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Season 9 is here! And it's LITTLE RICHARD, who contained multitudes: a pioneering rock and roll musician, a conservative preacher from the deep South, and a young Black queer man thrown out of his home who became a drag performer under the name Princess LaVonne.
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Chart showing that greenhouse gas emissions remain far off track for the Paris Agreement goal. Historical and projected global emissions over 2015-35 under the current policy (dark blue), unconditional NDCs (mid blue), conditional NDCs (light blue), 2C (pink) and 1.5C (red) scenarios. There is a 66% chance that warming this century will remain below the levels shown on each of the pathways. Chart by Carbon Brief.

NEW – UNEP: New country climate plans ‘barely move needle’ on expected warming | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @unep.org

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COP30: Could Brazil’s ‘Tropical Forest Forever’ fund help tackle climate change? - Carbon Brief Billed as the “Amazon COP”, the UN climate talks will see the debut of Brazil’s...

NEW – COP30: Could Brazil’s ‘Tropical Forest Forever’ fund help tackle climate change? | @arunacsekhar.bsky.social @yaninequiroz.bsky.social

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Aerial view of Belém, Brazil. Credit: Paralaxis / Alamy Stock Photo

NEW – COP30: What does the ‘Baku to Belém roadmap’ mean for climate finance? | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social w/ comment from @jalokaje.bsky.social Sarah Colenbrander @rebeccathissen.bsky.social Rebecca Newsom

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In 1874, Monet exhibited with Pissarro, Sisley, Manet, Cézanne, Degas, and other artists rejected by the Paris Salon. Visitors were shocked and outraged.

Impression, Sunrise caused the biggest stir—some said they couldn’t even tell what was painted.

We are facing a challenging time for climate action and multilateralism. But hopefully, as in the past, the dialogue will restore trust amongst all nations. We need an IMO and UN System strong.

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I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad
I got sunshine in a bag
I'm useless but not for long
The future is coming on

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’ Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

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Are Carbon Offsets Fixable? This article provides a systematic review of the literature on carbon offsets. A growing number of studies have found that the most widely used offset programs continue to greatly overestimate their p...

Are Carbon Offsets Fixable?

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Perceived costs and benefits and public support for climate policies - npj Climate Action npj Climate Action - Perceived costs and benefits and public support for climate policies

Perceived costs and benefits and public support for climate policies

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Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

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Quick note on this: I highly recommend what Mats Berdal & David H Ucko argued at the @rusi.bsky.social Journal.

Link here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life Scientists call for renewed global effort to curb fossil fuels as seven of nine planetary boundaries now transgressed

“If I were a planetary doctor, I would sit down with my patient and say: ‘Last year, I suggested you change something but you didn’t. (...) So your health is declining further." PIK scientist Levke Caesar on the 2025 Planetary Health Check via @theguardian.com.
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Check out this new article in OnlineFirst! Rushing Infrastructure Projects Under Austerity: The Militarization of the Mexican Public Administration During AMLO’s Government - Raúl Zepeda Gil (@rgzepeda.bsky.social), Luis Roberto Vargas Pineda, 2025 #OpenAccess journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I am really happy that my article “Rushing Infrastructure Projects Under Austerity: The Militarization of the Mexican Public Administration During AMLO’s Government” has been published in @afssage.bsky.social.

You can read open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

NEW: IEA reiterates ‘no new oil and gas needed’ if global warming is limited to 1.5C (but this time, it only says so quietly)

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YouTube video by UN Human Rights Council Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN Commission finds | Press Conference, 16 September 2025

#Gaza | Experts from the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory & #Israel took questions from the media in Geneva today about their latest report, which found that Israel has committed genocide.

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Essentially, all academic, think tank, news pieces nowadays start with “This [X] problem can be fixed with AI?”

Has someone developed an AI phrase generator to do that?

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I read The Climate Diplomat by Peter Betts in one go. It is a fascinating memoire of the UK climate negotiator in the process of the COPs that lead to the Paris Agreement.

I am particularly happy to read how much the Cartegena Process and Mexico helped to the COP dialogues.

Silhouettes of three people in front of a weathered British flag, with the headline: Misrepresentations around human rights and immigration fuelling calls to quit ECHR, Oxford report finds

NEW: An Oxford report warns that misleading media coverage is shaping public debate on immigration and human rights.

The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system.

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I loved how I look in this pic the photographer of a friend’s wedding took.

Brutalist Barbican

Leafy green

Deforestation has killed half a million people in past 20 years, study finds Localised rises in temperature caused by land clearance cause 28,330 heat-related deaths a year, researchers find Deforestation has killed more than half a million people in the tropics over the past two decades as a result of heat-related illness, a study has found. Land clearance is raising the temperature in the rainforests of the Amazon, Congo and south-east Asia because it reduces shade, diminishes rainfall and increases the risk of fire, the authors of the paper found. Continue reading...

Deforestation has killed half a million people in past 20 years, study finds

Green leaves

Some pictures of flowers at the Barbican Conservatory.

Today I was told I didn’t look 36.

Variations in climate change belief systems across 110 geographic areas

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Chart: China’s CO2 emissions continued to fall in first half of 2025. China’s emissions from fossil fuels and cement, million tonnes of CO2, rolling 12-month totals. Note the truncated y-axis Source: Emissions are estimated from National Bureau of Statistics data on production of different fuels and cement, China Customs data on imports and exports and WIND Information data on changes in inventories, applying emissions factors from China’s latest national greenhouse gas emissions inventory and annual emissions factors per tonne of cement production until 2024. Sector breakdown of coal consumption is estimated using coal consumption data from WIND Information and electricity data from the National Energy Administration.

NEW – Analysis: Record solar growth keeps China’s CO2 falling in first half of 2025 | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social

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