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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 23h

In this issue:

🇧🇷 Bloomberg reported that Brazil’s forest fund is behind schedule.
🌎 An area of green space the size of Cyprus was lost in Europe over 2018-23.
🇨🇺 Cuba announced a new agroecology law and fund.

Cropped 8 October 2025: US government shutdown; EU loses green space; Migratory species extinction threat - Carbon Brief

Cropped explains the most important stories at the intersection of climate, land, food and nature over the past fortnight.

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 23h

This story from @rishpardikar.bsky.social for @drilledmedia.bsky.social on how Modi's oil & coal cronies are pulling all the strings in India is *wild* not least for the story of the oil baron's son who is going around the world poaching endangered species 🤯 drilled.media/news/modi-ad...

75,000 Endangered and Exotic Animals, SLAPP Suits, and Zero Oversight

How oil and coal billionaires with close ties to the Modi government escape judicial and media scrutiny in India.

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 23h

NEW – Q&A: How countries are using biofuels to meet their climate targets | @arunacsekhar.bsky.social

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Q&A: How countries are using biofuels to meet their climate targets - Carbon Brief

From canola farmers in Canada to car owners in India, biofuels have become the subject...

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Aruna Chandrasekhar @arunacsekhar.bsky.social · 1d

From Indian car owners to Canadian canola farmers, biofuels have been in the news for all kinds of reasons.

Here’s everything you wanted to know about biofuels & climate: www.carbonbrief.org/qa-how-count...

By me for @carbonbrief.org

🖼️📈 @kerryanncleaver.bsky.social @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org

Q&A: How countries are using biofuels to meet their climate targets - Carbon Brief

From canola farmers in Canada to car owners in India, biofuels have become the subject...

www.carbonbrief.org

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Aruna Chandrasekhar @arunacsekhar.bsky.social · 19d

Wooop! With the last ratifications in last night 🇲🇦🇸🇱, a landmark treaty to protect nature in 2/3rds of the world’s oceans can now enter into force.

If you need a refresh on what it means and took to get here, @giulianaviglione.bsky.social and I have you covered. www.carbonbrief.org/qa-what-does...

Q&A: What does the ‘High Seas Treaty’ mean for climate change and biodiversity? - Carbon Brief

Nations around the world have agreed to a new global treaty for governing the sustainable...

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 28d

🌽 New Cropped just dropped 🌽

Cropped | Flooded ‘food baskets’; Brazil eyes forest finance; Resilient rice

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Aug 11

NEW – COP experts: How could the UN climate talks be reformed? | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @arunacsekhar.bsky.social

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Jul 3

🌽 New Cropped just dropped 🌽

Cropped | US public lands under attack; How India’s gig workers are suffering under climate change; Bonn to Belém

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@giulianaviglione.bsky.social @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Jun 27

💡 Spotlight | This week, Carbon Brief explores gender-related language disputes at Bonn.

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DeBriefed 27 June 2025: Heat domes; Bonn comes to a close; Gender clash in climate talks - Carbon Brief

This week, Carbon Brief explores gender-related language disputes at Bonn

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Jun 27

NEW – Bonn climate talks: Key outcomes from the June 2025 UN climate conference | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social

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Delegates huddle during informal consultations on the GGA. Credit: IISD/ENB - Kiara Worth

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Scroll @scroll.in · Jun 26

About 15 to 20 workers at a labour colony near the Indira Priyadarshini Hydroelectric project site at Khaniyara near Dharamshala were feared to have been swept away after a surge in the water level of the Manuni river.

Read more: scroll.in/latest/10838...

#HimachalPradesh #cloudburst

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · Jun 24

The World Meteorological Organisation's State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report is out

👉 library.wmo.int/records/item...

(h/t @micefearboggis.bsky.social 🙏 ; why doesn't @wmo-global.bsky.social post more often on bluesky?)

A set of 10 Key Messages from the World Meteorological Organisation's State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report

The 10 key messages are as follows:

In 2024, Asia's average temperature was about 1.04 °C above the 1991-2020 average, ranking as the warmest or second warmest year on record, depending on the dataset.

Asia is currently warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, with the 1991-2024 trend almost double that of 1961-1990.

Reduced winter snowfall and extreme summer heat accelerated glacier mass loss in the central Himalayas and Tian Shan.

Sea-surface temperatures were the highest on record, and Asia's sea-surface decadal warming rate is currently nearly double the global average.

Sea-level rise on the Pacific and Indian Ocean sides of the continent exceeded the global average, heightening risks for low-lying coastal areas.

Prolonged heatwaves affected much of Asia, and marine heatwave coverage hit a record high.

Tropical Cyclone Yagi, the strongest storm of the year, caused widespread damage and casualties across Viet Nam, the Philippines, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Thailand, Myanmar and China.

Record-breaking floods in Central Asia - the worst in over 70 vears - and extreme rainfall in the United Arab Emirates, where 259.5 mm fell in 24 hours, marked some of the most severe precipitation-related events since records began in 1949.

By September, drought in China affected 4.76 million people, damaged 335 200 ha of crops, and led to an estimated 2.89 billion yuan in direct losses.

In late September, record-breaking rainfall in Nepal triggered severe floods, killing at least 246 people. Damages exceeded 12.85 billion Nepalese rupees, but coordinated anticipatory action enabled life-saving support to over 130 000 people, reducing health risks and casualties.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jun 23

Hey everyone! I just discovered that @sominisengupta.bsky.social is here! She's the excellent @nytimes.com global climate reporter whose stories you don't want to miss.

You can also follow other climate, energy, and environmental journalists here.

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · Jun 24

"In India’s financial capital – where 73% of all offices & commercial establishments are within 500m of a flood hotspot & 69% of all employees experience “hindered access” [..] trying to get to or leave work – forecasting the monsoon is fraught, essential & getting trickier with climate change."

Aruna Chandrasekhar @arunacsekhar.bsky.social · Jun 20

If extreme weather had a capital, it would be Mumbai. We’ve got it all: floods, sea-level rise, cyclones, heat islands.

Mumbaikars are sick of being called resilient and being caught off-guard.

But forecasting the monsoon is fraught, more so with climate change. My dispatch for @carbonbrief.org👇🏽

Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Jun 20

💡 Spotlight | This week, Carbon Brief visits Mumbai’s official monsoon monitoring centre and “war room” to examine how the city is responding to its earliest downpour on record.

Read spotlight here: buff.ly/MXgAwGC

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Jun 21

Recommended watch: BBC World Service’s Life at 50C had a new documentary following Indigenous Queenslander Adrian Burragubba’s “battle against Adani[‘s]” coal mine in Australia’s Galilee Basin.

Life at 50°C

Documentary series exploring one of the most deadly results of the climate crisis: extreme heat. It shows the far reaching consequences and the struggle to adapt and survive.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Aruna Chandrasekhar @arunacsekhar.bsky.social · Jun 20

If extreme weather had a capital, it would be Mumbai. We’ve got it all: floods, sea-level rise, cyclones, heat islands.

Mumbaikars are sick of being called resilient and being caught off-guard.

But forecasting the monsoon is fraught, more so with climate change. My dispatch for @carbonbrief.org👇🏽

Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Jun 20

💡 Spotlight | This week, Carbon Brief visits Mumbai’s official monsoon monitoring centre and “war room” to examine how the city is responding to its earliest downpour on record.

Read spotlight here: buff.ly/MXgAwGC

Monsoon forecaster Dr Sushma Nair. Credit: Aruna Chandrasekhar for Carbon Brief

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Jun 20

💡 Spotlight | This week, Carbon Brief visits Mumbai’s official monsoon monitoring centre and “war room” to examine how the city is responding to its earliest downpour on record.

Read spotlight here: buff.ly/MXgAwGC

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Jun 20

DeBriefed | Three years to ‘keep 1.5C alive’; Bonn talks turn ‘bitter’; Inside Mumbai’s monsoon ‘war room’

✍️ Written by @arunacsekhar.bsky.social
📝 Edited by @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Jun 18

🌽 New Cropped just dropped 🌽

Cropped | High Seas Treaty ratifications; Ocean warming woes; Brazilian deforestation ‘surges’

Written by @giulianaviglione.bsky.social and @yaninequiroz.bsky.social

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Jun 13

NEW – Chart: The rise, fall and rise of UK nuclear power over eight decades

Written by @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org‬. Data analysis by Ho Woo Nam. Visuals by @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org‬.

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UK nuclear capacity, 1955-2100, gigawatts. Individual plants are shown separately. Source: World Nuclear Association and Carbon Brief analysis.

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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · Jun 12

Meanwhile. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

China says it will remove all tariffs on African exports to boost trade

China will negotiate and sign a new economic pact with Africa that will get rid of all tariffs on the 53 African states it has diplomatic ties with, it said, a move that could benefit middle-income nations.

www.reuters.com

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Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್ @tnavinash.bsky.social · May 14

The first Nepalese glacier to be declared "dead" ☹️

Dark days coming for the subcontinent.

www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/g...

Glaciologists, local communities mourn loss of Nepal’s Yala glacier | Latest News India - Hindustan Times

Lemthang glacier, in Bhutan, which is retreating was devastated by a glacial lake outburst-triggered flood in 2015.

www.hindustantimes.com

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Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social · May 7

I believed a counter-strike was likely, but this is a de-escalatory signal. 'Adviser to the PM Rana Sanaullah has said that the...army chief...committed to the world that Pakistan will not take any “irresponsible action” if India does not further escalate' www.dawn.com/live/pakista...

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Kabir @historylad.bsky.social · May 7

Keep Kashmir in your thoughts especially the areas near the ceasefire line. They are witnessing a nightmare.

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Apr 23

🌽 New Cropped just dropped 🌽

Cropped | Beef vs the Amazon; BRICS vs tariffs; Ag alphabet

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@yaninequiroz.bsky.social

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