Jocelyn Perry

California’s Big Climate and Energy Package, Explained The state quietly refreshed its cap and trade program, revamped how it funds wildfire cleanup, and reorganized its grid governance — plus offered some relief on gas prices.

California passed a huge climate package last month, w/ a big effort to weave in affordability. It's wonky but important stuff, and I broke it all down for you:
- Cap & invest extension / rebrand
- transmission accelerator
- permission to join a Western RTO!
more here heatmap.news/energy/calif...

The ICJ climate ruling has major implications for the loss and damage fund As the fund struggles with lack of money and bureaucratic barriers, its board must align its actions with the landmark court decision

This week, the #LossAndDamage Fund has an opportunity to change course towards a fund rooted in justice.

The Board meets for the 1st time since the International Court of Justice issued its historic climate ruling, with major implications for the Fund 👇

www.climatechangenews.com/2025/10/03/t...

LETTER: 225+ Organizations demand COP30 center people, not polluters | Kick Big Polluters Out For decades, corporate interests – particularly from the fossil fuel and other big polluting industries – have sabotaged climate progress through aggressive lobbying, disinformation, and glossy PR campaigns. From sponsorship deals to branded pavilions, the halls of COP have become marketing playgrounds for the very industries driving the crisis. The industry’s grip on climate talks is not subtle, it’s systemic. Recent COP Presidencies have placed fossil fuel insiders in positions of power and this year, the COP30 team has made a deal with a PR company that is simultaneously promoting the interests of major oil and gas companies. This comes at a time when civil society and Indigenous Peoples are consistently facing barriers to their meaningful participation in the climate negotiations, including COP30.

The #COP30 President Designate recently called on "all business leaders to join the world in Belém.”

This is a dangerous oversight that risks greenwashing.
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It's time to end #BigPolluters' stranglehold over the U.N. climate talks.

Learn more👇
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https://kickbigpollutersout.org/Polluter-Free-COP30

‘We called ourselves the lifeboat crew’: how fired USAID workers launched a rescue project ‘to save as many babies as we can’ After the Trump administration closed the organisation down, a group of former staff secured new funding for almost 80 programmes, benefiting an estimated 40 million people

These people are heroes. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

If you’re in Illinois and you’re disturbed by the images that you’re seeing of the Illinois State Police in Broadview this morning, please call now. It will honestly take 30 seconds. I spoke to a real person.

Here are the phone numbers:

312-814-2121

312-814-2122

217-782-6830

217-782-6831

Important thread about civil society action to end corporate capture of climate negotiations

KEY MESSAGES ON DISPLACEMENT AND OTHER FORMS OF HUMAN MOBILITY FOR THE SEVENTH MEETING OF THE BOARD OF THE FUND FOR RESPONDING TO LOSS AND DAMAGE: SUMMARY FOR POLICYMAKERS By the Loss and Damage and the Challenges Of Human Mobility and Displacement Working Group

5/9. 🔗A shorter summary for policy makers available here: www.lossanddamagecollaboration.org/resources/ke...

KEY MESSAGES ON DISPLACEMENT AND OTHER FORMS OF HUMAN MOBILITY FOR THE SEVENTH MEETING OF THE BOARD OF THE FUND FOR RESPONDING TO LOSS AND DAMAGE By the Loss and Damage and the Challenges Of Human Mobility and Displacement Working Group

1/9. 📢KEY MESSAGES ON HUMAN MOBLITY: The seventh meeting of the Board (B7) of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) 🔥⛈️🌊 starts next week! 🚨

🔗Read our key messages on #Displacement and other forms of #HumanMobility here: www.lossanddamagecollaboration.org/resources/ke...

Aid is desperately needed in Mozambique as the security situation deteriorates - Refugees International Refugees International calls upon all armed groups to cease attacks on civilians and calls on donor countries to surge aid for protection and life-saving services.

Insurgent attacks across Cabo Delgado in northern #Mozambique have led to a rapidly growing humanitarian and displacement crisis.

Armed groups must cease attacks on civilians and donor countries must surge aid for protection and life-saving services.
www.refugeesinternational.org/statements-a...

Environmental Defenders Programme Officer Environmental Defenders Programme Officer Location: Based in London – 3 days in the office/week. With over 115 staff, including grassroots mobilisers,…

We’re hiring an Environmental Defenders Programme Officer 🌍

They will work to deliver tailored training on advocacy, investigation, and filmmaking to environmental defenders worldwide, starting with our new Ocean Defenders project in Southeast Asia and West Africa.

Apply by October 23rd:

It’s terrifying what we are witnessing in El Fashir. The UAE backed RSF encircling the city to starve and exterminate people, while the so-called intl. community treats the UAE as a peace broker.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

🌍✝️ Catholic bishops from Africa, Asia, Latin America & the Caribbean urge world leader to put climate justice at the heart of #COP30 in Brazil.

They call for an economy of solidarity & restoration—not profit—because “the urgency of this moment leaves no room for half-measures.”
🔗 buff.ly/DNovnH1

Respectfully disagree: 1) in fact it is unusual for a democracy w/ this level of GDP to turn authoritarian & so quickly; 2) the weakness of both institutions (congress & courts) and individuals (Schumer etc) is shocking. Would take less than 10 people in congress or 2 SC justices to stop all this.

Afghan earthquake survivors refuse to return to villages, fearing landslides Haunted by the fear that aftershocks could bring rocks crashing down from the mountains, the survivors of Afghan earthquakes vowed not to return to destroyed villages but camp in fields and on riverbanks instead, even without tents to keep off the rain.

Survivors of the 1 September 2025 earthquake in Afghanistan have correctly assessed that rainfall-triggered landslides are much more likely in the aftermath of the mainshock. This illustrates how landslides extend the impact of an earthquake in time and space.
www.reuters.com/business/env...

Tapping the sign

British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 months, are provi...

Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...

NEW: Last week, oil literally rained down on a Black town in rural Louisiana where 60% of folks live in poverty.

The company isn’t taking responsibility & the federal + state governments are saying residents have to clean it up themselves. capitalbnews.org/louisiana-oi...

I wrote an unusually strongly worded thing about the transit crisis in Pennsylvania, which is coming soon to Oregon and Illinois. humantransit.org/2025/08/the-...

Perfecting Azerbaijani pomegranate salad: A step-by-step recipe The Azerbaijani Pomegranate Salad is a vibrant, refreshing dish from Azerbaijan, celebrated for its deep love of pomegranates

Panzanella salad! Or a tomato-cherry-pomegranate-red onion salad (some combo of these - I like the larger chop with cherries, no cucumbers: www.newsbytesapp.com/news/lifesty... and ottolenghi.co.uk/pages/recipe...)

The Trojan Horse of Hybrid Governance: Corporate Power and Global Plastics Governance This article examines the emergence of a hybrid institutional complex (HIC) in global plastics governance. By interrogating the structure, features, and contradictions of hybrid global plastics gover....

Paper on the troubled UN Plastics Treaty, from July

"embedding voluntary, industry-led initiatives within and through the contested Treaty process risks entrenching corporate-friendly governance at the expense of more ... systemic transformation"

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

FEMA Now Requires Disaster Victims to Have an Email Address Workers at FEMA worry that demanding disaster survivors access services using email could shut out people without internet connectivity from receiving government aid.

SCOOP: FEMA is now requiring disaster survivors to sign up to receive aid using an email address - a move that is already putting some of the country’s most vulnerable people at risk of missing out on federal help, employees told me:

Senate Probe Uncovers Allegations of Widespread Abuse in ICE Custody Led by US senator Jon Ossoff, the investigation cites hundreds of reports since January, including accounts of miscarriages, child neglect, and sexual abuse at ICE detention centers in dozens of state...

A United States Senate investigation has identified more than 500 credible reports of human rights abuses in US immigration detention since January, including alarming allegations of mistreatment of pregnant women and children.

The Syllabus — Just Environments Lab

Finishing a syllabus for a class on environmental and/or climate and/or disaster justice? Check out The Syllabus for resources! We are adding more readings and databases every day! Open and free to everyone! www.just-environments.org/the-syllabus

Washington State Braces for ‘Inevitable’ Megafire. Climate Change May Bring It Sooner.

Years ago, at a workshop we held on changing wildfire risk in western Washington, I was struck by the analogy that preparing communities for megafires in our fuel-rich forests is similar to tsunami: rapid evacuation, because they can't be fought.

Nice coverage by @rdzombak.bsky.social. Gift link.

How to Prevent More Starvation Deaths in Gaza As Israel refuses to let in sufficient humanitarian aid, a leading expert on famine explains why even “flooding the zone” with food won’t be enough.

A famine expert told @ichotiner.bsky.social that an increasing number of kids in Gaza are so malnourished "their bodies can’t digest food."

"Those kids need to be in intensive care." But there aren't enough ICU beds for them.

www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Literally millions will die because of the shuttering of USAID (for all of its faults). Millions more will die (versus the policy status quo) if we undermine progress in creating new mRNA vaccines, which could save us during the next pandemic and much more.

7/7. 🤯The Global Humanitarian Overview 2025 needs $44 billion to assist 180 million vulnerable people dealing with emergencies such as floods, droughts and conflicts. But more than halfway through the year, just $5.6 billion – less than 13 per cent – has been received.

6/7. 🗣️Zinta Zommers, OCHA's Scientific Lead on #ClimateChange, highlights that while there is a growing need to “fill” the FRLD, funding for the humanitarian response to the climate crisis must also be urgently bolstered.

A redefining moment for loss and damage funding By Jaspreet Kindra

1/7. 👏Excellent article from Jaspreet Kindra at @unocha.org on how the International Court of Justice’s ⚖️ advisory opinion clarifying the obligations of states in respect to #ClimateChange 🔥(#ICJAO) is “a redefining moment for #LossAndDamage funding”.💰

🔗Read it here: www.unocha.org/news/redefin...

The One Big Beautiful Bill will raise electricity prices and reduce electricity reliability. We need clean energy deployed here on Earth. For that, we need a funded and robust Department of Energy.