Paris climate accord is not enough to protect oceans say judges International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea... legal system increasingly providing the teeth behind global #climate agreements
reuters.com/business/envir…

Rare positive news from UK govt on #climate policy... but what a curious video. iMovie gone mad. Who is the audience for this kinda stuff?

'From an African perspective, the key challenge is that the geopolitical tension between China and the US/EU will be used as an excuse this year to argue for a limited increase in climate finance.'

#Climate geopolitical hot-takes galore via Carbon Brief

carbonbrief.org/experts-what-a…

Hard to know where in Africa *isn't* getting battered by #climate impacts of some shape / form... economist.com/middle-east-an…

Interesting headline

#COP28 + UAE consensus. The gift that keeps giving.

Panama Canal should be back to 100% in 2025, say analysts. Unlikely to be last time this key shipping route (5% of all global trade) is hit by #climate , as Dr Friederike Otto & co make clear here carbonbrief.org/drought-behind…

Also, blimey. What world.

'France’s government says it has no doubt that Azerbaijan is stirring tensions in New Caledonia, despite the vast geographical and cultural distance between the Caspian country and the French Pacific territory.'

theguardian.com/world/article/…

Bold --> 'Russia’s constitutional court is considering a claim that insufficient action by the Russian state to cut national greenhouse gas emissions is violating rights to life, health and a healthy environment'

theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Curious

Good piece this 👇 (from a US perspective)

Cracking piece in Climate Home News on Azerbaijan's major PR play pre #COP29 ... the peril of inviting good hacks on a press trip 😇climatechangenews.com/2024/05/15/in-…

'We want to be less dependent on oil... the last thing we want to have is a volatile economy. The more non oil revenue you have the less volatile economy you have' - revealing line from Saudi aramco chairman... (from 2020) youtube.com/watch?v=bUcyQG…

Useful #COP29 context via Baku Research Institute bakuresearchinstitute.org/en/azerbaijani…

Blimey

Very curious how mature trees in West Oxfordshire on public footpaths in front of nice houses often mysteriously disappear. Still, nice views eh?

I probably don't understand AI well enough but there's something about the way folks rush to it to avoid tougher tasks / conversations on #climate + energy that makes me a little suspicious. ft.com/content/95a9f4…

'Water is disappearing, severe droughts are proliferating. People’s jobs — and their health — are under threat'

Stark piece in POLITICOEurope on water shortages starting to grip central Europe...

politico.eu/article/when-t…

“The U.K. built up a huge amount of diplomatic respect in tackling climate change, giving it leverage over the ambition levels of other countries — but that influence is rapidly being squandered”

What a shame...
politico.eu/article/uk-acc…

V curious how the Podesta-Zhenmin meeting this week went... no readout so far (that I can see) eenews.net/articles/podes…