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Research on Climate Policy and Biz & HR Issues, with Exp in Grant-making & Online Media | #ClimatePolicy #BHR #BRI #OBOR #EnergyTransition #Mekong | Own views

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Climate Action Tracker @climateactiontracker.org · 10/04/2026
According to the @theguardian.com, India has some way to catch up but is on a good trajectory. In March, it produced a new plan on greenhouse gas emissions, which sets a target of generating 60% of electricity from low-carbon sources by 2035. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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As Iran war exposes global dependence on fossil fuels, the biggest emitters are reaping the rewards
Worst polluters hold world’s future in their hands as they benefit from higher fossil fuel prices, but global trends favour renewables
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World Meteorological Organization @wmo-global.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
🌡️ WMO confirms 2025 was one of warmest years on record. 2025 was one of the 3 warmest years on record, with the global average surface temperature at 1.44°C ± 0.13°C above the 1850-1900 average, according to WMO’s consolidated analysis of 8 datasets. 🔗 bit.ly/49xpkWP
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Copernicus ECMWF @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
🌡️ 2025 was the third-warmest year on record, with a global average temperature 0.59°C above the 1991–2020 average & 1.47°C above the 1850–1900 pre-industrial level. It was 0.13°C below 2024, the warmest year on record, and only 0.01°C cooler than 2023. @ecmwf.int ⬇️
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CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
🚨The World Economic Forum has released its 2026 Global Risks Report today, highlighting mis- and disinformation alongside extreme weather as two of the most significant threats for the next decade. 🧵1/3
Chart from the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report showing the top 10 global risks by severity in the short term (2 years) and long term (10 years), with geoeconomic confrontation and misinformation/disinformation ranked highest in the short term, and extreme weather, biodiversity loss and critical Earth system changes ranked highest in the long term.
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Kevin Li เควินลี @kevinysli.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Merry Christmas!
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Climate Home News @climatechangenews.com · 25/11/2025
Our team wrapped up two weeks of COP30 reporting, tracing how negotiations in Belém shaped the global climate agenda. buff.ly/kUU4aOQ
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 21/11/2025
COP31: It's now officially, officially going to Turkey / Australia This 2-page doc sets out the division of labour: Turkey = host and "COP31 president" Australia = "president of negotiations" unfccc.int/sites/def...
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Josh Gabbatiss @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Colombian minister Irene Vélez Torres explains her views on fossil fuels being excluded from the COP30 text. "The problem is, right now, the method [is] only of consensus”, with “the most ambitious agenda” ending up “eliminated”. She added: “We still believe that a change in the text is possible."
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Climate Home News @climatechangenews.com · 16/11/2025
Comment: As Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) miss the mark, they must become the floor, not the ceiling, of global ambition. buff.ly/um4Yb85
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World Resources Institute @worldresources.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Ani Dasgupta recaps week 1 at #COP30🌎 Watch here▶️ youtube.com/shorts/SSCJy... Get the latest updates from the WRI COP30 Resource Hub👉 go.wri.org/cop30
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Earth Negotiations Bulletin @enb.iisd.org · 15/11/2025
The #UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies reached agreement on issues such as non-market approaches for the cooperative implementation of the #ParisAgreement and matters relating to the least developed countries On many other issues, negotiations will continue during the second week of #COP30
Julia Gardiner, Chair of the UNFCCC's Subsidiary Body for Implementation speaking during the Body's closing plenary.Adonia Ayebare, Chair of the UNFCCC's Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice, during the Body's closing plenary.
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 15/11/2025
COP30 PLENARY: COP pres André do Lago opens meeting "I am encouraged by the productive wk we have had, and it is heartening to see your readiness for the step change needed as we prepare to enter the 2nd wk of our conf, moving towards a strong and successful conclusion of our work here in Belém"
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Josh Gabbatiss @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Today there was a "high level" event featuring COP29 & COP30 presidents and other senior figures talking about the next steps for the "Baku to Belem roadmap" to $1.3tn It also saw the major climate finance donors – EU🇪🇺 Japan🇯🇵 UK🇬🇧 – as well as China 🇨🇳 Kenya 🇰🇪 and Colombia 🇨🇴 offer their thoughts.
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Ed King @ed-king.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Climate diplo brief - #COP30 day 5 Protests, therapy, massage, yoga & a fossil fuel roadmap
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Climate Diplomacy Brief - COP30 day 5
Protests, therapy, massage, yoga & a fossil fuel roadmap
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Ed King @ed-king.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
#COP30 blocked by indigenous peoples who want a meeting with Lula... (pics from the great Joao Talocchi) - fair cop
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 13/11/2025
NEW COP30 TEXT: COP reform is on the official agenda in Belém as "arrangements for intergovernmental meetings" (AIM) But…here's the 1st draft text on AIM. "Agreed to continue consideration…" 🥱🥱🥱 unfccc.int/sites/def...
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EU-CHINA BRIDGE/ Building a sustainable future together 🌱 🌏 @eu-china-bridge.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
🌏 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥-𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐂𝐎₂ 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 (𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑)! Cities are central to China’s carbon goals. But most research misses Scope 3 emissions. Our new work includes Scope 1, 2 and 3 giving a full view of city carbon footprints. Read more 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📩 eu-china-bridge.eu
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Josh Gabbatiss @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
I've made a spreadsheet with the event schedules for COP30 pavilions, including the UK 🇬🇧 Japan 🇯🇵 Indonesia 🇮🇩 Australia 🇦🇺 and China 🇨🇳 The UNFCCC has a schedule list, but hardly any of the major pavilions are on there. I'll update the list as I collect more ⬇️ docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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COP 30 pavilions
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Josh Gabbatiss @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
An influential team called the Independent High-Level Expert Group on Climate Finance has laid out what it calls an "entirely feasible path" to mobilising $1.3tn by 2035. This was the aspirational goal agreed at last year's COP. Half of the finance in their pathway comes from the private sector.
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 13/11/2025
COP30 TEXT: One issue shaping up to be a key area of disagreement is adaptation finance * Developing countries call for $$tripling (opt 2) * Developed countries don't want to go there (opt 1) * Some want $120bn by 2030 (sq brackets) unfccc.int/sites/def...
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 11/11/2025
‼️ NEW opinion piece by CIEL's Rebecca Brown and @lienvandamme.bsky.social for @climatechangenews.com ‼️ The world doesn’t just need stronger climate targets. It needs a fairer, faster, and more accountable multilateral system to deliver #ClimateAction. 👉 ciel.org/we-must-rewr... 👈 A 🧵
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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 11/11/2025
Launched at #COP30, the Global Cooling Watch 2025 shows how smarter, fairer, sustainable cooling can save lives, cut pollution, and help billions stay safe from extreme heat. www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press…
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 10/11/2025
After four years of monitoring disinformation around the annual UN COP negotiations, CAAD’s pre-COP30 report represents a turning point in the struggle to confront climate disinformation. Read the report and sign up for regular disinformation bulletins during #COP30 here: act.ucsusa.org/4ozdxOj
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Climate Action Against Disinformation | Deny, Deceive, Delay: Demystified
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Earth Negotiations Bulletin @enb.iisd.org · 10/11/2025
Parties at #COP30 managed to launch substantive negotiations Presidency consultations to convene on the items proposed by specific groups and parties, incl. on developed countries’ finance provision, trade-restrictive measures, nationally determined contributions, & biennial transparency reports
A view of plenary during the opening of COP 30.
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UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) @unctad.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
In 2022, least developed countries received just 18% of total climate finance, and small island developing states only 2.8%. Fragmented funding channels and complex rules make access slow, unpredictable and unfair. ▶️ New UNCTAD report: ow.ly/HbMO50Xmt9I #COP30 #ClimateFinance
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 09/11/2025
#COP30 AGENDA FIGHT: Battle looms over which issues to discuss at COP30 (an "agenda fight") Proposed late additions to agenda: * trade * finance * deforestation * ambition * reporting Hence, now on 4th version of agenda (!) This must be resolved before negotiations begin 🧵 1/
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 20/10/2025
Satellite data reveal 513 rare earth mining sites across rivers feeding into the Mekong, Salween and Irrawaddy in Myanmar, including 40 new ones in 2025 — far more than previously estimated.
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More Thai rivers and downstream communities at risk from Myanmar’s rare earth mines
BANGKOK — New satellite data identified 513 sites of rare-earth mining that have cropped up across at least six key tributaries of the Mekong, Salween and Irrawaddy rivers in Myanmar over the past 10…
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Gabriel Siqueira @gabrieldread.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
A Pré-COP30 em Brasília terminou, e a pergunta que fica é: estamos mais perto de uma "COP da Implementação" ou apenas ajustamos o discurso? #COP30 www.linkedin.com/posts/gabrie...
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#dadospeloclima #cop30 #precop30 #sustentabilidade #mudançasclimáticas #jornalismo #justiçaclimática #jornalismodedados #amazônia | Gabriel Siqueira
A Pré-COP30 em Brasília terminou, e a pergunta que fica é: estamos mais perto de uma "COP da Implementação" ou apenas ajustamos o discurso? Do lado oficial, o governo brasileiro celebrou a participa...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15/10/2025
Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating
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Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating
CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening Levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere soared by a record amount in 2024 to hit another high, UN data shows, deepening the climate crisis that is already taking lives and livelihoods across the world. Scientists are worried that the natural land and ocean “sinks” that remove CO2 from the air are weakening as a result of global heating, which could form a vicious circle and drive temperatures up even faster. Continue reading...
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PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Ahead of #COP30, a team of climate policy experts including PIK director Johan Rockström warn in a commentary in Nature that low-quality carbon offsets are undermining global decarbonisation efforts, calling for stronger standards, real removals and fewer excuses: www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
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How offsets are hampering decarbonisation and undermining carbon markets
15.10.2025 - Ahead of COP30 in Brasil, an international team of leading climate policy experts including Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research Director Johan Rockström, warn in a commentary in ...
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Loss and Damage Collaboration (L&DC) @lossanddamage.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
1/3. 📢Following the delivery of the Advisory Opinion (#ICJAO) on #ClimateChange by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ⚖️, the Pacific Islands Students Students Fighting Climate Change (PISFCC) have released a brief. 📜 🔗Read it here: drive.google.com/file/d/1KLQg...
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Climate Home News @climatechangenews.com · 23/07/2025
In a major speech making the case for the “unstoppable” shift from fossil fuels towards renewables, Guterres urged policymakers around the world to supercharge the new “clean energy era” despite geopolitical turmoil.
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New climate plans must supercharge energy transition, says UN's Guterres
UN secretary-general urges governments to send a clear signal in their NDCs about the 'inevitable' shift away from fossil fuels
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Climate Home News @climatechangenews.com · 23/07/2025
NEW: World’s top court opens door to compensation from countries responsible for climate crisis International Court of Justice rules that governments have a legal duty to prevent and repair damage to the climate system
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World's top court opens door to compensation from countries responsible for climate crisis
International Court of Justice rules that governments have a legal duty to prevent and repair damage to the climate system
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 24/07/2025
📺 WATCH NOW: high-level panel unpacking key learnings from #CIJ_ICJ historic judicial ruling on Climate Change and what lays ahead! www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4UH...
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A Verdict for the Planet: Legal and Political Reflections on the ICJ Climate Ruling
YouTube video by Center for International Environmental Law
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Beyond Fossil Fuels @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Big Tech are misleading us on climate again. ⚠️ Microsoft misreported its CO2 emissions (2019–2024). ⚠️ Meta is using flawed data to train a climate AI tool that scientists say raises false hopes about large-scale carbon removal. It's time to quit the spin & act responsibly. www.ft.com/content/6922...
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Earth Negotiations Bulletin @enb.iisd.org · 26/06/2025
At the #JuneClimateMeetings, parties just adopted conclusions on the Global Goal on Adaptation, which held up the convening of the closing plenary
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Earth Negotiations Bulletin @enb.iisd.org · 19/06/2025
At #JuneClimateMeetings, delegates launched substantive negotiations, trying to make up for lost time Talks on the #mitigation work programme were especially heated and #adaptation discussions highlighted the importance of means of implementation HIghlights ➡️ enb.iisd.org/bonn-climate...
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International Institute for Sustainable Development @iisd.org · 16/06/2025
The agenda for this year’s #JuneClimateMeetings is packed, with lots to look out for on adaptation. Join our expert @jeffreygqi.bsky.social on his way to the UN Campus in Bonn for the inside scoop on what to expect over the next 10 days at #SB62.
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Earth Negotiations Bulletin @enb.iisd.org · 16/06/2025
The first day of the #JuneClimateMeetings concluded without agreement on the agendas The opening plenaries of the Subsidiary Bodies will resume on Tuesday, 10:00 am, in English only (due to budget constraints, interpretation is available only for the first and last day of the meetings)
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Loss and Damage Collaboration (L&DC) @lossanddamage.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
1/3. ⚠️USEFUL INFO: The opening plenary of the #JuneClimateMeetings will be resumed at 10:00 CEST tomorrow and it will be in English only 🗣️. 🤯 The agenda could not be adopted this evening as Parties could not reach agreement on the inclusion of supplementary agenda items. 🧵
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BankTrack @banktrack.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
It’s #worldotterday — and Japanese bank SMBC loves showing off its cute otter mascot. But behind the scenes, SMBC is funding destructive fossil fuel projects and companies. From Amsterdam, we joined campaigners in telling SMBC to stop financing dirty fossil fuels. @marketforces.org.au
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Climate Home News @climatechangenews.com · 24/05/2025
Brazil wants an “early harvest” at the UN climate talks in Bonn this June — aiming to unlock two major issues ahead of COP30: how to fairly transition to green economies and how to act on the world’s failing climate targets.
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Brazil seeks early deals on contentious issues at Bonn climate talks
Brazil is seeking advances on the Just Transition Work Programme (JTWP) and recommendations from the 2023 GST during the Bonn climate talks
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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 22/05/2025
Understanding the full life cycle of plastics—from production to disposal—is essential for developing effective strategies to #BeatPlasticPollution. Ahead of #WorldEnvironmentDay, discover how data is helping cities in tackling this crisis. www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
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Climate Action Tracker @climateactiontracker.org · 21/05/2025
⚡ Just launched: Climate Action Tracker’s updated power sector evaluation! To stay below 1.5°C, it’s not enough to cut emissions—we need bold, sector-by-sector transformations. Here’s what’s new and why it matters 🧵 bit.ly/4j8e4TQ
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Earth Negotiations Bulletin @enb.iisd.org · 21/05/2025
Upcoming 📣 Adaptation will feature prominently at the June #UNFCCC talks, including efforts to narrow down indicators to measure progress on the #ParisAgreement Global Goal on Adaptation, as well as matters related to the #Adaptation Fund ➡️ enb.iisd.org/bonn-climate... #climate #COP30
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Bonn Climate Change Conference - June 2025
Adaptation will feature prominently at the mid-year UNFCCC negotiations, including efforts to narrow down indicators to measure progress towards the Global Goal on Adaptation established in the Paris ...
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WRI Climate @wriclimate.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The adaptation finance gap is widening, with estimates between $194B–$366B annually. @WRIFinance highlights the urgent need for increased investment to protect vulnerable communities. Explore their latest insights on bridging this gap ➡️ bit.ly/43r2ux2 #ClimateFinance #Adaptation #Resilience
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Adaptation Finance: 10 Key Questions, Answered
Adaptation finance pays for projects that build resilience to the impacts of climate change. But there is far too little of it — and the gap is only growing.
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Climate Home News @climatechangenews.com · 16/05/2025
Last month, the US slapped the Southeast Asian country with nearly 400% tariffs on solar equipment to prevent the dumping of cheap panels made with Chinese components on the US market.
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US tariffs threaten solar panel production and jobs in Thailand
Chinese firms turned Thailand into a solar module assembly hub. Now thousands of workers are caught in a trade war between the US and China
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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 17/05/2025
The average human brain contains around 7 grams of plastic, but what is it doing to you? The best evidence comes from animal studies which are showing microplastics in the brain mess with behaviour and cognition.
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What are microplastics doing to your brain? We’re starting to find out
The average human brain contains around 7 grams of plastic, but it’s unclear how this affects us. Now animal studies are revealing links to poor cognition and weird behaviour
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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 18/05/2025
A global survey of microplastics in ocean water reveals that the tiny particles are prevalent throughout the water column, which could harm marine ecosystems and affect carbon storage in the deep sea.
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Microplastics could be hampering the ocean’s ability to capture carbon
A global survey of microplastics in oceans reveals that tiny particles of plastic are prevalent throughout the water column, which could harm marine ecosystems and affect carbon storage in the deep sea
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Duncan Green @duncangreenlse.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Sensemaking in turbulent times. New post by Irene Guijt and Judy Oakden blogs.lse.ac.uk/activism-inf...
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