Josh Gabbatiss

NEW – COP experts: How could the UN climate talks be reformed? | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @arunacsekhar.bsky.social

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What is the word to describe the feeling you get when you write about how young(ish) women who are regularly exposed to climate information are more likely to feel climate anxiety...

Really enjoyed speaking to researchers for this @carbonbrief.org explainer

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great reporting from @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org on faltering efforts to raise cash for biodiversity from the private sector

Journey times up, deaths down: Welsh 20mph speed limit still divisive two years on Protests continue against default lower limit in urban areas that supporters say is working ‘exactly as intended’

"What is an acceptable death toll that justifies getting to work two minutes faster? That's what people who want to get rid of it need to answer."

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Endangered angelshark habitats face ocean warming - Carbon Brief “Unprecedented” ocean warming could make key habitats “inhospitable” for critically endangered angelsharks, according to new research.

NEW – Endangered angelshark faces ‘inhospitable’ breeding sites as ocean warms | Ushika Kidd

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Bizarre to be (incorrectly) referenced in the federal report supporting the EPA's proposal to revoke the scientific finding that underpins the government’s legal authority to combat climate change

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we need lots more music about climate change that doesn’t suck

ICJ: What the world court’s landmark opinion means for climate change - Carbon Brief Carbon Brief explains the most important aspects of the ICJ’s 133-page advisory opinion and speaks to legal experts about its implications.

NEW – ICJ: What the world court’s landmark opinion means for climate change | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org

💬 w/ comment from Danilo B. Garrido Alves, Joy Reyes, Prof Viñuales, Dr Maria Antonia Tigre, Harj Narulla, Dr Bill Hare

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53/ The Court continues with its no-nonsense analysis by rejecting arguments advanced by historic polluters regarding the impossibility of determining accountability in the context of a plurality of contributors and victims.

52/🚨The Court then delivers a powerful statement: failure of a state to take appropriate action to regulate fossil fuel consumption, the granting of fossil fuel licences, fossil fuel subsidies may constitute an internationally wrongful act which is attributable to that state

China’s clean-energy footprint spans essentially the entire world, with exports to 191 of the 192 UN member states, excluding China, manufacturing plans in 25 countries in 12 of the 17 UN regions and clean-energy project financing in 27 countries in 11 regions.

NEW – Analysis: China’s clean-energy exports in 2024 alone will cut overseas CO2 by 1% | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social

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A supermarket worker handles bags of reserve rice released from government stockpiles in Tokyo on 31 May 2025. Credit: Newscom / Alamy Stock Photo

NEW – Mapped: 16 times extreme weather drove higher food prices since 2022 | @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org

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But when pressed on the matter by the BBC's @evanhd.bsky.social, Tice said:

"If there’s a legally-binding contract that can't be touched, that's one thing, right. But if there's any form of shenanigans…We will view that very badly."

"A legally binding contract is a legally binding contract."

The letter says, very clearly:

"We will seek to strike down all contracts signed under AR7. Should you choose to participate, you should treat any long-term revenue streams and politically and commercially unsafe."

"Let me be clear: If you enter bids into AR7, you do so at your own risk."

On Wednesday, Reform's Richard Tice wrote to energy companies saying the party would "seek to strike down" existing subsidies for renewables if it takes power.

24 hours later he was on the BBC suggesting people had "misread" the letter and "a legally binding contract is a legally binding contract".

After years of campaigning, members of "Woodsbury Locals Say NO To Solar" breathe a sigh of relief as they gaze over their pristine, panel-free fields.

They won. The solar developers won't turn this village into a sea of glass.

On the horizon, a convoy of lorries full of uranium rumbles into view.

ait Borsay: "Do you think climate change exists?" Andrea: "I've said for a long time, we need to ditch net zero and actually focus on economic growth. A million percent." Kait: "But then how do you tackle climate change? And do you believe that climate change exists?" Andrea: "Do I believe that climate change exists? No." Kait: "Okay. So you are not a believer in climate, you know, despite rising global temperatures, melting glaciers, rising sea levels, despite all of that evidence?" Andrea: "It depends. It depends what evidence you look at.... I think it's a way to actually make money." Kait: "Okay. But you don't believe climate change exists. And so that's why there is no need for net zero, in your opinion." Andrea: "Absolutely. And I think it's harming industry. I think it's a money making racket where certain businesses and individuals are making money out of it."

Reform mayor Andrea Jenkyns tells Times Radio that she doesn’t believe climate change exists, and that it’s just a “racket” for some people to make money. If Reform win the next election, the UK could become a very different place quite quickly.

NEW – The Carbon Brief Interview: UK climate envoy Rachel Kyte (‪ @rkyte365.bsky.social ‬) | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org @leohickman.carbonbrief.org

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A photo of a school building taken on a sunny day with a blue sky above. The building is a striking, light green colour, with rectangular facade panels covering the entirety of its walls. Bright green railings are visible in the foreground leading to one of the entrances.

Just look at this school - called "The Frog" (!) in the Netherlands. That green facade generates electricity. Those are solar panels!

(Photo: Solarix.)

Has renewable energy reduced electricity prices? As I discuss over at The Climate Brink, empirical evidence over the past 24 years in the US points to yes: www.theclimatebrink....

Here is the change in non-hydro utility scale renewables and electricity prices for each state.

*small voice* Brontë country is just farmland though

maybe this is wishcasting but it'd be pretty funny if continued global demand combined with ending US subsidies killed the horrible american Huge Expensive EV while allowing smaller, cheaper EVs to thrive

Media reaction: The 2025 Texas floods and the role of climate change - Carbon Brief At least 120 people have died after a devastating flash flood swept through homes and...

NEW – Media reaction: The 2025 Texas floods and the role of climate change

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MEDIA STUDIES: How the Times bungled its coverage of the OBR report on climate change & UK govt debt

Yesterday's newspaper reported a major shift: "The OBR now thinks…net-zero will have a far more damaging impact on borrowing…"

In fact, the OBR had said the opposite!
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Aerial view of illegal Amazon deforestation. Credit: Paralaxis / Alamy Stock Photo

NEW – Experts: Which climate tipping point is the most concerning? | @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org

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bar chart showing deaths associate with extreme heat with and without climate change in 12 European cities

About 1500 of the approx. 2300 people that will have lost their lives across 12 European cities last week would still live, if it wasn't for our burning of oil, coal and gas. If we care about the right to life, we need to stop burning fossil fuels. www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

DeBriefed 4 July 2025: Trump ‘megabill’ guts clean energy; Europe’s record heat; Scientists discuss ‘most worrying’ tipping points - Carbon Brief Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate...

In this issue:
🌎 Trump “megabill” gutting tax support for clean energy was passed by Congress
🌎 A deadly, record-breaking heatwave gripped Europe
🌎 Key dates for next week and pick of the job vacancies

Source: REPEAT Project, US nationally determined contribution.

NEW – Chart: Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ blows US emissions goal by 7bn tonnes | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Ho Woo Nam

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Total net greenhouse gas emissions in the EU from 1990 to 2025, with projects and targets out to 2050 in million tonnes of CO2 equivalent (MtCO2e). Source: Eurostat.

NEW – Q&A: European Commission’s proposal to cut EU emissions 90% by 2040 | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org w/ comment from
@lindakalcher.bsky.social @mforte.bsky.social

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