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Laura El-Katiri
@lauraelkatiri.bsky.social
Economist, energy, climate, sustainable development, environmental justice | Consultant @ IRENA, UN | Formerly Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and ECFR | All views my own | She/her
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January 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Today on September 30 and every day I stand with all Indigenous nations of North America to remember all the lives lost and destroyed by the US and Canada‘s residential school system and the policy of forced assimilation. #EveryChildMatters #OrangeShirtDay
September 30, 2024 at 9:51 AM
Our new IRENA Renewable Energy Market Analysis for the GCC is out now and can be downloaded for free from our website.
Renewable energy markets: GCC 2023
Global climate imperatives are re-shaping energy sectors across the globe, presenting both challenges and opportunities for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states
www.irena.org
December 13, 2023 at 9:12 AM
When it’s #COP28  with 80,000 attendees and not only the @AtlanticCouncil cannot find a single women to speak on a panel about energy in the Global South
What the Global South needs for a just energy transition
Achieving a just energy transition for the Global South may require a complete reversal in the way the world has operated for centuries.
www.atlanticcouncil.org
December 8, 2023 at 1:39 PM
@rebleber.bsky.social could you email me? Lelkatiri@irena.org
December 1, 2023 at 2:53 PM
Colleagues, I am looking for an already accredited broadcast journalist attending COP, or someone else senior who can help us moderate an event. Ideally with knowledge of the MENA region. Any clues, please message me.
November 10, 2023 at 9:45 AM
The federal government says it's signed its first major nature agreement with a province and First Nations to mutually support protecting 30 per cent of lands and waters by 2030.
B.C., Ottawa, First Nations announce conservation agreement worth $1B
www-cbc-ca.cdn.ampproject.org
November 4, 2023 at 6:07 AM
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New UNEP #AdaptationGap Report out!

Failure to adapt to the worst impacts of the #ClimateCrisis has massive implications for loss and damage, particularly for the most vulnerable.

www.unep.org/resources/ad...
Adaptation Gap Report 2023
In 2023, temperature records toppled, while storms, floods, droughts and heatwaves caused devastation. UNEP’s Adaptation Gap Report 2023: Underfinanced. Underprepared – Inadequate investment and ...
www.unep.org
November 3, 2023 at 8:40 AM
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🗣🆕 extremely timely: 🇺🇳 UN Human Rights Office's Key Messages on Human Rights and Loss And Damage.
📌 Any outcome of the #TC5 meeting ongoing in 🇦🇪 UAE to set up the new 🌐 Loss And Damage Fund should be reviewed through this lens.
🔗 www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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November 3, 2023 at 9:01 AM
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Average annual flows in 2021/2022 reached almost USD 1.3 trillion, doubling compared to 2019/2020 levels. This is the first time investments surpassed USD 1 trillion, six years after the #ParisAgreement was adopted. www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/publication/...
Global Landscape of Climate Finance 2023 - CPI
The most comprehensive overview of global climate-related primary investment
www.climatepolicyinitiative.org
November 2, 2023 at 6:07 PM
All references to human rights removed from the draft text on Loss and Damage ahead of TC5
November 2, 2023 at 2:24 PM
Interesting read about NIMBY problems in the US
Why America Doesn’t Build
Even green-energy projects get quashed by local opposition.
www.theatlantic.com
November 2, 2023 at 11:12 AM
“These are the irreplaceable, old-growth forests, which are priceless“
Most Countries are Falling Short of Their Promises to Stop Cutting Down the World’s Trees - Inside...
Despite the urgency behind global pledges to stop cutting down trees and damaging forests, the world lost tens of millions of acres of woodlands in 2022, veering well off track from meeting targets to...
insideclimatenews.org
November 1, 2023 at 8:24 PM
Human rights advocates want the International Criminal Court to begin gathering evidence on the way climate-amplified extreme weather, heat, drought and flooding are driving armed conflict, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
How Climate Change Drives Conflict and War Crimes Around the Globe - Inside Climate News
This story has been updated. Drought, flooding and extreme weather are driving and amplifying violent conflict around the world. At the same time, warfare has devastated ecosystems, imperiled access t...
insideclimatenews.org
November 1, 2023 at 8:22 PM
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Five years ago today the IPCC released its “most important report,” warning the world just how soon 1.5 degrees of warming would arrive.

I asked some of the report’s authors to reflect back on its impact:
The UN Gave A Dire Climate Change Warning Five Years Ago. It’s Worse Than They Hoped
In 2018 scientists warned the window for meeting climate targets was closing. Half a decade later, they're dismayed at our progress.
themessenger.com
October 8, 2023 at 5:38 PM
Judge approves historic $23B First Nations child welfare compensation agreement - More of this please, including in the US t.co/KiwV2QcT92
October 26, 2023 at 1:39 PM
It may be too late to halt the decline of the West Antarctic ice shelves, a study found, but climate action could still forestall the gravest sea level rise.
Rapid Antarctic Melting Looks Certain, Even if Emissions Goals Are Met
It may be too late to halt the decline of the West Antarctic ice shelves, a study found, but climate action could still forestall the gravest sea level rise.
www.nytimes.com
October 26, 2023 at 8:49 AM
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Since the Trump administration removed the species from the endangered list 20% of entire population has been lost in just two years www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...
Hope for Florida’s dwindling manatees as review could restore protections
Since Trump administration removed species from endangered list 20% of entire population has been lost in just two years
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2023 at 9:11 PM
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How to fund climate action:

An EU-commissioned study found that a global minimum tax on billionaires could raise $250 billion a year.

Currently, billionaires' effective tax rates are often far less than average because they park wealth in shell companies.

www.reuters.com/business/fin...
October 23, 2023 at 6:51 AM
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By the end of September, more than half of the world’s countries could fit inside the land burned this year in Canada.

“I can’t think of any analogy for the extent to which the modern records were not only broken but destroyed here,” says climate scientist John Abatzoglou.

Read more:
‘It’s Like Our Country Exploded’: Canada’s Year of Fire
Endless evacuations, unimaginable smoke and heat, 45 million acres burned — is this the nation’s new normal?
www.nytimes.com
October 24, 2023 at 5:40 PM
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++JUST PUBLISHED++

Here's a truly *epic* factcheck by @drsimevans.bsky.social for @carbonbrief.org where, in turn, he calmly dismantles TWENTY-ONE of the most misleading claims made against EVs.

This is the one-stop-shop debunking you've been waiting for...

www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-21...
October 24, 2023 at 3:59 PM
Never not stunned by US legislation and priority given to profits over protection of citizens
Revealed: how a little-known pollution rule keeps the air dirty for millions of Americans
Major investigation shows local governments are increasingly exploiting a loophole in the Clean Air Act, leaving more than 21 million Americans with air that’s dirtier than they realize
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2023 at 7:10 PM