At the 2nd Glasgow Dialogue #SB58 & wondering how the UNFCCC can regain trust & credibility in an effective #LossAndDamage fund when participants highlight the insufficiency, accessibility, flexibility, adequacy, efficiency + failures of #mitigation & #adaptation financing so far

@canyakker @RallidaeRule I’ve been using the Collins Bird Guide in Germany. I miss flipping through my hardcover Southern Africa guides, but it’s been a lot of fun being able to easily identify and record every bird I’ve seen https://apps.apple.com/za/app/collins-bird-guide/id868827305

The IPCC reports are the main source of collated scientific evidence of climate change, its impacts, and possible solutions. These reports inform national policymaking and the international climate change regime. As such, it's so important to consider how the reports are made and who gets to contribute to these reports. Carbon Brief has conducted an analysis of the diversity of authors of the IPCC and how they have changed over time. While there has been an increase in women authors and authors from the Global South, men and authors from the Global North still dominate many of the reports. This analysis is an important contribution to revealing epistemic justice concerns and the gaps we still need to overcome.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-the-diversity-of-ipcc-authors-has-changed-over-three-decades/

#ClimateChange #IPCC #EpistemicJustice #ClimateJustice

Here it is! Paper Crown is officially out on all platforms. I started the songwriting process for this project back in 2017 … it’s been a long incubation period! 😂 I really hope you like the final product.

https://ffm.to/papercrownalbum

The songs are all out but I still have a few things lined up in the pipeline 🎥🎥🎥 more updates on that soon.

#NewMusic #Music #Musician #MusicRelease #IndieMusic #SingerSongwriter #Rock #Pop

A little bit of hope seeing groups around the world advocating for #ClimateJustice from both public and private entities. I'm excited (and anxious) to follow these cases and their ripple effects.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/04/why-2023-will-be-a-watershed-year-for-climate-litigation

Militant decency.

#Gnu #TerryPratchett

My view: The climate loss&damage fund should also be filled by those companies who knowingly sell a dangerous product and actively mislead the public about the risks and lobby against climate policy. Precedent is the tobacco companies’ case.

I’m not attempting to minimise the #cop27 failures here related to the lack of increased ambition for keeping to 1.5 degrees warming or the vague plans for the #LossAndDamage financing mechanisms, rather just highlight that the #ClimateCrisis isn’t just this future problem we are trying to avoid, but one that many around the world are already experiencing (especially with the African continent warming at double the rate of the rest of the world).

I’ve seen some rhetoric post #cop27 that the “success” with #LossAndDamage in some way shifts dealing with the cause to managing the symptoms. I’m struggling w/ this language as it seems to dehumanise the real & current impact of the #ClimateCrisis. While avoiding warming of over 1.5 degrees is still crucial, even a 1.5 degree warmer world will have devastating impacts. Our ambition requires a dual effort in reducing emissions & protecting those already living with the impacts of #ClimateChange

Let me try this here:

As editor of the Springer Nature journal Regional Environmental Change, I badly need additional editorial board members in the field of (eco-)hydrology. Our papers are in an interdisciplinary context and we particularly search new colleagues from the global South.

If you are interested, send me a DM or an e-mail please!

If you think addressing #climate change is too expensive, you won’t believe the cost of *not* addressing #ClimateChange. #COP27

Never thought Elon Musk would do so much for the adoption of a decentralised infrastructure…

Please Elon, can you buy Elsevier ?

What #ClimateChange #newsletters for #COP27 commentary and other climate-related updates do you all follow? Here are some of mine for those interested:

#Quartz "Need to Know: COP27: https://qz.com/emails/cop27"

#UN News "Climate Newsletter": https://news.un.org/en/content/un-news-climate-newsletter

Britt Wray's "Gen Dread" (for some support with #ClimateAnxiety and related feelings): https://gendread.substack.com/

#SouthAfrican newsletters:

The Mail & Guardian's "Green Guardian": https://mg.us11.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=68651342bac97a3ec7f3511f6&id=25a8a0e0a6

The Daily Maverick's "Our Burning Planet": https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/about/newsletter/

@austinkocher such an interesting course! I’m starting a research fellowship next year where I’ll be looking at developing a just definition for climate refugees. This will be my first climate change project looking at migration and I know I have lots to learn. I would love to see some of the course material when you start sharing it.

Thought I’d share an interesting learning I had today. While I like to avoid being the type of academic that gets bogged down on terminology, I also recognise that language can carry with it important connotations and messages. Today I gave a presentation where my use of the term #NaturalDisasters was critiqued because it isolates the disaster from human processes. Especially in the field of #ClimateChange I believe it is really important to emphasise human causes and human responsibility. From now on, I’ll update how I talk about disasters.

Would love to have more #GlobalSouth voices in my feed, especially #journalists , #activists and #academics in the fields of #ClimateChange , #politics , #InternationalRelations , #migration and #SocialJustice from #SouthAfrica and other global south countries. Not sure if many have made the move to Mastodon but if you have, let me know you’re here!

@beavers fellow amateur #twitcher here. So many wonderful #birds here in South Africa, I love our local sunbirds, sugarbirds and was lucky enough to have a resident African Wood Owl for a little while.

@saa thanks for bringing these groups to my attention. Going to do some reading up.

And yes, completely agree. I was at a workshop on equitable urban climate adaption recently and one of the distinctions raised was between people who work in climate and get to return to a “safe” lifestyle at the end of the work day and those without that privilege, who live with the reality of both climate impacts and other socio-economic injustices. While this is on the smaller scale, I do feel as though it applies to the global dynamic between the south and north too. There is definitely a need to both recognise this injustice and ensure burdens/responsibilities are more fairly distributed.

Curious about the thoughts here on the boycotts towards #cop27 in Egypt. On the one hand, it is obviously important to stand against human rights violations, and how can Egypt host a cop where they’re claiming to champion #climatejustice (specifically towards #climatefinance ) when Egypt is not doing so on the intranational level. However, it does feel as though that leaves the pressure and burden (once again) on global south actors to protest and demand change. What’s the more effective and just strategy here? It’s difficult not to feel slightly uncomfortable when a cop held in the global south (which is disproportionately impacted by #climatechange ) is boycotted by important actors from the global north.

Decided to be a little more like the birds I love and completed my own migration (to here). Thought I’d introduce myself to the community, since that seems to be a thing? Hello! I’m Kalia from South Africa (apologies from all of us about that other guy). I’m a climate justice researcher in my professional/academic life and an aunt, birder, reader, wannabe illustrator (and wannabe so much more) in the rest of my life 🌻