Augusto Heras

Reconciling the Global South’s Right to Develop with Leaving Fossil Fuels Underground The Global South is home to 78% of unburnable reserves, which raises urgent questions of equity, justice and the right to development.

📣 New blog from the University of Amsterdam’s CLIFF project team asking:

'Can the Global South exercise its right to develop while the world must leave fossil fuels underground?' 🧵

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Data injustice and attribution of drought events: implications for global climate policy

‼️ OPEN ACCESS: Extreme event attribution (EEA) studies are considerably affected by 'data injustice' and therefore may not be suitable to inform loss and damage fund allocation, find Fezzigna et al. @marthewens.bsky.social @vuamsterdam.bsky.social

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Free Palestine 🇵🇸

Strike hits University of Amsterdam December 9-12 The FNV has spent six months trying to negotiate with the Executive Board (CvB) without success. The CvB has refused to meet the demands of the FNV members.

Our demands to UvA:
1. Expand opportunities to exercise our right to protest
2. Establish an independent and democratically legitimized committee to review collaborations with third parties complicit in violations of human rights and int. law
3. Freeze ties with Israeli institutions pending review

“The true extremism here is not to insist on 1.5 degrees as a target, but to just let things continue in the hope that we can have some kind of technofix later in the century. If these tipping points are crossed, there is no going back.”