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CCM’s @petermckillop.bsky.social looks at the failure of COP30, and contrasts the facts of the rapid energy transition with the fictions of fossil fuel industry insiders like Exxon CEO Darren Woods’ calls for “climate realism”.
COP30: Fact and fiction - Climate and Capital Media
The fossil fuel industry’s tall tales have swept up more corporate giants than Epstein’s Lolita Express
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December 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
CCM’s @petermckillop.bsky.social looks at the failure of COP30, and contrasts the facts of the rapid energy transition with the fictions of fossil fuel industry insiders like Exxon CEO Darren Woods’ calls for “climate realism”.
As the dust settles on another less-than-satisfying #COP in Brazil, the C&C team with @blairpalese.bsky.social is back with our bi-annual list of the best climate books to give or to dive into over the holiday downtime. 👇
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The best climate books to give and read over the holidays
Fiction and nonfiction picks (some quite uplifting) for closing out 2025
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December 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
As the dust settles on another less-than-satisfying #COP in Brazil, the C&C team with @blairpalese.bsky.social is back with our bi-annual list of the best climate books to give or to dive into over the holiday downtime. 👇
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www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/the-best-cli...
Transition minerals are vital to #CleanEnergy — but their extraction can be resource-intensive, polluting & ecologically destructive. ⚠️🌱
Chinese firms sit at the heart of the global transition mineral supply chain, writes Chen Yu of @globalwitness.org
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Chinese firms sit at the heart of the global transition mineral supply chain, writes Chen Yu of @globalwitness.org
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China needs to clean up its clean energy supply chain
What mining companies are doing — and not — to ensure a just transition in overseas operations
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December 3, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Transition minerals are vital to #CleanEnergy — but their extraction can be resource-intensive, polluting & ecologically destructive. ⚠️🌱
Chinese firms sit at the heart of the global transition mineral supply chain, writes Chen Yu of @globalwitness.org
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/china-needs-...
Chinese firms sit at the heart of the global transition mineral supply chain, writes Chen Yu of @globalwitness.org
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/china-needs-...
The UK Nature’s Rights Bill is a “radical proposal to change the legal status of Nature,” by recognising Nature as a legal subject with rights & integrating them into all law, finance & governance, says Mumta Ito. 🌿⚖️
Read more 👇
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Read more 👇
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How the UK Nature’s Rights Bill seeks to reshape environmental and financial governance
With mounting nature-related damage, the bill is a blueprint for hardwiring environmental stability in law and accelerating nature-based investments
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:36 AM
The UK Nature’s Rights Bill is a “radical proposal to change the legal status of Nature,” by recognising Nature as a legal subject with rights & integrating them into all law, finance & governance, says Mumta Ito. 🌿⚖️
Read more 👇
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Read more 👇
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🏭 Steel makes up to 7% of global emissions.
A new @scurveeconomics.bsky.social report says, “Instead of pressuring old tech, governments should start by supporting the new.”
#CleanSteel subsidies + tariff exemptions could make the transition real.
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/the-transiti...
A new @scurveeconomics.bsky.social report says, “Instead of pressuring old tech, governments should start by supporting the new.”
#CleanSteel subsidies + tariff exemptions could make the transition real.
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/the-transiti...
The transition to clean steel will be easier if governments stop looking at it back-to-front
Policy and diplomacy should focus more on growing the markets for clean steel, and less on incremental emissions reductions
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:39 AM
🏭 Steel makes up to 7% of global emissions.
A new @scurveeconomics.bsky.social report says, “Instead of pressuring old tech, governments should start by supporting the new.”
#CleanSteel subsidies + tariff exemptions could make the transition real.
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/the-transiti...
A new @scurveeconomics.bsky.social report says, “Instead of pressuring old tech, governments should start by supporting the new.”
#CleanSteel subsidies + tariff exemptions could make the transition real.
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/the-transiti...
CCM’s @petermckillop.bsky.social looks at the failure of COP30, and contrasts the facts of the rapid energy transition with the fictions of fossil fuel industry insiders like Exxon CEO Darren Woods’ calls for “climate realism”.
COP30: Fact and fiction - Climate and Capital Media
The fossil fuel industry’s tall tales have swept up more corporate giants than Epstein’s Lolita Express
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:43 AM
CCM’s @petermckillop.bsky.social looks at the failure of COP30, and contrasts the facts of the rapid energy transition with the fictions of fossil fuel industry insiders like Exxon CEO Darren Woods’ calls for “climate realism”.
💲 G20 countries should support efforts to reduce the dominance of the dollar in the global economy and promote the use of local currencies for trade and finance to reduce systemic risk, according to a group of thinktanks.
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/g20-should-s...
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G20 should support de-dollarisation of global economy, say experts
G20 countries should support efforts to reduce the dominance of the dollar in the global economy and promote the use of local currencies for trade and finance to reduce systemic risk.
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November 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
💲 G20 countries should support efforts to reduce the dominance of the dollar in the global economy and promote the use of local currencies for trade and finance to reduce systemic risk, according to a group of thinktanks.
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/g20-should-s...
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/g20-should-s...
CCM’s @petermckillop.bsky.social looks at the failure of COP30, and contrasts the facts of the rapid energy transition with the fictions of fossil fuel industry insiders like Exxon CEO Darren Woods’ calls for “climate realism”.
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/cop30-fact-a...
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/cop30-fact-a...
COP30: Fact and fiction
The fossil fuel industry’s tall tales have swept up more corporate giants than Epstein’s Lolita Express
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
CCM’s @petermckillop.bsky.social looks at the failure of COP30, and contrasts the facts of the rapid energy transition with the fictions of fossil fuel industry insiders like Exxon CEO Darren Woods’ calls for “climate realism”.
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/cop30-fact-a...
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/cop30-fact-a...
#COP30 made abundantly clear that as long as petrostates can block any action the whole structure of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change is no longer fit for purpose, writes @hlovins.bsky.social in her final report from Cop30 in Brazil.
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Dispatch from COP: Leaving “Belhell” behind — but for what?
COP30 was a big loss; We have a better way
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November 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM
#COP30 made abundantly clear that as long as petrostates can block any action the whole structure of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change is no longer fit for purpose, writes @hlovins.bsky.social in her final report from Cop30 in Brazil.
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/dispatch-fro...
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/dispatch-fro...
CCM’s @petermckillop.bsky.social looks at the failure of COP30, and contrasts the facts of the rapid energy transition with the fictions of fossil fuel industry insiders like Exxon CEO Darren Woods’ calls for “climate realism”.
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/cop30-fact-a...
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/cop30-fact-a...
COP30: Fact and fiction
The fossil fuel industry’s tall tales have swept up more corporate giants than Epstein’s Lolita Express
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
CCM’s @petermckillop.bsky.social looks at the failure of COP30, and contrasts the facts of the rapid energy transition with the fictions of fossil fuel industry insiders like Exxon CEO Darren Woods’ calls for “climate realism”.
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/cop30-fact-a...
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/cop30-fact-a...
💲 G20 countries should support efforts to reduce the dominance of the dollar in the global economy and promote the use of local currencies for trade and finance to reduce systemic risk, according to a group of thinktanks.
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/g20-should-s...
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/g20-should-s...
G20 should support de-dollarisation of global economy, say experts
G20 countries should support efforts to reduce the dominance of the dollar in the global economy and promote the use of local currencies for trade and finance to reduce systemic risk.
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
💲 G20 countries should support efforts to reduce the dominance of the dollar in the global economy and promote the use of local currencies for trade and finance to reduce systemic risk, according to a group of thinktanks.
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/g20-should-s...
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/g20-should-s...
In the final stages of #COP30 @hlovins.bsky.social reports on stalled negotiations, a dramatic fire and pleas for a deal from the organisers and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
Read the full article to find out more: www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/dispatch-fro...
Read the full article to find out more: www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/dispatch-fro...
Dispatch from COP: Another World Series goes into extra innings
With every player allowed to veto at COP30 in Belém, can anyone win?
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November 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
In the final stages of #COP30 @hlovins.bsky.social reports on stalled negotiations, a dramatic fire and pleas for a deal from the organisers and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
Read the full article to find out more: www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/dispatch-fro...
Read the full article to find out more: www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/dispatch-fro...
At #COP30, #ClimateAction was overwhelmed by the irresistible lure of soybeans. 🫘
As China shifts from US to South American soy, deforestation is accelerating in the Amazon and Gran Chaco. 🪵🪚
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As China shifts from US to South American soy, deforestation is accelerating in the Amazon and Gran Chaco. 🪵🪚
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China’s surging soybean imports from Brazil and Argentina accelerate Amazon deforestation
Loosened regulations and expanded exports threaten irreplaceable ecosystems
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November 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
At #COP30, #ClimateAction was overwhelmed by the irresistible lure of soybeans. 🫘
As China shifts from US to South American soy, deforestation is accelerating in the Amazon and Gran Chaco. 🪵🪚
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/chinas-surgi...
As China shifts from US to South American soy, deforestation is accelerating in the Amazon and Gran Chaco. 🪵🪚
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/chinas-surgi...
The UK Nature’s Rights Bill is a “radical proposal to change the legal status of Nature,” by recognising Nature as a legal subject with rights & integrating them into all law, finance & governance, says Mumta Ito. 🌿⚖️
Read more 👇
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/how-the-uk-n...
Read more 👇
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/how-the-uk-n...
How the UK Nature’s Rights Bill seeks to reshape environmental and financial governance
With mounting nature-related damage, the bill is a blueprint for hardwiring environmental stability in law and accelerating nature-based investments
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The UK Nature’s Rights Bill is a “radical proposal to change the legal status of Nature,” by recognising Nature as a legal subject with rights & integrating them into all law, finance & governance, says Mumta Ito. 🌿⚖️
Read more 👇
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/how-the-uk-n...
Read more 👇
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Reporting from #COP30 in Belém, @hlovins.bsky.social of NOW Partners Foundation is promoting mainstream regenerative agriculture & agroforestry
Read the latest updates 👇
Read the latest updates 👇
Dispatch from COP: We turn up the heat in Belém - Climate and Capital Media
UN’s COP30: Greater impact from conversations than COP itself
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Reporting from #COP30 in Belém, @hlovins.bsky.social of NOW Partners Foundation is promoting mainstream regenerative agriculture & agroforestry
Read the latest updates 👇
Read the latest updates 👇
🔥 @hlovins.bsky.social reports from #COP30 in Belém, where heat, riot police & monkeys are shaping the week.🐒
Lovins quotes @ed-king.bsky.social, one of the best commentators on all things COP:
“As the world heated, the minds of 194 countries melted.”
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/dispatch-fro...
Lovins quotes @ed-king.bsky.social, one of the best commentators on all things COP:
“As the world heated, the minds of 194 countries melted.”
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/dispatch-fro...
Dispatch from COP: Heat, riot police, and… monkeys
Running the gauntlet at the Blue Zone
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November 20, 2025 at 10:09 AM
🔥 @hlovins.bsky.social reports from #COP30 in Belém, where heat, riot police & monkeys are shaping the week.🐒
Lovins quotes @ed-king.bsky.social, one of the best commentators on all things COP:
“As the world heated, the minds of 194 countries melted.”
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/dispatch-fro...
Lovins quotes @ed-king.bsky.social, one of the best commentators on all things COP:
“As the world heated, the minds of 194 countries melted.”
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/dispatch-fro...
Citicore Renewable Energy Corp of the Philippines has secured a $55M loan to launch 11 utility-scale solar + battery projects
The deal marks the real launch of FAST-P, a blended-finance initiative of Monetary Authority of Singapore.💰
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#ClimateFinance
The deal marks the real launch of FAST-P, a blended-finance initiative of Monetary Authority of Singapore.💰
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#ClimateFinance
Here comes the sun: Philippines project lands first Singapore-backed FAST-P green loan
Inaugural deal in blended-finance scheme backs major solar push
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November 20, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Citicore Renewable Energy Corp of the Philippines has secured a $55M loan to launch 11 utility-scale solar + battery projects
The deal marks the real launch of FAST-P, a blended-finance initiative of Monetary Authority of Singapore.💰
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/here-comes-t...
#ClimateFinance
The deal marks the real launch of FAST-P, a blended-finance initiative of Monetary Authority of Singapore.💰
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/here-comes-t...
#ClimateFinance
🏭 Steel makes up to 7% of global emissions.
A new @scurveeconomics.bsky.social report says, “Instead of pressuring old tech, governments should start by supporting the new.”
#CleanSteel subsidies + tariff exemptions could make the transition real.
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/the-transiti...
A new @scurveeconomics.bsky.social report says, “Instead of pressuring old tech, governments should start by supporting the new.”
#CleanSteel subsidies + tariff exemptions could make the transition real.
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/the-transiti...
The transition to clean steel will be easier if governments stop looking at it back-to-front
Policy and diplomacy should focus more on growing the markets for clean steel, and less on incremental emissions reductions
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
🏭 Steel makes up to 7% of global emissions.
A new @scurveeconomics.bsky.social report says, “Instead of pressuring old tech, governments should start by supporting the new.”
#CleanSteel subsidies + tariff exemptions could make the transition real.
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/the-transiti...
A new @scurveeconomics.bsky.social report says, “Instead of pressuring old tech, governments should start by supporting the new.”
#CleanSteel subsidies + tariff exemptions could make the transition real.
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/the-transiti...
The UK Nature’s Rights Bill is a “radical proposal to change the legal status of Nature,” by recognising Nature as a legal subject with rights & integrating them into all law, finance & governance, says Mumta Ito. 🌿⚖️
Read more 👇
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/how-the-uk-n...
Read more 👇
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/how-the-uk-n...
How the UK Nature’s Rights Bill seeks to reshape environmental and financial governance
With mounting nature-related damage, the bill is a blueprint for hardwiring environmental stability in law and accelerating nature-based investments
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The UK Nature’s Rights Bill is a “radical proposal to change the legal status of Nature,” by recognising Nature as a legal subject with rights & integrating them into all law, finance & governance, says Mumta Ito. 🌿⚖️
Read more 👇
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/how-the-uk-n...
Read more 👇
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/how-the-uk-n...
Reporting from #COP30 in Belém, @hlovins.bsky.social of NOW Partners Foundation is promoting mainstream regenerative agriculture & agroforestry
Read the latest updates 👇
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/dispatch-fro...
Read the latest updates 👇
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/dispatch-fro...
Dispatch from COP: We turn up the heat in Belém
UN’s COP30: Greater impact from conversations than COP itself
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Reporting from #COP30 in Belém, @hlovins.bsky.social of NOW Partners Foundation is promoting mainstream regenerative agriculture & agroforestry
Read the latest updates 👇
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/dispatch-fro...
Read the latest updates 👇
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/dispatch-fro...
The #AI energy arms race is testing the limits of our infrastructure — and making us rethink how we can power progress.
Wendy Chen of @yunimpact.bsky.social shares why solar is key to AI’s energy arms race 👇
Wendy Chen of @yunimpact.bsky.social shares why solar is key to AI’s energy arms race 👇
Why solar is key to AI’s energy arms race - Climate and Capital Media
Who would have thought private equity would suddenly be so excited about solar?
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November 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The #AI energy arms race is testing the limits of our infrastructure — and making us rethink how we can power progress.
Wendy Chen of @yunimpact.bsky.social shares why solar is key to AI’s energy arms race 👇
Wendy Chen of @yunimpact.bsky.social shares why solar is key to AI’s energy arms race 👇
The @globalsolarcouncil.bsky.social is at #COP30 with a bold new target: 300 Million Solar Homes by 2030—to deliver clean, reliable, affordable power
@petermckillop.bsky.social: solar power is on its way to being as cheap & ubiquitous as the internet.
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/australia-of...
@petermckillop.bsky.social: solar power is on its way to being as cheap & ubiquitous as the internet.
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/australia-of...
Australia offers free solar power, one roof at a time
Home solar is a node in a vast, decentralized clean power network
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November 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The @globalsolarcouncil.bsky.social is at #COP30 with a bold new target: 300 Million Solar Homes by 2030—to deliver clean, reliable, affordable power
@petermckillop.bsky.social: solar power is on its way to being as cheap & ubiquitous as the internet.
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/australia-of...
@petermckillop.bsky.social: solar power is on its way to being as cheap & ubiquitous as the internet.
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/australia-of...
🔥 @hlovins.bsky.social reports from #COP30 in Belém, where heat, riot police & monkeys are shaping the week.🐒
Lovins quotes @ed-king.bsky.social, one of the best commentators on all things COP:
“As the world heated, the minds of 194 countries melted.”
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/dispatch-fro...
Lovins quotes @ed-king.bsky.social, one of the best commentators on all things COP:
“As the world heated, the minds of 194 countries melted.”
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/dispatch-fro...
Dispatch from COP: Heat, riot police, and… monkeys
Running the gauntlet at the Blue Zone
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 AM
🔥 @hlovins.bsky.social reports from #COP30 in Belém, where heat, riot police & monkeys are shaping the week.🐒
Lovins quotes @ed-king.bsky.social, one of the best commentators on all things COP:
“As the world heated, the minds of 194 countries melted.”
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/dispatch-fro...
Lovins quotes @ed-king.bsky.social, one of the best commentators on all things COP:
“As the world heated, the minds of 194 countries melted.”
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/dispatch-fro...
Read Climate and Capital Media contributing editor, @hlovins.bsky.social’ first on-the-ground report from #COP30 in Belém in the Brazilian Amazon.
Dispatch from COP: Hunter Lovins arrives at COP30 in sweltering ‘Belhell’ Belém - Climate and Capital Media
‘30 Years of climate talks, emissions doubled, but I’m still fighting’
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November 17, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Read Climate and Capital Media contributing editor, @hlovins.bsky.social’ first on-the-ground report from #COP30 in Belém in the Brazilian Amazon.
The Global North builds power through clubs. The Global South needs them too.🌍
“Green clubs” that aggregate purchasing, production or investment power could transform how the Global South navigates the #GreenTransition says @nicogrimblatt.bsky.social
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“Green clubs” that aggregate purchasing, production or investment power could transform how the Global South navigates the #GreenTransition says @nicogrimblatt.bsky.social
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Beyond COP: The Global South needs strategic ‘clubs’ to leverage economic power and accelerate its Green Transition
The Global North gains power through political and economic associations. The Global South needs collective bargaining power, too.
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November 16, 2025 at 5:33 AM
The Global North builds power through clubs. The Global South needs them too.🌍
“Green clubs” that aggregate purchasing, production or investment power could transform how the Global South navigates the #GreenTransition says @nicogrimblatt.bsky.social
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/beyond-cop-t...
“Green clubs” that aggregate purchasing, production or investment power could transform how the Global South navigates the #GreenTransition says @nicogrimblatt.bsky.social
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/beyond-cop-t...