Swati Dsouza

Trying out Bluesky but mostly LinkedIn. It’s a shame but Twitter used to be a fantastic place to communicate and connect.

Support Hujefa fight/recover from Muscular Dystrophy / CMD Hujefa, a 12-year-old boy, has been fighting a rare and serious medical condition for the past 7 years. His family has been traveling to AIIMS Delhi for his treatment, but the road to recovery is far ...

Hello, trying to help a friend out here. Treating DMD costs ~26 cr (3m USD). Annual expenses are easily 40-50k USD. Hujefa’s family cannot do this on the salary of a daily wage worker. They have started a fundraiser and anything you are able to contribute will help them.

milaap.org/fundraisers/...

The world keeps turning a blind eye on West Asia as draconian policies are being implemented. This is the latest in the series of things that half the population of a country is banned from doing. This is so dehumanising.

New paper estimates a net warming effect of 2020 maritime fuel desulfurization regulations (due to reduced ship track formation) of +0.08±0.03 K.

This is roughly (VERY ROUGHLY! do not try this at home!) comparable to the warming impact of ~100 GtCO2e.

Yes, one hundred billion tons. With a B.

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All - Bluesky Directory A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.

Starter packs are genius, but I was surprised there wasn't a list of them for people to find.

So I built it:
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

The website monitors the packs being shared and adds the ones it finds to the database.

Missed your stater pack? Message me and I'll get it added.

Made an India climate/energy starter pack since I haven't seen one yet!
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go.bsky.app/MpYjd3n
#energysky

Did a small thing for work on introducing just transition at ADB.

www.instagram.com/reel/DC8BBpY...

If you haven’t been following #COP29 negotiations and want to understand what’s going in these final days www.twn.my/title2/clima... is a great resource.

#COP29 UPDATE

Presidency just outlined plan to wrap up:

🕛midnight new texts on NCQG, MWP, JTWP, UAE dialogue
🕖other texts tomorrow 7am
🗣️single-setting chat to discuss package
✍️then 2nd text iterations
⏰finish on Friday 🤔

STILL NO COVER TEXT: "don’t want to open a new battle front"

Thanks Neelima for the initiative! This made my life easy :)

Would like to be added as well if I fit the bill.

Growing list! Reply/like to be added.

go.bsky.app/HfzhXnw

Cop29 live: call to block Azerbaijan president from talks to allow negotiators to work Cop28 adviser Paul Watkinson says Ilham Aliyev should be kept away from talks to let negotiations take place

New from #Cop29 - Lead negotiator Yulchin Rafiyev says no work is taking place on a “cover text” (a broad political statement).

He said aim is to make finance deal etc within the formal negotiating strands - not open “new battlefront” between countries

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#PepitoPH is the 6th typhoon to hit #Philippines in a month. No country, especially one which is still developing can cope with back-to-back climate disasters. The world HAS to increase funding towards #adaptation. We don’t fully recognize the world around us

As UNFCCC-COP29 reaches its midway point in Baku, here’s what @nature.org’s global climate lead @clareshakya.bsky.social thinks needs to happen by next weekend… www.nature.org/en-us/newsro...

Shell boss to focus on shareholder returns as he shuns megadeals Oil major uses bumper earnings from past 18 months to launch huge repurchasing scheme

Further proof Shell have no intention of transitioning.

“Sawan has sought to improve financial performance by ‘simplifying’ Shell’s approach to the energy transition.”

“That involves… re-emphasising the oil and gas business and trimming less profitable parts of the company’s low-carbon portfolio.”

How does one find climate and energy researchers on this platform?

Newest platform I am on…anyone taking bets on how popular this one will become?