This #EarthDay , it’s time for a #FossilFuelTreaty ! 🌏

Don’t miss out as Naomi Klein chats with Susana Muhamad about #Colombia ’s commitment to #EndFossilFuels through a global binding treaty. 🗣️

RSVP at earthdayinitiative.org & tune in on April 22 (Mon), 7:30PM ET!

New research published in Nature today finds that we are on track for climate damages worth $38 trillion per year by 2050. This is a staggering figure. The damages are projected to be worth 6x more than the mitigation costs of limiting global warming to 2C.

🚨 NEW PAPER ON FOSSIL FUEL SUBSIDY REFORM 🚨

Evan Drake & Jakob Skovgaard ask ‘Do Political Institutions Influence the Dismantling of Fossil Fuel Subsidies?’

Answering this Q is urgent: fossil fuel subsidies hit a record $7 trillion in 2022 🤯

🧵on the main findings 👇

Please join us on 16th May to hear from contributors to a special issue of Int Env Agreements on emerging lessons & next steps for supply-side climate policies @suspol Harro van Asselt Angela Carter Amanda Slevin Kjell Kühne Sussex Sustainability Research Programme (SSRP) Sussex Global🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative

You know what causes #climatechange , Science Museum? 🤔

Coal.

Scientists and governments agree we need to phase it out.

Now.

But your sponsor #Adani is the world’s biggest private producer of the stuff, with new mines and power stations.

Archive check: Scaling behaviour change means addressing power and politics - challenging polluter elites and providing affordable and sustainable services for all.

✍🏼 by Peter Newell, Michelle Twena & Freddie | bit.ly/4cPn669

#TBT #Transformations 💡

Fantastic to see us ranked 1st in the world for Development Studies again - for the 8th year in a row! What an achievement!

To solve the climate crisis pushing our planet to the brink, we need to fix the finance flows that are failing the planet.

Join our webinar Tuesday 16th April 2pm CEST & the week of mobilisations to #FixTheFinance for climate justice.

Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Check out the full tool here: fossilfueltracker.org/app/ffnpt

📢 SUPPLY-SIDE CLIMATE POLICY TRACKER 📢

We have updated the SUS-POL Tracker in collaboration with Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative

It now contains over 1,900 policies, including bans, subsidy removals and divestment pledges. Read more about this update below 👇
sussex.ac.uk/research/proje…

For a short time #OpenAccess : 'What next for supply-side policy in the South: emerging lessons from Ecuador’s Yasuní initiative' for #supplyside special ed. with Peter Newell Angela Carter #climate #FossilFuels
link.springer.com/article/10.100…

So will arms exports to Israel be stopped immediately?

“The fact it has taken over 30 years of climate negotiations to name the number one driver of the problem is testimony to the power of fossil fuel interests.” Well put Angela Carter and Peter Newell

Our new open access article 'Reconciling Ireland’s climate ambitions with climate policy and practice' is online! Written with John Barry is part of UCU Rising for #supplyside special ed. with Peter Newell Angela Carter

link.springer.com/article/10.100…

#Climate #FossilFuels
Centre for Sustainability,Equality& Climate Action All Island Climate & Biodiversity Research Network

In return, firms commit to investing the received funds into new and additional renewable energy generation

MDBs and development finance institutions would pitch in, but CBs would take a new kind of long-term, low-yield green climate asset onto their balance sheets 💰

Climate change also poses risks to broader financial stability - but how can central banks (CBs) ameliorate this growing risk? 💸

The paper proposes a “climate bailout” tool where fossil fuel firms sell their potentially stranded assets to central banks

🚨NEW PAPER ALERT!🚨

The case for “Climate Bailouts” - a new tool for central banks to limit the financial risk resulting from climate change from Matthias Kroll and Kjell Kühne

Quick 🧵 on the main arguments:

link.springer.com/article/10.100…

An epic two-month sook by fossil car lobbyists has resulted in the weakening of Australia’s fuel efficiency standard, adding 40 million tonnes of CO2 emissions and condemning Australians to higher levels of toxic diesel air pollution for years to come.
thedriven.io/2024/03/27/why…