www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... this just beggars belief. Drop lots of bombs and then figure out why. It’s unconscionable
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www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... this just beggars belief. Drop lots of bombs and then figure out why. It’s unconscionable
"One should not give a poisoner medicine,
A conjurer fine apparatus, nor
A rifle to a melancholic bore."
WH Auden
Not to mention the biggest arsenal in the world to a narcissistic attention-seeker.
Minister Godongwana: Strengthen SA's carbon tax, don't weaken it. Suspending shifts pollution costs to poor households. Use revenues for energy efficiency for the poor & transition support for firms. We're in a climate crisis—polluters must pay. #TipsForMinFin #Budget2026 #ClimateAction
Tip for SA Finance Minister Godongwana: Retain and strengthen the carbon tax. Suspending or weakening tax would shift cost of pollution from SA’s big emitters to poor households. a visionary Finance Minister must position our country in future global economy.
#TipsForMinFin #Budget2026
"And that the unofficial history of the world shows that dedicated individuals and popular movements can shape history and have, though how and when we might win and how long it takes is not predictable." Rebecca Solnit
“To me, the grounds for hope are simply that we don’t know what will happen next, and that the unlikely and the unimaginable transpire quite regularly. ”
— Rebecca Solnit
Still salient: equity needs to be built into climate scenarios, yet they're unfortunately dominated by modeling. Scenarios should be stories told in words and numbers. Key to climate development economics - and our common future
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Sekoetlane Phamodi is directeur van de New Economy Hub van de African Climate Foundation in Zuid-Afrika. Volgens Phamodi is er dringend nood aan meer economische rechtvaardigheid op mondiale schaal.
backchannel1.substack.com/p/hurricane-... Adaptation will be key at #COP30 Must have a practical set of indicators to track adaptation - and the money!
unfccc.int/sites/defaul... South Africa’s second Nationally Determined Contribution under the Paris Agreement (NDC2)
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Exciting opportunity to become an Associate Editor, in the fantastic journal Climate Policy. @climate-policy.bsky.social
My take on the ICJ advisory opinion on state obligation on cliamte change www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) Conference in Barcelona, June 2026. Help us disseminate the event and submit your articles, please! @icta-uab.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social
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1/2 @aruneshkarkun.bsky.social is a Research Lead in the Environmental Governance & Policy team. His work focuses on researching air quality governance, policies on electric mobility and climate change. He also works on understanding emergent environmental governance issues like geo-engineering,
1/4 #Netzero targets are now central to global climate ambition. However these targets vary in scope and timelines, reflecting differences in historical responsibility, development needs, domestic capabilities, political realities, and economic structures.
8. 👉 Dive into the reflections on Just Transitions dialogues here: www.iddri.org/en/publicati...
7. The resulting proposals—described as 'good ideas that can make a difference'—offer practical pathways to advance truly equitable climate action globally.
6. ✨ These dialogues, bringing together diverse strategic thinkers for active co-creation, expanded the concept of just transitions to a people-centred political and economic agenda.
5. 🌍 To ensure discussions were grounded in reality, site visits were incorporated, including to an urban regeneration initiatives in Barcelona and the Atlantis Special Economic Zone in South Africa.
4. ⚖️ The dialogues examined equity in adaptation, how to make visible choices and their equity implications, and exploring approaches that address climate risks and structural inequalities.
3. 💡 We also explored ideas to fund structural transformations, diversifying economies towards both low emissions and high employment. Furthermore, participants recognised the key role of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in fostering green economic transformation and job creation.
2. 🎯 Discussions tackled critical areas, including navigating political frontiers and effectively mediating the necessary-but-disruptive conflicts arising from the shift to net zero emissions.
1. 📖 Discover how two dynamic dialogues, "Reflections on global enablers of just transitions to net zero emissions" provides timely insights into advancing equitable climate action amidst global uncertainty. www.iddri.org/en/publicati...
Two contrasting news headlines: Last week, Trump administration shuts down US website on climate change. This week, at least 100 people are dead in Texas due to climate fuelled floods
🚨Trump shut down a federal website on climate change in the SAME WEEK climate-fuelled floods killed at least 120 people in Texas.
His anti-environment agenda is funded by the fossil fuel industry
It’s time to make polluters pay for loss and damage. Join the #PollutersPayPact today 👉🏽 act.gp/3FccTES
The case goes to duties of companies and authorities to prepare for climate hazards, and maintain adaptation measures – without which, there will be loss and damage (L&D). Not the usual plaintiffs in climate litigation ...
Toyota insurers sue Transnet MEC and Durban over losses from climate induced floods
For ca R6.5 billion (ca USD 325 million). Claim failure to have maintained critical flood prevention infrastructure and neglect in repairing after earlier floods.
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Lots to unpack about the Rio #BRICS Summit, but noteworthy how much more this Leaders' Declaration had to say regarding the importance of combating climate change and upholding multilateralism to do so than the #g7 (which literally didn't even utter the word climate)
brics.br/en/documents...
Congratulations to Sonja Phalatse, Julia Taylor, and Imraan Valodia for a thoughtful paper, and under-explored connection between care work and climate action
New paper: The Care-Climate Nexus - A Conceptual Framework, from Wits Southern Centre for Inequality Studies wiredspace.wits.ac.za/items/c03eb8...