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Researchers Are Resurrecting Billion-Dollar Disaster Tool Trump Killed Nonprofit Climate Central has hired the scientist behind a key database of costly weather disasters to rebuild it.

Scoop: The U.S. billion-dollar disaster database is set to return this fall over at @climatecentral.org. They've hired the former NOAA scientist who ran the project for 10+ years www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

⚖️🌎 The ICJ's climate change opinion is making waves—but not always for what it said.

In two symposium posts from @verfassungsblog.de and #SabinCenter, authors explore what the Court held back and what it revealed about itself in the process.

🌱 Negotiating green urbanism by Valentine Opanga

What does sustainability look like in Nairobi’s informal settlements? From urban farming to resistance, Korogocho & Pumwani-Majengo offer a powerful rethinking💪🏾🌍

🔗 Read: bit.ly/4l9O2At

#GreenUrbanism #UrbanJustice

Climate and mobility in the Middle East | Mixed Migration Centre See how climate hazards, economic pressures, and conflict shape migration across the Middle East in this Climate and Mobility in the Middle East report

How does climate change impact communities engaged in climate-sensitive livelihoods in the Middle East? Our latest research looks at the intersection of climate change and mobility in the region.⬇️(1/5)

Re "Neutral El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) conditions are expected to persist for the remainder of the year and into 2025"... Don't you mean 2026?

“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

The craziest discovery about our global water crisis -- besides the fact that the continents are drying -- is that groundwater pumping is now driving sea level rise. @hrishikeshac.bsky.social @jayfamiglietti.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/wate...

Flier with heading, W. Western Michigan University. Text: Climate-driven migration. Challenges, responses, and future pathways. Buildingknowledge, networks, and advocacy critical to building institutional capacity for supporting climate migrants. A virtual symposium October 27-29, 2025.

Please share with your networks: @cmdplatform.bsky.social
Symposium website: www.climatemigrantsymposium.org

Australia’s Courts Say Climate Change Is a Political Problem. The ICJ Just Made it a Legal Issue. As Australia’s courts rule yet again that climate is outside their jurisdiction, the ICJ made it a legal obligation for countries to act on the crisis.

Australian courts keep ruling that climate change is a political problem; the International Court of Justice just made it a legal issue for Australia.

My report on what the Pabai Pabai decision looks like in the rear view mirror of the ICJ advisory opinion on for @drilledmedia.bsky.social.

It was so fun to talk about our book "Migration and Displacement in a Changing Climate" with Hannah! You can listen to the conversation here. @universitypress.cambridge.org @rmcleman.bsky.social @kayly.bsky.social
newbooksnetwork.com/migration-an...

ICJ Vindicates Demands for Reparations

The #FillTheFund campaign welcomes The ICJ Advisory Opinion on #ClimateChange!

The ruling is a powerful boost to our fight for climate #reparations

Full Statement: www.fillthefund.org/post/icj-rul...

#ICJ #ICJAO #LossAndDamage #ClimateJustice

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⚠ Brazil | The environmental licensing bill already approved by both Brazilian chambers and awaiting presidential approval is contrary to recent decisions expressed in advisory opinions on the climate emergency by the IDH Court and the ICJ.

PR: www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Landmark court ruling a stark rebuke of Canadian position on climate change The ICJ finding is a watershed moment in the fight against climate change that should send shivers down the spine of the fossil fuel industry, while threatening to upend the legality of Prime Minister...

Huge climate win from the ICJ that sharply rebuked Canada which argued it was not bound by international law to seriously fight climate change.

Going forward “Canada's pursuit of mega fossil fuel expansion projects stands in stark defiance of the ICJ." www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/23/n...

“My Body Is Burning”: Extreme Heat and Labor Rights in Bangladesh Summers in Dhaka are unforgiving. Smog and dust cloud the sky, veiling the city in a muted haze. Hot air radiates off a canopy of tightly packed metal rooftops. The humidity is suffocating. Water, gas...

My latest report for @climaterights.bsky.social is live:

“My Body Is Burning” exposes how extreme heat and labor rights abuses endanger workers – including those in global supply chains – across Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Huge thanks to all who shared their stories.

cri.org/reports/my-b...

Sharing the info on Thursay's panel again... This version is also the final skeet in a play by play thread of the reading of the AO in real time.

Thanks so much for this extremely useful thread!

‘Alligator Alcatraz’ is harsh. Climate change is making it even harsher. » Yale Climate Connections Hundreds of people face intense heat and relentless mosquitoes at the Florida Everglades facility.

wrote about the ways climate chang is making "Alligator Alcatraz" a human rights emergency for @climateconnections.bsky.social

yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/07/alli...

The International Court of Justice climate judgement was – in many ways – better than expected. Here are 11 takeaways about what ICJ judgement and what it means for the protection of the climate:

Healthy environment a human right, UN court says in landmark climate ruling Court’s decision expected to be used in future litigation and to support political negotiations by vulnerable states

🚨BREAKING🚨 ICJ ruling that a healthy environment is a human right could be a real turning point in setting out governments’ legal responsibility to tackle #climate crisis 👇

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🔥 ⚖️ 🌐HAPPENING NOW: Historic #ClimateJustice Ruling being delivered by the 🇺🇳 🧑‍⚖️ International Court of Justice.
🚨This ruling could signal a new dawn for climate law & accountability
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Human Rights Defenders Are Fleeing El Salvador as Bukele Cracks Down El Salvador President Nayib Bukele's authoritarian regime is forcing human rights defenders like the nonprofit Cristosal to flee the nation.

"“They wanted us all to run,” says Noah Bullock, director of the Central American human rights organization Cristosal. “They created conditions where there were really no better options. Hundreds of people left the country in the last month.”"

Trump’s $1tn for Pentagon to add huge planet-heating emissions, study shows Exclusive: 17% increase in military spending will add emissions equivalent to those of some entire countries

NEW: Our study in @theguardian.com shows that the new $1T Pentagon budget in Trump’s bill— paid for by cuts to education, food stamps, disaster management, etc—will raise its carbon emissions higher than the entire country of Ethiopia, and cause 47B in damages.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

'ProPublica' climate reporter calls Texas floods an 'early warning' of future chaos Abrahm Lustgarten says the undermining of science, and cuts to FEMA and NOAA, at a time when erratic weather is making disasters more common, should be "extraordinarily concerning" to us.

Tonya Mosely's interview with ProPublica's Abrahm Lustgarten on Fresh Air is more than worth the time, esp near the end, on the complex & non-obvious reasons climate change & our failure to address it/adapt will lead people to move. www.npr.org/2025/07/16/n...

Climate-related loss and damage is a significant human rights issue and should be a part of the Universal Periodic Review process. I was privileged to work with amazing colleagues from the Human Rights and Climate Change Working Group to develop this guide for how to make that happen!

Major missed opportunity for the law to adapt meaningfully to the realities of climate impacts

But as @lizhicks.bsky.social points out, "Much like a rising tide breaking against a seawall, the future impact of climate change on things that law already protects is too extreme for the law to resist."

The US faces more frequent extreme weather events, but attitudes and actions aren't keeping up Experts say climate change is making extreme weather events more frequent and severe, but that our attitudes and actions haven't kept up

A good overview of some the research on extreme events and the role climate change is playing. Much more research is needed to understand the direct effects of these climate shocks, as well as the ways education can mitigate future disasters abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireS...

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor - Climate Equity and Environmental Justice - Rausser College of Natural Resources University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

UC-Berkeley has an open-rank faculty position in our incredible Climate Equity and Environmental Justice (CEEJ) research cluster. It is an extraordinary interdisciplinary group working across multiple colleges and departments at the university! More information here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04842

💡 The historic Advisory Opinion of the Inter-American Court of hashtag#HumanRights on the hashtag#Climate hashtag#Emergency has global significance 🌐

👉 joint statement with UN Special Rapporteurs @srenvironment.bsky.social Surya Deva Marcos Orellana
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Congratulations on yesterday's launch and (we hear) a very successful ECMN conference! Looking forward to seeing the Climate Mobilities Hub @climohub.bsky.social introduced here...

🗣️ The #ClimateOpinion by the Inter-American Court of #HumanRights is clear: States must take action to STOP the climate crisis.

➡️ Swipe for our experts’ take.

👇 Read CIEL’s statement. #AOLetsGO

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