So, with the informal stocktake plenary from the Presidency due shortly, there was enough happening to justify another thread (!) 1/n
Sri Lanka joined the countries pledged to stop funding fossil fuels abroad 2/n
@BusinessGreen highlight a few new pledges - on net zero events and Nokia’s 100% renewables pledge 3/n here businessgreen.com/news/4040201/e… and businessgreen.com/news/4040232/n… and the idea of using AI to track and report corporate emissions s businessgreen.com/sponsored/4039…
Speaking of tracking, the excellent @CarbonBubble folks have teamed up with @GlobalEnergyMon to offer a new, transparent, global register of all fossil fuels reserves and production 4/n businessgreen.com/news/4040162/t…
In sharp contrast to the world of corporate pledges, the sense of anger, grief and despair as well as courage is palpable amongst civil society, indigenous groups and NGOs - a people’s plenary was held today 5/n
Which produced a People’s Decision on COP26 6/n
Fossil fuel company sponsorship of the arts is as controversial as ever and is being challenged again 8/n
A mid-morning take from Bloomberg on where the talks are 9/n bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
That’s it for now…time to tune into the plenary 10/n

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Final thread on #COP26 #EdinUniCOP26 from me- after hundreds of tweets over the last 2 weeks I’ll share a few more links then, FWIW, give my thoughts 1/n
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