Well, enough has been happening on the possibly last day of #COP26 #EdinUniCOP26 to justify another (!] thread so here goes 1/n
Another country has joined the pledge to no longer fund overseas fossil fuels- Belgium 2/n
https://twitter.com/JohnMurton/status/1459120542477344771
The next COP- COP27 will be in Egypt and the Minister for Environment Dr Yasmine Fouad speaks on her hopes for the conference 3/n
https://twitter.com/globalcommonshq/status/1458848154376364036
A really interesting thread from @AssaadRazzouk on a paper from Oxford University on the energy transition- well worth a read. 4/n
https://twitter.com/assaadrazzouk/status/1450106252076400649
With finance and the need for more of it a key feature in the last stages of the climate talks, this development on climate and SDRs from the IMF is interesting- and also a briefing for those of us confused by the mysterious world of SDRs 5/n imf.org/en/News/Articl…
Briefing on SDRs here 6/n …byww26jdkao0x-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/upl…
Iain Patton the Chief Executive of the @EAUC gives us his view of the conference as he headed home 7/n linkedin.com/pulse/good-cop…
The Times science editor has some advice for us 8/n thetimes.co.uk/article/27b5f2…
You’ll have seen me suggest the conference has moved things in many ways and this graphic suggests progress too 9/n theguardian.com/environment/ng…
But many campaigners and young people don’t believe it and are angry and disgusted- I was struck listening to the plenary on how many negotiators mentioned young people, their children and grandchildren and the shame our generation should feel for our lack of action 10/n
More on the protests and walk outs 11/n here and here
https://mobile.twitter.com/tomoprater/status/1459136982173499415?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1459136982173499415%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fenvironment%2Flive%2F2021%2Fnov%2F12%2Fcop26-live-reaction-to-latest-draft-as-negotiations-enter-final-day-un-climate-negotiationsAnd here
https://mobile.twitter.com/hedvigsveistrup/status/1459140376116318212?s=21
https://twitter.com/350/status/1459136585568501844
This extremely sobering assessment of the state and prospects for the Amazon gives us good reason to be worried 12/n here theamazonwewant.org/amazon-assessm… and here
https://mobile.twitter.com/enviroedgenews/status/1459177944421646340?s=21
I rarely agree with the Telegraph newspaper on anything but this article and summarising thread is,I think,excellent and, putting aside the moral and justice issues I’ve written about all COP,gives a good summary of why I think we can be optimistic 13/n telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/…
Thread summarising the article from @KellerZoe here 14/n
https://twitter.com/KellerZoe/status/1459141998343041024
Meantime COP26 President @AlokSharma_RDG has just confirmed what we all already kinda knew- the talks won’t finish on time and will continue with more stocktaking later …15/n
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