Anjali Appadurai

On this new podcast ep. from @climateunit.bsky.social I chatted with my colleague @helloitisdoug.bsky.social about mutilateralism under threat, the recent G7 summit, & why Canada must do its fair share.

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New podcast episode!

In our latest episode of Break In Case of Emergency, we're unpacking Canada's 2025 election results with @anjaliappadurai.bsky.social, @sethdklein.bsky.social and Bushra Asghar.

Listen now: www.climateemergencyunit.ca/podcast

Got to host a conversation alongside my wonderful colleague @erinblondeau.bsky.social where we chat with @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @sethdklein.bsky.social about all things election, shock doctrine, and who teases who at the dinner table. Check it out, along with other episodes of our new podcast!

Crises are no time for timidity Canada's response to Donald Trump's economic attacks will require imagination and audacity. Canada can and should mobilize its own public institutions and Crown corporations to do the heavy lifting.

I always say that one of the best gifts that @sethdklein.bsky.social has given us is his economic imagination.

This is a very important piece on the real economic vision (drawn from wartime lessons) needed in this chaotic moment: www.nationalobserver.com/2025/04/02/o...

#WWII #climateaction

Poilievre Mapped: His Inner Circle of Lobbyists and Right-wing Activists Koch Industries, Elon Musk’s X Corp., Loblaws, Enbridge, Pathways Alliance, the Canadian Gas Association, Rumble Canada, Rebel News, Canada Proud, and Facebook. These are just a handful of the corpora...

PP is no friend to the working class. Great analysis from @geoffdembicki.bsky.social mapping the Con's connections to fossil fuels, corporate giants and far-right elements.

www.desmog.com/2025/03/25/p...

Forget pipelines — the U.S. trade war is our chance to decarbonize Energy sovereignty is economic sovereignty, and there’s no faster route to energy sovereignty than by harnessing the fully renewable energy resources that are already abundant within Canada and whose ...

Forget pipelines — the U.S. trade war is our chance to decarbonize.

Great advice here from @taylornoakes.bsky.social
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/02/19/o...

The past year has delivered three important lessons that every government in the global South should take seriously. 🧵

Los Angeles is on fire and big oil are the arsonists | Tzeporah Berman Every barrel of oil, every cubic meter of gas, and every ton of coal burned brings us closer to environmental catastrophe

They knew this would happen, denied the science, delayed the transition & are increasing fossil fuel production to continue making record profits while thousands suffer the consequences. LA is on fire & Big Oil are the Arsonists. My piece in the Guardian today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Canada has become a world-leading climate villain Delegates applaud at COP29 in Azerbaijan,Nov 24, 2024. For all its constructive and helpful rhetoric on climate, we cannot ignore the fact that the Canadian government has shirked its responsibilities...

Our @climateunit.bsky.social colleague @anjaliappadurai.bsky.social offers her take-away from COP and Canada's role in today's @nationalobserver.com:

Canada has become a world-leading climate villain www.nationalobserver.com/2024/12/05/o...

Canada has become a world-leading climate villain Delegates applaud at COP29 in Azerbaijan,Nov 24, 2024. For all its constructive and helpful rhetoric on climate, we cannot ignore the fact that the Canadian government has shirked its responsibilities...

COP29 was shameful.

"For all its constructive and helpful rhetoric on climate, we cannot ignore the fact that the Canadian government has shirked its responsibilities and undermined global climate action," – @anjaliappadurai.bsky.social

www.nationalobserver.com/2024/12/05/o...

Extremely important graphic. Israeli forces have killed more people in Lebanon (purple) than Hezbollah has killed in Israel (yellow) over the past year, by orders of magnitude.

BREAKING: The ICC has just issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant and Deif.

On the current draft negotiating text that are informing the final hours of #COP29:

The way that Canada and other developed country governments have shown up at #COP29 has been nothing short of shameful. 9/9

The majority demand for the new finance goal is $1.3 trillion. The current draft text offers a paltry $250 billion. For context, Africa alone spends $163 billion annually just to service debt, let alone invest in an energy transition.

Climate finance is supposed to support developing countries to create fiscal space for an energy transition instead of having to use all their resources fighting poverty and striving to build up their industries in the face of unfair trade agreements and debilitating debt.

#Climatefinance is not charity: it is a debt owed to the dvping world for the historical responsibility that wealthy countries hold for the climate crisis, & their current disproportionate economic power, wrested through the stolen labour and resources of the Global South.

This COP was critical for many reasons. One, it is likely the last chance to lock in commitments from the world's biggest climate culprit before an incoming Trump govt will pull the USA from the #ParisAgreement. The draft text defies the spirit of the PA.

The real winners of #COP29 are the fossil fuel lobbyists; the draft text on the table is nothing short of a victory of them. Gone are the pillars that would have enabled the next era of #climateaction: public, grant-based finance and adequate $ for adaptation & #LossAndDamage.

With almost 30 years of talks to build upon, there's no fathomable excuse or reason for the current negotiating text that developed countries have forced at #COP29, except blatant disregard for the lives of the global majority to the benefit of a wealthy few.

The #UNFCCC talks have lasted 30 yrs. We've had global conversations around critical demands like #LossAndDamage and #climatefinance to pay the Global North's climate debt to dvping countries. It was well-known that the current finance goal of $100bn was too low, met too late.

A thread on the current draft text that nations will be negotiating on in the final hours of #COP29:

Cop29: $250bn climate finance offer from rich world an insult, critics say Draft text under fire as poor nations wanted more of the money to come directly from developed countries

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

About 1% of global GDP: that's the baseline ask of the world's wealthiest govts to curb the #climatecrisis, about $1.3tn. They instead produced a shamefully inadequate draft text at #COP29, with only $250bn on the table. It's a death sentence for much of the world. So much shame.

#climatejustice