Big #Coal, #Oil & #Gas are making $$$ at the expense of the rest of us #makepolluterspay #ClimateDamagesTax. On Gadigal and Wangal land in Warrane (Sydney).
Oct 20, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
As an Australian following #LossAndDamage Fund negotiations -- which hit a very pointy end this week #TC4 -- a few reflections on how disappointing Australia's actions are in this forum...
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Early on Australia said it would "represent Pacific interests" on the Transitional Committee writing #LossAndDamage Fund rules. This lasted about as long as @senatorwong's commitment to stand "shoulder to shoulder" with the Pacific. Are we at 4 new #coal mines? Or is it 5 now?
Sep 28, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
An excellent paper from @island_scholar @TimmonsRoberts @RomainWeikmans @danielle_falzon
Particularly relevant as the Transitional Committee #TC4 grapples with "vulnerability" and allocation of funding in operationalisation of the #LossAndDamage Fund
…lossanddamageforum.org/publications/j…
In 1992 the #UNFCCCrecgonised particularly vulnerable as “low-lying and other small island countries, countries with low-lying coastal, arid and semi-arid areas or areas liable to floods, drought and desertification, and developing countries with fragile mountainous ecosystems"
Sep 2, 2022 • 12 tweets • 7 min read
The UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change @SRclimatechange has just dropped an *amaze-balls* report to the UN General Assembly, starting later this month. Governments will have to respond. documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/…
We are being confronted with an enormous climate change crisis of catastrophic proportions. It is happening now.
The result of a catastrophically inadequate response from historical emitters / developed countries.
