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Climate change adaptation isn’t just about crops, infrastructure, or income - it’s also about people’s social strategies. Our new article led by Paul Stacey examines how the concept of "social navigation” can help unpack this. It's Open Access and can be downloaded here: www.diis.dk/en/research/...

Finding the cracks: How do frontline officials maneuver state institutions to advance Indigenous rights to land and environment? This paper challenges the monolithic portrayal of the state as inherently ‘bad’ when it comes to implementation of Indigenous rights. Offering a compa…

🧭 Can bureaucrats help advance #IndigenousRights?

R. Kløcker Larsen et al. analyse cases across 4 continents:

– States often sustain colonial agendas
– Some officials enable decolonizing actions
– Introduce “institutional braiding” to describe such agency

📄 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Many projects support “resilient livelihoods”, but does “resilience” and “livelihoods” mean the same thing to women and men?

Our new paper led by Charlotte Maybom examines this question. It is open access and can be downloaded here:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

1/2. 📢 WEBINAR: Join us for “Fund for Responding to #LossAndDamage: What to Watch Out for and What Needs to Happen in 2025”! 🥳

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Decolonizing Policy Advice: The Oxymoronic Nature of Danish Researchers Advising a Danish Ministry on a Danish Plan for Africa By Adam Moe Fejerskov, Mikkel Funder and Nauja Kleist / part of our “Share your Decolonising Story” project Denmark has a new strategy for engaging with Africa. In this blog follow some reflections…

Should European countries be making strategies and plans for Africa? At least, they can put African researchers centre stage

✍️ @diis.dk researchers Adam Fejerskov, @mikkel-funder.bsky.social & @naujakleist.bsky.social share their experience in our latest blog
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Trump's aid cuts are bad news for international climate finance.

I looked through the available data to work out how bad...

Around 8% of the climate finance pledged to developing countries by rich countries last year came from the US.

Those funds are now under threat.

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2-day #PhD_course /conference on #Autocratization & #Climate_Politics in contemporary society
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⏰ Apply by 20 Feb to join us in Bergen 25-26 March!
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(📸 Rasmus Berg)

CALL FOR CASE STUDIES ON COMMUNITY ACCESS TO INFORM THE BOARD OF THE FUND FOR RESPONDING TO LOSS AND DAMAGE Case Studies to Inform the Board of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage: Ahead of the fifth meeting of the Board (B5) of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) which will take place...

1/3.📢CASE STUDIES NEEDED! Ahead of the 5th Board meeting of the Fund for Responding to #LossAndDamage submit your case studies on access to climate ⛈️, development 🏗️ or humanitarian ❤️‍🩹finance for communities, Indigenous Peoples and CSOs.

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Sam Staddon, Floriane Clement & Bimbika Sijapati Basnett (eds.). 2023. "Political ecology of professional practice: plurality and possibilities in environmental governance", Special Section of the Journal of Political Ecology 30, 32.

This baby is out in paperback. #GreenSky

Go get your copy and use the discount code GLR BD8 to save 20% www.bloomsbury.com/us/decoloniz...

Graph shows microplastic levels in brain going from around 3300ug per gramme of brain tissue in 2016 to nearly 5000ug in 2024. No increase in kidney, although liver shows increase too

Why this wasn't front page news yesterday is beyond me.

We know microplastics can act as vectors for toxins, and further exposure and rises in brain plastic content are near certainty baked in

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Researchers paid nearly $9 billion to publishers between 2019 and 2023 so you could read our work. Why? Why??

Trump quits Paris agreement and pauses foreign climate finance On top of leaving the Paris Agreement, Trump is reviewing around $11 billion a year of funding for climate projects in developing countries

Around $11 billion a year of funding for climate projects in developing countries are under threat from Trump’s review

www.climatechangenews.com/2025/01/21/t...

Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries - Nature Human Behaviour What is the state of trust in scientists around the world? To answer this question, the authors surveyed 71,922 respondents in 68 countries and found that trust in scientists is moderately high.

🌍🌏🌎 Evidence-based decision-making is not a given. While most trust scientists, the influence of vocal minorities fueled by populism and ideology threatens progress. Building trust is essential for tackling global challenges.

#ScienceMatters #ParisAgreement #COVID19

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Locally-led climate change adaptation works: Here are eight ways to support it

Accompanying Policy Brief here: www.diis.dk/en/research/...

Locally Led Adaptation works. Our joint report examined locally led climate change adaptation in practice in Kenya and Tanzania, with promising results. www.diis.dk/en/research/...
@diis.dk #ClimateChangeAdaptation

Emphasizing locally-led knowledge interventions in cases of neglected humanitarian crises: Launching the Namibian Humanitarian Observatory - Bliss In this blog, Sister Agrippina Nandjaa (Caritas Namibia) marks the opening of the Humanitarian Observatory in Namibia, considering the importance of ‘neglected crises’ and their intersection with clim...

💡Emphasizing locally-led knowledge interventions in cases of neglected humanitarian crises💡

This blog highlights the launch of the Humanitarian Observatory in Namibia and its focus on addressing 'neglected crises' and their link to climate change.

Read the full blog here: wp.me/p9fvbD-89Y

“Shaping Sustainable Futures: Global Challenges, (G)Local Solutions?" will be the overarching theme of the conference.

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‘I have lost everything’: southern Africa battles hunger amid historic drought Crops have failed in several countries, with 27m people at risk of hunger according to World Food Programme

Southern Africa is in the midst of its worst drought in at least a century, with 27 million people affected and 21 million children suffering from malnutrition, according to the World Food Programme (WFP).

Global climate change worsens disasters, but blaming climate change alone deflects responsibility from effective local governance, infrastructure, and warning systems to multinational corporations and international climate mitigation efforts. Time to re-read @frediotto.bsky.social.

Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:

Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.

The LA Fires and the Big Bang The human quest for knowledge, and the descent into willful blindness

LA's fires are whirling around the telescopes where we discovered the expanding universe.
We've never needed human intelligence and curiosity more
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage Symposium | SESSION #3: Farhana Sultana – Decolonizing Climate Knowledge: Repairing Epistemic Injustice and Loss in the Er... In this session, interdisciplinary scholar, speaker, and author Dr. Farhana Sultana will present the text “Decolonizing Climate Knowledge: Repairing Epistemic Injustice and Loss in the Era of Climate ...

1/6. 📢 Sign up for the Ways of Repair : #LossAndDamage symposium to hear from @farhanasultana.com on "Decolonizing Climate Knowledge: Repairing Epistemic Injustice and Loss in the Era of #ClimateChange”

🗓️January 22nd 2025,
⏰14:00-15:00 GMT
📍Online
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AI is Trash: The Environmental Externalities of Machine Learning Tools with Dr. Anne Pasek discuss the environmental costs of machine learning and deep learning technologies.

Tired of being bombarded by AI propaganda? Concerned about the outrageous & escalating environmental costs of these technologies?

Then register for this online talk by @apasek.bsky.social on Feb. 12 at 12:00 PM EST. #envhum @nichecanada.bsky.social

More info & registration at link below.

Climate change adaptation and land tenure: exploring pastoral adaptation strategies under communal and private land ownership in Kenya Climate change adaptation is critically important for communities in the Global South, especially for those depending on climate-sensitive resources for their livelihoods, such as pastoralist commu...

Links between climate change #adaptation and land rights are often overlooked. Our new paper led by Sylvia Rotich examines them in Kenya: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CIIJX...

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a chart showing operational ccs being very low persisently, while scenarios show high expectations

a chart showing operational ccs being very low persisently, while scenarios show high expectations

a chart showing operational ccs being very low persisently, while scenarios show high expectations

Renewables are exceeding expectations - but so are emissions. Why?

Part of the fossil economy's staying power comes from false promises of techno-neutralisation. CCS is the OG machine saviour. A new blog for you, on why its second coming hasn't come.

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The political economy of energy transitions in Africa: Coalitions, politics and power in Tanzania The understanding of the political economy of energy transitions in lower-income African countries is little developed. A focus on coalitions has emer…

Our recent article on Tanzania's (slow) energy transition is out in Energy Research and Social Science - it's open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Call for Papers: The socio-economics of loss and decline in the climate crisis Special issue for Socio-Economic Review Guest Editors: Valentina Ausserladscheider, University of Vienna, (valentina.ausserladscheider@univie.ac.at), Timur Er

The climate crisis leads to unprecedented losses and damages.

Help us understand how they affect contemporary societies & political economies. Join @vapunkt.bsky.social, @trgn.bsky.social & me at:

- SASE Mini Conference
- Paper Workshop @mpifg.bsky.social
- Special issue at Socio-Economic Review