David Simon
@urbandavidsimon.bsky.social
Professor @Royal Holloway, University of London; cities and climate change, IPCC Lead Author - AR7 special report on climate change and cities; Arid Cities Network; development theory, policy and practice; political ecology; transdisciplinarity.
Read more on the murky goings-on behind the scenes in Belém during the COP30 negotiations - CarbonBrief's analysis of contradictions and anomalies in the informal list of countries blocking mention of a transition from fossil fuels in the final declaration ... www.carbonbrief.org/revealed-lea...
Revealed: Leak casts doubt on COP30’s ‘informal list’ of fossil-fuel roadmap opponents - Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief has obtained a leaked copy of the “informal list” of countries that were characterised as “blocking” the fossil-fuel roadmap’sat COP30.
www.carbonbrief.org
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Read more on the murky goings-on behind the scenes in Belém during the COP30 negotiations - CarbonBrief's analysis of contradictions and anomalies in the informal list of countries blocking mention of a transition from fossil fuels in the final declaration ... www.carbonbrief.org/revealed-lea...
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🚨GOOD NEWS: Seabed mining blocked in the Cook Islands thanks to local resistance.
It’s a massive win for Pacific Peoples and communities fighting this emerging threat.
Don’t ever let them tell you people power doesn’t work!
It’s a massive win for Pacific Peoples and communities fighting this emerging threat.
Don’t ever let them tell you people power doesn’t work!
November 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
🚨GOOD NEWS: Seabed mining blocked in the Cook Islands thanks to local resistance.
It’s a massive win for Pacific Peoples and communities fighting this emerging threat.
Don’t ever let them tell you people power doesn’t work!
It’s a massive win for Pacific Peoples and communities fighting this emerging threat.
Don’t ever let them tell you people power doesn’t work!
A really important High Court verdict in Kenya that challenges the claimed hegemony of transnational corporations and their claims over IPR (intellectual property rights) against local and indigenous communities and small farmers over their own biological resources ...
🚨BREAKING: Kenyan court rules “sharing seeds is NOT a crime”
The High Court ruled in favour of smallholder farmers and their right to save, share and exchange their own seeds. 🌱
This is a landmark verdict for food sovereignty over corporate greed.
Learn more from @greenpeaceafrica.org ⬇️
The High Court ruled in favour of smallholder farmers and their right to save, share and exchange their own seeds. 🌱
This is a landmark verdict for food sovereignty over corporate greed.
Learn more from @greenpeaceafrica.org ⬇️
HISTORIC VICTORY: Kenyan Court Rules “Sharing Seeds is Not a Crime” in Landmark Verdict for Food Sovereignty - Greenpeace Africa
This judgment establishes powerful legal precedent globally, affirming that the ancient right of farmers to save and share seeds supersedes commercial interests, reshaping the legal balance of power b...
www.greenpeace.org
November 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
A really important High Court verdict in Kenya that challenges the claimed hegemony of transnational corporations and their claims over IPR (intellectual property rights) against local and indigenous communities and small farmers over their own biological resources ...
This is big: www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
Victory: Three oil fields in the North Sea declared illegal - Greenpeace International
Borgarting Court of Appeal agreed with Greenpeace Nordic and Natur og Ungdom that three oil fields in the Norwegian North Sea are illegal.
www.greenpeace.org
November 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This is big: www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
A timely reminder: x.com/drsimevans/s...
x.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
A timely reminder: x.com/drsimevans/s...
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🚨 It's really, really hard not to tire of the human race sometimes... 😢 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:38 AM
🚨 It's really, really hard not to tire of the human race sometimes... 😢 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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SHOCKING: Global use of coal hit record high in 2024.
We must change course, choosing a different path and making polluters, not people, pay.
We must change course, choosing a different path and making polluters, not people, pay.
Global use of coal hit record high in 2024
Bleak report finds greenhouse gas emissions are still rising despite ‘exponential’ growth of renewables
http://bit.ly/47Lu63e]
October 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
SHOCKING: Global use of coal hit record high in 2024.
We must change course, choosing a different path and making polluters, not people, pay.
We must change course, choosing a different path and making polluters, not people, pay.
‘I have it in my blood and brain … I still haven’t been able to shake this nightmare off.’ How voices from a forgotten archive of Nazi horrors are reshaping perceptions of the Holocaust
theconversation.com/i-have-it-in...
theconversation.com/i-have-it-in...
‘I have it in my blood and brain … I still haven’t been able to shake this nightmare off.’ How voices from a forgotten archive of Nazi horrors are reshaping perceptions of the Holocaust
The Ravensbrück archive reveals how being a survivor of the camps did not always entail innocence.
theconversation.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:46 AM
‘I have it in my blood and brain … I still haven’t been able to shake this nightmare off.’ How voices from a forgotten archive of Nazi horrors are reshaping perceptions of the Holocaust
theconversation.com/i-have-it-in...
theconversation.com/i-have-it-in...
The sad story of how one of my US colleagues lost his research funding from the federal government and the important work on urban heat and atmospheric greenhouse gases was shut down ...
He Studied How Emissions Are Heating Up U.S. Cities www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...
He Studied How Emissions Are Heating Up U.S. Cities www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...
He Studied How Emissions Are Heating Up U.S. Cities
www.nytimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The sad story of how one of my US colleagues lost his research funding from the federal government and the important work on urban heat and atmospheric greenhouse gases was shut down ...
He Studied How Emissions Are Heating Up U.S. Cities www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...
He Studied How Emissions Are Heating Up U.S. Cities www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...
More evidence of impact of anthropogenic warming on excess deaths during this year’s summer heat in Europe …
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Human-made global warming ‘caused two in three heat deaths in Europe this summer’
Researchers from Imperial College London say 16,500 deaths caused by hot weather brought on by greenhouse gases
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2025 at 8:29 AM
More evidence of impact of anthropogenic warming on excess deaths during this year’s summer heat in Europe …
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The American Geophysical Union (ASU) is documenting the scale and extent of the breathtaking assault on US climate science and policy: eos.org/research-and...
ASU editors also just published a scathing rebuttal of the Orwellian presidential executive order: doi.org/10.1029/2025... - a must read
ASU editors also just published a scathing rebuttal of the Orwellian presidential executive order: doi.org/10.1029/2025... - a must read
The Executive Order “Restoring Gold Standard Science” is Dangerous for America
This EO is an unconstitutional attempt to censor and punish U.S. scientists for publishing science that doesn't fit a political agenda This misleading and false misrepresentation of U.S. scientif...
doi.org
August 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The American Geophysical Union (ASU) is documenting the scale and extent of the breathtaking assault on US climate science and policy: eos.org/research-and...
ASU editors also just published a scathing rebuttal of the Orwellian presidential executive order: doi.org/10.1029/2025... - a must read
ASU editors also just published a scathing rebuttal of the Orwellian presidential executive order: doi.org/10.1029/2025... - a must read
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studies show that heatwaves lead to a rise in hospitalisations of people with mental disorders, an increase in emergency psychiatric visits and mental health helpline calls, a rise in suicide rates
people with mental health conditions are three times more likely to die during a heatwave
people with mental health conditions are three times more likely to die during a heatwave
As the EU heats up, minds start to crack - Euractiv
"People with mental and behavioural disorders are at higher risk of a deterioration in their health," WHO Programme Manager Dorota Jarosinska told Euractiv
www.euractiv.com
August 14, 2025 at 11:57 AM
studies show that heatwaves lead to a rise in hospitalisations of people with mental disorders, an increase in emergency psychiatric visits and mental health helpline calls, a rise in suicide rates
people with mental health conditions are three times more likely to die during a heatwave
people with mental health conditions are three times more likely to die during a heatwave
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Official figures released yesterday show that nearly 440,000 hectares have been burned in wildfires so far this year in the EU
This is more than DOUBLE the size of the area burned this time last year
Unchecked climate change makes this more likely and more dangerous
This is more than DOUBLE the size of the area burned this time last year
Unchecked climate change makes this more likely and more dangerous
Current wildfire situation in Europe
See the most recent data on the forest fire situation in the EU and the weather forecast for the coming days.
joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu
August 14, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Official figures released yesterday show that nearly 440,000 hectares have been burned in wildfires so far this year in the EU
This is more than DOUBLE the size of the area burned this time last year
Unchecked climate change makes this more likely and more dangerous
This is more than DOUBLE the size of the area burned this time last year
Unchecked climate change makes this more likely and more dangerous
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#PlasticsTreaty talks are stalled over lack of ambition, with the Chair’s draft being described by Greenpeace International as a “gift to the petrochemical industry & a betrayal of humanity."
🚨⏳Govts have hours to stand up & deliver a treaty that cuts production.
🚨⏳Govts have hours to stand up & deliver a treaty that cuts production.
Talks stall on world’s first plastic pollution treaty one day before deadline
Almost 100 countries reject draft treaty as ‘unambitious’ and ‘inadequate’
www.theguardian.com
August 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
#PlasticsTreaty talks are stalled over lack of ambition, with the Chair’s draft being described by Greenpeace International as a “gift to the petrochemical industry & a betrayal of humanity."
🚨⏳Govts have hours to stand up & deliver a treaty that cuts production.
🚨⏳Govts have hours to stand up & deliver a treaty that cuts production.
Truly horrific - as is what’s happening now in Sudan - both hidden or, more accurately, ignored African wars www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Rusted screws, metal spikes and plastic rubbish: the horrific sexual violence used against Tigray’s women
Tens of thousands of Tigrayan women report brutal wartime abuse by Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers, such as gang-rape and the insertion of objects into their uteruses. But justice seems a distant pros...
www.theguardian.com
August 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Truly horrific - as is what’s happening now in Sudan - both hidden or, more accurately, ignored African wars www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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'Plastics are a “grave, growing and under-recognised danger” to human and planetary health, a new expert review has warned.'
This is a crisis fuelled by profit and delay. We need urgent action.
This is a crisis fuelled by profit and delay. We need urgent action.
World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns
Plastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the Lancet
bit.ly
August 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
'Plastics are a “grave, growing and under-recognised danger” to human and planetary health, a new expert review has warned.'
This is a crisis fuelled by profit and delay. We need urgent action.
This is a crisis fuelled by profit and delay. We need urgent action.
Really authoritative and important - also a great teaching aid.
The arguments around Net Zero are complex but here s a clear explanation of how the misinformation factory works. Churning polluting fake facts into the zeitgeist quite as dangerous as the fossil fuel fumes…
You've been lied to about Net Zero
YouTube video by Simon Clark
youtu.be
August 5, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Really authoritative and important - also a great teaching aid.
The data in the new study published in PNAS and reported here are really worrying in terms of academic integrity and the implications for future research building on such work.
Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/s...
Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/s...
Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds
www.nytimes.com
August 5, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The data in the new study published in PNAS and reported here are really worrying in terms of academic integrity and the implications for future research building on such work.
Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/s...
Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/s...
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The shoebill stork looks like a dinosaur.. 🦖
Such a beautiful looking bird… 🐦
Such a beautiful looking bird… 🐦
July 27, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The shoebill stork looks like a dinosaur.. 🦖
Such a beautiful looking bird… 🐦
Such a beautiful looking bird… 🐦
Very good news for the deep ocean seabed and a boost for its multilateral governance: oceanographicmagazine.com/news/interna...
International Seabed Authority to investigate The Metals Company - Oceanographic
The landmark decision has been earmarked as a critical step in protecting the deep sea - recognised as the common heritage of humankind.
oceanographicmagazine.com
July 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Very good news for the deep ocean seabed and a boost for its multilateral governance: oceanographicmagazine.com/news/interna...
🌳 Dame Judi Dench is calling for the return of ancient woodlands. Will you sign the petition to help restore the Ghost Woods and protect our green spaces for future generations? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
Bring back the ancient woodlands smothered beneath your timber plantations
Ancient woodlands are vanishing – and with them, some of our most loved and endangered wildlife. Forestry England manages over 100,000 acres of land that used to be ancient woodland - that’s bigger th...
you.38degrees.org.uk
July 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
🌳 Dame Judi Dench is calling for the return of ancient woodlands. Will you sign the petition to help restore the Ghost Woods and protect our green spaces for future generations? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
Concerning but not insurprising update from @UNHabitat on progress implementing #SDG11: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com
July 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Concerning but not insurprising update from @UNHabitat on progress implementing #SDG11: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...