COP30 was the 11th longest on record
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COP30 was the 11th longest on record
24.11.2025 09:38 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you for those who spotted the incorrect annotations. Hereβs the corrected chart
13.11.2025 16:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0When will #COP30 wrap up? If recent years are anything to go by, negotiations could last well into next weekend (Baku finished at 5am Sunday morning, 36 hours behind scheduleβ¦)
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Every COP logo since 1995 β which is your favourite?
30.04.2025 08:24 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0The list of US food items that the UK says might now see retaliatory tariffs seriously makes you wonder what the HELL is going on with our global food system?!
"edible flours and meals of whales, dolphin and porpoises"
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Roger Egbert:
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30.11.2024 11:46 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Points of appeal will include: βwhether a conscientious motivation should be treated as mitigation, and whether throwing soup on glass should be sentenced as an act of violence, if it caused some damage to the frame,β according to Defend our Juries.
30.11.2024 11:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0BREAKING: The Court of Appeal will conduct a hearing of 16 Just Stop Oil protestors, arising from four separate cases, including JSO leader Roger Hallam and Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland who threw soup on glass protecting Van Goghβs Sunflowers.
30.11.2024 11:46 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0My heart goes out to the original Bluesky (aerial survey and height data services)
27.11.2024 14:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0After tense #COP29 talks, parties agreed on a new climate finance goal... but many argued the USD 300 billion/year was an βinsultβ
While parties took decisions on carbon markets, on many other issues they remained deadlocked
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Countries are required to submit their new emission targets for 2035 by next February.
26.11.2024 16:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Japan is considering a new target of 60% emissions cuts by 2035, up from a previous target of 42% reductions, according to this report by Japan's public broadcaster NHK www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
26.11.2024 16:11 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Plastics currently cause triple the emissions of aviation. Greenhouse gas emissions in 2023, in billion tonnes of CO2e. Source: Carbon Brief analysis of Karali et al (2024), the OECD and the UNEP Emissions Gap Report (2024).
Five charts: Why a UN plastics treaty matters for climate change | @vernerviisas.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org w/ comment from Daniela DurΓ‘n GonzΓ‘lez
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COP29 was the fourth longest on record, clocking in 35 and a half hours later than planned
25.11.2024 10:04 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0COP closing times
COP29 has overtaken COP21 - where the Paris agreement was signed - as the fifth longest COP on recordβ¦
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