Dave-Inder Comar

Agree with you ⭐️

We need ethical and spiritual philosophies today that can guide us to environmental and social regeneration, restoring balance with the planet, protecting the equal dignity of all people, and stewardship for future generations.

The climate crisis is, among many other things, a spiritual crisis.🌍

Climate change solutions have to be tethered to larger issues of economic justice.

We can't speak about 'carbon capture' without also asking questions about poverty and the carbon emissions being generated by a select few.

Maybe it’s both and the same thing, if we assume the interconnectedness of all life? 🤔

That looks fire, will add it to my list 🔥🙏🏽

Weekend reading ⭐️

Happy with this recent self-portrait ⭐️
I’m experimenting with turning these small pencil sketches into paintings with gouache

Rather than treating climate change as a 2050 or 2100 issue, I encourage lawyers and policymakers to situate current warming as bookmarking the end of the stable Holocene.l

This emphasizes the scale of human intervention—enough to terminate an entire age

It also underscores the challenges ahead 🌍

COP30 must address the false sense of security provided by the 1.5°-2°C language in the Paris Agreement.

States and policymakers may believe they are still “on track” as long as global temperatures hover around 1.5–2°C, even
though catastrophic nonlinear changes can trigger below those
thresholds.

With COP30 just around the corner, it's important to recall that the Paris framework is built to address the linear impacts of warming, not nonlinear destabilization

Once the climate system moves into tipping-point dynamics, the Paris architecture starts to lose efficacy, maybe even its relevance

The end of the Holocene, and the emergence of a new and hotter climate era, suggests the need for a civilizational-level effort necessary to stabilize the climate. This effort has yet to meaningfully materialize.

Put more simply: we need to think bigger—much bigger—about addressing climate change

Existence and Survival | 8 | Sea Level Rise, Self-determination, and t This chapter articulates an existence and survival dimension of self-determination and argues that this dimension should be further delineated in the context of

Excited to see some research on sea-level rise and international published soon ⭐

In this book chapter, I analyze the law of self-determination and the law of genocide and review whether these frameworks can help us understand sea-level rise.

www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

We have to stop treating climate change as a 'technocratic' issue.

Climate change is deeply political and tethered to international law and international justice.

We have to start connecting climate with other crises in international law.

US accused of threatening EU diplomats during bid to kill green shipping rules Negotiators at shipping talks in London were told both they and their countries could be punished unless they voted with the U.S.

Stunning personal threats against diplomats—and their families—made by the US in order to delay clean shipping rules.

Just a brazen display of personal retribution in order to keep delaying a just transition.

www.politico.eu/article/us-a...

The fight for a stable climate and a habitable planet is, at heart, the fight for the international rule of law. We must now seek ways to apply the force of law against planetary lawbreakers.

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Centuries ago, Magna Carta imposed limits on the king to respect the law ⚖️

Today, we need a new “Magna Carta moment” to enforce international law against planetary lawbreakers 🌍

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The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink We are hurtling toward climate chaos. The planet's vital signs are flashing red. The consequences of human-driven alterations of the climate are no longer

Climate change is a threat to ecosystem and human health, but it is also fundamentally a social justice issue...we can still create a turning point. It begins by embracing our shared humanity and recognizing the profound interconnectedness of all life on the planet.

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At a networking event, someone asked me why I am researching climate

My answer: climate change is the greatest threat we face. Not just physical impacts, but our social response, and our ability to protect dignity, equal rights and human rights

All curious people should be focused on this issue 🌍

The climate governance regime enshrined by the Paris Agreement assumes linear climate impacts.

But now our world faces non-linear impacts, particularly climate tipping points.

Policymakers must understand and address non-linearity.

Put simply —"what is the plan for non-linear climate impacts?"

In every aspect of our lives and in our politics, we assume the existence of a stable climate system. This is no longer a valid assumption.

Now we must align as a species on a common goal of climate stability. Human rights and equal rights must be at the core of such climate action.

Current climate policy and governance assumes linear warming, not nonlinear planetary destabilization.

With tipping points now being breached, this assumption is deeply flawed.

A new governance, legal, and political vision is now required to address tipping points and stabilize the climate 🌍

It is mindboggling to me that 30 years after the UNFCCC was ratified, and 10 years after Paris, climate policies in high-emissions States remain reactive, not precautionary.

I am continually stunned at the lack of urgency related to ending the era of fossil fuels.

The Paris Agreement does not mention climate tipping points. This is a major gap that must now be addressed.

Policymakers may have a false sense of security that as long as temperatures hover ~1.5°–2°C, we can manage—even though catastrophic nonlinear changes can trigger below those thresholds.

I'm presenting some of my governance and legal research tomorrow on how governments must address climate change tipping points ⭐️

Key takeaway — current climate change governance assumes linear warming, not nonlinear planetary destabilization.

We need a far stronger framework for tipping elements

Governments are not free to do anything they want. They are limited by law

Human rights treaties, international law, and due process restrain governments

In the face of climate change, governments also have limits. They are now obligated to stop the conduct that is dangerously warming the planet

The mostly sedentary lifestyles of the Holocene—and high energy lifestyles—are going to have a major reality check from extreme weather and a warming planet.

Migration is the story of humanity. As climate impacts worsen, we need to take a human rights based approach to the movement of people 🌍

mosquitos now being found in Iceland is a lesson about climate change.

—it underscores how other species (including insects) are moving into new niches

—it underscores the health threats from climate change (mosquitoes are vectors)

—it is a preview of human migration from environmental impacts

Democracy and a stable climate go hand in hand, according to experts speaking at a recent UN conference.

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Excited to be participating at the UN forum on human rights, democracy, and the rule of law — this year, focused on climate change 🌍

‘New reality’ as world reaches first climate tipping point Widespread mortality of warm-water coral reefs under way, as world reaches first tipping point With global warming set to breach 1.5°C, world dangerously close to further catastrophic tipping points T...

“Only with a combination of decisive policy & civil society action can the world tip its trajectory from facing existential Earth system tipping point risks to seizing positive tipping point opportunities.” - Prof. Tim Lenton, @gsiexeter.bsky.social

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