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Shobha Maharaj @shobha-maharaj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As one of the lead authors of the UNEP Overshoot report & coming from a small island — this work was difficult due to the harsher consequences my home & region face—this piece speaks to the small island context under overshoot www.globalissues.org/news/2026/09...

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What 1.5°C Overshoot Means for Small Islands

CASTRIES, Saint Lucia, September 8 (IPS) - The world is now expected to breach the 1.5 degrees Celsius warming limit that small island states have spent years defending as a threshold for survival.

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Shobha Maharaj @shobha-maharaj.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A real education working on 1 of the most meaningful reports I’ll ever contribute to — thankful 4 it! Leading adaptation chapter was a challenge: so little written on adaptation post 1.5°C. Same with authoring the SIDS/SLR & PA boxes, & co-authoring the Governance box with @lisgilmore.bsky.social

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

World’s largest banks pledged $906bn to fossil fuel companies in ‘unfathomable’ increase in 2025, report finds - JPMorgan Chase leads 65 banks making decisions incompatible with restraining rising temperatures, researchers say #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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World’s largest banks pledged $906bn to fossil fuel companies in ‘unfathomable’ increase in 2025, report finds

JPMorgan Chase leads 65 banks making decisions incompatible with restraining rising temperatures, researchers say

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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Wow! 200,000km² of ocean declared entirely off-limits to fishing in some of the most biodiverse waters on earth 🌏 That's a win 🙌 #oceanoptimism oceanographicmagazine.com/news/papua-n...

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Papua New Guinea announces largest MPA in its history - Oceanographic

Papua New Guinea has announced the Western Manus Marine Protected Area - a no-take zone covering 200,000 km² of the Pacific Ocean.

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

"We show that #climate litigation can lead to the implementation of significant policy changes. The paper concludes by arguing that with each successful climate case taken against a state, the corpus of international jurisprudence grows& reverberates creating a ‘domino effect’ in climate litigation"

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Taking Governments to Court | IIEA

The IIEA is Ireland's leading international affairs think tank. Independent, not-for-profit organisation with charitable status. Learn More. Learn About New Policy. IIEA. Leading Thinktank. Highlights...

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Shobha Maharaj @shobha-maharaj.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Have yet to meet any leader from Silicon Valley (ie ppl not as well known as the ‘Overlords’ in this video) who have any respect for the LIMITS of natural systems-treating everything like software that can be scaled in a linear fashion-all about breaking boundaries- regardless of collateral damage

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Shobha Maharaj @shobha-maharaj.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Happy to share with @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org of the @carbonbrief.org some of our preprint’s messages. Now at the end of LAM 1 - it’s clear that the IPCC has made tremendous effort to increase it’s inclusive practices - interested to see if the right BALANCE will ultimately be achieved

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Shobha Maharaj @shobha-maharaj.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Happy to reshare our new Annual Review paper, which explores what it really means to exceed and return to 1.5 °C. For many in the Global South, overshoot isn’t a temporary “phase” but an existential condition. This piece asks what it means for justice, recovery & resilience in a world above 1.5 °C

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Shobha Maharaj @shobha-maharaj.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Overshoot is here. Uncertainty is the new normal. We can’t wait for perfect models before we act. Adaptation must evolve—especially 4 the most exposed. EQUITY isn’t charity; it’s the foundation Deeper question: Who gets left behind—& whose knowledge counts—as we find our way back below 1.5deg C?

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Shobha Maharaj @shobha-maharaj.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Back online! Our preprint Adverse Climate is republished after a platform hiccup. A journey of 22 authors across 20+ countries. Voices too often sidelined — now at the center. 📄 Link: doi.org/10.31223/X5W... #ClimateScience #Diversity #GlobalSouth

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Adverse Climate: Addressing Inclusion and Diversity Issues in the IPCC's Sixth Assessment and beyond

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Shobha Maharaj @shobha-maharaj.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Silence sustains the status quo. We chose courage. Our essay, Adverse Climate, uses IPCC AR6 as a case study to expose exclusion of GS & POC in global science — and propose change. Republished today on EarthArXiv. 📄 Read here: doi.org/10.31223/X5W... #ClimateJustice #IPCC #DEI

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Adverse Climate: Addressing Inclusion and Diversity Issues in the IPCC's Sixth Assessment and beyond

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Shobha Maharaj @shobha-maharaj.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Using IPCC AR6 WGII as a case study, we document lived experiences of exclusion—opaque author selection, ignored voices, & resource inequities. These aren’t just IPCC issues; they’re systemic in science doi.org/10.31223/X59... FAQs: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Adverse Climate: Addressing Inclusion and Diversity Issues in the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment and beyond

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Shobha Maharaj @shobha-maharaj.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Our new paper, “Adverse Climate,” reveals how systemic barriers limit Global South, POC, & women’s voices in #IPCC AR6. As a Global South woman of color & AR7 CLA, I’m proud to lead this call for #ClimateEquity. Read it: doi.org/10.31223/X59... FAQs in comment 👇🏽 #DEIinScience #ClimateJustice

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Adverse Climate: Addressing Inclusion and Diversity Issues in the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment and beyond

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Shobha Maharaj @shobha-maharaj.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Good article on how wildfires and their impacts are changing as things heat up..! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/m...

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What the Bloom After L.A.’s Wildfires Reveals About Our Ecological Future

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Shobha Maharaj @shobha-maharaj.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Happy to share that I’ve been selected as a Coordinating Lead Author of the #SmallIslands chap of IPCC #AR7 Working Group II … with Dr Sindra Sharma Denyse S. Dookie Kesha Fevrier Georgiana Gordon-Strachan Stefano Moncada Estelle Razanatsoa Kevon Rhiney Adelle Thomas & Morgan Wairu

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Isabella Kaminski @isabellakaminski.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

In 2018, 25 young people with the support of NGO Dejusticia took the Colombian government to court arguing that their right to a healthy environment was under threat from deforestation. They won, in an judgment that went further than they could have hoped. But did the court ruling change anything?

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'The kids that demanded accountability': Colombian future generations lawsuit seven years on

The end of 2016 was a big moment in Colombian history. A landmark peace deal between the government and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) had finally been signed, ending South America’s lo...

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Shobha Maharaj @shobha-maharaj.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Encouraging - but the caveat no one’s talking about= robust attribution science impossible sans historical climate/obs data - which are not available within majority of vulnerable nations already @ front lines of climate impacts —> accountability will remain limited for most part to the global north

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UCS Climate & Accountability Campaigns @ucsclimate.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Today a German court ruled on a lawsuit filed by Peruvian farmer Saúl Luciano Lliuya against fossil fuel company RWE, seeking accountability for climate change-related damage. While the court dismissed the specific claim, it affirmed that emitters of global warming pollution can be held liable.

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Peruvian farmer's decade-long climate battle against RWE ends in German court

A German court has ruled against a Peruvian farmer in a landmark climate lawsuit, but activists say the decision has opened the door for major greenhouse gas emitters to be held financially liable in ...

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Andy Reisinger @andyreisinger.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

The European-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change is hosting a resource page that will gather hopefully expanding resources on overshoot, as this research area will grow over time: overshoot.cmcc.it. Press release here: www.cmcc.it/article/over...

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Overshoot: what does it mean to exceed and return to 1.5 ºC?

A resource to understand overshoot in the context of the science-policy interface

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Andy Reisinger @andyreisinger.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Overshoot: A Conceptual Review of Exceeding and Returning to Global Warming of 1.5°C. Once we exceed 1.5°C, is it all lost? Can we get back to it from above? What risks would that avoid, and which ones not? Great collaboration with a range of IPCC authors! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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Shobha Maharaj @shobha-maharaj.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Our paper on Overshoot just out - as we draw closer to breaching 1.5 deg threshold - this concept will likely become a big part of public and policy narratives But what does this mean for small islands and other most vulnerable peoples and nations? www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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Overshoot: A Conceptual Review of Exceeding and Returning to Global Warming of 1.5°C | Annual Reviews

Limited progress with mitigation makes it almost inevitable that global warming of 1.5°C will be exceeded. This realization confronts Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Chan...

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Shobha Maharaj @shobha-maharaj.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

.. “.. it is the victims of this ongoing disaster who are most qualified to show the world a way through ..if only the powerful would listen” As a small islander this resonates at multiple levels www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ma...

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Dark Laboratory: groundbreaking book argues climate crisis was sparked by colonisation

Tao Leigh Goffe argues climate breakdown is the mutant offspring of European scientific racism and colonialism

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Isabella Kaminski @isabellakaminski.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

At the High Court of England & Wales today where @oceanauk.bsky.social is challenging UK government over North Sea oil and gas licencing. It's a lawsuit combining both climate and nature/biodiversity litigation, based on premise that fossil fuel extraction has huge impacts both locally and globally

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Shobha Maharaj @shobha-maharaj.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

The Ecological and Climate Crises Legal Institute (ECCLI) now publicly launched - the 1st (to my knowledge) endeavour seeking to develop an increasingly needed interface bet science & (international) law -including training for interested parties -more soon www.fijivillage.com/news/The-tim...

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The time for talk fests is over – Professor Shameem

The time for talk fests is over and the governments and international bodies need to face up to the fact that many communities in the Pacific are on t

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

A gobsmacking story. Water companies let toxic waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. The sewage sludge is then spread, untested, on farmland, potentially poisoning vast areas, entire ecosystems and the people (you and me) eating the food. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge sprayed on to farmland? The answer won’t make you happy | George Monbiot

Thanks to breathtaking negligence, the liquid fertiliser used to help grow our food bubbles with a lethal cocktail of toxins, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Citizen’s Arrest Network @citizensarrestnet.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

After citizen's arresting Thames Water CEO, the Police arrived to speak with Thames executives, took our evidence and said they would investigate. We've also asked the lawyers who advised us in putting that dossier together to submit it to the CPS to take this criminal matter forward.

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Shobha Maharaj @shobha-maharaj.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Agreed @lisaschipper.bsky.social … my sleep debt is steadily increasing - it still worth it…

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Shobha Maharaj @shobha-maharaj.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

We also mention the ‘paralysis narrative’ which comes from a place of (minority world aka global north) privilege by colleagues who have likely not had much personal experience with climate impacts and loss …

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

1/ Yes the globally wealthy have outsized emissions, and yes that’s a massive problem But it’s actually only a small part of their devastating influence on the conditions that support life 🧵

Screenshot of Guardian article reading 'World's richest use up their fair share of 2025 carbon budget in 10 days'

Figure 1 from the Nielsen et al 2021 paper cited in the thread. It shows that people of high socioeconomic status influence society as consumers, investors, role moels, organisational participants and citizens

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Shobha Maharaj @shobha-maharaj.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Colonialism has so many faces and layers ... abd its PROGRAMMING is ubiquitous .. but some of us are beginning to speak up ... www.linkedin.com/posts/shobha...

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500 million+ members | Manage your professional identity. Build and engage with your professional network. Access knowledge, insights and opportunities.

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Shobha Maharaj @shobha-maharaj.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

As the historic ICJ advisory opinion public hearings begin next week - the fate of Small Islands will be impacted - but in which direction? Happy to have been part of this by developing a scientific report that was submitted by COSIS for this AO www.promiseeurope.law.ucla.edu/news/small-i...

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Small Island States and the Fight for Climate Justice — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe

Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are among the least responsible for climate change but face its most severe consequences, including rising sea levels, extreme weather events, loss of biodiversit...

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Shobha Maharaj @shobha-maharaj.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Why do we keep expecting GN politicians, CEOs of Oli&Gas comps & Petrostate COP presidents to step up and save us? Completely daft & illogical!! They & their predecessors= architects of the climate crisis & are the ones who profit the most from gross inaction. Drastic reform/replacement needed ASAP

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Shobha Maharaj @shobha-maharaj.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The COP concept is BROKEN: we need an alternative - abundantly clear that expecting Global north politicians and CEOs of Oil&Gas comps from Petrostates to fix climate crisis = daft & wishful thinking - they & their predecessors = architects of the crisis & continue to enable fossil fuel indistries

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Shobha Maharaj @shobha-maharaj.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Melinda Janki is truly inspiring- consistently standing up to Big Oil and her Government. Apart from significant emissions - the risky drilling operations are endangering much of the Caribbean's ecosystems and livelihoods www.desmog.com/2024/11/19/q...

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Q&A: Meet the Lawyer Fighting To Pry the ‘Jewel’ From ExxonMobil’s Crown

Melinda Janki wants to protect her home country of Guyana from the risks posed by Big Oil.

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