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Timmons Roberts
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@timmonsroberts.bsky.social #ClimateChange Social Scientist @BrownUniversity and @ClimateSSN, collaborator, determined dreamer, dad. RTs=/=endorse
Jun 5 • 17 tweets • 7 min read
Today is Day 3 of the @UNFCCC negotiations in Bonn, Germany.
This is SB60. That is, the 60th session of the sub-bodies that build our treaties.
Why are we at SB60 and still hitting the same walls?
A thread. A launch. Image Why has global action on climate been so hard?

For 35 years, we have failed to understand and prepare for the opposition to it from entrenched interests.

A whole new approach is needed. Image
Dec 6, 2022 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
The full #RhodeIsland #ActonClimate 2022 update of the state 2016 greenhouse gas reduction plan is just up on line, comment quick since we basically have no time to review it before it's final. #climate climatechange.ri.gov/act-climate/wo… To say we've had uneven progress is an understatement:
(in 2018)

Since 2016, electric power consumption emissions decreased by 28.0%,

heating emissions INCREASED by 13.5%,

commercial heating emissions INCREASED 8.8%,

transportation emissions INCREASED 8.8%

...priorities
Jul 25, 2021 • 20 tweets • 9 min read
As federal action on climate change is deadlocked, again, states have moved ahead.

Still, major obstruction efforts slow, stop, or even reverse progress.

Just up @ERSS: who’s working to slow #climate legislation in MA? w/lessons for other states /1
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S22… Open access! Here's a thread with some key findings. /2