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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 2d

Today is the day!!! Existential Politics is out in the world!

Read about why we’re doing climate policy wrong (too focused on measuring emissions) & what we should do instead (focus on $$ to constrain fossil asset owners & expand green asset owners). Just in time for #COP30.

Existential Politics

A new way to tackle the real politics of climate change through asset revaluation

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GENeva Environment Network @genevaenvironmentnetwork.org · 6d

Elisa Morgera, @unsrclimatehrights.bsky.social describes key findings of her #HRC59 report & the upcoming #UNGA report on the imperative of defossilizing economies underscoring the need to hold consultative dialogues with all actors on what a net-zero system might look like.

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Loss and Damage Collaboration (L&DC) @lossanddamage.bsky.social · 3d

1/10. ⚠️USEFUL INFO: The seventh meeting of the Board (B7) of the Fund for Responding to #LossAndDamage (FRLD) 🔥⛈️🌊 starts tomorrow in Manila 🌇 in the Republic of the Philippines.

🔗Find the meeting webpage here: www.frld.org/nodeseventh-...

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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 2d

🚨 The 7th Board meeting of the Fund for Responding to #LossAndDamage starts tomorrow in Manila.

But the Fund is on life support: $399M paid in - less than 0.1% of the hundreds of billions needed.

And key promises on access for communities and all climate-vulnerable countries not being met.

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World's Youth for Climate Justice @wy4cj.bsky.social · 3d

Join our Global Membership Onboarding Session and become part of WYCJ!✨

📅 On 11 October, we organise two Global Membership Onboarding Sessions to welcome new stubborn optimists to the organisation and to introduce them to our campaign for climate justice!

🚀Sign up to get invited: shorturl.at/tHUNP

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 6d

Warmest congratulations to the Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change & Julian Aguon on receiving the 2025 Right Livelihood Award! 👏👏👏

You took on the #ClimateCrisis, & carried the voices & lived experiences of frontline communities to the #ICJ & you won‼️

www.linkedin.com/posts/lotte-...

2025 Right Livelihood Laureates Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change and Julian Aguon | Lotte Leicht

✨ Warmest congratulations to the Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change and Julian Aguon on receiving the 2025 Right Livelihood Award – the “Alternative Nobel Prize”! 👏👏👏 You took on the gr...

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Loss and Damage Collaboration (L&DC) @lossanddamage.bsky.social · 8d

5/9. 🔗A shorter summary for policy makers available here: www.lossanddamagecollaboration.org/resources/ke...

KEY MESSAGES ON DISPLACEMENT AND OTHER FORMS OF HUMAN MOBILITY FOR THE SEVENTH MEETING OF THE BOARD OF THE FUND FOR RESPONDING TO LOSS AND DAMAGE: SUMMARY FOR POLICYMAKERS

By the Loss and Damage and the Challenges Of Human Mobility and Displacement Working Group

www.lossanddamagecollaboration.org

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Loss and Damage Collaboration (L&DC) @lossanddamage.bsky.social · 8d

1/9. 📢KEY MESSAGES ON HUMAN MOBLITY: The seventh meeting of the Board (B7) of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) 🔥⛈️🌊 starts next week! 🚨

🔗Read our key messages on #Displacement and other forms of #HumanMobility here: www.lossanddamagecollaboration.org/resources/ke...

KEY MESSAGES ON DISPLACEMENT AND OTHER FORMS OF HUMAN MOBILITY FOR THE SEVENTH MEETING OF THE BOARD OF THE FUND FOR RESPONDING TO LOSS AND DAMAGE

By the Loss and Damage and the Challenges Of Human Mobility and Displacement Working Group

www.lossanddamagecollaboration.org

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 25d

After Paris, the IPCC justified the expansion of the fossil-fuel system by implicitly promising that we could "overshoot” 1.5C yet ultimately meet the target anyway.

What does this mean? Read my deep dive into Andreas Malm & @wimcarton.bsky.social's *Overshoot*

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The Point, However, Is to Change It | Los Angeles Review of Books

In advance of Andreas Malm and Wim Carton’s forthcoming book “The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It’s Too Late,” Genevieve Guenther revisits the authors’ 2024 title “Overshoot: How the World Surrend...

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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · Sep 7

So proud of this collaboration led by @cssn.org

110 top experts from around the world

13 chapters on who is blocking or slowing action on climate change

A quantum leap in our understanding of why society has failed to solve this

Will be free online Oct 14 1/x

global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Cover of new book Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment from Oxford University Press. Shows cows, smokestacks, jets, oil refineries, cell phones and a man in a suit talking to an audience

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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · Sep 3

⚡ ⚖️ 🌐 happening now: #ClimateLitigation court hearing in Zug, Switzerland 🇨🇭, in 𝐴𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑎 𝑣. 𝐻𝑜𝑙𝑐𝑖𝑚.
This civil law case seeks to hold one of the largest carbon major accountable for climate harms.
🧵 live reporting from the Court house, with summary of legal arguments and key elements of context👇

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Climate, Migration & Displacement Platform @cmdplatform.bsky.social · Sep 4

👇And if you missed it, the links below also contain the recording 😊

Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · Sep 3

🎥 The event will be livestreamed here: bit.ly/4mLpWOc

Organized by CIEL, UN Human Rights, @earthjustice.org, @genevaenvironmentnetwork.org, and @fesonline.bsky.social.

Let’s advance human rights-based #ClimateAction together.

2025 Geneva Dialogues on Human Rights and Climate Change: The Role of Geneva in Building on the Historic Advisory Opinions on Climate Change

The 2025 Geneva Dialogues on Human Rights and Climate Change build on previous editions to discuss how Geneva-based human rights institutions can contribute to further advancing human rights-based cli...

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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · Aug 19

Finishing a syllabus for a class on environmental and/or climate and/or disaster justice? Check out The Syllabus for resources! We are adding more readings and databases every day! Open and free to everyone! www.just-environments.org/the-syllabus

The Syllabus — Just Environments Lab

www.just-environments.org

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Aug 14

A good guide for DC residents on what to do in response to the new immigration operations in DC.

Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid @dcmigrantmutualaid.org · Aug 14

🚨 ALERT🚨 DC Police (MPD) has announced that they will start collaborating with ICE at traffic checkpoints. What does this mean 👉🏽

ALERT
DC Police (MPD) has announced that they will start collaborating with ICE at traffic checkpoints
Aug 14 onwards

What does this mean?
- MPD has started to set up traffic checkpoints with federal agencies (like ICE) to stop people
- During the traffic stop they can ask about a person’s immigration status
- MPD can also share immigration status information of a person stopped at a checkpoint with ICE so that ICE can come and detain them
- Warning: ICE may be present at MPD precincts in an attempt to take custody of a person after release

Important to understand:
- The Trump administration does not care about the law. Even if you do everything right, they can detain you.
- Still, it is important to know your rights, b/c of potential legal recourse after MPD or federal agents violate them

202-335-1183
Call for active enforcement, text for sightings

Remember you have the right to:
- Remain silent
- Refuse to sign documents
- Refuse to consent to a search
- Film the police in public
- Ask if you are being detained or if you free to go

Remember these best practices:
- Do not carry false documents
- Make sure a trusted friend/relative knows your correct A-Number and country of birth
- Make sure a trusted friend/relative has a copy of your important documents
- Create an emergency plan for you & your family: familiesuniteddcmetro.org

Scan this qr code for a list of available legal, direct service, and mutual aid resources in the DC, MD, and VA area: bit.ly/migrant-resources-dmv

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Loss and Damage Collaboration (L&DC) @lossanddamage.bsky.social · Aug 11

1/5. ⏰ SIGN UP!: “What does the International Court of Justice (ICJ) decision mean for #ClimateJustice? ⚖️: Leveraging the ICJ advisory opinion (#ICJAO) on #ClimateChange into future outcomes”. 🥳

🗓️August 14th

⏰East Call, 8am GMT: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

⏰West Call, 1pm GMT: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · Aug 8

The #ICJ delivered a historic Advisory Opinion on #ClimateChange that cuts through decades of delay, denial, & legal ambiguity. It did so with moral & legal clarity that leaves no doubt: states must act to prevent climate harm or be held legally responsible.

Read our Q&A: cri.org/cri-qa-on-th...

Q&A on the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change

On July 23, 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the world’s highest court, issued a landmark advisory opinion on climate change and international law. In clear legal terms, the Court confi...

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Zoë Schlanger @zoeschlanger.bsky.social · Aug 8

The world's highest court declared greenhouse gas emissions a human rights violation. A week later, the EPA said it plans to rescind the government's legal assertion that GHGs endanger the public. America's most catastrophic form of exceptionalism. A gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

America Is Living in a Climate-Denial Fantasy

On climate, the U.S. and the rest of the planet are now in “completely separate worlds.”

www.theatlantic.com

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Lauren Rosenthal @laurenthal.bsky.social · Aug 5

Scoop: The U.S. billion-dollar disaster database is set to return this fall over at @climatecentral.org. They've hired the former NOAA scientist who ran the project for 10+ years www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Researchers Are Resurrecting Billion-Dollar Disaster Tool Trump Killed

Nonprofit Climate Central has hired the scientist behind a key database of costly weather disasters to rebuild it.

www.bloomberg.com

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Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · Jul 31

⚖️🌎 The ICJ's climate change opinion is making waves—but not always for what it said.

In two symposium posts from @verfassungsblog.de and #SabinCenter, authors explore what the Court held back and what it revealed about itself in the process.

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ZEF Bonn @zefbonn.bsky.social · Jul 30

🌱 Negotiating green urbanism by Valentine Opanga

What does sustainability look like in Nairobi’s informal settlements? From urban farming to resistance, Korogocho & Pumwani-Majengo offer a powerful rethinking💪🏾🌍

🔗 Read: bit.ly/4l9O2At

#GreenUrbanism #UrbanJustice

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Mixed Migration Centre @mixedmigration.org · Jul 6

How does climate change impact communities engaged in climate-sensitive livelihoods in the Middle East? Our latest research looks at the intersection of climate change and mobility in the region.⬇️(1/5)

Climate and mobility in the Middle East | Mixed Migration Centre

See how climate hazards, economic pressures, and conflict shape migration across the Middle East in this Climate and Mobility in the Middle East report

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Climate, Migration & Displacement Platform @cmdplatform.bsky.social · Jul 29

Re "Neutral El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) conditions are expected to persist for the remainder of the year and into 2025"... Don't you mean 2026?

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Abrahm @abrahm.bsky.social · Jul 28

The craziest discovery about our global water crisis -- besides the fact that the continents are drying -- is that groundwater pumping is now driving sea level rise. @hrishikeshac.bsky.social @jayfamiglietti.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/wate...

“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat

A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

www.propublica.org

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Aedín @aedinnib.bsky.social · Jul 28

Please share with your networks: @cmdplatform.bsky.social
Symposium website: www.climatemigrantsymposium.org

Flier with heading, W. Western Michigan University. Text: Climate-driven migration. Challenges, responses, and future pathways. Buildingknowledge, networks, and advocacy critical to building institutional capacity for supporting climate migrants. A virtual symposium October 27-29, 2025.

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