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Hannah Hughes @hannahhughes.bsky.social · 2d

Oh my, what a beautiful light she was ❤️

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Hannah Hughes @hannahhughes.bsky.social · 2d

Preparing this paper was a really great opportunity - I was able to apply the learning gained through detailed study of the #IPCC to the design of a new international, independent panel on Antimicrobial Resistance #AMR. These are the key lessons learned

www.cgdev.org/publication/...

Understanding Lessons from the IPCC to Inform the AMR Panel

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has become a reference point for the design of international scientific advisory bodies. This paper examines what lessons from its experience may inform t...

www.cgdev.org

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Hannah Hughes @hannahhughes.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve often wondered about climate change and the wind

news.mongabay.com/2025/10/clim...

Climate change is messing with global wind speeds, impacting planetary health

Climate change is disturbing wind patterns across the globe in dramatic ways. And when combined with land-use change and desertification, these changes are spawning immense sand and dust storms that p...

news.mongabay.com

Hannah Hughes @hannahhughes.bsky.social · 6d

We've designed this session for our students - to answer their questions about #COP30. Please share with your students and encourage them to email us their questions

CAMAMAZON_COP30 @camamazon.bsky.social · 6d

Are you interested in #climate negotiations? In November, Brazil hosts #COP30 in the Amazon city of Belém. This is a critical moment, as climate diplomacy shifts from negotiation to implementation. The CAMAMAZON project welcomes you to a session to share research & answer your COP30 questions

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Hannah Hughes @hannahhughes.bsky.social · 6d

New book review provides a great summary of my book (except I didn't stop interviewing in 2010! Read for yourself to see how my methods of data collection evolved over time)

Available open access: www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...

The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 7d

⚠️ New book review!

📗 The IPCC and the politics of writing climate change, H. Hughes

🔗 https://loom.ly/vCBRZRE

✒️ Niklas Bremberg

Hannah Hughes @hannahhughes.bsky.social · 6d

A review of my book! I can't agree that the data was limited to 2010 because I'm still conducting interviews now! But this first period of interviews was the most influential on how I understood what the #IPCC is and does

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Writing Climate Change: Power, Politics and the IPCC

Published in The International Spectator: Italian Journal of International Affairs (Ahead of Print, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com

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Hannah Hughes @hannahhughes.bsky.social · 12d

Science Panel for the Amazon Youth workshops aim to launch an Amazonian #youth vision at #COP30 in #Belém. Participants at Brazilian workshop argued

public policies should be created “from the rivers outward” rather than “from outside the Amazon inward,” ignoring the local context from within

CAMAMAZON_COP30 @camamazon.bsky.social · 12d

4th SPA youth workshop: how can we defend and strengthen Amazonian connectivities—ecological, cultural, social, economic, and between knowledge systems—on the road to #COP30?

www.sp-amazon.org/news/yacwork...

Amazonian Youth in Brazil Deepens a Connected and Bold Vision for COP 30 — Science Panel for the Amazon

Written by Felipe Storch and Pedro Neves de Castro from theYouth Advisory Committee (YAC)

www.sp-amazon.org

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Hannah Hughes @hannahhughes.bsky.social · 17d

It is nice to see so much water after the very low levels of the summer

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Hannah Hughes @hannahhughes.bsky.social · 17d

The sun is out and signs of the heavy rain are all about!

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Hannah Hughes @hannahhughes.bsky.social · 19d

In the @camamazon.bsky.social project, we want to situate understanding of #climate negotiations in time and place and examine how this shapes an event and our knowledge of it. In this blog, I reflect on observations made in #Bonn outside the #SB62 venue

➡️ camamazon.aber.ac.uk/2025/09/19/a...

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Hannah Hughes @hannahhughes.bsky.social · 20d

The latest issue of International Relations is out and it's a good one :-)

International Relations @irjournal.bsky.social · 20d

The latest issue of International Relations is out!

An exciting line up starting with Prof Kimberly Hutching's E H Carr lecture; this series of articles seeks to de-colonise, globalise and broaden #IR perspectives and topics

➡️ journals.sagepub.com/toc/ireb/39/3

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Hannah Hughes @hannahhughes.bsky.social · 26d

Prof @vkgoncalves.bsky.social describes following the Just Transition Work Programme & facilitating discussion to ensure visions facilitate systemic transformation which "neither deepens inequalities nor violates human rights, especially territorial rights"

➡️ camamazon.aber.ac.uk/2025/09/11/t...

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CAMAMAZON_COP30 @camamazon.bsky.social · 28d

Sonia Guajajara:

COP30 will be historic not only because it is taking place in the Amazônia, but because it could usher in a new form of climate governance: pluralistic, community-based, fair and guided by those who have always known how to care for the Earth

cop30.br/en/news-abou...

Indigenous peoples and COP30: Guardians of the Earth, Voices for the Future

Letter from Sonia Guajajara, Minister of Indigenous Peoples of Brasil

cop30.br

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · Sep 3

Researching the environment? What are our options for developing our research & careers? Whether you are applying for academic posts, policy related positions or joining activist movements @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social has got you covered 😀Very much looking forward to being part of this discussion ⬇️

Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · Sep 3

The latest event for @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social is now open for registration:

'Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy' will have three speakers: @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social ; @kaiheron.bsky.social and Jane Clarke.

@mybisa.bsky.social

www.bisa.ac.uk/events/pathw...

Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy- Environment and Climate Politics | BISA

- Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

www.bisa.ac.uk

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Hannah Hughes @hannahhughes.bsky.social · Sep 3

A really clear account of the cost of English language dominance in science to non-native speakers, Indigenous knowledge holders and to understandings of #climate and #biodiversity

insideclimatenews.org/news/0209202...

The Climate and Biodiversity Knowledge We Lose When Everything’s in English - Inside Climate News

Non-native English speakers often struggle to find a foothold in the academic publishing world. We could be overlooking important findings as a result, experts say.

insideclimatenews.org

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Hannah Hughes @hannahhughes.bsky.social · Sep 3

A stark account of the conditions that drought in the #Amazon is creating - like a desert - and its social and economic impacts

CAMAMAZON_COP30 @camamazon.bsky.social · Sep 3

Article describes the impact of drought and deforestation for #Indigenous communities and asks, is the investment for #COP30 making a difference in this context?

globalsouthworld.com/article/cop3...

COP30 comes to the Amazon — But will it help the people who live there?

As Brazil prepares for COP30 in Belém, questions remain about whether the climate summit will address the economic, social, and environmental challenges facing Amazonian communities.

globalsouthworld.com

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CAMAMAZON_COP30 @camamazon.bsky.social · Sep 1

#Brazil #COP30 Presidency 7th letter addressed to business and private sector - call for their participation in #Belém to transform "negotiated texts into implementation"

cop30.br/en/brazilian...

Seventh Letter from the Presidency

cop30.br

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Hannah Hughes @hannahhughes.bsky.social · Sep 1

Countries need to start to accounting for the #carbon lost through fires as #forest sinks become sources of emissions

www.climatechangenews.com/2025/08/26/e...

EU's record wildfire emissions highlight threat to forest carbon sinks

As carbon emissions from forest fires spike in Europe, experts warn that wildfires pose a growing risk to national efforts to meet climate goals

www.climatechangenews.com

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Hannah Hughes @hannahhughes.bsky.social · Aug 26

This Friday at 12-13:00 UK time ⬇️

CAMAMAZON_COP30 @camamazon.bsky.social · Aug 26

#COP30 Presidency, #Climate High-Level Champions, and #UNFCCC webinar:

“COP30: Join the Climate Action Agenda Journey to Belém"

us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: COP30: Join the Climate Action Agenda Journey to Belém. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Join the COP 30 Incoming Presidency, Climate High-Level Champions, and UNFCCC on Friday, 29 August, at 08:00 AM Brasília Time (03:00 PM AZT) for the webinar entitled "COP30: Join the Climate Action Ag...

us02web.zoom.us

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Hannah Hughes @hannahhughes.bsky.social · Aug 25

For the @camamazon.bsky.social team accommodation booked through the official platform:

#COP29 $204 per person/night for 2 of us to stay in a windowless hotel room (eventually upgraded)

#COP30 $170 per person/night for 3 of us to stay in a two bedroom apartment

Looks like the same crazy!

CAMAMAZON_COP30 @camamazon.bsky.social · Aug 25

#Brazil #COP30 accommodation controversy continues...

dareakogun.com/brazil-rejec...

Brazil Rejects UN Demand for Hotel Subsidies in Tense COP30 Discussions - DA NEWS | Home

Brazilian officials announced on Friday that the government of Brazil has ruled out subsidizing hotel rates for all delegates at the United Nations Climate Summit it will be hosting in November. This ...

dareakogun.com

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Hannah Hughes @hannahhughes.bsky.social · Aug 25

Oil, puffins, cute kid faces, SDG goals, sustainability, GDP, oil? Seems to be most of the world right now. Perhaps tension rather than contradiction then?

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CAMAMAZON_COP30 @camamazon.bsky.social · Aug 25

A brilliant resource:

Who is who in the #Brazil #COP30 presidency team? What are the supporting structures? And what are the key issues to be negotiated?

politicaporinteiro.org/wp-content/u...

politicaporinteiro.org

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Hannah Hughes @hannahhughes.bsky.social · Aug 25

Revealing #Norway's climate contradictions

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Aug 25

NORWAY UPDATE

- In the 2nd quarter of 2025, we spent more on fossil fuel extraction than we've ever spent before

- 2025 will probably end up with record-high investments in fossil fuels

- Spending is so high every prior projection wildly underestimates final $$ (this is worsening since 2021)

a chart showing norway's rising investments in fossil fuels

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CAMAMAZON_COP30 @camamazon.bsky.social · Aug 22

“Far from representing mere climate targets for 2035, our NDCs represent the vision of our shared future. They are vehicles of cooperation, enabling us to realise this vision…” #Brazil #COP30 President in 6th #UNFCCC letter on call for ambitious #NDCs

earth.org/cop30-host-b...

COP30 Host Brazil Calls For Bold NDCs Ahead of September Deadline

Only 29 nations have submitted updated climate plans since November. Large polluters like the EU and China have yet to submit a plan.

earth.org

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CAMAMAZON_COP30 @camamazon.bsky.social · Aug 22

BBC #climate question examines what the #COP30 hosts are doing at home to protect the #Amazon

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The Climate Question - Is Brazil doing enough to protect the Amazon? - BBC Sounds

Are forest fires and demands for oil exploration putting the rainforest at risk?

www.bbc.co.uk

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