Jake Schmidt - NRDC

State of Play on Multilateral Development Bank Climate Finance – Oct 2025 The World Bank Group (WBG) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) held their annual meetings. While the headlines and perception might indicate that these institutions and the other multilateral develo...

A tiny snapshot of the continued climate actions at the Multilateral Development Banks - yes they are still doing stuff even with the headwinds: www.linkedin.com/pulse/state-...

Europe's contribution to climate finance (in €bn) How does the EU contribute to fighting climate change globally? The EU and its countries are the biggest providers of climate finance in the world.

Great news from 🇪🇺 as climate finance numbers are up: In 2024, EU contributed €31.7 billion from public sources and mobilised an additional €11 billion in private finance for developing countries in combating climate change and adapting to its impacts. Source: www.consilium.europa.eu/en/infograph...

Disagree. This is to a whole new level. The US at previous COPs pushed for action that they wanted (as every country does). This is the US govt threatening countries very implicitly (and in some case explicitly) to not support this. Very, very different.

NGOs Slam UN Shipping Body Deferral of Plan to Cut Climate Pollution As a special meeting of the International Maritime Organization’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (IMO, MEPC/ES.2) closes in London, the Clean Shipping Coalition (CSC) expressed its huge…

Clean Shipping Coalition | NGOs Slam UN Shipping Body Deferral of Plan to Cut Climate Pollution - Clean Shipping Coalition

Trump Calls Climate Change 'Con Job' and 'Scam' in UN Speech 'If you don’t get away from this green scam, your country is going to fail,' Trump told more than 150 world leaders.

Anyone looking outside their window knows that climate change is here. The real question is why any responsible leader would try so hard to convince us otherwise.

The Kimmel suspension is a much bigger deal than you know.

It's really about a growing alliance between Trump and the companies that own America's local TV stations - like Nexstar - to turn local TV into Trump propaganda.

1/ Let me tell you the short story. It's chilling.

EU allocates €100m-worth of ETS allowances to help airlines buy Sustainable Aviation Fuels On 12 September 2025, the Commission adopted a Decision on the allocation of EU ETS emission allowances to airlines for the use of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) in 2024.

Carbon pricing works, including to reduce aviation’s climate impacts. Around €100 million #EUETS support for airlines which are using less polluting fuels has been announced climate.ec.europa.eu/news-other-r...

Analysis of 7 int'l adaptation finance goals that could be set at COP30.

What Could a New Adaptation Finance Goal Look Like? At COP30 countries should set an int'l adaptation finance goal. Here is analysis of the 7 potential scenarios that have been proposed. www.nrdc.org/bio/joe-thwa... from @joethwaites.bsky.social @adellethomas.bsky.social

A Casualty of Trump’s Tariffs: India’s Nascent Solar Industry

A Casualty of Trump’s Tariffs: India’s Nascent Solar Industry www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/c...

Trump, With Tariffs and Threats, Tries to Strong-Arm Nations to Retreat on Climate Goals

Trump, With Tariffs and Threats, Tries to Strong-Arm Nations to Retreat on Climate Goals: My take: “You see a more systematic attempt to be a fossil fuel first strategy to everything that they do”@nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/c...

NEW: What’s new with national renewable targets? Not much!

At COP28, every country agreed to work to triple global renewable capacity. But many countries have yet to update their 2030 targets..

Deep-sea mining must be paused until its environmental, sociocultural, and economic risks are understood and alternatives like recycling are explored. We must reduce demand for new mining.

Trump wants America to be affordable and energy dominant, but this new bill "is economic malpractice,” says E2’s Zach Amittay.

As demand surges from AI, manufacturing, and population growth, it cuts credits for the fastest and cheapest energy we have: solar.
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Mexico Pacific’s Saguaro LNG: Wrong Project, Wrong Place A massive project falters under the weight of high-cost, low-demand LNG and growing condemnation of the risks to the region’s biodiversity.

My colleagues and I took a trip last month to the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez) in Mexico to see the location of a proposed LNG facility and path of the associated 900+ foot tankers. As our post states - 𝐌𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐜𝐨 𝐏𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜’𝐬 𝐒𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐨 𝐋𝐍𝐆: 𝐖𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭, 𝐖𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞. www.nrdc.org/bio/joel-rey...

In N.C., all eyes on Senator Tillis as IRA tax credits hang in balance North Carolina will lose big if cuts to clean energy incentives become law. Will Tillis, on record against "wholesale repeal" of the credits, go to bat…

Solar and batteries are the quickest, cheapest way to solidify the nation’s ​“energy dominance,” a frequently stated goal of Pres. Trump.

But North Carolina will lose big if cuts to clean energy credits become law.

www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

A reminder that impoundment and careless contract terminations are illegal, despite how accustomed to them folk are growing. And if DOI is RIF’ing people right now, that’s illegal too - they are under a 2-week TRO in the AFSCME case.

Big polluters are proposing a dangerous fossil fuel project in the heart of a World Heritage site—putting imperiled species and neighboring communities at risk.

Japan must resist Trump's Alaska LNG pet project If Ishiba gives the nod, Japan will be buying overpriced gas and adding to global warming

Japan must resist Trump's Alaska LNG pet project: asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Japa...

The new pope, Leo XIV, has spoken out about urgent need for climate change action As a cardinal, Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, was aligned with Pope Francis's views on the environment.

Pope Francis recognized the need to act on climate change—especially the wealthiest and biggest polluters. We hope to see Pope Leo XIV follow these footsteps in bringing environmental issues to the forefront.

I've read a lot of legally binding trade "agreements" over the years. This is an MOU / plan of what they agree. It isn't a trade deal, trade agreement, or anything binding.

Freedom of Information Act documents for the EPA’s greenhouse gas inventory This year, for the first time in almost three decades, the U.S Environmental Protection Agency failed to publicly release its greenhouse gas inventory.

Freedom of Information Act documents for EPA’s greenhouse gas inventory. www.edf.org/freedom-info...

"Gross [U.S. greenhouse gas] emissions decreased
from 2022 to 2023 by 2.3%, driven largely by a decrease in CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion."

Trump's EPA is busy reversing that progress.

As the #netzero transition accelerates, the EU will have an LNG surplus by 2027, allowing the total phase-out of Russian gas imports without becoming overdependent on US LNG imports.

Explore this data in our new #EUGasInsight 👇
strategicperspectives.eu/eu-gas-insig...

The rules of the game should be set by the best in class, says Shruti Shukla, the @nrdc.org Senior Advocate for International Energy, when asked about the outlook of the EU's energy investments in the U.S.

US Export-Import Bank Lifts Curbs on Coal Plant Loans After Trump Order The bank’s board voted to repeal the 12-year-old restrictions in a move decried by environmentalists.

Bloomberg: US Export-Import Bank Lifts Curbs on Coal Plant Loans After Trump Order www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

US Ex-Im Bank votes to reverse ban on overseas coal lending, observers say The board of the U.S. Export-Import Bank voted on Thursday to reverse a years-long restriction on lending to coal projects overseas, reflecting President Donald Trump's agenda that calls for more domestic coal mining and exports of U.S. coal, according to three people who observed the meeting.

It takes Ex-Im's policies back two decades, when it was one of the largest financiers of overseas coal projects in the world" www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Reuters-US Ex-Im Bank votes to reverse ban on overseas coal lending. As I said: "Ex-Im's decision to allow U.S. taxpayer money to be used to finance overseas coal projects is an economic and climate disaster.

Our forecast for China PV build in 2025 is 369GW(DC), up from 339GW(DC) in 2024, and growing slowly to peak at 428GW(DC) in 2030.

But who knows, really. We do think the phase of heady PV new build growth is over, just because the sector got really big.

@nrdc.org reaction to Pres Trump eliminating the US National Climate Assessment: “This assessment is so important because it lets every American know how climate change affects their community—or even their own backyard." www.nrdc.org/press-releas...