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Oil Change International @oilchange.bsky.social · 15d

The @iea.org says some oil and gas projects must shut early to meet the 1.5 celsius global warming limit agreed by all countries.

@joeloclimate.bsky.social reports:
www.climatechangenews.com/2025/09/17/i...

www.climatechangenews.com

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Joe Lo @joeloclimate.bsky.social · Aug 16

Interesting article on cigarette filters. Says they don’t protect smokers - all they do is pollute our lands and waters and they should be banned www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...

Nicholas Hopkinson | Compensatory Puffing

The main component of cigarette filters is a plastic, cellulose acetate, and trillions of butts are discarded into the...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Joe Lo @joeloclimate.bsky.social · Aug 15

Saudi Arabia’s former climate negotiator Mohammed Al Sabban is still denying humans are causing climate change. Despite the more nuanced rhetoric from the current crop of Saudi negotiators arij.net/investigatio...

Cyberstorm..'Petroleum accounts' lead disinformation campaign on climate change

A string of hashtags has appeared on social media platforms using disinformation and promoting conspiracy theories about climate change. This analysis of interaction with these hashtags shows that the...

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · Aug 13

More than 400 people suspected to have died from extreme heat so far this summer in Phoenix, Arizona, and surrounding county

- Temperatures have at least 110F (43C) nearly every day in August

#climatecrisis
Story by @ninalakhani.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

More than 400 people suspected to have died from extreme heat in Arizona county

August is on track to be hottest on record, with temperatures hitting at least 110F (43C) nearly every day

www.theguardian.com

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Joe Lo @joeloclimate.bsky.social · Aug 15

Once again, governments have failed to reach agreement on a treaty to reduce plastics pollution. The US, Russia, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries would not accept a deal that limitied plastic production. Others chose no deal over their bad deal.

www.climatechangenews.com/2025/08/15/p...

Plastics treaty talks collapse without a deal after "chaotic" negotiations

UN talks ran into overtime, ending with a standoff over whether a treaty should include curbs on plastic production and the way forward unclear

www.climatechangenews.com

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Joe Lo @joeloclimate.bsky.social · Aug 15

reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/oxford-clima...

The Oxford Climate Journalism Network

The Oxford Climate Journalism Network works with a global community of reporters and editors across platforms and beats to improve the quality, understanding and impact of climate coverage around the ...

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Joe Lo @joeloclimate.bsky.social · Aug 15

I don't think it's because they're propagandists. I think that general news reporters don't have the knowledge and sources to quickly report that context. Getting the information about the climate context requires time that breaking news reporters don't have. Solution is programmes like this 👇

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Joe Lo @joeloclimate.bsky.social · Aug 15

No mention of climate change (or fire service cuts) in this BBC article on a big fire in England. This failure is why all reporters - not just climate reporters - need knowledge of climate change.
Journalists need to say why things are happening
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Firefighters put out majority of large heath fire at Holt Heath

Crews are monitoring two areas but not actively firefighting unless they see flare-ups or hotspots.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Joe Lo @joeloclimate.bsky.social · Aug 10

FWIW - Munich Re’s climate scientist s comments here make sense to me. Surely everything will always be insurable for a price? But, then again, if that price is too high for anyone to pay - because likelihood of disaster so high - then it’s basically uninsurable. So just semantics really

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Joe Lo @joeloclimate.bsky.social · Aug 10

This article alongside an advert for the Total oil company 🤦🏻‍♂️ www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/08/...

Why insurers worry the world could soon become uninsurable

Günther Thallinger, a board member at Allianz, one of the world's biggest insurers, says the climate crisis could make adaptation economically unviable.

www.cnbc.com

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Joe Lo @joeloclimate.bsky.social · Jul 29

Ok thanks. Didn’t know that. But doesn’t seem likely that they’ll actually do that

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Joe Lo @joeloclimate.bsky.social · Jul 29

The EU doesn't buy any energy and no intention to. Private companies based in EU countries do.

So a European Commission promise to buy US energy isn't worth much, is it?

But it allows Trump to tell his voters and fossil fuel financial backers that he got the EU to buy US gas.

Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · Jul 27

Wow, Hard not to see Trump as power playing Europeans into total submission ie protection racket
-15% tariffs on most goods (like Japan)
- EU buys $750 BILLION of US energy (how much LNG?)
- EU Invests $600 BILLION in strategic areas (vaporware?)
- Purchases US weapons
bloomberg.com/news/article...

🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · Jul 27

❗️🇺🇸US and 🇪🇺EU sign trade deal, Trump says.

▪️Bilateral tariffs will be 15%, Europeans will invest $600 billion in the US.
▪️EU will purchase hundreds of billions of dollars worth of American weapons.

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Joe Lo @joeloclimate.bsky.social · Jul 24

@claudioangelo.bsky.social is one of the authors and I suspect the one responsible for the Coldplay lyrics!

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Joe Lo @joeloclimate.bsky.social · Jul 24

Well-connected Brazilian climate campaigners here blaming Lula's chief of staff - Rui Costa - for the government's pro-oil stance. With finance minister Haddad and environment minister Silva on the side of the climate.
piaui.folha.uol.com.br/cop30-andre-...

E agora, André? - revista piauí

“Ninguém disse que era fácil. Ninguém nunca falou que seria tão difícil.” Os versos da canção The Scientist, da banda britânica Coldplay, resumem bem o drama da COP30, a conferência do clima de Belém....

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Climate Home News @climatechangenews.com · Jul 23

In a major speech making the case for the “unstoppable” shift from fossil fuels towards renewables, Guterres urged policymakers around the world to supercharge the new “clean energy era” despite geopolitical turmoil.

New climate plans must supercharge energy transition, says UN's Guterres

UN secretary-general urges governments to send a clear signal in their NDCs about the 'inevitable' shift away from fossil fuels

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Joe Lo @joeloclimate.bsky.social · Jul 23

This is very sad news👇

Climate Home News @climatechangenews.com · Jul 23

NEW: Global goal for clean cooking by 2030 out of Africa’s reach, IEA says

A shortage of funding and infrastructure means sub-Saharan Africa will have to push back the deadline by a decade to 2040, the International Energy Agency estimates

Global goal for clean cooking by 2030 out of Africa's reach, IEA says

A shortage of funding and infrastructure means sub-Saharan Africa will have to push back the deadline by a decade to 2040, the International Energy Agency estimates A shortage of funding and…

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Joe Lo @joeloclimate.bsky.social · Jul 23

The world’s top court has just opened the door to compensation from countries responsible for climate crisis

www.climatechangenews.com/2025/07/23/w...

World's top court opens door to compensation from countries responsible for climate crisis

International Court of Justice rules that governments have a legal duty to prevent and repair damage to the climate system

www.climatechangenews.com

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Joe Lo @joeloclimate.bsky.social · Jul 22

Back in 2022 - when the idea of drawing up this oil standard was new - @tzeporah.bsky.social said that oil industries “are not going to design their own demise" and accused them of "delay tactics". Looks like she was right!

www.climatechangenews.com/2022/03/18/s...

Science Based Targets initiative kicks out oil companies, delays validation criteria

The standard setter for corporate climate plans said accepting commitments from firms like Russian oil company Tatneft posed a "reputational risk"

www.climatechangenews.com

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Joe Lo @joeloclimate.bsky.social · Jul 22

Oil companies end their involvement with the Science-Based Targets Initiative's oil standard as - in Shell's words - it "did not reflect the industry view".

I would argue it should reflect the science rather than the industry view!

Story from @kenzabryan.ft.com

www.ft.com/content/21c8...

‘Net zero’ emissions standard paused as Shell quits

Energy group experts left after draft guidance on global warming plans ‘did not reflect the industry view’

www.ft.com

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Jes 👊🇺🇸🔥 ([email protected]) @jestastrophy.bsky.social · Jul 17

"The move has reinvigorated Bolsonaro’s leftwing rivals, given Lula a bounce in the polls and prompted a wave of public anger, largely focused on the Bolsonaro clan who have spent years portraying themselves as flag-loving nationalists."

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

‘A family of traitors’: Trump’s Brazil tariffs ultimatum backfires on Bolsonaro

US president’s attempt to help his rightwing ally avoid jail has sparked wave of anger and given boost to rival Lula

www.theguardian.com

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Joe Lo @joeloclimate.bsky.social · Jul 12

The I’s text is much better. “Enduring” is a suitable verb. But still use a fun in the sun style picture. And no mention of climate change

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Joe Lo @joeloclimate.bsky.social · Jul 12

And they haven’t even mentioned the hundreds of likely deaths - at least on front page. Just vague “health alert”. A few weeks ago, a heatwave killed an estimated 263 people in London www.climatechangenews.com/2025/07/09/s...

Scientists hail rapid estimate of climate change's role in heat deaths

Researchers pinpoint the death toll from last month's heatwave in Europe, linking two-thirds of the deaths to climate change

www.climatechangenews.com

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Joe Lo @joeloclimate.bsky.social · Jul 12

This is an unhinged front page from the UK’s Daily Mirror. Giving the hundreds of deaths and the boost to beach economies equal prominence

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Tais Gadea Lara @taisgadealara.bsky.social · Jul 10

🌎 Four months before the climate conference in Belém, I interviewed the #COP30 President André Corrêa do Lago for @climatechangenews.com

The story, worked with @meganrowling.bsky.social and @joeloclimate.bsky.social: climatechangenews.com/2025/07/09/c...

Some highlights 🧵

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Marian Feist @mjfeist.bsky.social · Jul 7

I remember certain #GCF board members warning of this exact issue – twelve years ago. Good to see it’s being addressed.

@joeloclimate.bsky.social #climatefinance

Climate Home News @climatechangenews.com · Jul 7

Green Climate Fund reforms aim to fix “slow, cumbersome” accreditation process

The UN’s Green Climate Fund aims to accredit organisations, allowing them to apply for funds, within nine months
www.climatechangenews.com/2025/07/04/g...

Green Climate Fund reforms aim to fix "slow, cumbersome" accreditation process

The UN's Green Climate Fund aims to accredit organisations, allowing them to apply for funds, within nine months

www.climatechangenews.com

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