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Avantika Goswami

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Climate policy at CSE India “The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving.” - Rebecca Solnit

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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A Nepali climate negotiator clarifies the country's official position on climate responsibility drilled.media/news/nepal-f...
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"The provisions and the principles of the Convention and the Paris Agreement are absolutely clear." Full interview soon on Nepal's demands and the status of the loss and damage fund
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Nepali diplomat Raju Pandit Chhetri tells me there was "confusion" & "some tweaking" in the foreign minister's interview regarding Nepal seeking compensation for the floods from China, India & the US. He added "Nepal has not changed its views on the climate responsibility of developed countries."
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Chris Aylett @chrisaylett.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
For countries in the Global South, the energy transition could be a historic development opportunity But seizing it requires strategic planning and state capacity Excellent conversation between @aygoswami.bsky.social and @iliasalami.bsky.social www.downtoearth.org.in/economy/carb...
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Carbon Politics: Green industrialisation for the Global South
The episode explores how green industrialisation can help the Global South align decarbonisation, development and structural transformation. Avantika Goswami speaks with Cambridge scholar Ilias Alami ...
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 28/04/2026
UPDATED – Q&A: What does India’s new Paris Agreement pledge mean for climate action? ✍️ @arunacsekhar.bsky.social 💬 with comment from @ashishkothari.bsky.social @aygoswami.bsky.social @ndubash.bsky.social Read here ⬇️
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Q&A: What does India’s new Paris Agreement pledge mean for climate action? - Carbon Brief
India has set a new target to reduce its “emissions intensity” – greenhouse gas emissions per unit of economic output
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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I had a great conversation with @aygoswami.bsky.social on the limits and barriers to green industrialisation in the global South, for @cseindia.bsky.social Listen to the podcast: www.downtoearth.org.in/economy/carb... @campolis.bsky.social
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Carbon Politics: Green industrialisation for the Global South
The episode explores how green industrialisation can help the Global South align decarbonisation, development and structural transformation. Avantika Goswami speaks with Cambridge scholar Ilias Alami ...
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Caroline Brouillette @carobrouillette.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
What happened to middle powers, and Canada, taking the US hegemony- aligned sign out of their shop window?
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Snapshots from Pernambuco. the new world order in brazil -- Stellantis- created by merger of Italy's FIAT and France's PSA, is building a production line with China's Leapmotor to make an electric SUV in Brazil. Going head to head against China's BYD also sold in Brazil (and manufactured in Bahia)
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 01/01/2026
BREAKING: Explosions felt across New York City as full socialism begins
Fireworks over Grand Army Plaza
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 01/01/2026
“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.” In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
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Wolfgang Obergassel @obergassel.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Very much looking forward to discussing the #COP30 #Belém outcomes and potential ways forward tomorrow with @annaperezcatala.bsky.social, @aygoswami.bsky.social, Bernhard Pötter, Max Schulze-Steinen. To register, visit us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 21/11/2025
@bronwentucker.bsky.social and @aygoswami.bsky.social on latest draft decision text at #COP30. "What we would need to see for a roadmap [on fossil fuel phaseout] to be useful at all is ... rich countries going first and fastest and real public finance." 🎥 www.youtube.com/shorts/qFUJ1...
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Reactions to November 21 #cop30 Text: On transitioning away from #fossilfuels #brazil
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
A critical remembrance of Jane Goodall for the latest issue of @thecontinent.org. Open to comments and feedback www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...
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Avantika Goswami @aygoswami.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
🖊️New op-ed: The NDC Death Loop As COP30 approaches, the current cycle of voluntary climate pledges is facing a crisis of relevance; climate governance needs to be reinvented, especially for the Global South @trishant.bsky.social @cseindia.bsky.social
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Some important perspectives about the context in which climate action ought to be framed in developing countries. By @aygoswami.bsky.social and @trishant.bsky.social www.downtoearth.org.in/climate-chan...
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Jeremy Wallace @jeremywallace.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Optimism and pessimism. The IEA renewables 2025 update is fascinating. It ratchets down both US and China's renewable buildout from the 2024 report. US down more than 40% (!) and China down about 5%.
Forecast revisions from IEA Renewables 2025 report.
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Avantika Goswami @aygoswami.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Climate policy nerds uniting today around the shared struggle: 'But what is the peak date??" If you know, you know etc....
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Avantika Goswami @aygoswami.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Hyped for the next episode of Carbon Politics - @cseindia.bsky.social’s new video podcast - this time with @70sbachchan.bsky.social @katemac.bsky.social of @thepolycrisis.bsky.social about BRICS and climate action Out here on Sept 28: www.cseindia.org/page/carbon-...
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
"In the first half of 2025 China’s new additions were more than twice the new capacity installed by the entire rest of the world this year. The #2 on the list, India, installed 24GW. The US at #3 installed 21GW. There is an order of magnitude difference." adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
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Chartbook 409 Beyond the "Marshall Plan": China's solar boom as world-changing industrial policy.
In the first six months of 2025 China installed more than 250GW of solar power capacity.
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Avantika Goswami @aygoswami.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Savouring the best of Delhi at the end of summer and before winter - while AQI is in the 100s, before the airshed becomes hell - w/ the Smashing Pumpkins as a backdrop
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Avantika Goswami @aygoswami.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Brazil’s proposal to launch a new climate and trade forum at COP30 is a timely intervention - I outline 5 key dynamics in the climate-trade debate for any new forum to consider. Above all it must be advanced with the buy-in of developing countries www.downtoearth.org.in/climate-chan...
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Five dynamics to watch in climate-trade agenda — and why equity matters
Brazil's COP30 Presidency has proposed a new forum to address the intersection of climate and trade, emphasizing the need for equity and justice for the Global South. This initiative aims to prevent t...
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Jonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com · 12/09/2025
1/ New report from @bentleyallan.bsky.social's Net Zero Policy Lab: As the US withdraws from green tech industries and pressures allies to follow suit, China is stepping in to power the developing world's energy transition. The scale is staggering. www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...
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China Green Leap Outward — Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab
A new China Low Carbon Technology FDI Database
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Mathias Larsen @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
New policy report just published with groundbreaking data showing that China's new global role in the green transition is investing in manufacturing, not financing infrastructure: "China’s Green Leap Outward" www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...
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China Green Leap Outward — Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab
A new China Low Carbon Technology FDI Database
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Avantika Goswami @aygoswami.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
🎙️ 33 Years Since Rio: What Have We Learned In the latest Carbon Politics episode by @cseindia.bsky.social, I speak with Sunita Narain and Anumita Roychowdhury about the origins of the UNFCCC, the decades since, and how the Rio moment can guide the Global South through today’s competing crises
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33 years after the Earth Summit in Rio, Brazil | Carbon Politics E04
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
The first summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) convened in Belgrade, Yugoslavia on this day in 1961.
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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Polyalignment in action "Xi and Modi say they are ‘partners not rivals’ in bid to repair China-India ties" - on.ft.com/4n6jHnH
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Xi and Modi say they are ‘partners not rivals’ in bid to repair China-India ties
Donald Trump’s trade war drives a rapprochement between the world’s two most populous countries
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Avantika Goswami @aygoswami.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
My new op-ed: in which I ask, can we forge a Bandung moment for climate? www.downtoearth.org.in/climate-chan...
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Rebuilding solidarity ‘BRICS by BRICS’: Forging Global South unity for climate and prosperity
In response to the challenges posed by Donald Trump's tariffs and the dismantling of multilateralism, BRICS leaders are uniting to defend the Global South's interests. Despite a history of fragile sol...
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Centre for Science and Environment @cseindia.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
New op-ed by CSE's @aygoswami.bsky.social emphasizing that Global South solidarity must be fostered to draft a new climate and development agenda, taking cues from historical moments like the Bandung Conference of 1955 www.downtoearth.org.in/climate-chan...
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Rebuilding solidarity ‘BRICS by BRICS’: Forging Global South unity for climate and prosperity
In response to the challenges posed by Donald Trump's tariffs and the dismantling of multilateralism, BRICS leaders are uniting to defend the Global South's interests. Despite a history of fragile sol...
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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 20/08/2025
Rebuilding solidarity ‘BRICS by BRICS’: Forging Global South unity for climate and prosperity “..unity is essential to turn this fragile moment into lasting power…In climate talks and beyond, the South must close ranks.” Excellent piece from @aygoswami.bsky.social
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Rebuilding solidarity ‘BRICS by BRICS’: Forging Global South unity for climate and prosperity
In response to the challenges posed by Donald Trump's tariffs and the dismantling of multilateralism, BRICS leaders are uniting to defend the Global South's interests. Despite a history of fragile sol...
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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Lesotho, “a country no one has heard of” acc’ding to Trump, bracing for US tariffs 50% on its biggest single sector, garments. “The luckier ones, he said, “are just finishing up outstanding orders that were in the pipeline. There are no new orders coming in.”” on.ft.com/4kFlzSX
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Africa’s top garment exporter could ‘fold’ under US tariffs, minister says
Lesotho, which supplies Levi’s and Wrangler, declares ‘state of disaster’ as Trump threat triggers job cuts
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 30/06/2025
Who produces the last barrel of oil? @rlalen.bsky.social on @cseindia.bsky.social ‘Carbon Politics’ podcast 🎙️: Fossil fuel phaseout goals agreed on at COP28 set a clear direction but didn’t provide a roadmap + many countries lack enabling conditions to shift to RE. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyQt...
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Who leads the phaseout of fossil fuels?| Carbon Politics| Episode 2
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Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Three of the top five solar power countries in 2024 were BRICS countries. In 2024, Brazil overtook Germany to become the fifth largest solar generator. 1. China: 834 TWh ✅ 2. United States: 303 TWh 3. India: 134 TWh ✅ 4. Japan: 100 TWh 5. Brazil: 75 TWh ✅
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Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
NEW | BRICS countries now produced more than half of the world's solar power ☀️ Led by China, BRICS countries accounted for 51% of the world's solar generation in 2024. Ten years ago, this stood at 15%.
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Avantika Goswami @aygoswami.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Dio-goal 💔 I just can’t process this
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Centre for Science and Environment @cseindia.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
New episode of our video podcast "Carbon Politics" is out! CSE's @aygoswami.bsky.social and @rlalen.bsky.social ‪ from @oilchange.bsky.social discuss fossil fuels transition, who produces the last barrel of oil and what an equitable transition really means. Watch now👇 youtu.be/LyQtK_fLhR4?...
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
"Bonn Climate Conference 2025: On Day 1, developing countries fight EU and allies on finance obligation" by @aygoswami.bsky.social www.downtoearth.org.in/climate-chan...
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Bonn Climate Conference 2025: On Day 1, developing countries fight EU and allies on finance obligation
The June Climate Meetings of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held in Bonn, also known as the 62nd meeting of the Subsidiary B
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ClimateActionNetwork @canclimateaction.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
"We’re exposing how finance is being sidelined — and how the Global South is pushing back." #ClimateJustice #JustTransitionRising #COP30 #ClimateFinance @aygoswami.bsky.social
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Avantika Goswami @aygoswami.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Heussallee metro stop, Bonn, Germany cc @accidentallywa.bsky.social
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Centre for Science and Environment @cseindia.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
📢 "Once Upon a Time in Dubai" – #CarbonPolitics Episode 2! Our new video podcast drops June 28th, 4 PM IST. Tune in to hear @aygoswami.bsky.social (CSE) and @rlalen.bsky.social of‪ @oilchange.bsky.social discuss fossil fuels!
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Avantika Goswami @aygoswami.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I’ll be moderating a session on green industrial policy tomrw for @canclimateaction.bsky.social Join us for a massive collective brainstorm on how to build an internationalist, cooperative green industrial policy that leaves no country behind Tune in 3:45PM IST: events.zoom.us/ev/AqbvYuXcl...
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Centre for Science and Environment @cseindia.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
📢 Join us tomorrow, May 13, for an online CSE #Masterclass, along with @aygoswami.bsky.social & @trishant.bsky.social on how to use our new dashboard for research and inquiry into the Voluntary Carbon Market in India. ⏲️3:30 PM IST Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #CarbonMarket #VCM
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
1/ The US "has decided that it now needs to engage in full-scale demolition of the same system that it created...The US is becoming poorer and weaker as it dismantles the very system it once built.” Latest Polycrisis from @katemac.bsky.social & I on how investors and countries are responding
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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
It is perfectly calculated to hurt countries that are 1) poor 2) really need the export income 3) can't afford to import much from the US
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 27/03/2025
@kyleichan.bsky.social @elisabettaco.bsky.social @aygoswami.bsky.social, Dr Bentley Allan, Dr Tim Sahay, Alex Muresianu, Antoine Vagneur-Jones, Jimena Blanco, Dr Simi Thambi, Robert Rozansky, Chris Severson-Baker, Anne-Sophie Corbeau, Tu Le, Ellie Belton, Eileen Torres Morales, Dr Aurélien Saussay
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 27/03/2025
NEW – Experts: What do Trump’s tariffs mean for global climate action? | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/dORwRKS
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Experts: What do Trump’s tariffs mean for global climate action? - Carbon Brief
The Trump administration has imposed tariffs on all imports from China, Mexico and Canada, as well as on steel, aluminium and cars from around the world
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Avantika Goswami @aygoswami.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Who is building a Global South / rest of the world except G7 / regional set of starter packs on here for us to follow - @rishpardikar.bsky.social any thoughts?
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Our world crisis of ecology, economics, and empire, has continued to metastasize. It is shaking confidence in established worldviews & ruling elites everywhere. @iliasalami.bsky.social & @danieldenvir.bsky.social & I chatted about @thepolycrisis.bsky.social thedigradio.com/podcast/glob...
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Global Conjuncture w/ Ilias Alami and Tim Sahay
Featuring Ilias Alami and Tim Sahay on a global conjuncture defined by Washington’s shredding of the liberal international order’s legitimacy amid a panic over decline: the escalating Cold War with Ch...
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Avantika Goswami @aygoswami.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Closed about 78 tabs today - my browser feels bare, exposed, an act of catharsis
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
A crowd has gathered for the NYC protest against the illegal ICE arrest of Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil. Protesters are chanting and calling for his immediate release. Multiple helicopters overhead.
a photo of a few hundred protesters gathered in NYC
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Ditch Skipper ☘️ @narrowboatireland.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Some days you just wanna give up , let everything go and follow the light inside of a red cabbage
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