Andy Norton
@andynortondev.bsky.social
Following climate science, climate finance/politics. Applied anthropologist. Professor of Practice SOAS.
Indonesia and Sri Lanka badly hit by cyclones combined with heavy monsoon rains www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
How cyclones and monsoon rains combined to devastate parts of Asia – visual guide
Extreme weather has killed nearly 1,000 people across southern and south-eastern Asia as cyclones turbocharged rain systems across the region
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Indonesia and Sri Lanka badly hit by cyclones combined with heavy monsoon rains www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
This is the most powerful thing I have seen from COP30. Lina Yassin of @iied.bsky.social talking about adaptation, climate justice and later in the interview the tragedy unfolding in her homeland, Sudan, driven by the UAE's use of brutal proxies for bad ends www.democracynow.org/2025/11/19/l...
Sudanese Researcher Lina Yassin on COP30 Climate Talks, UAE-Funded Proxy War in Sudan over Gold & More
Sudanese climate diplomacy researcher Lina Yassin is supporting the Least Developed Countries Group at the U.N. climate summit in Belém, Brazil. The group is composed of 44 countries, including Sudan,...
www.democracynow.org
November 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This is the most powerful thing I have seen from COP30. Lina Yassin of @iied.bsky.social talking about adaptation, climate justice and later in the interview the tragedy unfolding in her homeland, Sudan, driven by the UAE's use of brutal proxies for bad ends www.democracynow.org/2025/11/19/l...
If the JTM is the most positive thing to come out of COP30 then we really aren't in a great place - it's basically an intention to do knowledge sharing, maybe at a push some initiatives to develop institutional capacity: unfccc.int/sites/defaul...
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November 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
If the JTM is the most positive thing to come out of COP30 then we really aren't in a great place - it's basically an intention to do knowledge sharing, maybe at a push some initiatives to develop institutional capacity: unfccc.int/sites/defaul...
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"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%"
Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%"
Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
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OUT NOW: All you need to know about COP30, brought to you by @carbonbrief.org
Our 20k word explainer breaks down:
🛢️ What happened with the fossil fuel roadmap push?
💰 Who wanted (and got) what on climate finance?
🇨🇳 Did China step up as a climate leader?
Find out here ⬇️
Our 20k word explainer breaks down:
🛢️ What happened with the fossil fuel roadmap push?
💰 Who wanted (and got) what on climate finance?
🇨🇳 Did China step up as a climate leader?
Find out here ⬇️
COP30: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Belém - Carbon Brief
A voluntary plan to curb fossil fuels, a goal to triple adaptation finance and new...
www.carbonbrief.org
November 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
OUT NOW: All you need to know about COP30, brought to you by @carbonbrief.org
Our 20k word explainer breaks down:
🛢️ What happened with the fossil fuel roadmap push?
💰 Who wanted (and got) what on climate finance?
🇨🇳 Did China step up as a climate leader?
Find out here ⬇️
Our 20k word explainer breaks down:
🛢️ What happened with the fossil fuel roadmap push?
💰 Who wanted (and got) what on climate finance?
🇨🇳 Did China step up as a climate leader?
Find out here ⬇️
From @stephenkb.bsky.social on trenchant form. The first year of the UK Labour govt has been a disaster for race relations. An administration that is 'essentially incapable of saying that racism is wrong'. on.ft.com/3JFOKJd
Defence of Labour asylum policy reveals backsliding on racism
Home secretary’s framing of failures is partly low politics, but also a result of ministers’ poor approach to race relations
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November 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
From @stephenkb.bsky.social on trenchant form. The first year of the UK Labour govt has been a disaster for race relations. An administration that is 'essentially incapable of saying that racism is wrong'. on.ft.com/3JFOKJd
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For #BirdOfTheDay a Papay Kittiwake in full #ShadesOfGrey
November 16, 2025 at 12:36 PM
For #BirdOfTheDay a Papay Kittiwake in full #ShadesOfGrey
My daughter's course is being disrupted by industrial action. Sympathise with the staff who are taking action over cuts but it really is a downward spiral if you are asking kids to get hugely into debt and they are not getting what they pay for.
November 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
My daughter's course is being disrupted by industrial action. Sympathise with the staff who are taking action over cuts but it really is a downward spiral if you are asking kids to get hugely into debt and they are not getting what they pay for.
Worth a look - the role of ethnographic research in implementing just transition policies - enables a focus on power, who has access to information and support. How to deal with political economy blockages could be more in the foreground.. Based on Mpumalanga case study www.iisd.org/publications...
Ethnographic Research as a Tool for More Inclusive Just Transition Policies
This report explores how ethnographic methods can build trust and inclusion in South Africa's just energy transition.
www.iisd.org
November 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Worth a look - the role of ethnographic research in implementing just transition policies - enables a focus on power, who has access to information and support. How to deal with political economy blockages could be more in the foreground.. Based on Mpumalanga case study www.iisd.org/publications...
Thanks to @ed-king.bsky.social for this entertaining and useful daily briefing on COP30 climatediplobrief.substack.com/p/climate-di...
Climate Diplomacy Brief - COP30 day 5
Protests, therapy, massage, yoga & a fossil fuel roadmap
climatediplobrief.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Thanks to @ed-king.bsky.social for this entertaining and useful daily briefing on COP30 climatediplobrief.substack.com/p/climate-di...
GCF's Locally Led Climate Action Framework and Guidance was launched this week at Belem. It's a good piece of work... www.greenclimate.fund/document/gcf...
GCF’s Locally Led Climate Action framework and guidance
This document elaborates guidance on advancing good locally led practices through GCF modalities. Part 1 introduces GCF’s parameters and approach to devolution in the GCF business model and elaborates...
www.greenclimate.fund
November 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
GCF's Locally Led Climate Action Framework and Guidance was launched this week at Belem. It's a good piece of work... www.greenclimate.fund/document/gcf...
First call for funding requests from FRLD at COP30 www.frld.org/nodebim
Barbados Implementation Modalities | The Fund for responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD)
1. Overview of the BIM
www.frld.org
November 12, 2025 at 6:51 AM
First call for funding requests from FRLD at COP30 www.frld.org/nodebim
China's GHG emissions will fall in 2025... www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions were unchanged from a year earlier in the third quarter of 2025, extending a flat or falling trend that started in March 2024.
www.carbonbrief.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
China's GHG emissions will fall in 2025... www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
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The fact that all large UK broadcasters continue to use X, an openly white supremacist platform that has been redesigned specifically to amplify far-right elites, is doing massive, real-time harm to the country.
November 11, 2025 at 9:34 AM
The fact that all large UK broadcasters continue to use X, an openly white supremacist platform that has been redesigned specifically to amplify far-right elites, is doing massive, real-time harm to the country.
Well, given that the process of agreeing a timeline for the next IPCC assessment cycle has become extremely politicised we can expect negotiation of the text to be far more fraught than in previous ones for sure. www.carbonbrief.org/ongoing-fail...
Ongoing failure to agree AR7 timeline is ‘unprecedented’ in IPCC history - Carbon Brief
Governments have, once again, failed to agree on a timeline for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) seventh assessment cycle (AR7)
www.carbonbrief.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Well, given that the process of agreeing a timeline for the next IPCC assessment cycle has become extremely politicised we can expect negotiation of the text to be far more fraught than in previous ones for sure. www.carbonbrief.org/ongoing-fail...
Only the most optimistic scenario in the 2025 Emissions Gap Report has warming being halted over the course of this century. www.unep.org/resources/em...
Emissions Gap Report 2025
UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report 2025: Off Target finds that available new climate pledges under the Paris Agreement have only slightly lowered global temperature rise over the course of this century, leav...
www.unep.org
November 9, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Only the most optimistic scenario in the 2025 Emissions Gap Report has warming being halted over the course of this century. www.unep.org/resources/em...
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Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions rise again in 2024, up 2.3%.
This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement.
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This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement.
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November 5, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions rise again in 2024, up 2.3%.
This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement.
www.unep.org/resources/em...
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This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement.
www.unep.org/resources/em...
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Nice piece on Zohran Mamdani by the always-excellent David Wallace-Wells. The author knows NYC well and I learned a lot from his account of the way Mamdani sits in the political landscape of the city. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/o...
Opinion | Why Mamdani Won
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Nice piece on Zohran Mamdani by the always-excellent David Wallace-Wells. The author knows NYC well and I learned a lot from his account of the way Mamdani sits in the political landscape of the city. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/o...
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November's #Climate Diplomacy Brief is out - all you need to know ahead of #COP30 - daily from 10 Nov
Inc focus on what LDCs, Africa Group + AOSIS want in Belem
Inc focus on what LDCs, Africa Group + AOSIS want in Belem
Climate Diplomacy Briefing - November 2025
All you need to know ahead of COP30
climatediplobrief.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Following on from my post yesterday, in case there was any doubt, Trump is threatening war with Nigeria.
Nigeria has a population of nearly 233 million.
Nigeria has a population of nearly 233 million.
November 1, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Following on from my post yesterday, in case there was any doubt, Trump is threatening war with Nigeria.
Nigeria has a population of nearly 233 million.
Nigeria has a population of nearly 233 million.
The political crisis in Mali is getting worse - grim report here. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
How al-Qaida-linked jihadist group JNIM is bringing Mali to its knees
Political instability and fuel shortages caused by rebel group is driving Mali to brink of becoming Islamist republic
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The political crisis in Mali is getting worse - grim report here. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
US team deployed threats to individual negotiators to derail the deal on shipping emissions... www.lloydslist.com/LL1155148/Th...
The IMO and the law of the jungle
The IMO has delayed its big climate vote for a year, avoiding its moment of truth on adopting the world’s first global carbon price. The anticlimax leaves shipping in the green purgatory to which it has become accustomed
www.lloydslist.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:50 AM
US team deployed threats to individual negotiators to derail the deal on shipping emissions... www.lloydslist.com/LL1155148/Th...
Jack DeJohnette was an astounding musician - never seen a more remarkable drummer. Love the quotes from him here. RIP. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
Jack DeJohnette was more than a jazz drummer – his staggering range made him a superhuman force in music
With a complex playing style that was nevertheless generous towards other musicians, the US musician was in a category all of his own
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Jack DeJohnette was an astounding musician - never seen a more remarkable drummer. Love the quotes from him here. RIP. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
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The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker.
And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.
No more.
And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.
No more.
My Message to Muslim New Yorkers — and Everyone Who Calls This City Home.
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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October 25, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker.
And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.
No more.
And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.
No more.