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Rebecca Carman

@rcarman.bsky.social
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UNDP Climate Promise. Advocate for youth, diversity & system change. Views my own. climatepromise.undp.org

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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 02/03/2025
“Models are unreliable.” → They’ve been right for decades.
A yellow background with a black-and-white image of firefighters in protective gear battling a wildfire at the bottom. White and black text reads: “Myth #7 Climate models are unreliable.” Below, bold white text labeled Fact: states, “The IPCC, the world’s leading scientific authority on climate change, says that over decades of development, models have consistently provided ‘a robust and unambiguous picture’ of planetary warming.” The UN Environment Programme logo is in the top right corner.
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Earth Negotiations Bulletin @enb.iisd.org · 01/03/2025
While Friday was its last scheduled day, #IPCC-62 ran for 38 hours straight, with huddles and plenary discussions running throughout the night and all day Saturday Working Group sessions wrapped up on Saturday morning, and the plenary was later gaveled at 22:35 @ipcc.bsky.social #ipcc
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Climate Interactive @climateinteractive.org · 27/02/2025
📊New research shows journalists covering a recent IPCC Report shifted from doom-laden messaging to solutions-based reporting. This mirrors our approach: engaging people with practical solutions and tools creates more action than just highlighting threats. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The IPCC in the hybrid public sphere: divergent responses to climate mitigation solutions in mainstream and social media - Climatic Change
In April 2022 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its report on the mitigation of climate change, which included detailed discussion of the wide range of solutions at the pe...
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
"In part due to this statistics-driven view, reinsurers asserted that evermore frequent and damaging natural catastrophes are likely a consequence of man-made #climate change at an earlier stage than, for example, the IPCC, making them important translators of climate change knowledge"
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Bookkeepers of catastrophes: The overlooked role of reinsurers in climate change debates
Global warming had long been discussed as an abstract matter of physics and chemistry. Only in the 1990s did the more tangible costs caused by natural…
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Trump just withdrew the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement. The US now joins Iran, Libya, and Yemen as the only countries in the world not in the agreement.
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Rebecca Carman @rcarman.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
With escalating climate risks to agriculture, #UNDP and #FAO launched a new Tool and Handbook at #COP29 to help countries turn policy into on-the-ground adaptation actions. Learn how it supports sustainable and resilient agriculture: www.adaptation-undp.org/scala/car-tool
Cover of new UNDP-FAO handbook
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Catherine Wong @catherinewong01.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Breakthrough in Baku delivers $1.3tn “Baku Finance Goal” cop29.az/en/media-hub...
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Breakthrough in Baku delivers $1.3tn “Baku Finance Goal”
The Baku Finance Goal sets new global target to channel $1.3tn of climate finance to developing countries by 2035 in significant uplift. This includes a new core finance goal of $300bn that triples th...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/11/2024
Renewables are exceeding expectations - but so are emissions. Why? Part of the fossil economy's staying power comes from false promises of techno-neutralisation. CCS is the OG machine saviour. A new blog for you, on why its second coming hasn't come. ketanjoshi.co/2024/11/24/2... (+ thread)
a chart showing operational ccs being very low persisently, while scenarios show high expectations a chart showing operational ccs being very low persisently, while scenarios show high expectations a chart showing operational ccs being very low persisently, while scenarios show high expectations
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Rebecca Carman @rcarman.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Solar minigrids hold the key to delivering clean, reliable #energy to 265 million people across Africa. Learn how #UNDP's Africa Minigrids Program is driving private investment and empowering communities with solar-battery minigrids. More: go.undp.org/AMP
Smiling African woman preparing foot next to solar-powered light.
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Rebecca Carman @rcarman.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
In Sri Lanka, a country known for its agricultural richness, farmers have faced declining crop yields due to climate change. But renewable energy is transforming their livelihoods and restoring hope. Find out how: go.undp.org/okj
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Clean energy boosts climate resilience for farmers in Sri Lanka by UNDP Climate
In Sri Lanka’s countryside, rural communities embrace a lifestyle closely connected to nature. More than half of the population relies on farming for their income and livelihoods, which makes agricult...
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Rebecca Carman @rcarman.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
In Sri Lanka, a country known for its agricultural richness, farmers have faced declining crop yields due to climate change. But renewable energy is transforming their livelihoods and restoring hope. Find out how: go.undp.org/okj
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Clean energy boosts climate resilience for farmers in Sri Lanka by UNDP Climate
In Sri Lanka’s countryside, rural communities embrace a lifestyle closely connected to nature. More than half of the population relies on farming for their income and livelihoods, which makes agricult...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 22/11/2024
Please allow me to re-share my rough sketch of some advanced carbon capture technology
a cartoon with two panels

panel one is a stick figure saying "oh! a fossil fuel!!" standing above a crudely drawn black lump under a brown ground

Panel two is them walking away and saying "I'll just leave it there"

The head of the person is not a drawn circle but the letter O, because the random software I used to draw it did that for unexplained reasons
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mehmet erdoğan @mehmeterdoganiv.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
with my team we work on a monthly newsletter on all things climate change. every issue starts with an explainer on a topical issue, followed by headlines from around the world + updates on progress. 40 issues and counting! view past issues & subscribe here: climatepromise.undp.org/what-we-do/n...
child holds thermometercreative collage showing speakerphone and image of the planetcollage of Indigenous Peoples and biodiversitycollage of people from small island developing states
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Erin Sikorsky @erinsikorsky.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Useful work by al-Jazeera. "Out of the 359 million weather-related global displacements recorded since 2008, nearly 80 percent were from the Asia and Asia Pacific regions, accounting for about 106 and 171 million respectively." www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11...
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Mapping the impact of climate change on global displacement
As COP29 concludes, Al Jazeera examines the 359 million weather-related displacements recorded worldwide since 2008.
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Rebecca Carman @rcarman.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
If, like me, you can't imagine a world without ☕, be sure to check out UNDP's work in the Ecuadorian Amazon alongside #Lavazza to support the world's first certified deforestation-free #coffee, as well as a commitment to sustainability & community empowerment. 🤎 Find out how here: go.undp.org/4hv
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Deforestation-Free Coffee | UNDP Climate Promise
UNDP has teamed up with Lavazza, initiating a partnership focused on transforming global coffee production towards sustainability.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
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Rebecca Carman @rcarman.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Solar minigrids hold the key to delivering clean, reliable #energy to 265 million people across Africa. Learn how #UNDP's Africa Minigrids Program is driving private investment and empowering communities with solar-battery minigrids. More: go.undp.org/AMP
Smiling African woman preparing foot next to solar-powered light.
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Earth Negotiations Bulletin @enb.iisd.org · 21/11/2024
At #COP29, the six hours long "single-setting" meeting has ended. The Presidency will hold bilateral consultations with groups to refine the texts, and appointed ministerial pairs will be asked to “unlock specific questions.” Revised Presidency texts are announced for “late Friday.”
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Catherine Wong @catherinewong01.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Also trying to find your climate colleagues from UN on BlueSky? See a starter pack here: go.bsky.app/STG9JQP While you're there, also check out the excellent starter packs from @erinsikorsky.bsky.social on #ClimateSecurity and @kayly.bsky.social #ClimateMigration.
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Rebecca Carman @rcarman.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Regenerative agriculture: A way of farming that nurtures and restores soil health, reduces water use, prevents land degradation and promotes biodiversity. Check out 20 key climate and nature terms in our new #ClimateDictionary:Nature Edition ➡️ go.undp.org/oxv
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Rebecca Brite @rebeccab.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I love this. Also, @rcarman.bsky.social you have to post that cow here.
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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce as figures in the new U.S. National Climate Assessment report, a thread
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Brooke Jarvis @brookejarvis.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory
A map of flight paths emanating from breeding colony of gulls, with this caption: Early on, LifeWatch noticed something odd. Most gulls were making daily trips to Mouscron, a city on the French border 65 km away. They went to investigate and found the birds bingeing on discarded snacks at the Roger & Roger potato factory.
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Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? There are more deaths annually due to indoor air pollution from households cooking with solid fuels (e.g. wood) than malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS combined.
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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? About 70% of the energy in the fuel used in an internal combustion engine becomes waste heat. Or, more pithily: 70% of what you pay at the pump goes out your tailpipe.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15/11/2024
Watch live here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=teXj...
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Webinar: Ask Carbon Brief anything about COP29
YouTube video by Carbon Brief
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Erin Sikorsky @erinsikorsky.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
A reminder that you can find your experts at the nexus of climate change and security at this starter pack below. I'm trying to keep it narrowly focused at this nexus, given all the other great climate starter packs out there, but let me know who I'm missing! go.bsky.app/6Ud6gYS
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
China's solar and wind power generation growth exceeded total power demand growth in October, showing how the clean energy boom is driving power sector emissions to peak. Yet, thermal (coal&gas) power generation increased 1.8% year on year in October, as hydropower kept underperforming. 🧵
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Dr. Adam Stein @astein.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Record high gas production in 2023⬇️ The current narrative that gas production has been held back and it therefore driving up prices is wrong.
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Miriam Wasser @miriamwasser.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Lawmakers in #Massachusetts just passed a sweeping climate and clean energy bill. It now heads to Gov. Maura Healey, who is expected to sign it soon. Here, in plain English, is what's in the bill www.wbur.org/news/2024/11... @wbur.org #Energysky
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Here’s what’s in the new Mass. climate and clean energy bill
The 2024 climate bill builds on the progress Massachusetts is making to quickly and equitably transition to a cleaner, more renewable energy system. Here, in plain English, is what's in the bill.
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Steve Sando and the Rancho Gordo staff @ranchogordo.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
I'd like to reintroduce myself. I run Rancho Gordo, the heirloom bean company. I do this account myself but we have smart people who help me out. There's real power in cooking food for those you love and we are flattered if we are part of your table.
Julia Newberry, Steve Sando, and Monica Casillas, all from Rancho Gordo
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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Yet another way that the global economy of 2024 is not the global economy of 2017.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 14/11/2024
This is my fastest growing starter pack. Just added seven new organizations today! Check it our: go.bsky.app/5kuYAhM
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
We have an opinion piece at the NYT on the need to operationalize some aspects of climate science. 🧪 Thoughts welcome! (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/o...
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Opinion | Climate Science Can’t Keep Up With the Warming Planet
We need more timely updates in response to the rapid changes to the climate.
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 13/11/2024
Using up the carbon budget for 1.5°C
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Bentley ****TALK CLIMATE**** @bigclimate.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Plenty of good #Climate and Climate adjacent #StarterPacks but how about a good 🧵that makes them all super easy to find and follow? I'm glad I asked. Here you go! #ClimateChange #Renewables #EnergyTransition #CleanEnergy #Advocacy #Activism bsky.app/starter-pack...
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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 14/11/2024
Here's how to make green #transit even greener. Put the tram tracks on a carpet of grass or sedum. 2 kms of track creates 1.5 football fields' worth of green space, reducing air pollution and urban heat island effect. A tram-on-the-lawn thread: 🚋🌱🧵 1/ Milan #Milano
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 07/11/2024
To kick-start Bluesky, search for feeds + starter packs on topics you're interested in. I've got this feed with 2800 scientists who study climate + 8 starter packs on climate-related topics. Use SkyFollowerBridge to find your X follows + BlueArk to move your tweets over. bsky.app/profile/did:...
A group of scientists at the AGU meeting holding up signs saying "cut ties to fossil fuels" and "stand up for science" and "protect our communities"

This was over a decade ago!
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