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COP30 Focus: Implementation — The Borrowed Earth Project
The first in our series of blogs on the ongoing COP30 process in Brazil. This article focuses on the topic of Implementation.
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#COP30 Focus - Implementation
We will be covering progress at @cop30brazil.bsky.social in #Belem over the coming days and weeks, in this first article, we consider some key aspects of *Implementation*.
borrowedearthproject.com/blog/cop30-f...
We will be covering progress at @cop30brazil.bsky.social in #Belem over the coming days and weeks, in this first article, we consider some key aspects of *Implementation*.
borrowedearthproject.com/blog/cop30-f...
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Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
December 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
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If you are in the US and you would like to send a message to your elected representative about the proposed dissolution of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, @agu.org makes it easy with a template here: agu.quorum.us/campaign/151... #AGU25
Save NCAR from being dismantled today!
The Trump Administration has vowed to dissolve the center that provides critical extreme weather and climate data for our nation.
agu.quorum.us
December 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
If you are in the US and you would like to send a message to your elected representative about the proposed dissolution of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, @agu.org makes it easy with a template here: agu.quorum.us/campaign/151... #AGU25
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We often think, “I’m just one person—what difference could I make?”
This story shows that, when we use our voice, the answer is: a lot.
So if one person can catalyze so much harm, imagine the good each of us can choose to support and advocate for.
Read more by @fieseler.bsky.social here:
This story shows that, when we use our voice, the answer is: a lot.
So if one person can catalyze so much harm, imagine the good each of us can choose to support and advocate for.
Read more by @fieseler.bsky.social here:
The man behind the fall of offshore wind
David Stevenson has solar on his roof and drives a hybrid. How did he become the leader of the movement that helped Trump crush offshore wind farms?
www.canarymedia.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
We often think, “I’m just one person—what difference could I make?”
This story shows that, when we use our voice, the answer is: a lot.
So if one person can catalyze so much harm, imagine the good each of us can choose to support and advocate for.
Read more by @fieseler.bsky.social here:
This story shows that, when we use our voice, the answer is: a lot.
So if one person can catalyze so much harm, imagine the good each of us can choose to support and advocate for.
Read more by @fieseler.bsky.social here:
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From above Pahalgam,the Kolahoi glacier is a thinning,rumpled ribbon of ice stretching across the western Himalayas,once a vast artery feeding rivers,fields and forests,it is now retreating steadily,leaving bare rock,crevassed ice and newly exposed alpine meadows www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Even the animals seem confused’: a retreating Kashmir glacier is creating an entire new world in its wake
Kolahoi is one of many glaciers whose decline is disrupting whole ecosystems – water, wildlife and human life that it has supported for centuries
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
From above Pahalgam,the Kolahoi glacier is a thinning,rumpled ribbon of ice stretching across the western Himalayas,once a vast artery feeding rivers,fields and forests,it is now retreating steadily,leaving bare rock,crevassed ice and newly exposed alpine meadows www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This is wild, the only causes listed are
>changes in earth's orbit
>variation in solar activity
>changes in earth's reflectivity
>volcanic activity
>changes in "naturally occurring" Carbom Dioxide concentrations
It's like Climate Denier bingo
>changes in earth's orbit
>variation in solar activity
>changes in earth's reflectivity
>volcanic activity
>changes in "naturally occurring" Carbom Dioxide concentrations
It's like Climate Denier bingo
It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.
December 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This is wild, the only causes listed are
>changes in earth's orbit
>variation in solar activity
>changes in earth's reflectivity
>volcanic activity
>changes in "naturally occurring" Carbom Dioxide concentrations
It's like Climate Denier bingo
>changes in earth's orbit
>variation in solar activity
>changes in earth's reflectivity
>volcanic activity
>changes in "naturally occurring" Carbom Dioxide concentrations
It's like Climate Denier bingo
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For me, 2025 has felt like a particularly heavy year ... and you might feel the same. So as we head into the holiday season, I wanted to share a few recommendations — books, podcasts, and newsletters — that encourage me, make me think, and remind me how hope begins with action.
Climate content for purpose, courage, and hope | Talking Climate with Katharine Hayhoe
Get more from Talking Climate with Katharine Hayhoe on Patreon
www.patreon.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
For me, 2025 has felt like a particularly heavy year ... and you might feel the same. So as we head into the holiday season, I wanted to share a few recommendations — books, podcasts, and newsletters — that encourage me, make me think, and remind me how hope begins with action.
#COP30 Focus: #FossilFuels and the #EnergyTransition
Our penultimate blog on all things @cop30brazil.bsky.social is below, answering why Fossil Fuels didn't make the final text, and looking at how momentum on the transition can be seen outside the COPs
borrowedearthproject.com/blog/cop30-f...
Our penultimate blog on all things @cop30brazil.bsky.social is below, answering why Fossil Fuels didn't make the final text, and looking at how momentum on the transition can be seen outside the COPs
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COP30 Focus: Fossil Fuels and the Energy Transition — The Borrowed Earth Project
In our penultimate COP30 Focus blog we dive into how Fossil Fuels have been treated in this and previous COPs, how non-COP roadmaps to their phase-out are emerging, and how the energy transition is st...
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December 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM
#COP30 Focus: #FossilFuels and the #EnergyTransition
Our penultimate blog on all things @cop30brazil.bsky.social is below, answering why Fossil Fuels didn't make the final text, and looking at how momentum on the transition can be seen outside the COPs
borrowedearthproject.com/blog/cop30-f...
Our penultimate blog on all things @cop30brazil.bsky.social is below, answering why Fossil Fuels didn't make the final text, and looking at how momentum on the transition can be seen outside the COPs
borrowedearthproject.com/blog/cop30-f...
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Latest story on what is going on at COP30, which we will update with a story on the final deal at a time that is very much TBC. www.businessgreen.com/news/4522231...
COP30: Global fossil fuel transition summit announced for 2026, as climate talks edge into overtime
First international conference focused on transitioning away from fossil fuels to be held in Colombia next year, as key players slam COP30 draft text that fails to reference fossil fuels
www.businessgreen.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Latest story on what is going on at COP30, which we will update with a story on the final deal at a time that is very much TBC. www.businessgreen.com/news/4522231...
#COP30 Focus: South Korea commits to phase out coal
In what might be one of the biggest wins of @cop30brazil.bsky.social South Korea has announced that it will join @pastcoal.bsky.social
Read more and sign up to our monthly newsletter here
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#Greensky
In what might be one of the biggest wins of @cop30brazil.bsky.social South Korea has announced that it will join @pastcoal.bsky.social
Read more and sign up to our monthly newsletter here
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#Greensky
COP30 Focus: South Korea Commits to Phase Out Coal — The Borrowed Earth Project
In the latest of our COP30 focus series, we look at one of the potential highlights of COP30 so far, that of the Republic of Korea signing up to the Powering Past Coal Alliance.
borrowedearthproject.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
#COP30 Focus: South Korea commits to phase out coal
In what might be one of the biggest wins of @cop30brazil.bsky.social South Korea has announced that it will join @pastcoal.bsky.social
Read more and sign up to our monthly newsletter here
borrowedearthproject.com/blog/cop30-s...
#Greensky
In what might be one of the biggest wins of @cop30brazil.bsky.social South Korea has announced that it will join @pastcoal.bsky.social
Read more and sign up to our monthly newsletter here
borrowedearthproject.com/blog/cop30-s...
#Greensky
Interesting point "If COP were a pointless exercise, it wouldn’t be targeted so heavily by the fossil fuel industry"
Curious about what's happening at #COP30? @roycerk2.bsky.social and I recapped the first week for @drilledmedia.bsky.social drilled.media/news/COP30-w...
COP30 So Far: Protestors, Polluters and Paying for Pollution
Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.
drilled.media
November 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Interesting point "If COP were a pointless exercise, it wouldn’t be targeted so heavily by the fossil fuel industry"
#COP30 Focus - Cities
The 2nd of our focus blogs on the main topics at @cop30brazil.bsky.social concerns Cities.
The forward plans of the #C40 leading cities are a powerful reminder that not all progress comes ‘top down’ from national governments.
lnkd.in/eY3StAyF
#Greensky #ClimateChange
The 2nd of our focus blogs on the main topics at @cop30brazil.bsky.social concerns Cities.
The forward plans of the #C40 leading cities are a powerful reminder that not all progress comes ‘top down’ from national governments.
lnkd.in/eY3StAyF
#Greensky #ClimateChange
November 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
#COP30 Focus - Cities
The 2nd of our focus blogs on the main topics at @cop30brazil.bsky.social concerns Cities.
The forward plans of the #C40 leading cities are a powerful reminder that not all progress comes ‘top down’ from national governments.
lnkd.in/eY3StAyF
#Greensky #ClimateChange
The 2nd of our focus blogs on the main topics at @cop30brazil.bsky.social concerns Cities.
The forward plans of the #C40 leading cities are a powerful reminder that not all progress comes ‘top down’ from national governments.
lnkd.in/eY3StAyF
#Greensky #ClimateChange
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COP30 STATUS UPDATE: We're tracking 117 substantive agenda items in Belém – and there's clear progress
7 – agreed
27 – draft text
12 – informal text
57 – not agreed/ no text
14 – postponed
Check our text tracker for more
www.carbonbrief.org/...
7 – agreed
27 – draft text
12 – informal text
57 – not agreed/ no text
14 – postponed
Check our text tracker for more
www.carbonbrief.org/...
November 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
COP30 STATUS UPDATE: We're tracking 117 substantive agenda items in Belém – and there's clear progress
7 – agreed
27 – draft text
12 – informal text
57 – not agreed/ no text
14 – postponed
Check our text tracker for more
www.carbonbrief.org/...
7 – agreed
27 – draft text
12 – informal text
57 – not agreed/ no text
14 – postponed
Check our text tracker for more
www.carbonbrief.org/...
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#COP30 Focus - Implementation
We will be covering progress at @cop30brazil.bsky.social in #Belem over the coming days and weeks, in this first article, we consider some key aspects of *Implementation*.
borrowedearthproject.com/blog/cop30-f...
We will be covering progress at @cop30brazil.bsky.social in #Belem over the coming days and weeks, in this first article, we consider some key aspects of *Implementation*.
borrowedearthproject.com/blog/cop30-f...
COP30 Focus: Implementation — The Borrowed Earth Project
The first in our series of blogs on the ongoing COP30 process in Brazil. This article focuses on the topic of Implementation.
borrowedearthproject.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
#COP30 Focus - Implementation
We will be covering progress at @cop30brazil.bsky.social in #Belem over the coming days and weeks, in this first article, we consider some key aspects of *Implementation*.
borrowedearthproject.com/blog/cop30-f...
We will be covering progress at @cop30brazil.bsky.social in #Belem over the coming days and weeks, in this first article, we consider some key aspects of *Implementation*.
borrowedearthproject.com/blog/cop30-f...
#COP30 Focus - Implementation
We will be covering progress at @cop30brazil.bsky.social in #Belem over the coming days and weeks, in this first article, we consider some key aspects of *Implementation*.
borrowedearthproject.com/blog/cop30-f...
We will be covering progress at @cop30brazil.bsky.social in #Belem over the coming days and weeks, in this first article, we consider some key aspects of *Implementation*.
borrowedearthproject.com/blog/cop30-f...
COP30 Focus: Implementation — The Borrowed Earth Project
The first in our series of blogs on the ongoing COP30 process in Brazil. This article focuses on the topic of Implementation.
borrowedearthproject.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
#COP30 Focus - Implementation
We will be covering progress at @cop30brazil.bsky.social in #Belem over the coming days and weeks, in this first article, we consider some key aspects of *Implementation*.
borrowedearthproject.com/blog/cop30-f...
We will be covering progress at @cop30brazil.bsky.social in #Belem over the coming days and weeks, in this first article, we consider some key aspects of *Implementation*.
borrowedearthproject.com/blog/cop30-f...
Climate Change Made Simple
If you want to understand climate impacts, you could start by visiting your local glacier. If there isn't one nearby, we can help. We visited the Hopper Glacier in Gilgit-Baltistan, #Pakistan on your behalf.
Read more here:
borrowedearthproject.com/blog/climate...
If you want to understand climate impacts, you could start by visiting your local glacier. If there isn't one nearby, we can help. We visited the Hopper Glacier in Gilgit-Baltistan, #Pakistan on your behalf.
Read more here:
borrowedearthproject.com/blog/climate...
Climate Change Made Simple — The Borrowed Earth Project
Climate change is in some ways not that complicated. Lets park our political views at the door for a little bit, and be prepared to believe both the science, and the evidence of our own eyes. You coul...
borrowedearthproject.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Climate Change Made Simple
If you want to understand climate impacts, you could start by visiting your local glacier. If there isn't one nearby, we can help. We visited the Hopper Glacier in Gilgit-Baltistan, #Pakistan on your behalf.
Read more here:
borrowedearthproject.com/blog/climate...
If you want to understand climate impacts, you could start by visiting your local glacier. If there isn't one nearby, we can help. We visited the Hopper Glacier in Gilgit-Baltistan, #Pakistan on your behalf.
Read more here:
borrowedearthproject.com/blog/climate...
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Overshooting 1.5°C wasn't 'inevitable.'
We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them.
Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse.
Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them.
Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse.
Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Overshooting 1.5°C wasn't 'inevitable.'
We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them.
Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse.
Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them.
Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse.
Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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“Yet again, powerful fossil fuel states are successfully blocking global efforts on climate change. This is not the result the industry wanted, nor one the world’s people can afford. Trump’s aggressive, destructive lobbying has their made this job much harder”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Shipping emissions levy shelved as countries bow to US pressure
Long-planned charge on greenhouse gas emissions postponed as Trump officials accused of intimidation tactics
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 10:24 AM
“Yet again, powerful fossil fuel states are successfully blocking global efforts on climate change. This is not the result the industry wanted, nor one the world’s people can afford. Trump’s aggressive, destructive lobbying has their made this job much harder”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The Primary Energy Fallacy is the idea that all primary energy from fossil fuels must be replaced with equivalent amount of clean energy.
BUT: Not necessary because >2/3 of all primary energy is lost as waste heat.
Electrification+renewables are far more efficient.
medium.com/@jan.rosenow...
BUT: Not necessary because >2/3 of all primary energy is lost as waste heat.
Electrification+renewables are far more efficient.
medium.com/@jan.rosenow...
October 4, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The Primary Energy Fallacy is the idea that all primary energy from fossil fuels must be replaced with equivalent amount of clean energy.
BUT: Not necessary because >2/3 of all primary energy is lost as waste heat.
Electrification+renewables are far more efficient.
medium.com/@jan.rosenow...
BUT: Not necessary because >2/3 of all primary energy is lost as waste heat.
Electrification+renewables are far more efficient.
medium.com/@jan.rosenow...
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Pope Leo--weirdly normal Midwesterner--gave a key climate speech yesterday that couldn't have been more different from Trump's disturbing and dangerous harangue of the generals
billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-differen...
billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-differen...
A different kind of leader gives a different kind of speech
An afternoon with the Pope
billmckibben.substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Pope Leo--weirdly normal Midwesterner--gave a key climate speech yesterday that couldn't have been more different from Trump's disturbing and dangerous harangue of the generals
billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-differen...
billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-differen...
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The world has lost its most powerful advocate for nature and hope. Yet many remain who will continue her legacy and I know she will continue to inspire generations more.
October 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The world has lost its most powerful advocate for nature and hope. Yet many remain who will continue her legacy and I know she will continue to inspire generations more.
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my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"
September 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"
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Sir Keir Starmer has no plans to attend the UN COP30 summit in Brazil in November, despite having branded Rishi Sunak’s absence from the world’s top climate conference a “failure of leadership” just a few years ago.
www.ft.com/content/5f8f...
www.ft.com/content/5f8f...
Keir Starmer has no plans to attend COP30 climate summit in Brazil
Final decision has yet to be made amid ‘big fight inside government’ over trip by prime minister
www.ft.com
September 25, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Sir Keir Starmer has no plans to attend the UN COP30 summit in Brazil in November, despite having branded Rishi Sunak’s absence from the world’s top climate conference a “failure of leadership” just a few years ago.
www.ft.com/content/5f8f...
www.ft.com/content/5f8f...
Whats the deal with data centers?
In our new blog, we explain all things #datacenter. What they are, how much power they use, what their growth has been like, what it is predicted to do - and why all that matters to the electricity grid and #climate.
Enjoy!
borrowedearthproject.com/blog/whats-t...
In our new blog, we explain all things #datacenter. What they are, how much power they use, what their growth has been like, what it is predicted to do - and why all that matters to the electricity grid and #climate.
Enjoy!
borrowedearthproject.com/blog/whats-t...
What’s the deal with Data Centers? — The Borrowed Earth Project
In this blog, we disucss all things data center. What are they? Why are they such a hot topic in climate and energy discussions? And what imapct might they have on our electricity grid and on climate ...
borrowedearthproject.com
September 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Whats the deal with data centers?
In our new blog, we explain all things #datacenter. What they are, how much power they use, what their growth has been like, what it is predicted to do - and why all that matters to the electricity grid and #climate.
Enjoy!
borrowedearthproject.com/blog/whats-t...
In our new blog, we explain all things #datacenter. What they are, how much power they use, what their growth has been like, what it is predicted to do - and why all that matters to the electricity grid and #climate.
Enjoy!
borrowedearthproject.com/blog/whats-t...
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ICYMI: Google removes net zero goal from website.
Google quietly removes net-zero carbon goal from website amid rapid power-hungry AI data center buildout — industry-first sustainability pledge moved to background amidst AI energy crisis
Google's goal to be net-zero in carbon emissions by 2030 is still apparently company policy, it's just not broadcasting it anymore
www.tomshardware.com
September 8, 2025 at 8:53 AM
ICYMI: Google removes net zero goal from website.
🌼 Recharging Hope, Wonder and Delight at Kew Gardens 🌳
At The Borrowed Earth Project, we are fully signed-up members of the fan club of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. @rbgkew.bsky.social
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At The Borrowed Earth Project, we are fully signed-up members of the fan club of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. @rbgkew.bsky.social
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Recharging Hope, Wonder and Delight at Kew Gardens — The Borrowed Earth Project
At The Borrowed Earth Project, we are signed up members of the fan club for the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. Here we recount what we found in a recent visit, and why it gives us hope.
borrowedearthproject.com
September 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
🌼 Recharging Hope, Wonder and Delight at Kew Gardens 🌳
At The Borrowed Earth Project, we are fully signed-up members of the fan club of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. @rbgkew.bsky.social
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At The Borrowed Earth Project, we are fully signed-up members of the fan club of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. @rbgkew.bsky.social
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