Shailendra Yashwant

🔥 ⚖️ 🌐HAPPENING NOW: Historic #ClimateJustice Ruling being delivered by the 🇺🇳 🧑‍⚖️ International Court of Justice.
🚨This ruling could signal a new dawn for climate law & accountability
📝 🧵 Live thread below with context, summary & analysis 👇
#ClimateJusticeAO #AOLetsGo

Kerala's Athirappilly Dam Revived Again Amid Power Crisis, Fierce Opposition Environment vs Energy: KSEB proposes reviving Athirappilly dam as eco-tourism project, sparking backlash over tribal rights and ecological risks.

Because nothing screams ‘eco-friendly getaway’ like spending your weekend perched above a concrete wall that would drown forests, displace tribes, and choke one of Kerala’s last free-flowing rivers. #KeralaZombieDam
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1 DAY TO GO ⏰ #JustTransitionRising kicks off tomorrow! We’re covering everything from decent work to trade justice, energy access to civic resistance. Come through.
🗓️ May 14–15 | 10–13 GMT
🧭 See the agenda bit.ly/3SEBFAp + register here bit.ly/4iI69fv
#ClimateJustice #JustTransition #COP30

🔴The #StateOfClimate report, released today, reveals key climate change indicators again reached record levels in 2024.

Check out the full report: wmo.int/publication-...

Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit The infrastructure required to host climate talks in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.

"a COP in the Amazon, not a COP about the Amazon". #RoadtoBelem
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No, it is not possible to clean up #Yamuna in three years. Not even if you deploy all the trash skimmers, weed harvesters, and dredgers that you can find on this side of the Ganga.
~ my take today on #NewDelhi’s grandiose plans

www.deccanherald.com//opinion/no-...

Ecocide, not eco-tourism, planned in Great Nicobar Island The Great Nicobar Island Development Project requires the diversion of over 130 sq km of pre-historic tropical forest land and has been granted a stage-1 clearance leading to the felling of around 1 m...

#Ecocide, not #ecotourism, planned in Great #Nicobar Island ~ My take on the controversial Great Nicobar Island Development Project of India.

www.deccanherald.com/opinion/ecoc...

Maps: Track Where the Fires in California Are Burning Fires driven by fierce winds scorched parts of the Los Angeles area, destroying homes and choking the sky with smoke.

Several major fires, driven by fierce winds, scorched parts of the Los Angeles area on Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning, prompting thousands to evacuate their homes. See which areas are under evacuation orders and where smoke is expected to spread in the coming hours.

COP29: The Baku Backslide YouTube video by Climate Action Network South Asia

Must watch : All you wanted to know about #COP29 in 5 minutes and why its failure makes regional cooperation for #ClimateAction in #SouthAsia more important and urgent than ever !

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae94...

🚨 BREAKING: 220 fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists have registered for #PlasticsTreaty talks — outnumbering every single delegation at #INC5. Their goal? Protect polluters’ profits. #KickPollutersOut
👉🏽 Full story: bit.ly/3B36xFM

COP29 | No deal would have been better than the bad deal in Baku If the downslide of international climate negotiations began in Copenhagen, when a dozen rich nations forced their agenda to deny and delay the need for greenhouse gas emissions reduction, it finally ...

“You could almost smell the oil in the cologne of over 1,773 #fossilfuel lobbyists, who received more passes to #cop29 than all the delegates from the 10 most climate-vulnerable nations combined. What was missing was the whiff of money.” ~My take from Baku !

www.deccanherald.com////opinion/c...

Analysis: The Great Indian Water Act Of 2024

Ironically, India's water act of 2024 does not take any lesson from the failure of the Gujarat model in protecting its rivers and, worse, it completely ignores the fact that the #climatecrisis is inherently a water crisis ~ My take on the #WaterAct2024
www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/ana...

COP28 skirts climate justice, shies away from phasing out fossil fuels - Question of Cities Although COP28, hosted by the oil-producing nation of UAE and controversial in some measure, important decisions and initiatives were launched to reduce the effects of climate change. The decision to ...

At least 80 of the 200 countries at COP28 were demanding FossilFuels phaseout but when it came to the final consensus, the handful of the world’s powerful prevailed and the world missed another opportunity to strike at the core of the climate crises. #COP28

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Who will mourn the Sundarbans? Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest straddling India and Bangladesh, is facing a coastal erosion emergency threatening its 7.7 million inhabitants. Climate change is exacerbating the natur...

In the last two decades, more climate refugees have fled here than from any other ecosystem in the region.' My photo-essay about the #LossAndDamage and
#ClimateCrisis facing the unique mangrove ecosystem and people of #Sundarbans.
frontline.thehindu.com/photo-essay/...

There Can Be No Climate Justice Without Human Rights

"Ultimately, the big fight against #climatechange cannot be only about multilateral negotiations, technocratic interventions, climate finance, carbon markets or lifestyle changes alone..." I write in my column today #COP28UAE    #HumanRights #EnnoreOilSpill
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Dubai Disappoints | COP28 fails to make history

Dubai Disappoints | #COP28    fails to make history : My take on the latest round of climate negotiations
www.deccanherald.com/opinion/duba...

Al Jaber's Dilemma for COP 28: Deliver finance and phase-out fossil fuels Al Jaber has a huge challenge ahead given the failure of parties to agree on the Mitigation Work Program, vital to achieving Paris Agreement goals, at Bonn. The only way to save COP28 is for him to fi...

#COP28COUNTDOWN : "Has the CEO of the world’s biggest oil company seen the end of the fossil fuel age or is the President-Designate of COP 28 climbing down in the face of relentless criticism?" - I wrote in June after the #BonnClimateConference
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