Doubling down on fossil fuels is absurd. The clean energy revolution is here. No group, no business, and no government can stop it. Leaders at #COP29 can and must ensure it is fair and fast enough to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C.

Here's Brazil's new NDC, targeting emissions 59-67% below 2005 levels by 2035 unfccc.int/sites/default/…

1/5. 📢The New Collective Quantified Goal on #ClimateFinance (#NCQG) must deliver at least US$ 6.88 trillion a year 💰 for #Mitigation 🚫🏭, #Adaptation🏗️🏝️ and #LossAndDamage 🔥⛈️, with at least US$ 2.8 trillion provided as grants. Here is how this breaks down 🧮 🎯. 🧵

I co-authored my first article for The Conversation The Conversation with Nature-based Solutions Initiative @UniofOxford Director Prof Nathalie Seddon, Oxford on climate-biodiversity synergies at COP16!

G20 DECLARATION 🤝"strong commitment to multilateralism", #COP29 💵backs climate finance "billions to trillions"; few specifics 🛢️no repeat of "transition away from fossil fuels" 🌅supports 3x renewables, 2x efficiency ✋refs "unilateral [climate] measures" Full text:

🌎🦥Where are we at with linking climate change and biodiversity loss? #COP16 biodiversity summit ended a week before #COP29 climate summit, although you'd be forgiven for forgetting that as it's barely been mentioned here in Baku But there are some updates worth noting...

The proposed $250 billion in the latest COP29 text us a 30% REDUCTION in real terms from the $100 billion promised in 2009. Inflation not only makes life ever more expensive for people across the world, but it also allows rich countries to hide the real value of their distant

BREAKING: LDCs and AOSIS suspend #COP29 negotiations on #NCQG #ClimateFinance goal. CAN members @Rebecca_Thissen @BrandoncWu and @MohAdow speak to an intensely interested media scrum. No deal is better than a bad deal. #PayUp

Current status at #COP29 is that two big developing country groups have walked out, says Panama's negotiator

Rebecca Thissen Brandon Wu Mohamed Adow @MohAdow explaining why LDCs and AOSIS walked out: "Text on the table is not good enough to discuss an #NCQG #ClimateFinance goal." #COP29 #PayUp

Nations have been discussing a new climate finance text at COP29 that includes a scaled-up figure of $300bn per year by 2035. This is up from the $250bn that was offered in the text yesterday, but it's still much lower than the numbers developed countries have pushed for...

Furious intervention from India after NCQG is adopted at #COP29 "gavelling and trying to ignore parties from speaking does not behove the UNFCCC system…India does not accept the goal proposal in its present form"

My statement on the outcome of #COP29: While the agreement reached at COP29 avoids immediate failure, it is far from a success. On the key issues like climate finance and the transition away from fossil fuels, this is — yet again — the bare minimum. We cannot continue to rely

NEW – COP29: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Baku ✍️ Aruna Chandrasekhar Daisy Dunne Orla Dwyer Simon Evans Josh Gabbatiss Molly Lempriere Ayesha Tandon Giuliana A. Viglione, PhD Song_W #COP29 ➡️ buff.ly/3VaAmuP

I'm so proud of the Carbon Brief #COP29 team for finishing our big summary of the talks It's an EPIC 20,000 words of top-notch, plain-english reporting… –NCQG –Stocktake –Article6 –China +Much more …delivered in record time after a brutal fortnight of sleep deprivation!

Starting off the new year with exciting news! 🎉 Happy to share our new open access paper: 'Unpacking the politics of #NatureBasedSolutions governance: Making space for transformative change'. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery The Leverhulme Trust Nature-based Solutions Initiative @UniofOxford ECI, Univ of Oxford

Excited to be joining the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery as an Oxford Martin School Visiting Fellow. Looking forward to working with Yadvinder Malhi & team on biodiversity science & policy. Implementing the Kunming Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework has never been more urgent.

THREAD: New UK govt contract with Drax biomass power plant * 4-yr contract 2027-2031 * £113/MWh (2012 prices – £155 in today's money) * Output cap of 6TWh (<2% of UK supplies, cf recent yrs 12-15TWh) * CfD cost ~£500m/yr * 100% of fuel must be "sustainable", up from 70% 1/5

NEW: UK has published its biodiversity pledge (called an NBSAP), as countries gather in Rome for the second part of #COP16 gov.uk/government/pub…

Nations agreed to a "permanent arrangement” to provide biodiversity finance to developing nations, “future-proofing” the flow of funds past 2030. Decades in the making + in this aid-cutting climate, it's a big deal. w/ Orla Dwyer Daisy Dunne Giuliana A. Viglione, PhD Yanine Quiroz 🐞