1/n Immediate post-Sharm take on a very intriguing COP. Beyond the simple 'loss and damage – good; mitigation progress – bad' storyline 2/n 1.L&D fund deserves its warm glow. Old school normative shift wrought by vulnerable nations and activists. Made it impossible for countries to claim an ethical climate stance w/o supporting L&D finance agenda. Lots of implementation challenges but norm shift is significant

1/n India’s long-term low-emission development strategy (LT-LEDS) was just released at #COP27 . Here’s the TL;DR version + my thoughts on what next.

(Disclosure: @CPR_Climate was overall anchor institute & technical knowledge partner for the doc, working with several other orgs) 2/n Framing:
-Low contribution to warming- 4% of cumulative emm; 17% of global pop
-Significant energy needs for dev- decoupling from a low base
-Committed to low-C dev strategies- scope for co-benefits; mindful of trade-offs
-Vulnerable to impacts; committed to build resilience

Our #IPCC #WG3 Chapter 13 broke new ground on 'National Policies and Institutions'. Here is the wonderful chapter team, and in this thread is my take on key insights from the chapter🧵 1/ 'Climate policy' is not just 'climate' policy and ‘climate laws’ are not just ‘climate’ laws. Policies and laws from other domains- energy, environment, housing, transport - are relevant to mitigation. Even macroecon & security policies can be seen through a climate lens.

1/NEW: @adivp333, @ChFlachsland, @ProfKHarrison, @hochstet, M Lockwood, R MacNeil, @mmildenberger, @MatPaterson, Fei Teng, @emilyjtyler & I propose a systematic framework for the study of #climate institutions in @ScienceMagazine (free access link below) science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 2/4 #netzero pledges, #decarbonisation targets made at #COP26 will remain aspirational without #climate institutions to coordinate action and ambition, build consensus and develop strategies. Get access link at cprindia.org/articles/natio…

Check out "Utilitarian Benchmarks for Emissions and Pledges Promote Equity, Climate and Development" in @NatureClimate!
by Budolfson @davidanthoff Dennig @F_Errickson
@k_kuruc Spears @NavrozDubash
Full access at
@CPR_Climate

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nature.com/articles/s4155… Utilitarianism is an "ethically minimal" option requiring (1) each person's interests count equally (2) policy should promote wellbeing (3) a lost $ harms the poor more than the rich. What happens when a weak climate justice principle is operationalised?