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Dr. Prakash Kashwan
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Env & Climate Justice Prof | Just Transition | Governance | Author Decolonizing Environmentalism https://tinyurl.com/3v2fysfr | Editor @environmentalpol.bsky.social | GoogleScholar https://tinyurl.com/PKGSChlr | Ex-Chair @isaess.bsky.social | Dad, Husband .. more

Environmental science 28%
Political science 20%
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Hi, BlueSky! Delighted to📣 Decolonizing Environmentalism (bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social) is hitting the virtual book-shelf later this month & the bookstores in the new year. We wrote it esp. for the youth environmental & climate activists. Plz help spread the word. www.bloomsbury.com/us/decoloniz...
Decolonizing Environmentalism
We live in a moment rife with mixed emotions-existential anxieties about catastrophic climate change, presumptuous confidence in planet-hacking geoengineering t…
www.bloomsbury.com

This is such a timely and impactful research project. Congratulations, @danielaldrich.bsky.social and co-authors.
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com

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COP30 fails to land deal on fossil fuel transition but triples finance for climate adaptation
www.climatechangenews.com/2025/11/22/c...
What happened at COP30? No fossil fuels deal reached
The UN Climate Change summit held in Belem ended with countries failing to deliver fossil fuel transition and deforestation roadmaps
www.climatechangenews.com
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com

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California finally updated its 15-year-old #landfill methane regulation, including critical measures to strengthen oversight and monitoring of the toxic air contaminants released along with methane that have made so many seriously ill. #ChiquitaCanyon #LMR
insideclimatenews.org/news/2011202...
California Is Finally Updating Its Methane Landfill Rule - Inside Climate News
California regulators voted on Thursday to update a 15-year-old rule controlling emissions of methane from municipal landfills, the second-largest source of the climate super pollutant in the state.  ...
insideclimatenews.org

Scheduling a G20 meeting to start even before Cop30 would have concluded is telling.

"A US boycott and sharp words -South Africa’s G20 summit opens under cloud." www.npr.org/2025/11/21/n...
South Africa hosts G20 as tensions with U.S. flare amid boycott
The U.S. boycotts South Africa's G20 summit, sparking a diplomatic spat and throwing the global gathering into turmoil.
www.npr.org

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From an October 2nd opinion piece comparing fascism in the USA and Hungary:

“But what they [MAGA and other Trumpian imitators] fail to notice are the long-term consequences of corruption, poverty, diminished living standards — and, crucially, a soured public.”
#USDemocracy
The Orbán-MAGA playbook will fail to deliver
Very few following in Hungary’s footsteps are willing to recognize the long-term outcomes of a deteriorating economy, crumbling basic services and a soured public.
www.politico.eu

Grateful to @biologicaldiversity.org for this ☝🏽 ungated report issued in public interest.

"The Trump EPA approved the highly persistent pesticide isocycloseram, a “forever chemical,” for golf courses, lawns & food crops such as oranges, tomatoes, almonds, peas, & oats. The administration plans to approve 3 more PFAS pesticides in the coming year." biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
Trump EPA Approves Its Second ‘Forever Chemical’ Pesticide in Two Weeks
The Environmental Protection Agency today approved the highly persistent pesticide isocycloseram for golf courses, lawns and food crops such as oranges, tomatoes, almonds, peas, and oats. The pesticid...
biologicaldiversity.org

"..former colonial powers claim that colonialism wasn't prohibited under international law...and, therefore, no legal obligation to provide reparations exists. They also often defend their role in causing climate change by arguing that they were unaware of the harm" www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
True climate justice demands a reckoning with colonialism
By acknowledging how empire deepened climate vulnerability, the African Court can do what the ICJ refused to.
www.aljazeera.com
This is utterly outrageous by the Group of Eight unis, and deeply insulting and undermining for environment and climate experts trying their hardest to achieve a more sustainable future for society. Shameful stuff.
1/ No surpirise that Business Council of Australia's leading the charge for further regressive changes to Watt's already regressive EPBC package

But 🤯 that the Group of 8 Unis (ANU, Monash, UAdelaide, UMelb, UNSW, USyd, UQ, UWA) have signed the 'Letter from the Alliance of 26 industry Groups' 🤬🤬🤬
Alliance of Industry Groups: Letter on EPBC - Business Council of Australia
www.bca.com.au

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists #Climate
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
“At COP28, Vanuatu and Tuvalu lead the call for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty to address climate crisis”
thebulletin.org

Hope everyone at COP30, including local staff, are safe.
Have just been sent this video from inside the pavilion area. Standing outside now as fire engines scream past to respond.

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So much for "Canada is back!".
🇨🇦 now seen as a global pariah state when it comes to climate action.
Canada Receives Fossil of the Day Award at COP30 Climate Summit www.theenergymix.com/canada-recei...
Canada Receives Fossil of the Day Award at COP30 Climate Summit
Canada received Tuesday’s Fossil of the Day award at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil. The award, bestowed by Climate Action Network International, recognizes the country deemed to have done ...
www.theenergymix.com
To everyone saying that people in our military already know not to follow unlawful orders, how do you explain almost 100 civilians murdered on fishing boats in the Caribbean so far?

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Have just been sent this video from inside the pavilion area. Standing outside now as fire engines scream past to respond.

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I'm dense when it comes to finance, so the fact that I got to a point of understanding how utilities earn profit and why they should or shouldn't earn less means you can too. I stayed up till 3am trying to explain in an accessible way. Hopefully it was worth it!
heatmap.news/energy/calif...
What If Utilities Just Made Less Money?
California energy companies are asking for permission to take in more revenue. Consumer advocates are having none of it.
heatmap.news

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Why do global environmental institutions multiply and persist even when they seem unable to address biodiversity loss and environmental governance failures effectively?

Our new OA article with @jacquelinebest.bsky.social in @risjnl.bsky.social tries to answer this question. 1/7

cup.org/4hZNlcX
Failure-proof or failure-prone? The paradoxes of global biodiversity institutions | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Failure-proof or failure-prone? The paradoxes of global biodiversity institutions
cup.org

Brilliant!

☝🏽Word

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New York - Support For Increasing Taxes On The Top 5% Of Income Earners:

Support: 60%
Oppose: 32%

Siena / Nov 12, 2025

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Private profit motives ensure thst insurance companies don't respond to risk reduction efforts by communities. www.npr.org/2025/11/13/n...
Communities are reducing wildfire risk. Will their insurance bills go down?
Insurance companies are dropping customers as the cost of disasters goes up. Some communities in California are working to reduce their risk, but so far, insurance companies often aren't factoring tha...
www.npr.org

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"More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists have been granted access to the Cop30 climate negotiations in Belém, significantly outnumbering every single country’s delegation apart from the host Brazil, new analysis has found."

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com
Before anyone gets too carried away here.
Anthony Fauci says Marjorie Taylor Greene drove death threats against him
Ex-leader of US Covid response said congresswoman and Fox News sparked ‘credible death threats’ against him and his family
www.theguardian.com