57 companies produced 80% of the emissions since the Paris Agreement.

57 CEOs would fit on one bus.

Today @JPMorgan & State Street Global Advisors announced they're ditching the Climate Action 100+ initiative, and BlackRock is scaling back its membership.

Their cowardice is astounding & their approach to climate risk management is alarming.

Full Sierra Club statement: sierraclub.org/press-releases…

Watching Luke Combs sing beside Tracy Chapman with such obvious reverence makes the difference between appropriation and appreciation crystal clear.

When someone engages source material in a spirit of love, it shows.

Count all the ways he centers her, not himself 👇🏾

IMPORTANT: As #Davos has been back in the news, u should DEFINITELY watch & share this!

“It feels like I’m at a firefighters conference & no one is allowed to speak about water.”

“You’re counting the wrong things!”

HT Rutger Bregman @Winnie_byanyima #WEF24

A court in Norway, a major oil & gas producer, just invalidated multiple drilling permits on the grounds that climate impacts weren't fully considered. The same assessment process is at the heart of multiple cases in front of UK courts.
My thoughts here:
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

BREAKING: VICTORY FOR CLIMATE IN THE NORWEGIAN COURT! 🌟

Greenpeace Norge and Natur og Ungdom sued the Norwegian state for issuing illegal permits to three oil projects.

The court court agreed on all counts and production must now stop!

#ClimateJustice #Norway

2400+ climate lawsuits have been filed worldwide, but how do these cases affect companies' financial risk exposure? Existing assessments barely account for legal action.

In Science Magazine Thom Wetzer Arjuna Dibley and I explain how this can be done.

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

In our latest article in Science Magazine, we argue that investors and regulators are flying blind in their treatment of climate risk by failing to account for the impact of legal action. (1/7)

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Do you have white teenage sons?

Listen up.

I've been watching my boys' online behavior & noticed that social media and vloggers are actively laying groundwork in white teens to turn them into alt-right/white supremacists.

Here's how:

This is absolutely wild. We’re just being served an AI which has built in centuries-old biases.

YES. I mean really this photo in 2023 is beyond parody.

Fascinating and important new role 👇

Sitting in tonight's the GST negotiations on fossil fuel phase out #COP28 .

Here is what countries are saying, using normal human language, a thread 👇

Ten reasons why the SUCCESSFUL Belgian Climate Case by De Klimaatzaak is a globally significant win – for communities around the world. Thread 🧵

There are 40+ similar cases pending against governments – in Italy 🇮🇹 Sth Korea 🇰🇷 Australia 🇦🇺 Canada 🇨🇦 Sweden 🇸🇪 Turkey 🇹🇷 Poland 🇵🇱

'There is no case law that suggests that climate alliances are vulnerable under any of these theories, and notably, despite rampant accusations from Republican officials about antitrust violations, no cases have yet been filed.'  impactalpha.com/the-antitrust-… via @impactalpha

*New job alert* working with one of the best in our field Tessa Khan !

If we can scrub from the atmosphere all the carbon emitted by future fossil fuel consumption, plus all the carbon emitted after we almost certainly overshoot a 1.5 degree carbon budget, then yes, the COP28 UAE President and my senior and very distinguished University of Oxford…

Absolutely brilliant! Love your work Make My Money Matter

NEW: Powerful comment piece out today from leading lawyers + climate scientists: Prof Rajamani, Rupert Stuart-Smith Joeri Rogelj Thom Wetzer

Outlines legal limits to governments’ reliance on carbon dioxide removal.

Very relevant to climate litigation 🧵

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

A bright and shining example of the suicidal absurdity of technocapitalist society occurs every year at this time, all across the country.
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