Thread by @DaveGormanUoE

Two threads today on a busy day at COP and you’ll have to excuse errrors and misunderstandings as it’s been a long day. First, general announcements and things that caught my eye, then a second thread on the negotiations #COP26 #EdinUniCOP 1/n

The day started with an overnight publication of the first draft of the agreement from the U.K. presidency (more in a separate thread) and calls from the U.K. Prime Minister for more action 2/n bbc.co.uk/news/world-592… and businessgreen.com

Today was also transport theme day so there were a whole raft of coalitions and announcements made on zero carbon cars, HGVs and coalitions on sustainable aviation and shipping 3/n

These can be found here 4/n gov.uk/government/pub… here gov.uk/government/new… here businessgreen.com/news/4040040/c…

And also here 5/n gov.uk/government/pub… and gov.uk/government/pub… and here businessgreen.com/news/4040038/a… and here businesstoday.in/amp/industry/a… and here theguardian.com/environment/20…

Meantime China’s senior representative was insisting China is taking action whilst calling for other nations to do more immediately-it seems Japan and particularly Australia didn’t get memo 6/n theguardian.com/environment/20… but also reuters.com/business/cop/j… and theguardian.com/environment/20…

Powerful speech from an indigenous leader all men should read immediately 7/n theguardian.com/environment/20…

And some more analysis on what the pledges so far mean including from those excellent, indefatigable 8/n @CarbonBrief folks theguardian.com/commentisfree/… and

https://mobile.twitter.com/climateactiontr/status/1458072899122655236?s=21

and carbonbrief.org/analysis-do-co…

Some extra money for adaptation though no where near enough yet 9/n adaptation-fund.org/adaptation-fun…

You may well have read that coal pledges from week 1 are weak/ineffective but if you did,sorry I don’t agree- exempli gratia 10/n ukcop26.org/global-coal-to… and bloomberg.com/news/articles/… and straitstimes.com/asia/china-ple… and this excellent thread from @CoalFreeDave

https://mobile.twitter.com/coalfreedave/status/1457772455825592321?s=21

I attended a bunch of excellent sessions on nature/biodiversity,climate,
nature-based solutions today so sharing few links on those issues 11/n unep-wcmc.org/news/in-order-… and theguardian.com/environment/20… and theguardian.com/environment/20… and theguardian.com/global-develop… and iucn.org/news/marine-an…

A new is also trying to effectively end the oil and gas industry 12/n politico.eu/article/cop26-…

And another coalition, this time of buyers, promises to buy zero carbon steel- a clever way to make business cases investable 13/n

https://twitter.com/unido/status/1458116501764988937

If you’re confused about what is going on at COP and what it all means- and why wouldn’t you be?- this thread from @michaelujacobs should help 14/n

https://twitter.com/michaelujacobs/status/1458149041192189961

This thread from @mohadow should help explain what a successful COP looks like 15/n

https://twitter.com/mohadow/status/1458146519337639936

On the cars announcement, this excellent thread from @ClimateBeard explains why it’s so significant and mentions even more zero HGV commitments! 16/n

https://twitter.com/ClimateBeard/status/1458391058899947522

If you want even more on where we are on pledges and analyses and temperature rises then this excellent thread from @hausfath does the business… 17/n

https://twitter.com/hausfath/status/1458429460047400969

So, phew, that’s thread number 1 on today’s developments as they appeared to me. Next up..the negotiations and where we seem to be 18/n

Try this updated link for Bloomberg article bloomberg.com/news/articles/…