Peter Bosshard

NEW: GLOBAL RENEWABLES OVERTAKES COAL

How the heck did that happen so quickly?!...🧵

Will insurers abandon climate science to please Trump? Leading insurance company attacked for recognizing climate change

A dark-money MAGA group targets a leading insurer because it (wait for it) “recognizes the reality of climate change”. Will insurers abandon basic principles to please Trump and his fossil fuel backers? My commentary on the #SwissClimateRambles blog. swissclimaterambles.substack.com/p/will-insur...?

China has explicitly named solar, wind and EVs at the heart of its NDC.

Solar and wind are not a scam, they are the real deal💪

BBC News, "The BBC World Service has compiled material on over 160 cases where children have been shot in Gaza and found that in 95 cases the child was shot in the head or the chest"

"In most these cases, the victim was under 12 years old"

Home Insurance as You Know It Is Doomed. You’re Not Ready. The remedies for homeowners so far aren’t preparing them for a financially stable existence as the risk of disaster increases.

When the world's biggest insurer says climate change has pushed traditional home insurance to its limits, it's already too late to start preparing. And we are in no way ready for a post-insurance world.

Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com

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How solar power is silently transforming the global energy sector Renewable energy accounted for 93% of new global power capacity last year.

#SolarPower is growing faster than any other power source in history, and is silently transforming the global energy sector. If you’re hungry for some #GoodNews, read this brief summary of the latest evidence from @ember-energy.org and Bill McKibben. swissclimaterambles.substack.com/p/how-solar-...

Letter: Lloyd’s cannot shirk its responsibility to battle climate change From Ariel Le Bourdonnec, Insurance Campaigner, Reclaim Finance, Paris, France

Excellent letter in the FT from @reclaimfinance.org’s Ariel le Bourdonnec. #InsureOurFuture share.google/nPRZubOcCvwf...

The summer is over - and for about 16,600 people across 854 European cities that doesn't mean autumn comes, but death. People who would still be alive if it wasn't for our burning of fossil fuels. - New study with @lshtm.bsky.social www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

India to Spend $570 Million to Help Steel Companies Decarbonize India plans to roll out a 50 billion rupee ($570 million) program to encourage steel producers to cut emissions, a top government official said.

This is a direct result of EU's carbon tariffs. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Robert Redford didn’t mince words about the fossil fuel industry. 😢

NEW: IEA reiterates ‘no new oil and gas needed’ if global warming is limited to 1.5C (but this time, it only says so quietly)

🧵quick thread

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Muhammad is 7 years old and one of 2.38 million children in Gaza. I have never met him but am standing up for his right to live. #LetChildrenLive! #ChildrenOfGaza

Swiss Re demonstrates the limits of voluntary climate commitments Reinsurance leader withdraws from global effort to set and validate climate targets

By withdrawing from @sciencebasedtargets.org (SBTi), the gold standard setter of corporate climate targets, Swiss Re has just made a strong case for stronger climate regulation. Check out my comment on the #SwissClimateRambles blog at swissclimaterambles.substack.com/p/swiss-re-d....

Swiss courts tend to be conservative but the plaintiffs have a strong case. We can certainly hope!

‘China Is the Engine’ Driving Nations Away From Fossil Fuels, Report Says

"Last year, more than 90 percent of wind and solar projects commissioned worldwide produced power more cheaply than the cheapest available fossil-fuel alternative."

As long as it's legal, we'll do it, the new Lloyd's CEO says. Will Lloyd's, the insurer of the Atlantic slave trade, soon underwrite forced labor in North Korea and Turkmenistan? Prison labor in China? Cluster bombs in Myanmar and Syria?

Ethics be dammed: if local laws allow it, our insurers can underwrite it, the new boss of Lloyd's says. Will Lloyd's, the insurer of the Atlantic slave trade, soon underwrite forced labor in NKorea and Turkmenistan? Prison labor in China? Cluster bombs in Myanmar and Syria? tinyurl.com/bp2s7der

For more information about the case, check out callforclimatejustice.org/en/climate-l... and the fantastic Bluesky thread from Sebastien Duyck‬ at bsky.app/profile/duyc...

Switzerland’s biggest CO2 emitter in court over climate impacts Four Indonesian islanders are suing Holcim for compensation in a pioneering legal case

In a pioneering #ClimateJustice case, Indonesian islanders are trying to hold cement giant #Holcim, Switzerland's biggest carbon emitter, to account for the climate damages it has caused. Read my report from today's court proceedings at open.substack.com/pub/swisscli...?

Contributor: Why California universities must fight Trump in court If the prestigious UC schools give in, what’s to stop the president from shaking down every college in the country?

University of California should not settle with Trump. Our democracy is at stake as Trump attacks the courts, lawyers, the media, the civil service, science, and universities. UC should sue, not settle.
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To be clear what happened here.

Israel bombed a hospital.

They waited for paramedics and first responders to arrive.

Then they bombed it again.

This is known as the 'double tap'.

You are watching unfathomable evil, armed and facilitated by the West.

Strong statement on the #GazaFamine: "It is a famine within a few 100 meters of food in a fertile land, watched over by drones and the most advanced military technology in history."

Global outrage mounts as funeral held for five journalists killed by Israel Last post from Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif, one of ‘Gaza’s bravest journalists’, decries failure to stop ‘massacre’

“In a report released this year, the Watson School of International and Public Affairs’ costs of war project said more journalists had been killed in Gaza than in both world wars, the Vietnam war, the wars in Yugoslavia and the US war in Afghanistan combined.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Our colleagues Al Jazeera reporters Anas al-Sharif & Mohammed Qraiqeh, & cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal & Moamen Aliwa have been killed in a strike on a tent for journalists near Al Shifa hospital. They worked relentlessly through bombing & hunger to document this war. Please remember them

Very bad news: US insurer breaks its climate commitment by insuring a coal power plant in Vietnam, ‪@tbij.bsky.social‬ reports. Climate hypocrites just when we need some spine!

Updated World War II poster for Tesla owners who will now have Grok AI in their cars

Insurers accelerated the shift away from coal, new study finds Fossil fuel exclusions are effective but Lloyd’s and Zurich play questionable roles

A new study shows that insurance companies' coal restrictions were effective in supporting the shift away from coal in the US. Insurers should use their clout to move away from oil and gas as well! Check out my #SwissClimateRambles blog post at swissclimaterambles.substack.com/p/insurers-a...?

Republican policy platform 2025: Guns, germs and steel

I get that they're all-in on climate denial, but now hurricane denial?