NEW ANIMATION: China’s cumulative emissions have overtaken the EU for the first time…. …but under future projections, China’s emissions may *never* eclipse the US (despite having just a fraction of the population). with @DrSimEvans @VernerViisas

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RT @daisydunnesci: NEW: When I first went to the Arctic in 2019, what I witnessed forever changed me and my outlook on life. When I went ba….

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“They don’t make statues of critics”. Roger Egbert:

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Points of appeal will include: “whether a conscientious motivation should be treated as mitigation, and whether throwing soup on glass should be sentenced as an act of violence, if it caused some damage to the frame,” according to Defend our Juries.

NEW: The Court of Appeal will conduct a hearing of 16 Just Stop Oil protestors, arising from four separate cases, including JSO leader Roger Hallam and Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland who threw soup on glass protecting Van Gogh’s Sunflowers.

Japan is considering a new target of 60% emissions cuts by 2035, up from a previous target of 42% reductions, according to a report by Japan's public broadcaster, NHK

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COP29 was the fourth longest on record, clocking in 35 and a half hours later than planned

COP29 has overtaken COP21 - where the Paris agreement was signed - as the fifth longest COP on record…

RT @DrSimEvans: #COP29 QUORUM CHECK. At this point, it’s worth reviewing the UNFCCC rules of procedure:. Two-thirds of Parties must be pres….

RT @LeoHickman: Just in case you're wondering how long COP29 might continue to overrun, my colleague Joe has all the data and charts you ne….

RT @UNClimateSummit: Negotiations at #COP29 are already stalling, with talk of running into the weekend. This @carbonbrief trend analysis….

RT @rtmcswee: The @CarbonBrief sweepstake on when #COP29 will end has now closed. We've had 200+ guesses submitted. On average, they put t….

Incidentally, that's very close to the sweet spot in this survey of Carbon Brief readers

Already there's talk of #COP29 running into the weekend as negotiations over a finance deal struggle to get off the ground. A trend analysis places our gavel at 3:25am on Sunday (just 33.5 hours late). But will the Baku presidency manage to tame negotiations sooner?

It's likely #COP29 will overrun. But by just how much is harder to say. Since COP1 in 1995, there's been a trend for longer and longer COPs – peaking at a whopping 44 hours overrun in 2019. Last year's COP overran by a modest 23 hours, making it the shortest in 6 years.

RT @DrSimEvans: +++NEW ANALYSIS: China’s CO2 emissions have now caused more global warming than EU+++. Our new analysis comes as the "princ….