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Clare Shakya

@clareshakya.bsky.social
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GMD, Tackle Climate at TNC Tackling the finance and delivery challenges for action on climate, nature & people. Innovation & compelling stories to drive climate ambition. Ex IIED. Ex DFID. Mum, wife & hiker of wilderness.

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Clare Shakya @clareshakya.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Breath of fresh air to have a minister speaking sense. Thank you @angelaeagle1.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A Britain of wildfires and flood risks: be sure, the climate crisis is real, and we will deal with it | Angela Eagle
Reform and the Conservatives are willing to mislead the public, but as environment secretary, I believe we must be honest – and act boldly, says Angela Eagle
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 19/08/2026
This stopped me in my tracks. An independent study by @qmul.bsky.social has found that after ULEZ was introduced, children’s lungs grew faster in Central London and have now caught up with children outside of the capital. Incredible.
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Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 19/08/2026
Here's my piece on the ULEZ study everyone's talking about today! Children's lungs appear to have recovered and are growing better now that air pollution in London has reduced. www.bmj.com/content/394/...
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Child lung health in London has improved since ULEZ was introduced, study claims
Improved air quality in London in recent years has been associated with a measurable improvement in lung function among primary school children who live there, a new study concludes.1 Researchers tra...
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 19/08/2026
Have we just been examining the tip of the iceberg when it comes to AI's carbon emissions? This new study says YES. Thanks to @emorwee.bsky.social and @grist.org for reporting on this.
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AI-driven productivity gains enable more CO₂ emissions than they avoid in a global energy–economy model - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - AI-driven productivity gains enable more CO₂ emissions than they avoid in a global energy–economy model
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/07/2026
Europe is jamming the accelerator on electrification.
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Nine times faster: the EU wants to double electrification by 2040
The Commission has launched its Electrification Action Plan. A 46% target and some serious policy measures.
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Clare Shakya @clareshakya.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
“In this context, climate denial and delay isn’t just delusional – it’s deadly. Because it won’t be President Trump and the fossil fuel companies paying the price for failure – it will be the rest of us.“ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This burning summer is the proof: the voices of climate denial aren’t just delusional, they’re deadly | Sadiq Khan
Look at our blazing forests and parched cities. Green policies aren’t a ‘luxury’, and we can’t burn more oil and gas. People need the truth, says London mayor Sadiq Khan
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Clare Shakya @clareshakya.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 31/07/2026
😡😡Thames Water CEO: public ownership means water investment would compete with health and defence. THIS IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE. The truth is that every penny of Thames Water's planned investment will come directly from our water bills. Take 2 mins to complain to Ofcom and the BBC: vist.ly/5d5xb
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Ofcom and BBC, correct the record: Thames Water CEO misled the public about public ownership
Thames Water CEO lied about public ownership on the BBC. It is time Ofcom and the BBC corrected the record
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/05/2026
Grid-scale batteries are going in an absolutely wild pace. Every whingey objection to renewables you've ever heard is basically solved by batteries. This is happening whether any of the hopeless dipshits running the US want it or not.
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The world is installing grid batteries at a blistering pace
A total of 112 gigawatts of batteries were deployed around the world in 2025 — 10 times the amount added just four years prior.
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
1/ Interesting that with the Netherlands as co-host of the Santa Marta conference, Investor State Dispute Settlement #ISDS mechanisms "was explicitly on the agenda yet was reduced to one wishy-washy sentence in the final key takeaways" Read @ninalakhani.bsky.social for @drilledmedia.bsky.social 👇
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An Historic Step and a Long Road Ahead: the Santa Marta Climate Conference
The first ever international conference focused on transitioning off of fossil fuels took place in Santa Marta, Colombia in April 2026. It was a historic step, but also revealed just how difficult it ...
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Clare Shakya @clareshakya.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Nuff said www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Sex and snacks, but no seat at the table: the role of women in Epstein’s sordid men’s club
Files reveal a world of flattery and fratboy tones, where rich men are cultivated and women provide services
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Velociraptors had feathers
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Clare Shakya @clareshakya.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Renewables beat coal in our global energy mix for the first time. 💪🏼⚡️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity
Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.
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Clare Shakya @clareshakya.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Today we unveiled a tool that changes the game. You can now find exactly what level of investment is needed in blue carbon projects, where the most impactful locations are and the expected financial returns. Don’t take our word for it. See for yourself: nature.org/en-us/newsro...
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The Price Isn’t Right: Financing Our Blue Carbon Future
The Nature Conservancy launches first-of-its-kind blue carbon cost tool, realizing a new era of effective market investment.
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Clare Shakya @clareshakya.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
This ICJ ruling is one of those magic moments when i am reminded there are still sane grown ups around. @theelders.bsky.social response confirms it. "The big emitters are on notice". They are liable to litigation if they are not investing in the transition.
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Iuliia Burdun @burdun.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
New paper out! Using over 20 years of #satellite data, we show that restored #peatlands start to resemble intact peatlands. Their #albedo and land surface #temperature (LST) gradually align with those of natural peatlands. 👉 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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Satellite data archives reveal positive effects of peatland restoration: albedo and temperature begin to resemble those of intact peatlands - IOPscience
Satellite data archives reveal positive effects of peatland restoration: albedo and temperature begin to resemble those of intact peatlands, Burdun, Iuliia, Myllymäki, Mari, Artz, Rebekka R.E., Guêné-Nanchen, Mélina, Jarašius, Leonas, Kull, Ain, Lilleskov, Erik A., McCullough, Kevin, Pakalne, Mara, Pu, Jiabin, Sendzikaite, Jurate, Strazdina, Liga, Rautiainen, Miina
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Clare Shakya @clareshakya.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
New study of where forest restoration delivers greatest climate benefits w few trade-offs ⬇️92% than other estimates, but positive 4 people & nature 🌱 A tool for smart, strategic climate action 🧭 Prioritizes resources for biggest impact 🤝 Considers people, land rights & livelihoods lnkd.in/eGhcB_Wq
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Clare Shakya @clareshakya.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
A valuable "how to" guide to investors for adaptation in agricultural value chains The growing investment opportunity in agriculture www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/the-growing-...
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The growing investment opportunity in agriculture - Climate and Capital Media
Why a financing model for climate adaptation offers meaningful gains
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Clare Shakya @clareshakya.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
The Amazon rainforest is the largest remaining tropical forest on our planet—yet this critical ecosystem is at risk, and its stewards are often left out of equitable funding models. Communities protecting the Amazon need innovative, equitable funding #AmazonWeek #TFFF www.nature.org/en-us/what-w...
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Valuing Standing Forests and Rewarding Nature Stewards in the Amazon
Despite the immense global importance of forests and those who inhabit them, the amount of funding channelled to these areas is limited.
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 22/05/2025
Europe and North Africa need to prepare for a scorching summer and extreme weather. The 1991-2020 climate doesn't exist any more.
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Clare Shakya @clareshakya.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
If political parties act on climate they could attract more young women to vote for them… www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The real story isn’t young men supposedly voting far right. It’s what young women are up to | Cas Mudde
There is an opportunity staring centre-left parties in the face – if they reject the male gaze distorting our politics, says political scientist Cas Mudde
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Clare Shakya @clareshakya.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Just lovely www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen
The prime minister warns that immigration could turn Britain into an ‘island of strangers’. Author and poet Michael Rosen responds
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Clare Shakya @clareshakya.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Exciting innovation underway to tackle the market failure of reducing methane from cattle that the ranchers do not benefit from but we do. Part of a wider push on tackling methane emissions by TNC with our partners marketshaping.uchicago.edu/news/the-pro...
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The Promise of an Advance Market Commitment to Tackle Methane from Livestock - Market Shaping Accelerator at UChicago
Grazing livestock—especially cattle—are responsible for about 5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, measured by their warming effect over 100 years. Methane may only linger in the atmosphere f...
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Clare Shakya @clareshakya.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Good news Friday - China’s emissions declined over more than a year. Is this them passing peak emissions? Exciting stuff @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social
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Charlie Richmond (Gyro Gearloose) 311.3ppm 🇨🇦🇬🇧☮️⚛️🇺🇦🌈🦋 @charlierichmond.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
The EV Benefit on Road Trips You Really Can't Talk About - CleanTechnica cleantechnica.com/2025/05/13/t...
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The EV Benefit on Road Trips You Really Can't Talk About - CleanTechnica
Sign up for CleanTechnica's Weekly Substack for Zach and Scott's in-depth analyses and high level summaries, sign up for our daily newsletter, and/or follow us on Google News! When I wrote about the #...
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Clare Shakya @clareshakya.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Polluters pay for climate action? Just imagine if this bill in the uk could get the support it needs! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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MP to launch bill to target superyachts, private jets and fossil fuel producers
Bill would force major polluters to pay into fund for flood defences and home insulation – but has little chance of becoming law
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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Pity the poor oil and gas industry. They bet big on electing Trump, and now they are being crushed by his tariffs, his moves to strong- arm OPEC to lower prices, and the chaos. Did someone say something about leopards and faces? 1/ @washingtonpost.com @evanhalper.bsky.social
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Trump promised U.S. dominance. Instead, energy companies are faltering.
Oil and gas firms are reeling, and major renewables projects are getting shelved as Trump’s policies rattle energy investors and executives.
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Spoiler: It is mainly natural gas that drives up electricity prices. www.pressherald.com/2025/05/10/t...
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The real driver of Maine’s rising electricity rates | Letter
Natural gas, not renewable energy, is the true culprit.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
3. In the absence of human intervention, much of the high ground on Dartmoor would likely be covered by temperate rainforest, to judge by hygrothermal mapping, conducted here by @guyshrubsole.bsky.social’s excellent initiative, The Lost Rainforests of Britain. map.lostrainforestsofbritain.org
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Clare Shakya @clareshakya.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
The fight to maintain UK’s net zero ambition is still very live www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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After Blair’s bombshell, will Labour stick with or abandon net zero?
Under pressure from Reform and under fire from Tony Blair, Keir Starmer is facing a series of tests of his resolve on green policy
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Alec Luhn @alecluhn.com · 24/04/2025
Marginal wells make up only 5% of US oil & gas output but <60% of methane leaks. And yet the government subsidizes them with tax credits, so 1 in 10 Americans live in a county with 1,000+ marginal wells. @sejorg.bsky.social @rockymtninst.bsky.social rmi.org/marginal-wel...
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Marginal Wells 101: What are they, where are they, and why do we need to assess them? - RMI
Low-producing oil and gas wells need targeted measurement, greater transparency, and stricter oversight.
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Clare Shakya @clareshakya.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Any laws - or interpretation of laws - that lead society to require genital police for bathrooms or anywhere else does seem weird. Good point well made.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 24/04/2025
"The possible elimination of the lab, called GFDL, in concert with potential cuts to other NOAA operations, threatens irreparable harm not only to global understanding of climate change and long-range scenarios for the planet but to the country’s safety, competitiveness and national security."
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White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On
Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.
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Clare Shakya @clareshakya.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Silver linings - UK & EUR remain committed to RE as a route to energy security www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Britain will accelerate push to net zero, Starmer tells energy summit
Speech made clear prime minister sees renewable energy as core to UK’s future prosperity and national security
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Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
and in Texas it is becoming very costly to insure your home bc of climate change 'Texas was once affordable. After hail and hurricanes, not anymore.' www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Texas was once affordable. After hail and hurricanes, not anymore.
Worsening storms fueled by climate change, coupled with inflation, are driving some of the highest home insurance costs in the country.
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Will Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Most of the world’s population wants stronger climate action. They just don’t realize that they are a majority
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Most of the world’s population wants stronger climate action. They just don’t realize that they are a majority
The Guardian is joining forces with dozens of newsrooms around the world to launch a year-long exploration of the ‘silent majority’ of people who want to fight climate change
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Ruth Mottram @ruthmottram.eurosky.social · 23/04/2025
Preparing a talk + I'm struck again by this adaptation strategies by Voelz et al., 2024. I think as ice sheet scientists we are sometimes too caught up in processes. Smart engineers + social scientists FTW #SeaLevelRise @h2020protect.bsky.social agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Figure showing how adaptation to Sea level rise can evolve through time with monitoring
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Clare Shakya @clareshakya.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
9 in 10 people believe their government should do more to fight climate change 🌍Happy🌎Earth🌏Day🌿 ...but they also believe others are not as committed as they are☹️ Lets make 2025 the year that changes💚 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it?
Researchers find 89% of people around the world want more to be done, but mistakenly assume their peers do not
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Nick Hedley @nickhedley.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Last month was the warmest March since instrumental records began in 1850, with global average temperatures reaching 1.55 ± 0.15 °C (2.32 ± 0.22 °F) above the 1850–1900 baseline. This is despite the end of El Niño conditions. - Berkeley Earth
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Climate, Ecology, War & More: Dr. Glen Barry BigEarthData.ai @bigearthdata.ai · 04/04/2025
New Bill to Recognize Legal Rights of All Water Bodies in New York State ->Great Lakes Now | #Water | More info from EcoSearch
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New Bill to Recognize Legal Rights of All Water Bodies in New York State
This article originally appeared on Native News Online. Founded in 2011, Native News Online reaches millions of Native and non-Native readers annually including American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians and others interested in Native American concerns. A bill that would...
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Chelsea Harvey @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Today's story for subscribers: Three Earth-observing NASA satellites will likely go dark within a year, without immediate/exact replacements for some of their measurements. Meanwhile, scientists are increasingly concerned about the future of Earth science at NASA. www.eenews.net/articles/thr...
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Three NASA satellites are dying. Their end could disrupt climate data.
Scientists are increasingly concerned about the future of Earth science under President Donald Trump.
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Clare Shakya @clareshakya.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Exciting innovation in wildfire resilience insurance just announced in California - cost reduction in household insurance for fire risk where the forest is managed to lower risk (thinning, prescribed cool fires etc). Congrats TNC California & partners www.wtwco.com/en-ie/news/2...
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Willis and The Nature Conservancy Launch First-of-its-Kind Wildfire Resilience Insurance
Willis and The Nature Conservancy announce a first-of-its-kind insurance policy that takes into account efforts to mitigate fire risk.
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Clare Shakya @clareshakya.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Nice to see The Entrepreneurs Network featuring TNC's collab effort for Global Renewables Watch... thanks Jessie Green entrepreneursnetwork.substack.com?utm_source=n...
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The Entrepreneurs Network | Substack
Join thousands of entrepreneurs for our updates on politics, policy, news, views, events and competitions. Click to read The Entrepreneurs Network, a Substack publication.
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 30/03/2025
Recommended read: The Guardian recreated a climate-risk tool that had been purged from the US Federal Emergency Management Agency’s website under Trump’s anti-climate directives. 📝 Oliver Milman and Andrew Witherspoon
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Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it
The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted
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Frank Steinhofer @franksteinhofer.com · 30/03/2025
From 'living from a river' as a resource to 'living as a river' as part of us: how different worldviews and knowledge systems influence the way people interact with and value nature. A fascinating infographic by @ipbes.net
The infographic compares different worldviews and value systems between an instrumental towards a relational way of being in the world.
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 27/03/2025
NEW: Govt data CONFIRMS our estimate that UK greenhouse gas emissions fell by 4% to 371MtCO2e in 2024 As we said earlier this month, this took UK emissions to lowest level since 1872 – with coal use at its lowest since 1666 (!) Our analysis: www.carbonbrief.org/...
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 26/03/2025
Five years ago today, most historical UK monthly rainfall observations were not available to scientists. But the 66,000 pieces of paper containing the data had been scanned. With covid lockdown approaching we saw an opportunity to transcribe the data. #RainfallRescue began... 🧵
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Ed King @ed-king.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
1.5C - how's it looking in 2025? @wmo-global.bsky.social take is helpful, I thought wmo.int/sites/defaul...
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
While Musk was making a fool of himself politically, the Chinese were making a fool of him technologically--five minute charging for EVs! billmckibben.substack.com/p/tesla-big-...
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Tesla, Big Oil have a weakness in common
They're way behind the technological curve
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