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Key oceans treaty crosses critical threshold to come into force Sixty states have ratified a global treaty to protect the oceans - it will become law in January.

"A monumental achievement for ocean conservation" - WWF Director General Kirsten Schuijt celebrates the 60th state ratification of the High Seas Treaty as a turning point for the two-thirds of the world’s ocean beyond national jurisdiction 🌊
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A groundbreaking global deal just landed to cut emissions from shipping

This makes shipping the first global sector with a regulated pathway to net zero, but key aspects of the agreement fall short of what is needed to drive rapid action in the near term #IMO #MEPC83 #ClimateAction

WWF International's media team has just landed on BlueSky! 🍃🐼🐦

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Expect breaking news, expert voices, powerful stories, and the latest on the race to sustain our #LivingPlanet

Analysis: 95% of countries miss UN deadline to submit 2035 climate pledges - Carbon Brief Around 95% of countries have missed a UN deadline to submit new climate pledges for 2035, Carbon Brief analysis shows.

So far just 12 countries have submitted their updated national climate plans

These emission reduction targets, and the strategies to meet them, will determine if we can prevent the worst impacts of the #climatecrisis

Getting this right is pivotal #NDCs
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Happy NDC deadline day, friends

"“Every fraction of a degree matters, and we expect governments to use the remaining time to submit ambitious 2035 NDCs and update their 2030 targets" - @niklashoehne.bsky.social @catclimate.bsky.social

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Hottest January on record shocks scientists Data adds to fears that climate change is accelerating, as La Niña phenomenon fails to cool global temperatures

#ClimateEmergency - one more figure that has to be a call for #ClimateAction

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2024 marked five years since the start of the European Green Deal, the EU’s landmark energy and climate policy package 🇪🇺

Here’s what’s happened in the power sector since then:

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Chile's wind and solar generation surpassed 40% of power for the first time in December last year 📈⚡

Throughout 2024, wind and solar generated a RECORD THIRD of Chile's electricity—more than double that in 2019.

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“They were up for change. They didn’t mind challenge. They wanted fairness. But they also really didn’t understand what the change meant for them, for their communities." @elpinchbeck.bsky.social on what the British public think about the transition to net zero

UK's 2035 Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) emissions reduction target under the Paris Agreement Submission to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to provide clarity, transparency and understanding on the UK's NDC target to reduce all greenhouse gas emissions by at ...

The UK's full climate plan is now out (NDC), all 74 pages of it:
www.gov.uk/government/p...

EU electricity generation from coal, gas, wind and solar, terawatt hours, 1990-2024. Source: Ember.

NEW – EU’s solar and wind growth pushes fossil-fuel power to lowest level in 40 years | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org

Read here: https://buff.ly/4hfcKhk

Congratulations Harry!!

Today #WEF published its Global Risks Report 2025, which identifies the top four most severe risks over the next ten years to be extreme weather events, biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse, critical change to Earth systems and natural resources shortages
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LA has burned in the most destructive fires in US history and fossil fuel profiteers are the arsonists holding the gas can.

Our cities are at the mercy of the climate oil, gas and coal has built 🧵

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The Global Climate Highlights 2024 report is now online.

Delve in the analysis and access all the charts, information, and data on temperature, sea ice, precipitation, and greenhouse gas concentrations. Explore the data that defined 2024: https://bit.ly/40kQpcz

#C3S #GCH2024

Plus - love this graphic by Sean Creighton of renewable energy in the style of Portuguese azulejos tiles

Portugal moves closer to eliminating fossil fuels from its power mix Domestic power plants that run on fossil fuels covered just 10% of Portugal's electricity consumption in 2024.

Important to highlight to progress being made in some countries

Portugal will likely source more than 90% of its power from domestic renewables by 2030, a milestone that’ll be shared by the likes of Denmark and Chile 👏👏

via Progress Playbook
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NEW – Interactive: How the world is already adapting to climate change | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social

🎨 Kerry Cleaver, Tom Pearson @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org

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Rich must pay for others to go green, says EU environmental pioneer ‘Green Deal’ architect Frans Timmermans warns of boost to radical right from rising costs

“The [green] transition will be stopped by European voters” unless it has an element of solidarity and is organised like the tax system, with the rich paying more, says @franstimmermans.groenlinkspvda.nl

#climatecrisis
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This is so wrong - banks aren't passive players in the economy, they have the potential to drastically shift financial flows. They need to use their power to help drive the phase out of fossil fuels and move us to 100% renewable energy

Quote via Bloomberg Green ESG Investing

Climate crisis ‘wreaking havoc’ on Earth’s water cycle, report finds Global heating is supercharging storms, floods and droughts, affecting entire ecosystems and billions of people

Climate crisis ‘wreaking havoc’ on Earth’s water cycle, report finds

- Global heating is supercharging storms, floods and droughts, affecting entire ecosystems and billions of people
#climatecrisis

Story by me
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Offshore wind will form backbone of Britain's clean power 2030 target: Electricity generation by source on the GB grid in 2023 and 2030, terawatt hours (TWh), under two different NESO pathways to clean power. Low carbon dispatchable power includes gas with carbon capture and storage, hydrogen and biomass. Other renewables includes hydro and marine power. Other fossil includes coal, oil and diesel. Source: Clean Power 2030 Action Plan.

Analysis: How the UK plans to reach clean power by 2030 | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org
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Want to raise concern about climate change? Tell someone’s story A new study finds that indirect experience with severe weather drives public concern about climate change around the world.

Want people to care about climate change?

Our (@uscprice.bsky.social) new study found people are more likely to worry about climate change if they know someone who has been harmed by severe weather, even if they were not.

Climate comms advice: tell stories. make it personal.

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Great ad on the London Underground from #AlJazeera. This is a crisis. Reporting the impacts of rising temperatures around the world is crucial for galvanising support for action

Interview: Prof Philippe Sands on UN court’s landmark climate-change hearing - Carbon Brief Carbon Brief interviews leading international law scholar Prof Philippe Sands to find out more about the legal issues at stake in the ICJ case.

@carbonbrief.org On the legal issues at stake and the wider significance of the International Court of Justice advisory opinion regarding the obligations of states in respect of climate change

Proceedings : www.icj-cij.org/case/187/req...

Explanation : www.carbonbrief.org/interview-pr...

🚨How to get support for ambitious climate policy: some incredibly valuable work that shows you CAN achieve public buy-in for change if you engage with people positively and proactively.

Interest in news has fallen dramatically in some of the countries covered by our research. This is one of the trends identified by @richardfletcher.bsky.social in this piece on how AI can help journalists address 3 challenges

Read the article now reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-ai-...

Masterclass in climate data visualisation in this #WRI article stacked with interactive charts showing the history of carbon emissions and the state of emissions today
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‘Climate bomb’ warning over $200bn wave of new gas projects New liquefied natural gas projects could produce 10 gigatonnes of emissions by the end of the decade, close to the annual emissions of all coal plants

‘Climate bomb’ warning over $200bn wave of new gas projects