This year’s insane heat has coincided with (perhaps driven?) a bit of a wedge between two leading “climate urgency science narratives”… 🧵

Professor Saleemul Huq OBE (1952-2023) It is with deep sadness that we share news of the passing of Professor Saleemul Huq, an environmental and climate change giant, and senior fellow and dear friend of IIED and many IIED colleagues past and present.

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When your contract is coming to an end, it's important to network with potential employers.

A bright and shining example of the suicidal absurdity of technocapitalist society occurs every year at this time, all across the country. 1/n

My employer Chalmers University is trying to ban political demonstrations on campus. We are trying to work out what the logic is of such a disturbing decision and alongside this mobilizing against it. If anyone has further information, would love to hear. bitly.ws/32sWH

I'm cochairing a session at the STS Graz conference 2024, with my friend Muez Ali. The title is "How do geographic imbalances in mainstream scientific knowledge production impact sociotechnical change in lower income countries?" Submit your abstract here: stsconf.tugraz.at/calls/sessions…

V proud to finally share this new analysis Revealed: How colonial rule radically shifts historical responsibility for climate change 🇺🇸 530GtCO2 (🇪🇺+🇬🇧 478, +28%) 🇨🇳 309 🇷🇺 239 +41%* 🇬🇧 130 +70% 🇧🇷 115 🇩🇪 92 🇮🇳 74 -15% 🇯🇵 73 🇮🇩 68 -24% — 🇳🇱 35 +181% 🧵 carbonbrief.org/revealed-how-c…

Good to see this being voiced by Fiona Harvey. These sentiments are shared across pretty much the entire UK press corp. Levels of engagement this year have been unprecedented.

So much anger at the new COP28 draft text. None more so than from Marshall Islands: “[We] did not come here to sign our death warrant. We came here to fight for 1.5C and for the only way to achieve that: a fossil fuel phase-out…We will not go silently to our watery graves."

Some news *gulp*. I’ve decided to move on from Climate Change Committee after six amazing years and more than 100 publications. I’ve worked on energy and climate policy for 13 years now. I joined the civil service 20 years ago. I’d like to see a different side to the climate challenge.

My new commentary on the continuing failure by Rishi Sunak to appoint a new Chair of Climate Change Committee lse.ac.uk/granthaminstit…

How can investing in the opportunities afforded by the global transition to an efficient, resilient and inclusive economy be a bigger part of restoring productivity and output growth for the UK? Find out in our new report ⬇️

Antarctica lost a mind-blowingly huge Algeria-sized chunk of sea ice last winter Here's a map to help you visualise how big that is

Can some one please write a thinkpiece called "Beyond the Politics of Outrage? Chill and have a long term plan"

Market-based solutions like Pay-As-You-Go solar now play a critical role in #energyaccess in sub-Saharan Africa: but who really benefits from them? Our new Nature Energy paper outlines an agenda for inclusive PAYG energy systems nature.com/articles/s4156…

New article in *Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews*: we review research on users+inclusion in energy transitions, finding that it overlooks gender and class differences. Important contributions from non-Western scholars, contexts and epistemologies. rb.gy/ie2cp5

'We don’t want to be colonialism 2.0' New Finance & Space article from Sam Unsworth investigates VC investment in climate technology startups for Africa: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…