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Outrage: the Amazonian road to COP30 - The Architectural Review There are always infrastructure problems at COP, the UN’s annual climate change conference. Business...

‘Global negotiations such as COP are failing to encourage or support countries to break from history and take a new path’ writes @marthadillon.bsky.social on the construction of the Avenida Liberdade road in Belém. Read the full Outrage piece here:
www.architectural-review.com/essays/outra...

I wrote about the COP rainforest road for this @social.architectural-review.com issue on ROADS, take a look👇🏻

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Israel plans to seize Gaza under a new plan, officials say Two Israeli officials say ministers have approved a plan to seize the Gaza Strip and to stay in the territory for an unspecified amount of time.

@miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social every day, but now more than ever, please do your utmost to convince our government for some real action and recognition of the horror and genocide in Gaza apnews.com/article/isra...

Horror upon horror upon horror

No food, aid, or fuel have entered Gaza since March 2.

Community kitchens have closed. Children are sick, thirsty, and starving.

Now Netanyahu’s government wants to occupy Gaza and shut down the existing aid distribution system run by the UN and its humanitarian partners.

Arms embargo now.

Some in Labour HQ may want to reflect on this - here’s a policy which has drastically improved air quality, benefitting the poorest citizens. But Starmer’s LOTO started criticising it because a couple of Clarkson bigmouths complained in focus groups & they (wrongly imho) blamed it for Uxbridge loss

🚨NEW: Ofgem price cap raises by 6.4%, meaning customers will pay £111 more on average (per year) on energy bills.

Higher energy costs aren’t just due to rising gas prices. Companies are exploiting our dysfunctional energy system for profit.

Here’s how they do it. 🧵

time to dig up the @adamkotsko.bsky.social tweet

The circular logic of climate apartheid: Alphabet can't make its (already bullshit) climate commitments because they have to generate huge emissions for training models that will be used to kill climate refugees.

Trump is capitalism in human form, stripped of its disguises. The violent seizure of other people's resources, the exploitation of other people's catastrophes, the predatory gleam in the psychopath's eye.
#Gaza
#Genocide

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Trump says US will ‘take over’ Gaza Strip in shock announcement during Netanyahu visit President’s plan, which is low on detail, would involve the permanent resettlement of Palestinians from Gaza to neighbouring countries * Trump announce plan to take over Gaza - live updates Donald Trump has vowed that US would “take over” war…

Trump says US will ‘take over’ Gaza Strip in shock announcement during Netanyahu visit

Book recommendation: Sunil Amrith's excellent 'The Burning Earth' Have environmentalists faced up to how scary people find climate action?

Do we need to think more seriously about the limits between justice, freedom and climate action?

My review of Sunil Amrith’s excellent new book 👇🏻

open.substack.com/pub/marthadi...

Bangkok Gets Free Public Transport for a Week on Smog Crisis Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra ordered public transport in Bangkok to be free for a week from Saturday, as authorities try to reduce traffic and ease the smog that has choked the city for ...

Um, this is a cost to the taxpayer as a result of fossil-fuel use that I did not see coming. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

2024 was the hottest year on record, NASA and NOAA confirm Weather organizations from around the world agree that the planet's average global surface temperature in 2024 could well have passed a crucial threshold meant to limit the worst effects of climate ch...

Government agencies in the U.S. and around the world confirmed that 2024 was the planet’s hottest year since recordkeeping began in 1880 — the 11th consecutive year in which a new heat record has been set.

By @corinnepurtill.bsky.social and Karen Kaplan @latimes.com www.latimes.com/environment/...

Seeking reading material in the new year?

Try this climate books round up - some really interesting and varied things on here!

Recommended by activists, campaigners and thinkers across the climate space:

itsfreezinginla.com/articles/cli...

Seeking reading material in the new year?

Try this climate books round up - some really interesting and varied things on here!

Recommended by activists, campaigners and thinkers across the climate space:

itsfreezinginla.com/articles/cli...

Microsoft shareholders reject proposal addressing links with fossil fuel companies The resolution was brought forward by environmental nonprofit As You Sow

Microsoft shareholders have rejected a resolution urging the company to address the sale of machine learning products to fossil fuel companies using it to dig up more coal, oil and gas

Kind of an open admission of what their priorities here are, and way more honest than their flashy env reports

The Tories pitted housing against nature. Labour will help both Steve Reed, environment secretary, and Angela Rayner, deputy prime minister, promise new bill will develop 1.5m new properties and help wildlife thrive

Genuinely fantastic to see housing and environment treated as a connected issue here.

But nothing about emissions or climate impacts. And no reference to how they will help the people who go on to occupy them live sustainably, affordably and safely.

www.thetimes.com/article/37ea...

It is great that these companies are cannabilazing humanity’s collective output, burning acres of rainforest, and hoping to create mass unemployment across several industries, so they can publish false information about the most consequential stories of the day.

Some great suggestions here!

More poorly informed takes on climate from The Rest Is Politics as they assess COP29.

Rory Stewart says climate finance for developing countries is "completely the wrong way" to "stop global warming".

Instead G20 should have met for a couple more days to "crack this".

A few problems with this...

Seeking climate books to end the year?? I asked a bunch of writers, campaigners and environmentalists what they were reading in 2024

It’s a bumper 2024 eco reading list 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

itsfreezinginla.com/articles/cli...

Seeking climate books to end the year?? I asked a bunch of writers, campaigners and environmentalists what they were reading in 2024

It’s a bumper 2024 eco reading list 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

itsfreezinginla.com/articles/cli...

Elon Musk publicized the names of government employees he wants to cut. It’s terrifying federal workers | CNN Business When President-elect Donald Trump said Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would recommend major cuts to the federal government in his administration, many public employees knew that their jobs could be on ...

Elon is starting his “efficiency” spree by targeting climate officials—specifically climate JUSTICE officials.

I am still waiting on all the white dudes who swore this man was a climate hero to speak out. www.cnn.com/2024/11/27/b...

Hi @destenie.bsky.social would love to be added to this! I write about and work on city climate policy and housing justice 😊

Reality check on technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the air An MIT Energy Initiative study finds many climate-stabilization plans are based on questionable assumptions about the future cost and deployment of “direct air capture” and therefore may not bring abo...

Many modeling studies depend on direct air capture (DAC) in their 1.5°C stabilization scenarios, but they rely on overly optimistic assumptions regarding the cost and scaling of DAC systems. This leads to highly misleading results that impact the ability to reach climate stabilization goals.