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How do frogs sound in different languages? Coa, kwak, ribbit .. my favorites are the hungarian frogs that just go brekeke ❤️🐸
Especially for @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social ❤️🐸❤️
11.10.2025 09:34 — 👍 23 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 2
Share of national electricity supplies that depend on imported fossil fuels in 2023, actual (left) and in the IEA’s “low renewable-energy source” scenario (right), in 31 countries that are net importers of coal and gas. Source: IEA.
NEW – IEA: Renewables have cut fossil-fuel imports for more than 100 countries | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @iea.org
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Anyone who is in Budapest for the @journalismarena.eu Climate Arena Conference, I will be helping to run a session on how to investigate climate finance tomorrow at 14:30. Come and check it out!
09.10.2025 11:27 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Homeless people were protected from hot weather on a record number of occasions in 2025 as climate change led to hottest summer ever.
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In the same interview Badenoch says the @thecccuk.bsky.social "wants us to eat insects", so perhaps we should take it all with a pinch of salt.
(Not only is this untrue, it has unpleasant echoes of the conspiracy-theorist, terminally online world that many of today's Conservatives seem immersed in)
One persistent reason that right wingers use to oppose climate action was voiced by Badenoch in a recent Spectator interview.
It's the idea that she supports climate action but the UK "cannot do it alone…other countries aren’t doing it".
In fact, the UK is far from alone in tackling climate change
Kemi Badenoch has been saying a lot of stuff that isn't true recently.
We've taken a look through some of the things she and her Conservative colleagues have been saying as they pledge to “repeal” the Climate Change Act.
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Cumulative number of countries with “climate change framework laws”, as defined by the Climate Change Laws of the World database. When countries have updated laws or introduced additional framework legislation, duplicates have been removed. Source: Climate Change Laws of the World.
NEW – Factcheck: What the Climate Change Act does – and does not – mean for the UK | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org
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FACTCHECK: What the Climate Change Act actually means for the UK – and what is a load of old nonsense
Really enjoyed putting this together with colleagues, inc learning new things about the fascinating backstory to the Act
Feat. OG authors of the Act & more
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NEW:🌎Half of global emissions covered by 2035 climate pledges after UN summit in New York🌎
China, Russia, Turkey and 8 other nations announced new pledges at the UN climate summit
But two-thirds of countries are still to announce their new NDCs
Analysis⬇️
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NEW – Q&A: What does China’s new Paris Agreement pledge mean for climate action? | @anikanpatel.carbonbrief.org @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org
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🎙️Carbon Brief is hosting a free webinar in which experts will discuss China’s first-ever pledge to cut its emissions
🗓️ When? Monday 29 September at 15:00 (BST)
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But the results also showed that not all councils are using SWEPs when temperatures rise.
Experts are concerned that extreme heat is still not being taken as seriously as extreme cold... this could be a concern as climate change drives increasingly hot weather.
The main tool councils have to help people sleeping rough during dangerously hot periods is the “severe weather emergency protocol” (SWEP).
I found that heat-related SWEP activations reached record levels this year – unsurprising, given the periods of intense heat we have seen this summer.
NEW ANALYSIS – I sent FOI requests to 93 local authorities across England and Wales, focusing on areas with significant numbers of people sleeping rough.
I wanted to find out how councils are protecting rough sleepers in their communities from extreme heat.
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Bar chart showing that this year has seen councils declare a record number of heat-related emergencies for rough sleepers. Total annual number of SWEP activations by select councils in England and Wales with significant rough-sleeper populations. The data for 2025 only includes dates up to 17 July, whereas the other years cover the whole of June-September. Source: FOI responses.
NEW – Revealed: Use of heat ‘emergencies’ for rough sleepers hits record in England and Wales | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social
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Today's @carbonbrief.org Daily Briefing factchecks the false climate claims in Donald Trump's tirade to the UN
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Guyana found huge oil reserves 10 years ago, so why are most people still poor?
- With a ‘one-sided’ deal handing vast profits to the world’s top oil firms, many Guyanese ask when the energy bonanza will benefit them
By Bert Wilkinson in Georgetown
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💶 International support for climate finance is shrinking. How can journalists navigate this changing landscape?
This #ClimateArena session with @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social of @carbonbrief.org and Stefan Wehrmeyer of @fragdenstaat.de will cover:
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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)
🧵quick thread
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Electricity demand growth in IEA scenarios, in TWh between 2024 and 2030, due to data-centre expansion (dark blue) – including a scenario in which expansion happens faster (light blue) – as well as from other sectors (grey). Source: IEA energy and AI report.
NEW – AI: Five charts that put data-centre energy use – and emissions – into context | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social
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Bar chart showing that UK aid spending on nature reached nearly £800m last year, putting it on track to meet the £3bn climate-finance target. The UK’s annual international climate finance spending, £m, by financial year, for the five-year period covering the £3bn nature-finance goal. The light green bar indicates the amount of finance that would need to be provided in order to meet the target in the final year. Source: Carbon Brief analysis, FOI documents.
NEW – Analysis: UK foreign aid for nature hits £800m record due to cash for carbon credits | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social
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“I think Ed Miliband is the most dangerous man in Britain”, says Claire Coutinho. Wow! That's some statement to make on the weekend a racist thug led a big march in London.
Of course, the there's not a word in the interview on what to do about climate change...
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Factcheck: 16 misleading myths about solar power
✍️ @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org
🎨 @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org @jjgoodman.bsky.social Tom Pearson
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icymi they opened the door to making all wind farms illegal happy thursday
28.08.2025 22:33 — 👍 111 🔁 27 💬 7 📌 0
Farimore space is taken up by golf courses than solar power in many countries Ground area, km2, used for ground-mounted solar and golf courses in a selection of high-income countries 8,014 1,895.9 1,402 1,194 1,060 595.5 622 343.5 370.5 312 186 232.5 253 162 68.4 Source: Weinand et al (2025) Carbon Brief
Thank you @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social for the reminder that golf courses should be forcibly seized by the government and converted to solar farms
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28.08.2025 21:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes – it's tricky to get that balance right in an article with a broad focus. As you say, we did acknowledge that and try to capture the nuance in the section on habitat destruction.
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