Climate finance experts tell me the UK's decision to 'double count' money as humanitarian aid and climate finance is “problematic” and a “clear deviation from the path to climate justice”.

What has gone wrong with UK climate finance?

A quick🧵...

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NEW: Climate-driven migration mini-series 👣

After 2+ years of research and writing, I am SO excited to share this work!

1️⃣In-depth Q&A:
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2️⃣Climate-driven migration in rural Thailand:

Article bit.ly/migration-Thai…

Video youtu.be/SQ2NytrueUQ?si…

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Carbon Brief's Solomon Elusoji speaks to doctors, a meteorologist and farmers about how ongoing extreme heat is affecting Nigeria

It comes amid a lack of comprehensive record-keeping about the impacts of extreme heat on African nations, both on a national and international level

NEW: You've heard the controversies around net-zero, but what about net-negative?

I explore the moral & scientific arguments for countries turning into net-hoovers of CO2, as Germany becomes 1st major econ to consider it

Ft Joeri Rogelj & David Reiner
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MEGA FACTCHECK

Heat pumps are the “central technology in the global transition to secure and sustainable heating” says International Energy Agency.

But heat pumps still face relentless hostile media coverage.

I comprehensively debunked 18 heat pump myths in Carbon Brief👇

carbonbrief.org/factcheck-18-m…

NEW – ‘Drill, baby, drill’: The surprising history of Donald Trump’s fossil-fuel slogan | Josh Gabbatiss w/comment from Michael Steele

Read here: buff.ly/3TEO20R

🚨BREAKING🚨

Election victory for Trump could add 4bn tonnes to US emissions by 2030 – new Carbon Brief analysis

🎯US would blow past climate goals
😳would wipe out impact – twice over – from 5yrs of global clean energy growth
🥵would likely end 1.5C hopes

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Many climate groups in developing nations are funded by the German government, a political ally of Israel, and feel unable to criticise Israel’s military action in Gaza
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Really enjoyed writing DeBriefed, Carbon Brief's weekly newsletter on all things climate

Click for summary of key events + interview w/ authors of paper showing global support for climate action is 'systematically underestimated'

Edits by Daisy Dunne

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Our new study in NatureEcoEvo looks at how assemblages of birds, butterflies and plants have changed across Great Britain in the last 50 or so years.

🔗nature.com/articles/s4155…
🧵Some key results

NEW: Ever wondered what life is like for UK scientists doing fieldwork in the Arctic?

I went to British Antarctic Survey 🐧 on Wednesday to find out

Was also v cool to hear from a diverse range of scientists about their research, from algae to AI to invisible ecosystems!

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NEW – Q&A: What progress has been made on protecting nature a year on from COP15? | Aruna Chandrasekhar Daisy Dunne Orla Dwyer Yanine Quiroz Giuliana A. Viglione, PhD

Read here ➡️bit.ly/3vRs4hA

Biden has announced a surprise “pause” on new LNG export terminals

Josh Gabbatiss and I explore what it could mean for

🔥global emissions
🔥global LNG supplies and use
🔥Biden’s climate credibility in the run up to the election and on the global stage

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NEW: I interviewed Chris Skidmore for Carbon Brief

We cover
🔥his resignation
🔥PM’s “pivot towards trying to create a culture war on the back of net-zero”
🔥Govt’s “consistent pattern of favouritism” for oil and gas sector

& much more!

carbonbrief.org/the-carbon-bri…

The president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has just signed a 'decree' establishing an 'organisational committee' for COP29, which the nation is hosting later this year.

The committee features...

Men: 28
Women: 0

azernews.az/nation/220291.…

It's astonishing how many editorials the likes of the Sun & Daily Mail printed last year attacking climate activists from Just Stop Oil etc.

Far more than at the height of XR actions in London.

All referring to them as a “criminal cult”, “deranged”...

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