Good climate news this week 1 India reaches Paris target of 50% non-fossil fuel power capacity 5 years early 2 China cuts electricity emissions to record lows in 2025 3 Indonesia to go 100% renewables by 2035 instead of 2040 4 Saudi to invest $8.3b to build 15GW of solar and wind

We’ve been so brainwashed that we believe speaking up against the overheating of the planet makes you radical, anarchic or ‘left wing’

“Vegetable prices in California and Arizona jumped 80% on year in November, 2022 after extreme drought, while Ethiopian food prices rose 40% in March 2023 following a drought the year prior.” wsj.com/articles/extre…

Olive oil: Up 50% after Spain droughts Onion: Up 89% in India last year Cabbage: Up 70% in Korea Rice: Up 48% in Japan Vegetables: Up 30% in China Vegetables: Up 80% in California and Arizona in 2022 after droughts Weather events behind these price increases “completely

⚡️EU power is becoming less and less reliant on fossil fuels EU countries with the largest fall in fossil share (2004 vs. 2024): 🇩🇰Denmark: 76% → 12% 🏆 🇵🇹Portugal: 73% → 15% 🇳🇱The Netherlands: 91% → 46% 🇮🇪Ireland: 95% → 55% 🇬🇷Greece: 90% → 50% 🇫🇮Finland: 44% → 5%

Landmark ruling in the Advisory Opinion by the ICJ on Climate Change. 1.5 degree C is legally the Planetary limit. All countries are legally obliged to comply. Even fossil-fuel subsidies can be illegal. States have duty to solve the planet crisis and can be held accountable.

Feed the Children of Gaza, no child should be starving.

"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious." – Albert Einstein

Nationally Determined Contributions aren't just technical climate pledges—they're strategic economic roadmaps. When treated with high ambition, NDCs become levers for inclusive, innovation-led growth. Our new report from @CCAGUpdate shows how to embed climate action at the centre

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"Palestinians face a Hobson’s choice between starvation and the real possibility of being shot down for no intelligible reason" theatlantic.com/international/…

We are undergoing unprecedented loss of freshwater across the planet Rising temperatures are causing water to evaporate and driving humans to extract more groundwater, which is moving freshwater from the land to the seas and creating a “continental drying” trend

“This is the second year in a row in which the land carbon sink has nearly vanished due to climate-related stressors, and would explain why 2024 saw a record jump in the concentration of CO₂ in the atmosphere.” newscientist.com/article/248966…

Why is it acceptable for the president to use taxpayer money to fly overseas and cut a ribbon at his own golf course? Don’t normalize this abuse of office. It’s blatant corruption.

Mark Twain would have been absolutely brilliant on Twitter

Firing the head of a key government agency because you don’t like the numbers they report, which come from surveys using long established procedures, is what happens in authoritarian countries not democratic ones. This is surely not the most serious threat to our democracy that

Isaac Asimov’s take on morality without God!

Writing is thinking. Don't let AI do it all.

Flash floods devastates Uttarakhand, India, killing many including soldiers. Climate change has become the real national security threat, but no one cares because it doesn’t get the vote!

About 14 million people are displaced; at least 150,000 people have died in Sudan's civil war. "But no statistics can express the sense of pointlessness, of meaninglessness, that the war has left behind alongside the physical destruction." From my new Atlantic cover story