Andy Norton
@andynortondev.bsky.social
Following climate science, climate finance/politics. Applied anthropologist. Professor of Practice SOAS.
My daughter's course is being disrupted by industrial action. Sympathise with the staff who are taking action over cuts but it really is a downward spiral if you are asking kids to get hugely into debt and they are not getting what they pay for.
November 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
My daughter's course is being disrupted by industrial action. Sympathise with the staff who are taking action over cuts but it really is a downward spiral if you are asking kids to get hugely into debt and they are not getting what they pay for.
Worth a look - the role of ethnographic research in implementing just transition policies - enables a focus on power, who has access to information and support. How to deal with political economy blockages could be more in the foreground.. Based on Mpumalanga case study www.iisd.org/publications...
Ethnographic Research as a Tool for More Inclusive Just Transition Policies
This report explores how ethnographic methods can build trust and inclusion in South Africa's just energy transition.
www.iisd.org
November 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Worth a look - the role of ethnographic research in implementing just transition policies - enables a focus on power, who has access to information and support. How to deal with political economy blockages could be more in the foreground.. Based on Mpumalanga case study www.iisd.org/publications...
Thanks to @ed-king.bsky.social for this entertaining and useful daily briefing on COP30 climatediplobrief.substack.com/p/climate-di...
Climate Diplomacy Brief - COP30 day 5
Protests, therapy, massage, yoga & a fossil fuel roadmap
climatediplobrief.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Thanks to @ed-king.bsky.social for this entertaining and useful daily briefing on COP30 climatediplobrief.substack.com/p/climate-di...
GCF's Locally Led Climate Action Framework and Guidance was launched this week at Belem. It's a good piece of work... www.greenclimate.fund/document/gcf...
GCF’s Locally Led Climate Action framework and guidance
This document elaborates guidance on advancing good locally led practices through GCF modalities. Part 1 introduces GCF’s parameters and approach to devolution in the GCF business model and elaborates...
www.greenclimate.fund
November 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
GCF's Locally Led Climate Action Framework and Guidance was launched this week at Belem. It's a good piece of work... www.greenclimate.fund/document/gcf...
First call for funding requests from FRLD at COP30 www.frld.org/nodebim
Barbados Implementation Modalities | The Fund for responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD)
1. Overview of the BIM
www.frld.org
November 12, 2025 at 6:51 AM
First call for funding requests from FRLD at COP30 www.frld.org/nodebim
China's GHG emissions will fall in 2025... www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions were unchanged from a year earlier in the third quarter of 2025, extending a flat or falling trend that started in March 2024.
www.carbonbrief.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
China's GHG emissions will fall in 2025... www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
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The fact that all large UK broadcasters continue to use X, an openly white supremacist platform that has been redesigned specifically to amplify far-right elites, is doing massive, real-time harm to the country.
November 11, 2025 at 9:34 AM
The fact that all large UK broadcasters continue to use X, an openly white supremacist platform that has been redesigned specifically to amplify far-right elites, is doing massive, real-time harm to the country.
Well, given that the process of agreeing a timeline for the next IPCC assessment cycle has become extremely politicised we can expect negotiation of the text to be far more fraught than in previous ones for sure. www.carbonbrief.org/ongoing-fail...
Ongoing failure to agree AR7 timeline is ‘unprecedented’ in IPCC history - Carbon Brief
Governments have, once again, failed to agree on a timeline for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) seventh assessment cycle (AR7)
www.carbonbrief.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Well, given that the process of agreeing a timeline for the next IPCC assessment cycle has become extremely politicised we can expect negotiation of the text to be far more fraught than in previous ones for sure. www.carbonbrief.org/ongoing-fail...
Only the most optimistic scenario in the 2025 Emissions Gap Report has warming being halted over the course of this century. www.unep.org/resources/em...
Emissions Gap Report 2025
UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report 2025: Off Target finds that available new climate pledges under the Paris Agreement have only slightly lowered global temperature rise over the course of this century, leav...
www.unep.org
November 9, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Only the most optimistic scenario in the 2025 Emissions Gap Report has warming being halted over the course of this century. www.unep.org/resources/em...
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Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions rise again in 2024, up 2.3%.
This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement.
www.unep.org/resources/em...
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This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement.
www.unep.org/resources/em...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions rise again in 2024, up 2.3%.
This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement.
www.unep.org/resources/em...
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This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement.
www.unep.org/resources/em...
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Nice piece on Zohran Mamdani by the always-excellent David Wallace-Wells. The author knows NYC well and I learned a lot from his account of the way Mamdani sits in the political landscape of the city. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/o...
Opinion | Why Mamdani Won
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Nice piece on Zohran Mamdani by the always-excellent David Wallace-Wells. The author knows NYC well and I learned a lot from his account of the way Mamdani sits in the political landscape of the city. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/o...
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November's #Climate Diplomacy Brief is out - all you need to know ahead of #COP30 - daily from 10 Nov
Inc focus on what LDCs, Africa Group + AOSIS want in Belem
Inc focus on what LDCs, Africa Group + AOSIS want in Belem
Climate Diplomacy Briefing - November 2025
All you need to know ahead of COP30
climatediplobrief.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Following on from my post yesterday, in case there was any doubt, Trump is threatening war with Nigeria.
Nigeria has a population of nearly 233 million.
Nigeria has a population of nearly 233 million.
November 1, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Following on from my post yesterday, in case there was any doubt, Trump is threatening war with Nigeria.
Nigeria has a population of nearly 233 million.
Nigeria has a population of nearly 233 million.
The political crisis in Mali is getting worse - grim report here. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
How al-Qaida-linked jihadist group JNIM is bringing Mali to its knees
Political instability and fuel shortages caused by rebel group is driving Mali to brink of becoming Islamist republic
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The political crisis in Mali is getting worse - grim report here. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
US team deployed threats to individual negotiators to derail the deal on shipping emissions... www.lloydslist.com/LL1155148/Th...
The IMO and the law of the jungle
The IMO has delayed its big climate vote for a year, avoiding its moment of truth on adopting the world’s first global carbon price. The anticlimax leaves shipping in the green purgatory to which it has become accustomed
www.lloydslist.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:50 AM
US team deployed threats to individual negotiators to derail the deal on shipping emissions... www.lloydslist.com/LL1155148/Th...
Jack DeJohnette was an astounding musician - never seen a more remarkable drummer. Love the quotes from him here. RIP. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
Jack DeJohnette was more than a jazz drummer – his staggering range made him a superhuman force in music
With a complex playing style that was nevertheless generous towards other musicians, the US musician was in a category all of his own
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Jack DeJohnette was an astounding musician - never seen a more remarkable drummer. Love the quotes from him here. RIP. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
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The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker.
And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.
No more.
And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.
No more.
My Message to Muslim New Yorkers — and Everyone Who Calls This City Home.
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
www.youtube.com
October 25, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker.
And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.
No more.
And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.
No more.
Heart wrenching human stories from the fisheries of South Korea. The profits of fossil fuel companies and the corruption it has bred particularly in the US killing livelihoods and decent humans - just one little scene in a global tragedy. www.bbc.com/news/article...
South Korea's fishermen keep dying. Is climate change to blame?
An increase in deadly incidents has been partly caused by climate change, an inquiry found.
www.bbc.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Heart wrenching human stories from the fisheries of South Korea. The profits of fossil fuel companies and the corruption it has bred particularly in the US killing livelihoods and decent humans - just one little scene in a global tragedy. www.bbc.com/news/article...
FT editorial (gift link) on the US killing action on maritime emissions. More broadly we can clearly expect the US to back fossil fuel interests anywhere, any time for the rest of this presidency. Bleak. on.ft.com/4ngBAQs
Trump’s victory for fossil fuels in shipping
US pressure has derailed a landmark deal to curb maritime carbon emissions
on.ft.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
FT editorial (gift link) on the US killing action on maritime emissions. More broadly we can clearly expect the US to back fossil fuel interests anywhere, any time for the rest of this presidency. Bleak. on.ft.com/4ngBAQs
Awful news, but why would anyone be surprised? US with assistance from Saudi Arabia has effectively killed the deal to decabonise shipping. & what a joke for the US to claim their concern in consumer prices after applying tariff taxes at massive scale to US consumers www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Landmark global shipping deal abandoned under US threats
President Trump intervened in the talks calling the deal a
www.bbc.co.uk
October 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Awful news, but why would anyone be surprised? US with assistance from Saudi Arabia has effectively killed the deal to decabonise shipping. & what a joke for the US to claim their concern in consumer prices after applying tariff taxes at massive scale to US consumers www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Pretty depressing end to the week, as the Trump administration gets the diplomatic thumbscrews out and forces a delay to previously agreed plans for the IMO to at least try and do something about the shipping industry's greenhouse gas emissions.
www.businessgreen.com/news/4520604...
www.businessgreen.com/news/4520604...
'Missed opportunity': Countries vote to delay approval of landmark global shipping CO2 levy
Slim majority of countries vote to push back decision on climate scheme by a year, after intense lobbying from the Trump administration
www.businessgreen.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Pretty depressing end to the week, as the Trump administration gets the diplomatic thumbscrews out and forces a delay to previously agreed plans for the IMO to at least try and do something about the shipping industry's greenhouse gas emissions.
www.businessgreen.com/news/4520604...
www.businessgreen.com/news/4520604...
Shipping climate levies deal in London likely to go through... on.ft.com/479Zx5P
Trump campaign to block global shipping emissions deal falters
US set to be faced down by industry powers, including China, EU, India and UK
on.ft.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Shipping climate levies deal in London likely to go through... on.ft.com/479Zx5P
So in our wisdom we have given the main contract for NHS data management to a company run by this malevolent fruitcake www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist
The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
So in our wisdom we have given the main contract for NHS data management to a company run by this malevolent fruitcake www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Musk meeting Yaxley-Lennon / Tommy Robinson court case legal costs is another sign of undue political interference in the UK. That continues to bode ill for the future.
October 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Musk meeting Yaxley-Lennon / Tommy Robinson court case legal costs is another sign of undue political interference in the UK. That continues to bode ill for the future.