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Jessica Green
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Immigrant. Poli sci prof at U of Toronto. Politics of climate change, carbon markets, oceans, NGOs, enviro politics. Author of Existential Politics, out now: tinyurl.com/ybephkfb. Occasional ranter. greenprofgreen.com

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 8h
many thanks to @pilitaclark.bsky.social for shouting out my book Existential Politics in today's @financialtimes.com!!
The Paris agreement is not perfect but don’t write it off
Despite limits of multilateralism the world would be much worse off without the historic climate accord
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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 15h
obrigado a você!

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 16h
Beautiful and powerful thread. I wish all the diplomats would be required to take this trip into a Floresta Amazônica to understand wtf they are doing in Belém.
gabrieldread.bsky.social Gabriel Siqueira na COP30 @gabrieldread.bsky.social · 1d
Tem dias que redefinem o que a gente sente. Ontem, Belém me deu um presente que eu nem sabia que precisava, e meu coração ainda está transbordando. Pra além da #COP30, a Floresta Amazônica é exuberante.

Mas não foi só a paisagem que mexeu comigo. Foi a cultura viva dos guardiões da floresta.
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Gabriel Siqueira na COP30 @gabrieldread.bsky.social · 1d
Tem dias que redefinem o que a gente sente. Ontem, Belém me deu um presente que eu nem sabia que precisava, e meu coração ainda está transbordando. Pra além da #COP30, a Floresta Amazônica é exuberante.

Mas não foi só a paisagem que mexeu comigo. Foi a cultura viva dos guardiões da floresta.
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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 1d
Just in time for #COP30, a useful roundup by experts on progress made over the last decade on the Paris Agreement, article by article. Interesting that there is no discussion of #Article6
Expert retrospective on a decade of the Paris Agreement - Nature Climate Change
To mark the tenth anniversary of the Paris Agreement, Nature Climate Change asked experts to reflect on the progress of and barriers to several of its key Articles. They share their thoughts on import...
www.nature.com

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 1d
and a happy Sunday to you, sir!

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 1d
not great.

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 1d
so far the big announcement coming out of #COP30 is to do REDD again.

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 3d
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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 3d
www.foreignaffairs.com/world/global...
Global Climate Policy Is Broken
Fixating on emissions won’t decarbonize the world’s economy.
www.foreignaffairs.com

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 3d
Just in time for #COP30: my analysis is of what's wrong with global climate policy and what to do about it.
Global Climate Policy Is Broken
Fixating on emissions won’t decarbonize the world’s economy.
www.foreignaffairs.com

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 4d
It's well past time to get rid of all non-permanent offsets (and this DEFINITELY includes nature based "solutions")
www.foreignaffairs.com/world/false-...
The False Promise of Carbon Offsets
It’s time to retire an ineffective tactic to fight climate change.
www.foreignaffairs.com

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 5d
As a person from the Global North, I say that we have passed it to convey urgency and as a justification for more and faster action. But that's just me.

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 5d
'Memba all that research & reporting on how carbon offsets are, well, bullshit? Well, the EU NDC just dropped and, yep, offsets are in there. Resurrected from the dead after being excised from the EU-ETS.

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 5d
The internet is so great today 😍

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 5d
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social has already raised the bar for other politicians’ claims about “addressing affordability”. ✊

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 6d
Not a constituent, but wish you had endorsed him too, Danny.

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 6d
And it feels so gooooooood
wickdchiq.bsky.social Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 6d
Everyone is hope scrolling now

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 6d
Everyone is hope scrolling now

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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 6d
Nice @CBCNews assessment of where we are, 10 years on from the Paris Agreement, with some points from @greenprofgreen.bsky.social, myself & others www.cbc.ca/news/climate...
How the world changed in the decade since the Paris climate agreement | CBC Climate Change News
In 2015, nearly 200 countries adopted the Paris Agreement, the first global pact to fight climate change. Here's a comparison of then and now — in terms of the state of the climate, the way we live an...
www.cbc.ca

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 7d
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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 7d
Noted! I get that it's a form of insurance, but it's a VERY grim one. Instead of developed countries just giving out finance for mitigation and adaptation, they are financializing risk. Also, these bets will become increasingly risky...and then what?

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 8d
They bet against and if they bet correctly (ie no disaster), they get payments. If they bet incorrectly, Jamaica gets the money.

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 8d
Like I knew these existed but when you stop to think about it it’s ghoulish

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 8d
betting on climate disaster as ESG investing. cool cool

www.cbc.ca/news/science...

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 10d
Next time I am in NYC, let's hang! I would love to trade seam ripping stories lol.

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 10d
Woot! Look at us -- communicating with each other, amplifying each others' work and pulling the oars in the same direction 💪

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 10d
paging @amywestervelt.bsky.social @drilledmedia.bsky.social

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 10d
Dis me. (Plus the frantic night before effort to sew, glue, bedazzle, safety pin, and perform whatever other magic-making is required)

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 11d
US Gov't is shut down but @noaa.gov still toiling away at destroying decades of multilateral cooperation and ocean ecosystems in one fell swoop.

Folks, this is really, *really* bad.