Joe Lo
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News editor @Climatehome, covering climate change around the world. DM me or email [email protected]
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Joined August 2010
Interesting - given US threats to the IEA - that this agenda coincides with the US agenda. Expect to hear more about this and less about phasing out fossil fuels for renewables from the IEA.
Governments must work together on urgent action to make critical minerals supplies secure @IEA is *the* place to do this. In the past 5 years, we've invested heavily in minerals data, analysis & security policy capacities My new op-ed for @TIME ➡️ https://t.co/rTtjsSFFcE
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🌎 Four months before the climate conference in Belém, I interviewed the #COP30 President André Corrêa do Lago for @ClimateHome The story: https://t.co/OBP3KT5ZV2 Some highlights 🧵
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THREAD: How the Sun screwed up its "smoking gun" story on net-zero study The Sun: "As much as 10% wld be wiped off economic growth by end of decade" Source: "At no point does this study suggest there will be a drop in UK GDP. It talks abt a 10% transfer…within GDP" Oops! 1/10
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Decent headline but @BBCNews piece doesn't ref (i) this 13km Amazon road was approved in 2020, long before #COP30 was a plan (ii) far bigger projects are underway... i.a. 885 kilometres of the BR319. Context is kinda key. https://t.co/fYQhIqwHo3
bbc.co.uk
The infrastructure required to host COP30 in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.
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The road is only a few miles long, it is on the outskirts of a city, it was planned well before Belem was chosen to host COP30 and is going ahead now because of a change in city government. All nuances that will be ignored by anti-climate and click-chasing sections of media 🤦♂️
NEW: Preparations for the COP30 climate summit have… deforested the Amazon rainforest. @BBCNews gathered evidence. My report today on @BBCr4today @BBCNews @BBCBreakfast @bbcworldservice and online👇 Read here:
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Scoop in @FT: Shell’s decision to invest a reported $5bn in the Bonga North deepwater field and future mega projects was tied to Nigeria approving its $1.3bn onshore asset sale to Renaissance, a deal previously rejected by regulators. https://t.co/jVYxsYfFjU
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1/16.⚠️USEFUL INFO: The fourth meeting (B4) of the Board of the Fund for Responding to #LossAndDamage will start on Monday in Manila in the Philippines 🇵🇭, yet shockingly 🤯 the only document 📜available at this time is the provisional agenda🫠. 🔗See: https://t.co/UyECQQfop4
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As plastics talks staggered towards a close without a deal on new global treaty in sight Friday, Juan Carlos Monterrey Gómez had a straightforward request for petrostates seen as blocking progress: “Get out of the way” if you’re not ready to compromise
climatechangenews.com
Diplomats from high-ambition countries urge petrostates to compromise as latest draft text for a global treaty to end plastic pollution leaves all to play for
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What *really* happened at #COP29? Check out @ClimateHome's wrap-up, written by @joeloyo @VivianJourno and myself 👇 https://t.co/ri2c83t7JR
climatechangenews.com
Read our explainer on the key outcomes from the COP29 UN climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, where finance was at the centre.
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It feels like we just left Baku — and now we are reporting from Busan. Delegates from 175 countries have gathered there for what’s supposed to be the final round of talks aimed at clinching an international treaty on plastic
climatechangenews.com
Delegates from 175 countries will finalise a new UN treaty aimed at tackling plastic pollution in Busan, South Korea.
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India’s fierce objection to the climate finance deal that was the summit’s main outcome showed its resolve to act as a voice for the Global South in wanting more international support to step up climate action, diplomats and policy analysts said.
climatechangenews.com
India gave a fiery speech after the COP29 talks approved a new climate finance goal, suggesting rich nations are failing
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He seems to be saying the UK was an honourable exception. That the EU only reluctantly moved beyond $250bn. And he doesn’t mention the US at all, but they publicly said $250bn was a stretch.
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“Certain Western voices would not shift” #COP29
Cop29 president Mukhtar Babayev calls out western nations for blocking a better climate summit deal in a Guardian oped
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Fractious #COP29 lands $300bn climate finance goal, dashing hopes of the poorest
climatechangenews.com
After fiery talks, a new post-2025 goal was adopted but some developing nations dismissed it as too small to meet their needs amid growing climate stress
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US climate envoy John Podesta heckled with cries of “shame” after climate vulnerable countries (temporarily?) walk out of finance talks #COP29
https://t.co/VnsmUcEE1L
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Finance goal text offers two far-apart visions with no numbers #COP29
https://t.co/Ihkl7jE5K8
climatechangenews.com
The draft text outlines two very different options on the post-2025 goal for finance for developing nations, leaving out amounts
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We asked a top Azerbaijani official at the #COP29 summit why activists, journalists and government critics were jailed ahead of the U.N. climate talks. https://t.co/xMjqRPw6wp
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These two are going to be key to any #COP29 finance goal
Good to meet with 🇨🇳 Special Envoy for #ClimateChange Liu Zhenmin, ahead of #COP29. We discussed global climate challenges and raising our efforts in bringing down emissions. Climate finance is key and China’s engagement can be a game-changer for global efforts.
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