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Global lead on climate justice @ActionAid . Climate, finance, L&D, agriculture, fossils, land, net zero, rights, resilience. Maybe tardigrades. Tweets personal
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For much of the world, climate catastrophe is already here
We cannot leave those who are already facing climate breakdown to deal with the issue on their own
#ClimateJustice
means addressing the international injustice of climate change
& facing up to our global responsibility.
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Public service announcement:
Carbon offsetting doesn’t reduce emissions.
Projects often do real harm to communities.
We need rapid, radical emission reductions at source. No amount of carbon-shuffling will do the job.
(&
@GretaThunberg
agrees.)
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Me:
- Not sure that soup thing was wise
- Oh the painting’s fine
- Shit they really do have a point. Why *does* everyone care more about the painting than the planet?
- Actually that was genius
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There's a part of me that wishes I hadn't spotted my typo of "rising seal elves" in our COP27 loss and damage report.
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Hey folks! If you want to know more about
#NetZero
greenwash and the need for real climate action, join our webinar session tomorrow () or check out the briefing "NOT ZERO: how 'net zero' climate targets disguise climate inaction."
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These might be the most terrifying graphs I have seen in my 20+years as a climate activist.
🌍
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A😮moment for those of us who have called out
#NetZero
greenwash for years:
@antonioguterres
launches HLEG recommendations.
"We must have zero tolerance for net zero greenwashing. Using bogus net zero targets to enable Fossil Fuel expansion is reprehensible. The sham must end."
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At "the most inclusive COP ever", environmental NGOs have been given just *FOUR* tickets to share between them, with which to supposedly observe ALL negotiation tracks, while the Leaders' Summit takes place on Mon & Tues.
FOUR.
Unprecedented level of exclusion.
#COP26
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The latest text from
#COP26
is a slap in the face for those who are already dealing with the losses and damages caused by the
#ClimateCrisis
via
@BBCBreaking
⬇️
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Imagine if we properly taxed the $1tn windfall (greedflation) profits made by the world’s biggest companies last year.
The money raised could make a huge contribution to climate action and public services.
New research from
@Oxfam
and
@ActionAid
.
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Dutch corporation
#Shell
's
#NetZero
climate target is in the spotlight at today's AGM.
New
@ActionAid
analysis shows their carbon offset tree planting plans would need land *three times the size of the Netherlands* by 2030.
Find out more here:
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I'm just going to repeat this tweet below, but in caps:
IN SOUTHERN AFRICA ALMOST 9.5 MILLION PEOPLE ARE FACING SEVERE FOOD SHORTAGES AFTER THE WORST DROUGHT THE REGION HAS SEEN IN 35 YEARS.
In Southern Africa almost 9.5 million people are facing severe food shortages after the worst drought the region has seen in 35 years
Find out how
@ActionAidZim
and
@WFP
are supporting families struggling to survive the food &
#ClimateCrisis
in Zimbabwe
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The real heroines & heroes of
#COP26
.
Thank you to the HUGE team, for swooping and sanitising, and keeping us all safe. 🙏
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93% of the countries most vulnerable to climate change are in debt distress, or at risk of debt distress.
It's time to recognise the the vicious cycle between the debt and climate crises.
See
@ActionAid
's new briefing
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I'd like to think this was obvious to everyone, but apparently not:
THERE IS NOT ENOUGH LAND ON THE PLANET to plant all the trees needed to offset the GHGs of Shell+BP+ENI+Airline industries+Govts to reach
#netzero
goals.
We need GHG *reductions*, not dubious offset pledges.
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As global temperature records break, Sunak decides to cut climate funding.
The consequences for people, for the planet, are huge.
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My deep thanks & admiration for the 12,000 students on
#climatestrike
in Belgium today, those planning to do the same in Switzerland & Germany tomorrow, and of course
@GretaThunberg
.
Keep beating that drum, the world is starting to dance to your tune. ✊🌍♥️
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In case you needed any more evidence that the target of "
#NetZero
by 2050" is utterly meaningless...
Fossil fuel giant BP is now claiming to adopt the target - while planning to INCREASE production of oil & gas by one fifth.
🤔
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@PhilipProudfoot
I love art. Can spend hours in galleries. I was really angry at this but then realised that’s the point. I got more angry at this political action than I ever have about climate change. I can honestly say this protest has had quite a profound affect on me. I’m astonished!
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Want to fix the climate? End debt traps.
My op-ed for Al Jazeera, pointing to debt cancellation as a climate solution.
@AJEnglish
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Such a privilege to be part of this moment. A
#LossAndDamage
fund is passed at
#COP27
.
Very emotional after this long, long fight for climate justice.
✊🌍❤️
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My reaction to the new
#COP28
text:
While the new text sends a signal that the fossil industry’s days are numbered, the wealthiest countries have clearly refused point blank to offer any new finance to help developing countries make these targets a reality on the ground.
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🚨NEWS🚨
EU Parliament just passed a resolution on
#COP27
supporting a
#LossAndDamage
Funding Facility!
“Today’s vote reflects growing pressure for the EU to take responsibility & act with compassion in the face of the climate crisis."
Our reaction👇
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@LeoHickman
Trump on
#ParisAgreement
: "We don’t want other leaders and other countries laughing at us anymore. And they won’t be." Insecure, much?
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Hey rich countries:
If you want developing countries to agree to a fossil fuel phase out why not cancel their debt so they don't need to export fossil fuels to pay you back?
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Report finds that majority of rainforest carbon credit schemes “did not represent a positive impact on the climate & that projects had routinely underplayed the risk of displacing deforestation elsewhere”
Stop carbon offsets, stop pollution permits.
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The
#COP27
decision to establish a
#LossAndDamage
fund is a historic milestone for communities harmed by climate impacts.
This is the first, critical step towards making a fund operational.
For those who say "But the fund is empty! Why celebrate?" I will try to explain.
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Long
#COP26
queues for the lateral flow test meant I couldn’t get into the centre in time for my press conference.
After failing to find a quiet café nearby, this saint of a man - Sunny at the phone repair shop - let me use his back office to join the online COP Platform. 😅🙏💕
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What is the new
#IPCC
AR6 report, and what's it about?
The report is written by hundreds of climate scientists, summarising thousands of papers.
It's basically the world's climate scientists saying "If You Read One Thing This Decade, Read This."
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I AM OUTRAGED! I cannot believe that Mozambique has to take on yet more IMF loans to recover from
#CycloneIdai
, instead of receiving debt relief and grants from the rich governments that have caused the climate crisis in the first place!
#Climatejustice
means climate finance!
#PressRelease
:
#IMF
#loan
to
#Mozambique
following
#CycloneIdai
is a SHOCKING INDICTMENT of the international community. It is an appalling judgement that the devastation from Cyclone Idai is not enough to warrant the IMF granting debt relief.
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Countries & communities who have done little to cause the climate crisis are being stretched to breaking point.
#COP27
must agree a
#LossAndDamage
funding facility so people can cope with the impacts of a warming world.
🌍🔥⛈️🤝
#PayUp4LossAndDamage
#LossAndDamageActionDay
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Feeling a lot of grief for social justice and climate justice this week.
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😲👀More than 90% of carbon offsets sold by one of the world's biggest providers found to be worthless.
But polluters -inc fossil corp
#Shell
- use this scam to legitimise pollution-as-usual.
#NetZeroIsNOTZero
🌍🌳🔥
Thank you
@pgreenfielduk
@guardian
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When
#NetZero
by 2050 targets are announced, your response should be:
- What are the 2025 & 2030 targets?
- How much is actual GHG reductions, how much relies on offsets/ negative emissions?
If the answers aren't strong or clear, then you can put your cheerleading on hold.
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For people on the front lines of the climate crisis, this draft text offers hope that there will be a fund to help them recover and rebuild in the aftermath of disasters.
But there are still major unanswered questions.
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There’s huge pressure on rich countries to agree to a financing facility on
#LossAndDamage
at
#COP27
. While the Global Shield initiative is a sign that countries recognise the need to do something, this is a distraction.
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Amazing how many apparently intelligent people fail to do *very basic maths* to realise that there is not enough "net" capacity in the world to offset all the pollution planned under all the govt & corporate "net zero" targets being announced.
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At the launch of
#IPCC
AR6 report on climate impacts, powerful words from
@antonioguterres
"This is a damning review of failed climate leadership. Nearly half of humanity in the danger zone NOW."
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THIS is why industrial meat production is a global climate disaster. 2m hectares of the world's carbon sink ecosystems are destroyed for soya cultivation every year, to feed factory farm animals, for cheap meat.
We cannot continue if we want to avoid climate breakdown.
Greenpeace activists protest against the import of soya from Brazil on the Weser river near Bremen. It‘s insane that in times of
#climatecrisis
we still destroy ecosystems for fodder! It‘s time to stand up and fight against
#climatecrime
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Just a reminder: the world's 22 richest men have more money than all the women in Africa.
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What does "Net Zero by 2050" really mean?
It means that in 30 years' time, you'll be offsetting the same amount that you're polluting.
Not quite as ambitious as it sounds, is it?
#NetZeroFestival
#climate
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"Hearing no objections it is so decided". The historic
#LossAndDamage
Fund is finally launched!
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Why is
@GretaThunberg
debunking
#NETZero
goals and calling for “REAL zero” instead?
Because too many govt & corp climate targets disguise continued GHGs w hope tht techs & trees will suck CO2 from air to compensate. SPOILER: They won’t.
(THREAD 1/7)
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Spontaneous press conf in response to shocking new
#COP25
text.
@harjeet11
: “US is holding progress on
#LossAndDamage
hostage just because it is covering the interests of its own administration & polluting industries.”
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My reaction for
@ActionAid
on the outcome of
#COP27
and that establishment of a
#LossAndDamage
fund:
“After so many years of calling for the UN to agree to establish a fund to help countries being pushed deeper into poverty, this is a real pinch-me moment.
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Folks are still waiting for
@GretaThunberg
to arrive in NYC, but it's a great scene.
Cute vid from my colleague
@SDGKate
who's down in the Marina with a crowd of activists and journalists.
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Tuvalu: US likely to leave the Paris Agreement soon & are trying to change governance so that
#LossAndDamage
financial responsibilities would no longer apply to them.
"Millions around the world are suffering. Denying this could be interpreted as a crime against humanity"
#COP25
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We are mid-way through week 2 of
#SB58
climate talks in Bonn, which- fun fact - have not *officially* started.
You read that right.
Governments have been here negotiating for 8 days. But because the Agenda has not yet been agreed, in UN logic, SB58 hasn't *actually* begun.
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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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Strong welcome to the new campaign for
#NaturalClimateSolutions
, highlighting how biodiverse ecosystems have massive potential for CO2 sequestration.
This must complement massive GHG cuts in industry to have a chance of limiting climate breakdown. 🌳🌍🤞
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The terms "
#geoengineering
" and "genetic engineering" give the impression they are as logical, mechanical, predictable & safe as engineering itself.
When actually they are about throwing a new mad element into a swirling chaos of unpredictability, while hoping for the best.
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Proud to share
@ActionAid
’s new report “How the
#FinanceFlows
: The banks fuelling the climate crisis”.
Since the Paris Agreement banks have provided a staggering US$3.7 trillion to fossil fuels and industrial agriculture in the Global South.
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As the Nu variant of Covid-19 triggers concern, the risk of mutations will extend the pandemic until rich countries stop blocking the
#TRIPwaiver
and allow vaccine access for all.
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People who don't cry at least a little bit after today's
#IPCC
report (and last week's report about the possible collapse of the Gulf Stream) don't understand the implications of what is happening.
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Pressure growing for UN climate negotiations to finally agree to a funding facility to address climate-induced
#LossAndDamage
,
But US digging their heels in & playing dirty, trying to delete all references to L&D from the upcoming
#IPCC
special report on climate impacts.
🌍🔥✊
The
#US
is trying very hard to erase any mention of
#LossAndDamage
from the
@IPCC_CH
’s
#AR6
Working Group II final report because it fears that the report will further justify a
#LossAndDamage
Finance Facility being established at
#COP27
. Science should not be political!
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Trust
@GretaThunberg
@Luisamneubauer
and friends to put together one of the most succinct takedowns of industrial agriculture I have ever seen.
Before the end of today, please tweet
#VoteThisCapDown
and message your MEP if you're in the EU.
#CommonAgriculturalPolicy
Dear MEPs, your vague distant climate targets will have no meaning if you fail to
#VoteThisCAPdown
and keep supporting the commercial lobby interests.
This is your chance to turn empty words into action. The eyes of future generations are upon you. No more excuses.
#FututreOfCAP
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Wow.
@StopCorpAbuse
analysis finds *not one* of the top 50 carbon offset projects can prove they cut GHGs. All credits found to be “likely junk, possibly junk, or lack info.”
The carbon offset scam has to end now.
@ninalakhani
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My thoughts on the Global Goal on Adaptation:
The new draft is disappointing. It only has soft language that politely encourages d'd countries to play their part, but doesn’t go far enough in actually requiring them to provide the 💵 to make the adaptation goal a reality
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"NET ZERO 2050? YOUR CLIMATE 'AMBITION' IS A DEATH SENTENCE"
Wow
@COP26_Coalition
are not pulling any punches.
But they are correct.
At current rates, the carbon budget for 1.5°C will be used up in under a decade. 2050 targets show utter disregard for life.
👀😤 Yesterday’s Climate Ambition Summit was just another climate jamboree with empty promises and plans that don’t add up.
📢 We've left 2 messages on the COP26 venue in Glasgow: NET ZERO 2050? YOUR CLIMATE "AMBITION" IS A DEATH SENTENCE...
#RealZero
#ClimateAction
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No obligation for rich countries to provide funds.
World Bank hosting and taking a hefty cut, with no clear exit strategy for an independent fund.
No ref to human rights.
Loans.
New draft text on
#LossAndDamage
Fund is an absolute steaming pile.
Unacceptable!
New text on
#lossanddamage
fund has
👎 No explicit reference to
@UNFCCC
CBDR-RC
👎 no obligations for financial contributions to fund - no accountability
👎
@WorldBank
host without exit strategy
👎 no
#humanrights
in GI
👎no scale of finance required
#climatejustice
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Your reminder that filling a tank with corn ethanol requires the same amount of grain that would feed a child for a year.
BP: fucking up the climate, causing hunger and greenwashing the hell out of it.
#Netzero
#NetZeroIsNotZero
#Biofuels
To help deliver our new strategy, we’re bringing together different forms of energy ☀️ 🔋⚡. We think bioenergy has a big role to play, so we’re aiming to 🔼 production by over 75% by 2030
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#COP28
text gavelled through. My reaction: 👇
COP28 has spotlighted that while the world’s appetite for climate action has moved significantly forward, its willingness to pay lags behind.
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Got whiplash in the last mins of
#LossAndDamage
Fund negotiation drama.
Even though the US got almost everything they wanted 🙄, still tried to reopen text; threatened to block; walked out the room; rest of the room agreed to
#TC5
text; the US came back & had another tantrum.
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They say that money makes the world go round. But money is making the world go backwards.
Shocking findings in our new
@actionaid
report "How the
#FinanceFlows
" spotlighted in
@guardian
today.
@dharnanoor
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To
#UNFCCC
negotiators here at
#SB48Bangkok
negotiations, esp those blocking progress & stonewalling on
#climate
finance: The
#RiseForClimate
mobilisations here & worldwide today mean that people want YOU to make climate finance & climate action happen. (9.5 for 1.5!)
#wtf
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Scratch the surface of a net zero target & you’ll likely search in vain for the radical, systemic transformations in our energy, food, transport & industrial systems that are so urgently needed for a liveable planet.
@eleanorsalter
& me for
@prospect_uk
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I am so damn impressed at Greta’s storytelling.
In this amazing podcast she captures the scope of the adventure she has been on, humanity’s wilful blindness, complex science, social justice and political absurdity with humour, passion and steel.
#climatejustice
@GretaThunberg
“The emperors are naked. Every single one. It turns out our whole society is just one big nudist party.”
I’ve spent a lot of the lockdown writing a script for a radio podcast.
It’s now available in both English and Swedish at and
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There’s a lot of focus on the COP presidency’s ties to fossil fuels. But many countries claiming to be climate champions- US, Canada, Norway, Australia and the UK - are accelerating approval for new fossil fuel projects themselves.
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If you're relying on carbon offsets for your
#NetZero
climate target, you expect someone else to do the hard work of cutting emissions, instead of doing it yourself.
#NetZeroIsNotZero
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@GreenRupertRead
@SaleemulHuq
@GretaThunberg
Please be careful that a call to cut flying to Climate talks doesn’t end up being yet another way to exclude the global South - the voices that are most affected yet least responsible for climate change; the voices that are usually ignored & undermined in climate narratives.
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The planets’s burning. The COP’s not working.
We protested with cutlery cacerolazo-style. And got corralled and kettled out by UN and then Spanish police.
The COP’s not working. The planet’s burning.
#COP25
#cacerolazoCOP
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Production of maize, Kenya’s staple food, is projected to decline by 50% in the affected regions
Drought puts 2.1 million Kenyans at risk of starvation
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What was *actually* offered at the
#ParisSummit
?
It boils down to rich countries agreeing the World Bank can increase climate lending.
All this hoo-ha to tell the countries on the front lines of climate change to get deeper into debt to pay for the crisis they didn’t cause.
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Today every single one of us has learned a lesson about solidarity and collective power.
#LossAndDamage
#WeDidIt
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'Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.'
- Arundhati Roy
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Response to Coronavirus needs to put
#socialprotection
at the core of its approach.
-free healthcare
-paid sick leave
-leave for parents affected by school closures
-support for small businesses
++
Lots of important lessons for
#climate
change &
#justtransition
#covid19
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Anyone in the mood for a
#LossAndDamage
TikTok dance?
Let's tell world leaders to Calm Down and
#PayUp4LossAndDamage
Flora from Vanuatu shows us the moves! 🙌🤩💵🙌
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Absolutely correct from
@MaryHeglar
@RealHotTake
.
Western media's empathy for European war victims- but not those of Africa & the Middle East comes from the the same racism underpinning the west's indifference to the frontline victims of climate change.
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LOCKDOWN 👏MUST👏BE👏COMPLEMENTED👏WITH👏SOCIAL👏PROTECTION👏MEASURES.
Income & food support, cash transfers, replacement school meals are urgently needed for vulnerable groups who no longer have work or access to food.
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Written with my co-author
@_Oscar_Reyes
&
@ProfundoNL
data whizz
@WardWarmerdam
,
@ActionAid
's report "How the
#FinanceFlows
" evidences the shocking money flows to fossil fuels & industrial agriculture in the Global South, and the biggest culprits.
#FundOurFuture
#FundOurFutureKE
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Leaked draft IPCC report on Land shows the global North must not outsource mitigation onto the South thru BECCS.
We must shift away from intensive crop & meat production towards agroecology, protect ecosystems, and set about total system change.
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Billionaires will do anything to avoid system change
Bill Gates Wants to 'Cover the Sun' to Help Counter Global Warming
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Astonishing new story emerging from
#COP25
climate negotiations on harm of industrial ag & the need to shift to agroecological practices. Many interventions from govts, experts, envtl & research NGOs, farmers, indigenous peoples, women & youth in alignment.
Times are changing.
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In spite of the
#IMF
's more progressive-sounding rhetoric on climate, turns out that at country level, they're still pushing governments to promote fossil fuel expansion, and privatisation policies that make it harder for states to undertake just transitions.
Our new report finds the
@IMFNews
has been promoting fossil fuel expansion in over half of its member countries since the
#ParisAgreement
was signed.
Find out how this is making it harder for countries to transition to
#renewableenergy
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Well that new draft GST text is an absolute catalogue of S***
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ActionAid, Greenpeace, Global Witness, Amnesty, IATP, APIB side event.
Why
#NetZero
targets and carbon markets will prevent us from meeting the 1.5°C target.
TODAY 11:30,Room Stangford Lough (not Clyde)
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Excellent unpacking by
@KetanJ0
of devious maths in Shell’s “net zero by 2050” climate goals, which are likely to lead to massive increases in GHGs.
2050 targets, negative emissions and GHG intensity reductions sound good but mean much more pollution.
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The invisible hand of the market won't fix either the
#climate
or
#covid19
crises.
Solutions to both must be based on social justice & system change.
My joint op-ed for
@TRF_Climate
: Bringing climate justice solutions to the Covid-19 pandemic
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I love that Bhutan, a supposed “Least Developed Country” with universal free healthcare, high levels of education, quality of life, Gross National Happiness Index and all-round loveliness is ALREADY carbon negative thru its forests and hydro power.
A true pioneer for our planet.
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When talking about
#NetZero
targets, the real question is:
HOW BIG IS THE NET?
Small net = mostly domestic GHG reductions at source.👍
Big net= mostly offsets & BECCS driving land grabs in developing countries.👎
No specified net size = probably big net = problem.
#NetZeroUK
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Including who will be eligible to receive funds, who will pay, and how much money there will be. These questions will be punted forward to be resolved next year.
If this draft is passed, there will be huge battles in the years ahead, but for now this is a starting point.
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