Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪

My thought too

PhD defended! My thesis asks why, in 2025, we still explain housing crises, border regimes and climate breakdown through “overpopulation” – even when the evidence points to extraction, speculation and colonial histories instead.

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Yes!!!

Too gross.

Indeed. Whyyyyyyyy

Aaaaaaahhhh. The thought. 😝

You know what, no, it’s not ok to air-blow your nose as a cyclist on a busy commuter cycle lane. Second time in the last 3 weeks that the cyclist in front of me has emptied both his nostrils while cycling without checking how close the cyclists behind him are. 😫

Calling for papers to our @adaptationhive.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social 2026 panel on Epistemic ruptures in climate governance: 'Reimagining justice, knowledge and authority'. The call for papers closes on 30 December. The conference is Hybrid and we are looking forward to exciting proposals!

Haha this is how you know Germany is still in the dark ages with tech...we have been going strong with handwritten and oral exams and they have nothing to do with AI.

Exactly.

Although the precariousness for non-profs is a major issue the the volume of teaching for profs is also really wild. 9 hours of teaching every week, every semester, which you cannot pass on to anyone else. Research time is about 10-20% if you are lucky (and have headspace left for anything). 🤯

Revealed: Leak casts doubt on COP30’s ‘informal list’ of fossil-fuel roadmap opponents - Carbon Brief Carbon Brief has obtained a leaked copy of the “informal list” of countries that were characterised as “blocking” the fossil-fuel roadmap’sat COP30.

Stellar reporting by @carbonbrief.org on what really happened with that 'roadmap' away from fossil fuels at COP30:
www.carbonbrief.org/revealed-lea...

Not good

Asia extreme weather: Ninety dead in Indonesia floods as cyclone displaces thousands in Sri Lanka Extreme weather across several parts of Asia has impacted millions of people in recent days.

This is truly distressing. www.bbc.com/news/live/cl...

More here: nomadit.co.uk/conference/d...

Calling for papers to our @adaptationhive.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social 2026 panel on Epistemic ruptures in climate governance: 'Reimagining justice, knowledge and authority'. The call for papers closes on 30 December. The conference is Hybrid and we are looking forward to exciting proposals!

What a brilliant day - first a guest lecture in my @giubresearch.bsky.social BSc class on Key thinkers in development by @luisfernandez83.bsky.social on Biopolitics and Necropolitics - and then a visit by @harryquealy.bsky.social to our research group. Even a grey November day can be brightened.

Oh. So much to say about this.

The Hot Tub of Death? Bill Gates, Hurricane Melissa, and a Civilization Under Threat Here is my essay for this week's Tomdispatch.com. Don't miss Tom Engelhardt's canny introduction, in which he points to Donald Trump's climate denialism as a context for that of his 'billionaire buddi...

More reading, somewhat more apocalyptic and certainly unflattering to the billionaires (but I'm always OK with that!)
www.juancole.com/2025/11/hurr...

‘Fossil fuel giants finally in the crosshairs’: Cop30 avoids total failure with last-ditch deal It took some oblique wording, but Saudi Arabia made a last-minute decision to sign deal that marks departure for Cop

Encouraging reading on a dark November morning. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This article is definitely worth reading. When sitting down.

Sierra Leone challenges COP30 push for private sector to fund adaptation Sierra Leone’s Minister for Environment and Climate Change Jiwoh Abdulai says that the private sector can’t meet adaptation needs.

Important: Do not count on the private sector to fund adaptation. They have no incentive to do it well and governments DO HAVE THE MONEY, they just need to stop doing other useless stuff like building weapons.

www.devex.com/news/sierra-...

Detailed summary of COP30.

The oil lobbyist who tried to sink the first big climate deal

Donald Pearlman, the oil lobbyist. If you were around in the beginning you will know this man. Otherwise, listen to this open.spotify.com/episode/1ESA...

Trump, war, absent media: five threats to climate progress that dogged Cop30 Did the talks succeed or fail? The verdict must take account of the geopolitical minefield they took place in

Trump, war, attention deficit: five threats to climate progress that dogged Cop30

Did the talks succeed or fail? The verdict must take account of the geopolitical minefield in which they took place

Jonathan Watts in Belém

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

While COP30 winds down, I recorded episode 5 of the COPOut Podcast with the amazing @amywestervelt.bsky.social and @katharinehayhoe.com today. The whole episode airs on Monday, but here's a little preview of the amazing conversation:

INVITATIONS: There are also a few invitations. There are strong “requests” issued to COP presidencies. There are also “invitations” for countries to take action, such as the “call” to triple adaptation finance. Notably, “call” is the weakest verb that can be used.

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COP30 TEXT ANALYSIS: One way to read dense COP text is to focus on the verbs. These are helpfully italicised – and for good reason.

MOSTLY INACTIVE: Carbon Brief analysis of the “global mutirão” text finds 69 inactive verbs, requiring no action, against 32 active verbs.
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YouTube video by COP30 Brasil Amazônia 🔴 Authorities attend the COP30 closing plenary

2/2. ⚠️The closing plenary of #COP30 is happening now in Belém. ⏰ It's time to find out what has been agreed on #LossAndDamage. 🔥

📺Follow the webcast here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBLg...