While the government is responding to current, real security threats, such threats will only increase in tandem with climate impacts. 🌪️🔥🌊Cutting aid to fuel defence is like swapping a smaller, slightly leaky defence bucket for a larger one with a bigger hole. 🕳️(2/2)

Not far enough! Keep going, Australia’s wrens, with your brilliant feathers and even more brilliant names. ‘Splendid fairywren’. ‘Superb fairywren.’ Yes you are, lads, carry on!

We discuss the issues and what’s at stake on this week’s
@chathamhouse.bsky.social Independent Thinking podcast with Bronwen Maddox, former BBC journalist Roger Harrabin and Maria Netto, executive director of the Institute for Climate and Society in Brazil.

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Listen to the excellent Professor Patrick Bolton, E-axes report co-author, talk to me and climate and nature finance inspiration Dr Nicola Ranger on the Climate Briefing podcast 🎙️ here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

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Climate finance is not charity and the 'donor' base is a misnomer. By supporting countries which lack the means for ambitious mitigation and adaptation action, developing countries are investing in their own economies, their own resilience, the stability of the climate in which they operate.

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Agreement between parties on how to realize the benefits & limit the potential damage from the system of rotating COP presidencies could help shore up future global climate cooperation.

With analysis from @arzugeybulla.bsky.social
@laurencebroers.bsky.social

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In it, we recommend that Parties to the UNFCCC UN should mandate the secretariat to develop best practice and guardrails for the COP presidency. Faith and trust in the UNFCCC, the Paris Agreement and the COP process are the bedrock of multilateral climate ambition.

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Thanks Martin, glad it's useful to you.