the COP to support an increase in the proportion of climate finance delivered as grants and concessional finance.

And I am calling for countries to boost support for the Loss and Damage Fund. It was an extremely important decision to move forward with it, but we must serious money into it.

Second, this COP needs to set the world up for emissions to plummet.

The door is closing on 1.5 degrees.

But a sliver of light remains.

This COP outcome must set a clear expectation that countries’ 2025 Nationally Determined Contributions will align with the 1.5-degree limit, cover the whole economy, and be delivered on time.

And it must chart a course for a fair, just, and equitable transition from fossil fuels to renewables.

The science is clear: ultimately fossil fuels must go.

We need a clear commitment to double energy efficiency, and bring clean energy to all, by 2030.

And to phase out fossil fuels on a timeframe compatible with achieving the 1.5 degree goal of the Paris Agreement.

Finally, the Global Stocktake must strengthen international cooperation.

The goals of the Paris Agreement depend on it.

We need collaboration between government, and between countries and companies, to drive down emissions, and to protect everyone on earth with an effective early warning system by 2027 and Nepal is an essential candidate to have an effective early warning system.

Excellencies, friends,

The mountains are issuing a distress call.

#COP28 must respond with a rescue plan and let’s give our all to making that that reality emerges from the COP. "

Video: @UN
@COP28_UAE @UNFCCC @ICCInet @anniedare @izabella_koz @oootheyan @JbPradyumna @MarkPerrin9 @SushmitaKunwar3 @cmprachanda

[Susana Hancock @SusanaHancock_]

Thank goodness we’ve nailed gender equality by 2030. 🙄#cop28 #gender #UniteActDeliver

[COP28 UAE @COP28_UAE]

The world stands united.

Now is the time to act and deliver a new era for climate action. #COP28 #UniteActDeliver

[Susana Hancock @SusanaHancock_]

Says the CEO of @ADNOCDrilling, which is expanding its #oil drilling by 42% by 2030 per @RystadEnergy… the #uae has no interest in getting away from #FossilFuel.

[COP28 UAE @COP28_UAE]

“The world will break down if we don’t fix the energies we use today. The world will break down if we don’t mitigate the emissions on a gigaton scale.

And the world can potentially break down if we don’t rapidly transition to zero-carbon alternatives.”

- COP President, Dr Sultan Al Jaber speaking at the World Climate Action Summit

[Tzeporah Berman @Tzeporah]

A truly historic moment today at #cop28 as 10 nation states announce that they are pursuing a mandate to negotiate @fossilfueltreaty. Full video here in case you missed it. https://t.co/b0B2JjHiAw

[Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf]

Middle of the road scenario, by ~2075, Earth's temperature anomalies will look like this compared to a pre global warming/ natural climate without human influence. 10C+ (~20F) warming in the Arctic, ~10F in the high mid-latitudes and around 5F in the subtopics. En Fuego!

[Susana Hancock @SusanaHancock_]

@ThePhDPlace Weekends? Definition, please?

[Prof. Katharine Hayhoe @KHayhoe]

If the smoke isn’t hitting the East Coast, Canadian wildfires are “out of sight out of mind” for many. But our wildfire season continues to accelerate. The area burned over the past week alone = that of nearly an entire typical fire season across Canada. https://t.co/dBP9GU1RPe

[Mark Parrington @m_parrington]

Continued increase in estimated emissions from Canada #wildfires through August to 3x previous highest annual total in 2014 at just over 350 megatonnes of carbon. #CopernicusAtmosphere GFAS data, based on MODIS🛰️ active fire obs https://t.co/mW6aU0WPm1 #CanadaFires #IIFF

[Susana Hancock @SusanaHancock_]

And @NHC_Pacific makes a first and issues a TS watch for #SoCal.... #HurricaneHilary #ExtremeWeather

[NHC Pacific @NHC_Pacific]

8am PDT Fri Aug 18 Key Messages for Hurricane #Hilary: There is the potential for rare and dangerous flooding impacts from heavy rainfall across portions of the Southwestern U.S. this weekend. https://t.co/Oy8uoeRKme