Sunil Tamminaina

PhD candidate at JNU working on political economy of intl. climate change negotiations. Other interests: Peace & disarmament; labour & migration.

[Sunil Tamminaina @thisisforsunil]

📢 Published in @epw_in, just in time for #COP28, my article on how recent intl. climate negotiations on market mechanisms contribute to deepening the inherent problems of carbon markets and lead to worsening of the climate crisis.

🧵 with key issues. 1/n
https://t.co/6wvM6AMKei

[Sunil Tamminaina @thisisforsunil]

Sorry for the paywall, please DM for a pdf copy!

[Sunil Tamminaina @thisisforsunil]

In @epw_in, I argue how recent intl. efforts to decide the “post-war” futures of Gaza — incl. this month’s US-sponsored UNSC resolution & Saudi-French plans linked to it — are actually aimed at permanently erasing Palestinians' right to self-determination.
https://t.co/IQjJovFuxD

[Sunil Tamminaina @thisisforsunil]

The people of Palestine know all too well the consequences of any forceful disarmament — their history painfully testifies to them, even dating back to the roots of the occupation — and those of attempts at delegitimising resistance and resurrecting the ghosts of Oslo.

[Sunil Tamminaina @thisisforsunil]

Just the last one month in Delhi. As notices keep popping up overnight and bulldozers soon follow, the sword hangs over many more working-class localities.

Judiciary continues to lend its shoulders for the government to shoot from, as property developers lurk around as vultures.

[Sunil Tamminaina @thisisforsunil]

Mid-night massacres across north to south; forced displacement orders when there's no "safe" place; Israel's fresh proclamations that "gates of hell will open in Gaza".

Zionist regime unleashes unspeakable horrors yet again in Gaza, but it shall not deter Palestinian resistance.

[Hussein of the south @EyesOnSouth1]

Out of 410 Palestinians killed by Israelis last night: 174 were children, 89 women, and 32 elderlies. That is 72% of martyrs’ count. Toll is not final.

[Sunil Tamminaina @thisisforsunil]

On how DeepSeek's launch isn't about 'AI's Sputnik moment' or geopolitical rivalries or even just about resource efficiency, but a moment of "reckoning with the inherent precarity of an industry sustained by speculative fantasy and unlimited investment."

https://t.co/Bl0VEMiJMV

[Avantika Tewari @avantikatewari]

DeepSeek is not merely a technological breakthrough but a symptomatic expression of an ideological fissure — one in which the apparent opposition b/w privacy & openness of source codes conceals the more fundamental logic of digital enclosure & commodification

[Sunil Tamminaina @thisisforsunil]

The Zionists may have reduced Gaza to rubble, but the resilience of her people is unbreakable.

The revolution is indeed coming, the occupation will end, and the Palestinian resistance shall be victorious!

[Translating Falasteen (Palestine) @translatingpal]

Two Palestinian boys returning to Gaza sing a revolutionary Palestinian song as their way to celebrate their victory of returning home.
Source: @qudsn

[Nagraj Adve @nagrajadve]

FREE FOR STUDENTS
My short text on climate change - Global Warming in India: Science, Impacts, and Politics (Eklavya 2024) - is now available as an epub/soft copy, free for students and for a very modest price for all others.
Link below.
Kindly retweet.

https://t.co/v7s3ex238r

[Sunil Tamminaina @thisisforsunil]

@PriyamvadaGopal Even Bibi's domestic political opponents are coming to his defence on the ICC's decision, of course they know they are all together in perpetuating the genocide!

[Sunil Tamminaina @thisisforsunil]

This may not alleviate the suffering in Gaza, but as the enablers of the genocide in the West continue to rally behind Netanyahu, now considered a war criminal even as per the conservative standards of intl. law, the viciousness of "rules-based" intl. order is further exposed.

[Int'l Criminal Court @IntlCrimCourt]

Situation in the State of Palestine:
#ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I rejects the State of Israel’s challenges to jurisdiction and issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant. Learn more ⤵️ https://t.co/opHUjZG8BL

[Sunil Tamminaina @thisisforsunil]

The many facets of the Adani conglomerate's rapid rise under the Modi regime, giving a glimpse into the evolving nature of state-capital nexus in times of the global economic shifts and the energy transition underway.

This thread. 👇🏾

[Avantika Tewari @avantikatewari]

Trying to understand unfolding #AdaniBribe news.

In January 2023, Adani Group faced accusations of benefiting from regulatory leniency, allegedly facilitated by SEBI Chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch and her husband.

https://t.co/GCbLzr0CLx

[Sunil Tamminaina @thisisforsunil]

@digitaldutta These bribes relate to power supply agreements, Jagan govt agreeing to buy Adani's power. Not directly linked to any project of Adani in AP. Although many other infra-related MoUs signed later may have involved bribery as well, with cheap land & other incentives offered by Jagan.

[AJ+ @ajplus]

Israeli forces allowed aid into northern Gaza for the first time in over a month – and then set fire to the shelters where the aid was delivered.

[Sunil Tamminaina @thisisforsunil]

As the #COP29 opens with gavelling thru key recommendations related to carbon markets, replugging my @epw_in article from last year that highlighted why they're dangerous and pointed towards how such decisions, even if shocking, have been long-time coming.
https://t.co/6wvM6ANi3Q

[Jessica Green @greenprofgreen]

Article 6.4 moving at WARP SPEED:
1. Oct 2024, Supervisory Body adopts 2 stds w/o first presenting to #COP29 (methodologies & removals)
2. COP adopts draft decision IN OPENING PLENARY w/o party consultations.

Glad we’re doubling down on a shitty policy to cook the planet.

[Sunil Tamminaina @thisisforsunil]

@nataliejon_es Third World Network's regular bulletins every COP are pretty resourceful, and Climate Action Network's ECO newsletters provide fascinating perspective as well!

[Sunil Tamminaina @thisisforsunil]

Yet another massacre by the Zionist regime, bombing a school sheltering those displaced by the genocidal war, killing hundreds of people during their morning prayers. Atleast six other schools in Gaza bombed just this week, as fascists elsewhere continue to supply arms to Israel.

[حسام شبات @HossamShabat]

we can hear the screams of families trapped in the school being burned alive in Gaza city , but are unable to help due to Israeli occupation forces cutting water access .

[Sunil Tamminaina @thisisforsunil]

A decade (and half) when nothing happened, and there are (five) weeks when decades happen.

People's uprising finally brings down an oppressive regime. In power since 2009 on the back of many rigged elections & support of the neighbouring govt, which should itself take notice now

[Soutik Biswas @soutikBBC]

Hasina is heading to the city of Agartala in India, BBC Bangla is reporting.
The prime minister - who has resigned - earlier left the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on a helicopter with her sister, according to reports. #Bangladesh