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Benjamin Jullien
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Doing comms around how climate impacts affect the economy, and how economics addresses that, with GSCC Network.
Formerly at Les Echos, La Tribune, McKinsey&Co.
Born 331ppm
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Benjamin Jullien @benjullien.bsky.social · Oct 16
WaPo analyzed millions of real estate transactions along the Florida coast to see how climate change may be transforming home values, and found that

"the gap between riskier properties and safer ones is only growing"...

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Column | Where climate change poses the most and least risk to American homeowners
Millions of Americans could face a slow and almost imperceptible re-pricing of their biggest asset.
www.washingtonpost.com
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ketanjoshi.co
"Next time you render your free AI-image in a couple of seconds, will you think of all the work, knowledge and skill that we HUMANS created over hundreds of years that made it possible?"

A medical illustrator had her work stolen by a famous surgeon dudebro ->

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View Amanda Gautier-Ronopawiro’s graphic link Amanda Gautier-RonopawiroAmanda Gautier-Ronopawiro • 2nd2nd Medical Illustrator at Gautier Scientific IllustrationMedical Illustrator at Gautier Scientific Illustration 1d • Edited • 1 day ago • Edited • Visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn Follow AI is everywhere. In general, as many other (medical) illustrators I am sure, I have feared it will one day take our jobs. Yesterday, my friend Stephanie E. sent me the image on the right. A surgeon with a large Instagram following (Alexandre Mensier) posted it to teach people about Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome. I am the illustrator of the image on the left, it was part of my dissertation. In order to create this work, I witnessed a (breathtaking) fetoscopic laser surgery in person by the specialists of Fetal Therapy LUMC, Leiden I have spent weeks researching in books as well as in the anatomy lab, speaking to specialists, making sure I would get the anatomy and proportions exactly right. Thinking about color use and how that would affect the viewer of the image. Waiting for feedback, sketching, resketching, and eventually painting every stroke by hand and digitally finishing the illustration. All to get to this carefully crafted illustration. And then someone took it. Asked AI to make an image of it, just so they don’t have to pay an actual artist. No permission or credits needed. This is legal theft and there is not a thing I can do about it. Not only did AI ‘take my job’. It, or rather the person using it, took my actual work, time and effort and stripped it of its very core: accuracy. A surgeon without gloves and a random number of fingers on each hand. Don’t even get me started on the anatomy of the mother or the poor fetus getting a laser through its head. I have felt every emotion seeing this monstrosity of an image. Created in mere seconds, directly from not only my work, but all the specialists involved that put their time and knowledge of years into it… a drawing on the left of a needle being injected into a foetus, and a machine-assisted copy of it the surgeon used
November 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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carlosrittl.bsky.social
A COP without addressing real issues is like a condo meeting where those who party with loud music until 5 a.m. try to convince those who have to get up at 6 to go to work that one hour of sleep is better than nothing — and that they still have to split the city fine for disturbing the neighborhood.
November 22, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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opportunitygreen.org
✈️ Can the EU legally regulate emissions from international flights under an expanded ETS?

Our new briefing says yes.

Our key findings: it’s lawful, double regulation isn’t prohibited and the ETS already has tools to manage it.

Read more👇
www.opportunitygreen.org/publication-...
Legal powers to regulate international aviation under the EU ETS — Opportunity Green
In this legal briefing, we look at some key legal questions around the expansion of the EU's Emissions Trading System. The research proves that the expansion is aligned with and permissible under inte...
www.opportunitygreen.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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thierryaaron.bsky.social
"During the presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump gathered oil executives at his Mar-a-Lago estate and promised them a powerful return on their investment if they raised $1 billion to help him retake the White House"
November 25, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
I was not active in the climate movement in the 2000s......is this true? Which climate activists?

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There’s an analogue for the moment we’re in now. Back in the early 2000s, many climate activists vocally opposed funding adaptation infrastructure—sea walls, raised streets, and other measures meant to mitigate the impacts of a changing climate. They argued that these undertakings would prove ineffective and, worse, would remove the will to decrease emissions. More than two decades later, emissions are still rising, and the cost of adapting to climate change has mounted by the billions each year. Now virtually no serious people involved in climate policy still oppose adaptation funding. It’s easy to imagine a similar scenario playing out with geoengineering, which essentially amounts to a particularly potent and large-scale tool for adaptation. The arguments that scientists still make against geoengineering follow much the same logic as those against sea walls: In the Frontiers paper, the authors wrote that geoengineering technologies offered “false hope,” and risked sapping the will to address greenhouse gas pollution. They’re right that would-be geoengineers cannot guarantee that their ideas will work or that the intended benefits will outweigh the negative side effects. The barriers to exploring the possibilities of these technologies are rising, arguably more on the right than the left. But short of just going for it, the only way to find out how helpful or dangerous geoengineering might be is to let people ask.
November 25, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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reclaimfinance.org
Nous avons écrit aux 67 décideurs nationaux et régionaux du Groupe BPCE.

L’objectif ? 👉 Attirer leur attention sur le fait que le groupe est LE retardataire français en matière de politique climatique, et leur rappeler qu’ils ont le pouvoir et la responsabilité de mettre un terme à cette situation.
November 25, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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rahmstorf.bsky.social
Giving in to authoritarianism rather than sticking up for free speech. What has become of the BBC?
rutgerbregman.com Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 1d
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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audreygarric.bsky.social
La COP30 sauve la face mais pas le climat. L’édito du @lemonde.fr qui revient sur les grosses déceptions des dernières négociations climatiques www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
La COP30 sauve la face mais pas le climat
ÉDITORIAL. Si les délégations de 194 pays sont bien parvenues à un accord au Brésil, il n’y aura pas eu le sursaut indispensable pour accélérer la mise en œuvre des engagements de l’accord de Paris, a...
www.lemonde.fr
November 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
A judge ruled against Trump’s DC troop invasion on Thursday.

What happened, why, and what now?

I have you covered at Law Dork:
Federal judge rules Trump's D.C. troop invasion is likely illegal, must end by Dec. 11
National Guard troops have been in D.C. since August. A federal judge ruled Thursday that both deployments — D.C. National Guard and out-of-state troops — likely violate the law.
www.lawdork.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
""I explained my disappointment to the students, pointing out that they cheated on a paper about a rebellion of the enslaved — people who sacrificed their lives in pursuit of freedom, including the freedom to learn to read and write"
earlymodjustice.bsky.social Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 5d
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”

www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:55 AM
benjullien.bsky.social
"Trade policy must become central to the decarbonisation effort. It is one of the strongest levers available to foster a form of globalisation that rewards those who commit and penalises those who cling to fossil fuels." - @laurencetubiana.bsky.social

#COP30

www.ft.com/content/d846...
Trade policy is central to the green transition
Governments must address the fact that imported ‘embodied’ emissions make up a large portion of their carbon footprints
www.ft.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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leohickman.carbonbrief.org
You won't be surprised to learn that all of the UK's right-leaning media - Sun, Mail, Telegraph, GB News, etc - have chosen today to ignore this story.

I can't imagine why?

www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:43 AM
benjullien.bsky.social
In February, JD Vance came to Europe to lecture us about "free speech" and "democratic norms"

Then Charlie Kirk was murdered, and "more than 600 Americans were fired, suspended, placed under investigation or disciplined for COMMENTS about the assassination, according to @reuters.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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audreygarric.bsky.social
La COP30 échoue à s'attaquer au méthane. Seuls une poignée de pays ont pris quelques engagements volontaires. Les émissions continuent d'augmenter alors que les mesures sont accessibles. S'attaquer au CH4 est pourtant bénéfique pour le climat, la santé et l'économie www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
A la COP30, timides avancées contre le méthane, un gaz superpolluant
Seule une poignée de délégations a pris des engagements volontaires pour combattre ce puissant gaz à effet de serre, pourtant responsable d’un tiers du réchauffement depuis l’ère préindustrielle.
www.lemonde.fr
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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markgongloff.bsky.social
That chart sums it up perfectly. AI is not actually making "us" rich, except for a very narrow subset of "us," but it is making all of us stupider and more miserable

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-...
The Most Joyless Tech Revolution Ever: AI Is Making Us Rich and Unhappy
Discomfort around artificial intelligence helps explain the disconnect between a solid economy and an anxious public.
www.wsj.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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thierryaaron.bsky.social
"If educational institutions are to be relevant to #climate justice, they must stop pretending to be neutral. They must choose sides. They must loosen their allegiance to elite-serving logics and step into the messy, real work of co-liberation and regeneration"
mariavamvalis.bsky.social Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 8d
Just reviewed @jenniecstephens.bsky.social excellent book, Climate Justice and the University. She names so clearly what’s at stake and how post-secondary institutions could be mobilizing for climate justice, equity, and community well-being.

journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...

#climatejustice
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November 18, 2025 at 5:54 AM
benjullien.bsky.social
#COP30: A group of Canadian doctors danced to hip-hop at the UN climate talks in Brazil, calling for a global phase-out of fossil fuels.

"clean energy isn’t just a climate issue, it’s a public health one"

apnews.com/video/doctor...
Doctors dance at COP30 to demand a fossil fuel phase-out
A group of Canadian doctors danced to hip-hop at the U.N. climate talks in Brazil, calling for a global phase-out of fossil fuels.
apnews.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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reclaimfinance.org
🔴 #TotalEnergies vient d’annoncer s’allier avec l’entreprise fossile EPH et revient par la même occasion sur son plan d’investissement dans l’électricité : les énergies soutenables sont délaissées et l’accent est mis sur les centrales à gaz.

Ce qu'il faut retenir de cette annonce ⤵️

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November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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audreygarric.bsky.social
« Les vidéos de Sainte-Soline donnent à voir le résultat de la criminalisation d’un groupe social – les « écolos », autrement qualifiés de « pue-la-pisse » – portée depuis peu au plus haut niveau de l’Etat. » Puissante tribune de @sfoucart.bsky.social www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
« Les vidéos de Sainte-Soline donnent à voir le résultat de la criminalisation des écologistes, telle qu’elle est portée au plus haut niveau de l’Etat »
CHRONIQUE. Légitimée par la parole politique, la criminalisation des mouvements écologistes infuse dans toutes les strates de la société et n’épargne ni les forces de l’ordre ni la magistrature, déplo...
www.lemonde.fr
November 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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ed-king.bsky.social
Climate Diplo Brief - #COP30 day 7

Brazil has 120 hours to bag a deal in Belém: the next move is down to Do Lago
Climate Diplomacy Brief - COP30 day 7
Brazil has 120 hours to bag a deal in Belém: the next move is down to Do Lago
climatediplobrief.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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dariussnieckus.bsky.social
Climate risk is capital risk. Point final. But then this isn’t news, of course: www.tragedyofthehorizon.org
November 17, 2025 at 11:54 AM
benjullien.bsky.social
Once a global leader on climate action, the EU has given in to the right’s green-bashing

From deforestation to emissions trading, vital policies are being watered down in the name of ‘competitiveness’. But Europe is shooting itself in the foot

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Once a global leader on climate action, the EU has given in to the right’s green-bashing | Nathalie Tocci
From deforestation to emissions trading, vital policies are being watered down in the name of ‘competitiveness’, says Guardian Europe columnist Nathalie Tocci
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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volts.wtf
What if national journalists had the courage to say this plainly.
newsjennifer.bsky.social @NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 12d
"It is not law enforcement; it is terror."
Let us be clear: We support the lawful apprehension and deportation of undocumented immigrants with criminal records. The president says he’s after the worst of the worst, but that’s not what’s happening. It’s gone way beyond that. People are presumed guilty until proven innocent. It is not law enforcement; it is terror. This dragnet seems to be based on racism and is snaring citizens of color, documented immigrants and people who have committed no serious crimes — your neighbor, friend, co-worker, babysitter and landscaper. People whose work ethic and honesty have contributed to the city for years.
November 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
benjullien.bsky.social
La directive sur le "devoir de vigilance" devait responsabiliser les multinationales quant aux impacts sociaux et environnementaux de leurs activités et permettre des réparations. Jeudi, le Parti populaire européen et les groupes d’extrême droite se sont unis pour vider le texte de sa substance...
November 14, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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audreygarric.bsky.social
A la COP30, douze pays, dont la France, signent la première déclaration contre la désinformation climatique www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...
Countries commit to tackling climate disinformation at COP30
It is the first time states have formally committed to information integrity and fighting back against climate disinformation.
www.euronews.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM