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Peter Bosshard

@peterbosshard.bsky.social

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Campaign adviser, blogger (SwissClimateRambles.substack.com) and mentor. Retired campaign manager with the Sunrise Project, Insure Our Future, International Rivers and the Public Eye.

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Peter Bosshard @peterbosshard.bsky.social · Dec 4

😉 Bluesky thinks I'm "the Swiss Army Knife of Climate Advocacy, with a flair for Alpine aesthetics". 😉

Get your own friendly assessment at blueskyroast.com!

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: GLOBAL RENEWABLES OVERTAKES COAL

How the heck did that happen so quickly?!...🧵

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Peter Bosshard @peterbosshard.bsky.social · 5d

A dark-money MAGA group targets a leading insurer because it (wait for it) “recognizes the reality of climate change”. Will insurers abandon basic principles to please Trump and his fossil fuel backers? My commentary on the #SwissClimateRambles blog. swissclimaterambles.substack.com/p/will-insur...?

Will insurers abandon climate science to please Trump?

Leading insurance company attacked for recognizing climate change

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 16d

China has explicitly named solar, wind and EVs at the heart of its NDC.

Solar and wind are not a scam, they are the real deal💪

Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 16d

FULL TEXT: Unofficial transcript of remarks delivered by China's president Xi Jinping to the UN climate action summit, including the outlines of China's 2035 climate pledge

docs.google.com/docu...

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · Aug 2

BBC News, "The BBC World Service has compiled material on over 160 cases where children have been shot in Gaza and found that in 95 cases the child was shot in the head or the chest"

"In most these cases, the victim was under 12 years old"

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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 22d

When the world's biggest insurer says climate change has pushed traditional home insurance to its limits, it's already too late to start preparing. And we are in no way ready for a post-insurance world.

Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Home Insurance as You Know It Is Doomed. You’re Not Ready.

The remedies for homeowners so far aren’t preparing them for a financially stable existence as the risk of disaster increases.

www.bloomberg.com

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Peter Bosshard @peterbosshard.bsky.social · 23d

#SolarPower is growing faster than any other power source in history, and is silently transforming the global energy sector. If you’re hungry for some #GoodNews, read this brief summary of the latest evidence from @ember-energy.org and Bill McKibben. swissclimaterambles.substack.com/p/how-solar-...

How solar power is silently transforming the global energy sector

Renewable energy accounted for 93% of new global power capacity last year.

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Peter Bosshard @peterbosshard.bsky.social · 23d

Excellent letter in the FT from @reclaimfinance.org’s Ariel le Bourdonnec. #InsureOurFuture share.google/nPRZubOcCvwf...

Letter: Lloyd’s cannot shirk its responsibility to battle climate change

From Ariel Le Bourdonnec, Insurance Campaigner, Reclaim Finance, Paris, France

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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · 23d

The summer is over - and for about 16,600 people across 854 European cities that doesn't mean autumn comes, but death. People who would still be alive if it wasn't for our burning of fossil fuels. - New study with @lshtm.bsky.social www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 24d

This is a direct result of EU's carbon tariffs. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

India to Spend $570 Million to Help Steel Companies Decarbonize

India plans to roll out a 50 billion rupee ($570 million) program to encourage steel producers to cut emissions, a top government official said.

www.bloomberg.com

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 24d

Robert Redford didn’t mince words about the fossil fuel industry. 😢

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 24d

NEW: IEA reiterates ‘no new oil and gas needed’ if global warming is limited to 1.5C (but this time, it only says so quietly)

🧵quick thread

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Peter Bosshard @peterbosshard.bsky.social · 25d

Muhammad is 7 years old and one of 2.38 million children in Gaza. I have never met him but am standing up for his right to live. #LetChildrenLive! #ChildrenOfGaza

Peter Bosshard @peterbosshard.bsky.social · 29d

By withdrawing from @sciencebasedtargets.org (SBTi), the gold standard setter of corporate climate targets, Swiss Re has just made a strong case for stronger climate regulation. Check out my comment on the #SwissClimateRambles blog at swissclimaterambles.substack.com/p/swiss-re-d....

Swiss Re demonstrates the limits of voluntary climate commitments

Reinsurance leader withdraws from global effort to set and validate climate targets

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Peter Bosshard @peterbosshard.bsky.social · 29d

Swiss courts tend to be conservative but the plaintiffs have a strong case. We can certainly hope!

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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · Sep 9

"Last year, more than 90 percent of wind and solar projects commissioned worldwide produced power more cheaply than the cheapest available fossil-fuel alternative."

‘China Is the Engine’ Driving Nations Away From Fossil Fuels, Report Says

www.nytimes.com

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Peter Bosshard @peterbosshard.bsky.social · Sep 5

As long as it's legal, we'll do it, the new Lloyd's CEO says. Will Lloyd's, the insurer of the Atlantic slave trade, soon underwrite forced labor in North Korea and Turkmenistan? Prison labor in China? Cluster bombs in Myanmar and Syria?

Peter Bosshard @peterbosshard.bsky.social · Sep 4

Ethics be dammed: if local laws allow it, our insurers can underwrite it, the new boss of Lloyd's says. Will Lloyd's, the insurer of the Atlantic slave trade, soon underwrite forced labor in NKorea and Turkmenistan? Prison labor in China? Cluster bombs in Myanmar and Syria? tinyurl.com/bp2s7der

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Peter Bosshard @peterbosshard.bsky.social · Sep 3

For more information about the case, check out callforclimatejustice.org/en/climate-l... and the fantastic Bluesky thread from Sebastien Duyck‬ at bsky.app/profile/duyc...

Peter Bosshard @peterbosshard.bsky.social · Sep 3

In a pioneering #ClimateJustice case, Indonesian islanders are trying to hold cement giant #Holcim, Switzerland's biggest carbon emitter, to account for the climate damages it has caused. Read my report from today's court proceedings at open.substack.com/pub/swisscli...?

Switzerland’s biggest CO2 emitter in court over climate impacts

Four Indonesian islanders are suing Holcim for compensation in a pioneering legal case

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Dave Jones @cadavejones.bsky.social · Aug 30

University of California should not settle with Trump. Our democracy is at stake as Trump attacks the courts, lawyers, the media, the civil service, science, and universities. UC should sue, not settle.
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Contributor: Why California universities must fight Trump in court

If the prestigious UC schools give in, what’s to stop the president from shaking down every college in the country?

www.latimes.com

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · Aug 25

To be clear what happened here.

Israel bombed a hospital.

They waited for paramedics and first responders to arrive.

Then they bombed it again.

This is known as the 'double tap'.

You are watching unfathomable evil, armed and facilitated by the West.

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Peter Bosshard @peterbosshard.bsky.social · Aug 22

Strong statement on the #GazaFamine: "It is a famine within a few 100 meters of food in a fertile land, watched over by drones and the most advanced military technology in history."

Tom Fletcher @tomfletcherun.bsky.social · Aug 22

The Gaza Famine is the world’s famine. A preventable, predictable famine.

Enough. Ceasefire. Open all crossings, north and south. Let us get food in, unimpeded and at massive scale.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Aug 14

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · Aug 11

“In a report released this year, the Watson School of International and Public Affairs’ costs of war project said more journalists had been killed in Gaza than in both world wars, the Vietnam war, the wars in Yugoslavia and the US war in Afghanistan combined.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Global outrage mounts as funeral held for five journalists killed by Israel

Last post from Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif, one of ‘Gaza’s bravest journalists’, decries failure to stop ‘massacre’

www.theguardian.com

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Leila Molana-Allen @leilama.bsky.social · Aug 11

Our colleagues Al Jazeera reporters Anas al-Sharif & Mohammed Qraiqeh, & cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal & Moamen Aliwa have been killed in a strike on a tent for journalists near Al Shifa hospital. They worked relentlessly through bombing & hunger to document this war. Please remember them

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