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Let's pause & reflect a minute about what this shocking picture of Greta Thunberg 's arrest tells us about the current state of #climate politics.

A short 🧵on some key lessons we can take from this image

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Important to remember that the slaves who were provided to the Dutch nutmeg planters of the Banda Islands, came mainly from India.

East Antarctica 38.5C above seasonal average on March 18th.

Biggest jump in temperature ever recorded at a met station - anywhere on Earth.

Just staggering.

Make no mistake.

Anything is now possible. And I mean anything.

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Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016
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Vor 26 Jahren starb Hans-Jürgen Rose an schwersten Verletzungen – kurz nachdem er auf das Dessauer Polizeirevier gebracht worden war. Jetzt zeigt seine Familie vier Beamte wegen Mordes an. Kersten Augustin & ich haben die Polizisten gefragt, was damals geschah

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IMF economic growth projections have fallen to the lowest levels in decades - for both advanced economies and emerging markets.

Ich bin gespannt!

'Empirisch kann eine im Sinne der Pariser Klimaziele hinreichende Entkopplung von CO2-Emissionen und wirtschaftlicher Aktivität bisher weder auf globaler Ebene noch in Deutschland festgestellt werden.'

Sachverständigenrat für Umweltfragen

‘Aligned with the Paris Goal’? No you're not, KLM 💩

This is a huge step in keeping airlines from promoting false solutions to cover for their plans to keep fuelling climate collapse with air traffic growth. #StopGreenwashing ❌✈️

'Each year, extreme temperatures take 5 million lives, while 400,000 people die from climate-related causes.

Now, researchers are promoting a new legal theory that says fossil fuel companies could be tried for homicide for climate-related deaths.'
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'The accusation by the UN and other humanitarians that Israel may be committing a war crime by deliberately starving Gaza’s population is likely to significantly increase the prospect of legal culpability for the country'
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this was pretty predictable if one understood Wall Street's sudden interest in ESG/climate as a strategic move to roll back state-led mandatory decarbonisation.

they've won, and can now move on

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I've had the pleasure to read most of this book, highly recommended.

'Metabolic Politics: Labor, Nature and the Future of the Planet'

Letter from Joseph E. Stiglitz and myself on behalf of Icrict, to the UN Tax Committee, in support of work towards a model wealth tax law that would benefit all countries.
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There is a real danger that the 2020s could become a lost
decade for Germany and Europe. Some of the reasons: delayed price caps, sub-optimal price policy for industry & fiscal tightening amidst the crisis.

Thanks for covering our paper Patrick Wintour!
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The global surface temperature is close to 2°C above the 1850-1900 baseline again, at 1.96°C as of March 14th.

Being totally f&%ked has become normalized.

1/ I’m an Israeli academic. My community is too silent about the ongoing war in Gaza. Here is how I see things based on reading hundreds of articles and watching thousands of videos and images about the war. This tweet chain contains my conclusions as a sort of executive summary.

1/16: Our latest print issue is not only a special issue, but a *double* issue: 'Towards a Global Intellectual History of an Unequal World', here introduced by c.o.christiansen, Mélanie Lindbjerg Guichon, & mercadersofia (Aarhus, cc Global Inequality) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…