Robin Harvey
@robinharvey.bsky.social
Head of media at WWF International. Previously at IPPR, Fabian Society, LSE (views my own)
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"A monumental achievement for ocean conservation" - WWF Director General Kirsten Schuijt celebrates the 60th state ratification of the High Seas Treaty as a turning point for the two-thirds of the world’s ocean beyond national jurisdiction 🌊
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Key oceans treaty crosses critical threshold to come into force
Sixty states have ratified a global treaty to protect the oceans - it will become law in January.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"A monumental achievement for ocean conservation" - WWF Director General Kirsten Schuijt celebrates the 60th state ratification of the High Seas Treaty as a turning point for the two-thirds of the world’s ocean beyond national jurisdiction 🌊
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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A groundbreaking global deal just landed to cut emissions from shipping
This makes shipping the first global sector with a regulated pathway to net zero, but key aspects of the agreement fall short of what is needed to drive rapid action in the near term #IMO #MEPC83 #ClimateAction
This makes shipping the first global sector with a regulated pathway to net zero, but key aspects of the agreement fall short of what is needed to drive rapid action in the near term #IMO #MEPC83 #ClimateAction
April 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
A groundbreaking global deal just landed to cut emissions from shipping
This makes shipping the first global sector with a regulated pathway to net zero, but key aspects of the agreement fall short of what is needed to drive rapid action in the near term #IMO #MEPC83 #ClimateAction
This makes shipping the first global sector with a regulated pathway to net zero, but key aspects of the agreement fall short of what is needed to drive rapid action in the near term #IMO #MEPC83 #ClimateAction
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WWF International's media team has just landed on BlueSky! 🍃🐼🐦
Follow us for the latest news and updates from WWF's global network
Expect breaking news, expert voices, powerful stories, and the latest on the race to sustain our #LivingPlanet
Follow us for the latest news and updates from WWF's global network
Expect breaking news, expert voices, powerful stories, and the latest on the race to sustain our #LivingPlanet
March 20, 2025 at 1:54 PM
WWF International's media team has just landed on BlueSky! 🍃🐼🐦
Follow us for the latest news and updates from WWF's global network
Expect breaking news, expert voices, powerful stories, and the latest on the race to sustain our #LivingPlanet
Follow us for the latest news and updates from WWF's global network
Expect breaking news, expert voices, powerful stories, and the latest on the race to sustain our #LivingPlanet
So far just 12 countries have submitted their updated national climate plans
These emission reduction targets, and the strategies to meet them, will determine if we can prevent the worst impacts of the #climatecrisis
Getting this right is pivotal #NDCs
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-95-...
These emission reduction targets, and the strategies to meet them, will determine if we can prevent the worst impacts of the #climatecrisis
Getting this right is pivotal #NDCs
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-95-...
Analysis: 95% of countries miss UN deadline to submit 2035 climate pledges - Carbon Brief
Around 95% of countries have missed a UN deadline to submit new climate pledges for 2035, Carbon Brief analysis shows.
www.carbonbrief.org
February 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
So far just 12 countries have submitted their updated national climate plans
These emission reduction targets, and the strategies to meet them, will determine if we can prevent the worst impacts of the #climatecrisis
Getting this right is pivotal #NDCs
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-95-...
These emission reduction targets, and the strategies to meet them, will determine if we can prevent the worst impacts of the #climatecrisis
Getting this right is pivotal #NDCs
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-95-...
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Happy NDC deadline day, friends
"“Every fraction of a degree matters, and we expect governments to use the remaining time to submit ambitious 2035 NDCs and update their 2030 targets" - @niklashoehne.bsky.social @catclimate.bsky.social
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"“Every fraction of a degree matters, and we expect governments to use the remaining time to submit ambitious 2035 NDCs and update their 2030 targets" - @niklashoehne.bsky.social @catclimate.bsky.social
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February 10, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Happy NDC deadline day, friends
"“Every fraction of a degree matters, and we expect governments to use the remaining time to submit ambitious 2035 NDCs and update their 2030 targets" - @niklashoehne.bsky.social @catclimate.bsky.social
climateactiontracker.org/press/releas...
"“Every fraction of a degree matters, and we expect governments to use the remaining time to submit ambitious 2035 NDCs and update their 2030 targets" - @niklashoehne.bsky.social @catclimate.bsky.social
climateactiontracker.org/press/releas...
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#ClimateEmergency - one more figure that has to be a call for #ClimateAction
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Hottest January on record shocks scientists
Data adds to fears that climate change is accelerating, as La Niña phenomenon fails to cool global temperatures
www.ft.com
February 6, 2025 at 7:37 AM
#ClimateEmergency - one more figure that has to be a call for #ClimateAction
www.ft.com/content/b5d1...
www.ft.com/content/b5d1...
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2024 marked five years since the start of the European Green Deal, the EU’s landmark energy and climate policy package 🇪🇺
Here’s what’s happened in the power sector since then:
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February 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
2024 marked five years since the start of the European Green Deal, the EU’s landmark energy and climate policy package 🇪🇺
Here’s what’s happened in the power sector since then:
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Chile's wind and solar generation surpassed 40% of power for the first time in December last year 📈⚡
Throughout 2024, wind and solar generated a RECORD THIRD of Chile's electricity—more than double that in 2019.
🔗 Read more: ember-energy.org/lat...
Throughout 2024, wind and solar generated a RECORD THIRD of Chile's electricity—more than double that in 2019.
🔗 Read more: ember-energy.org/lat...
February 5, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Chile's wind and solar generation surpassed 40% of power for the first time in December last year 📈⚡
Throughout 2024, wind and solar generated a RECORD THIRD of Chile's electricity—more than double that in 2019.
🔗 Read more: ember-energy.org/lat...
Throughout 2024, wind and solar generated a RECORD THIRD of Chile's electricity—more than double that in 2019.
🔗 Read more: ember-energy.org/lat...
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“They were up for change. They didn’t mind challenge. They wanted fairness. But they also really didn’t understand what the change meant for them, for their communities." @elpinchbeck.bsky.social on what the British public think about the transition to net zero
A pleasure to go for a stroll with CCC CEO @elpinchbeck.bsky.social to talk about the trade offs between nature and climate, what climate action means for the UK and the metropolitan fantasy of an unchanging English countryside. In the Sunday Times @thetimes.com
www.thetimes.com/article/b729...
www.thetimes.com/article/b729...
UK’s net-zero guru: ‘Only Londoners say rural folk can’t adapt’
Emma Pinchbeck wants to dispel the myth that saving the planet will mean austere lifestyle changes and says the countryside is forever changing
www.thetimes.com
February 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
“They were up for change. They didn’t mind challenge. They wanted fairness. But they also really didn’t understand what the change meant for them, for their communities." @elpinchbeck.bsky.social on what the British public think about the transition to net zero
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The UK's full climate plan is now out (NDC), all 74 pages of it:
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
UK's 2035 Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) emissions reduction target under the Paris Agreement
Submission to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to provide clarity, transparency and understanding on the UK's NDC target to reduce all greenhouse gas emissions by at ...
www.gov.uk
January 30, 2025 at 12:40 PM
The UK's full climate plan is now out (NDC), all 74 pages of it:
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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NEW – EU’s solar and wind growth pushes fossil-fuel power to lowest level in 40 years | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org
Read here: https://buff.ly/4hfcKhk
Read here: https://buff.ly/4hfcKhk
January 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
NEW – EU’s solar and wind growth pushes fossil-fuel power to lowest level in 40 years | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org
Read here: https://buff.ly/4hfcKhk
Read here: https://buff.ly/4hfcKhk
Today #WEF published its Global Risks Report 2025, which identifies the top four most severe risks over the next ten years to be extreme weather events, biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse, critical change to Earth systems and natural resources shortages
www.weforum.org/press/2025/0...
www.weforum.org/press/2025/0...
January 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Today #WEF published its Global Risks Report 2025, which identifies the top four most severe risks over the next ten years to be extreme weather events, biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse, critical change to Earth systems and natural resources shortages
www.weforum.org/press/2025/0...
www.weforum.org/press/2025/0...
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LA has burned in the most destructive fires in US history and fossil fuel profiteers are the arsonists holding the gas can.
Our cities are at the mercy of the climate oil, gas and coal has built 🧵
Our cities are at the mercy of the climate oil, gas and coal has built 🧵
January 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
LA has burned in the most destructive fires in US history and fossil fuel profiteers are the arsonists holding the gas can.
Our cities are at the mercy of the climate oil, gas and coal has built 🧵
Our cities are at the mercy of the climate oil, gas and coal has built 🧵
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The Global Climate Highlights 2024 report is now online.
Delve in the analysis and access all the charts, information, and data on temperature, sea ice, precipitation, and greenhouse gas concentrations. Explore the data that defined 2024: https://bit.ly/40kQpcz
#C3S #GCH2024
Delve in the analysis and access all the charts, information, and data on temperature, sea ice, precipitation, and greenhouse gas concentrations. Explore the data that defined 2024: https://bit.ly/40kQpcz
#C3S #GCH2024
January 10, 2025 at 7:00 AM
The Global Climate Highlights 2024 report is now online.
Delve in the analysis and access all the charts, information, and data on temperature, sea ice, precipitation, and greenhouse gas concentrations. Explore the data that defined 2024: https://bit.ly/40kQpcz
#C3S #GCH2024
Delve in the analysis and access all the charts, information, and data on temperature, sea ice, precipitation, and greenhouse gas concentrations. Explore the data that defined 2024: https://bit.ly/40kQpcz
#C3S #GCH2024
Important to highlight to progress being made in some countries
Portugal will likely source more than 90% of its power from domestic renewables by 2030, a milestone that’ll be shared by the likes of Denmark and Chile 👏👏
via Progress Playbook
theprogressplaybook.com/2025/01/06/p...
Portugal will likely source more than 90% of its power from domestic renewables by 2030, a milestone that’ll be shared by the likes of Denmark and Chile 👏👏
via Progress Playbook
theprogressplaybook.com/2025/01/06/p...
Portugal moves closer to eliminating fossil fuels from its power mix
Domestic power plants that run on fossil fuels covered just 10% of Portugal's electricity consumption in 2024.
theprogressplaybook.com
January 8, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Important to highlight to progress being made in some countries
Portugal will likely source more than 90% of its power from domestic renewables by 2030, a milestone that’ll be shared by the likes of Denmark and Chile 👏👏
via Progress Playbook
theprogressplaybook.com/2025/01/06/p...
Portugal will likely source more than 90% of its power from domestic renewables by 2030, a milestone that’ll be shared by the likes of Denmark and Chile 👏👏
via Progress Playbook
theprogressplaybook.com/2025/01/06/p...
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NEW – Interactive: How the world is already adapting to climate change | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social
🎨 Kerry Cleaver, Tom Pearson @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org
Read here: https://buff.ly/3W5Vinj
🎨 Kerry Cleaver, Tom Pearson @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org
Read here: https://buff.ly/3W5Vinj
January 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
NEW – Interactive: How the world is already adapting to climate change | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social
🎨 Kerry Cleaver, Tom Pearson @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org
Read here: https://buff.ly/3W5Vinj
🎨 Kerry Cleaver, Tom Pearson @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org
Read here: https://buff.ly/3W5Vinj
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“The [green] transition will be stopped by European voters” unless it has an element of solidarity and is organised like the tax system, with the rich paying more, says @franstimmermans.groenlinkspvda.nl
#climatecrisis
www.ft.com/content/f991...
#climatecrisis
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Rich must pay for others to go green, says EU environmental pioneer
‘Green Deal’ architect Frans Timmermans warns of boost to radical right from rising costs
www.ft.com
January 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
“The [green] transition will be stopped by European voters” unless it has an element of solidarity and is organised like the tax system, with the rich paying more, says @franstimmermans.groenlinkspvda.nl
#climatecrisis
www.ft.com/content/f991...
#climatecrisis
www.ft.com/content/f991...
This is so wrong - banks aren't passive players in the economy, they have the potential to drastically shift financial flows. They need to use their power to help drive the phase out of fossil fuels and move us to 100% renewable energy
Quote via Bloomberg Green ESG Investing
Quote via Bloomberg Green ESG Investing
January 6, 2025 at 10:50 AM
This is so wrong - banks aren't passive players in the economy, they have the potential to drastically shift financial flows. They need to use their power to help drive the phase out of fossil fuels and move us to 100% renewable energy
Quote via Bloomberg Green ESG Investing
Quote via Bloomberg Green ESG Investing
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Climate crisis ‘wreaking havoc’ on Earth’s water cycle, report finds
- Global heating is supercharging storms, floods and droughts, affecting entire ecosystems and billions of people
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
- Global heating is supercharging storms, floods and droughts, affecting entire ecosystems and billions of people
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Climate crisis ‘wreaking havoc’ on Earth’s water cycle, report finds
Global heating is supercharging storms, floods and droughts, affecting entire ecosystems and billions of people
www.theguardian.com
January 6, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Climate crisis ‘wreaking havoc’ on Earth’s water cycle, report finds
- Global heating is supercharging storms, floods and droughts, affecting entire ecosystems and billions of people
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
- Global heating is supercharging storms, floods and droughts, affecting entire ecosystems and billions of people
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Analysis: How the UK plans to reach clean power by 2030 | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org
@mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org
Read here: https://buff.ly/3BvkufV
@mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org
Read here: https://buff.ly/3BvkufV
December 13, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Analysis: How the UK plans to reach clean power by 2030 | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org
@mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org
Read here: https://buff.ly/3BvkufV
@mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org
Read here: https://buff.ly/3BvkufV
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Want people to care about climate change?
Our (@uscprice.bsky.social) new study found people are more likely to worry about climate change if they know someone who has been harmed by severe weather, even if they were not.
Climate comms advice: tell stories. make it personal.
bit.ly/4g9Nd9g
Our (@uscprice.bsky.social) new study found people are more likely to worry about climate change if they know someone who has been harmed by severe weather, even if they were not.
Climate comms advice: tell stories. make it personal.
bit.ly/4g9Nd9g
Want to raise concern about climate change? Tell someone’s story
A new study finds that indirect experience with severe weather drives public concern about climate change around the world.
priceschool.usc.edu
December 10, 2024 at 1:23 AM
Want people to care about climate change?
Our (@uscprice.bsky.social) new study found people are more likely to worry about climate change if they know someone who has been harmed by severe weather, even if they were not.
Climate comms advice: tell stories. make it personal.
bit.ly/4g9Nd9g
Our (@uscprice.bsky.social) new study found people are more likely to worry about climate change if they know someone who has been harmed by severe weather, even if they were not.
Climate comms advice: tell stories. make it personal.
bit.ly/4g9Nd9g
Great ad on the London Underground from #AlJazeera. This is a crisis. Reporting the impacts of rising temperatures around the world is crucial for galvanising support for action
December 9, 2024 at 11:17 AM
Great ad on the London Underground from #AlJazeera. This is a crisis. Reporting the impacts of rising temperatures around the world is crucial for galvanising support for action
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@carbonbrief.org On the legal issues at stake and the wider significance of the International Court of Justice advisory opinion regarding the obligations of states in respect of climate change
Proceedings : www.icj-cij.org/case/187/req...
Explanation : www.carbonbrief.org/interview-pr...
Proceedings : www.icj-cij.org/case/187/req...
Explanation : www.carbonbrief.org/interview-pr...
Interview: Prof Philippe Sands on UN court’s landmark climate-change hearing - Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief interviews leading international law scholar Prof Philippe Sands to find out more about the legal issues at stake in the ICJ case.
www.carbonbrief.org
December 6, 2024 at 4:24 PM
@carbonbrief.org On the legal issues at stake and the wider significance of the International Court of Justice advisory opinion regarding the obligations of states in respect of climate change
Proceedings : www.icj-cij.org/case/187/req...
Explanation : www.carbonbrief.org/interview-pr...
Proceedings : www.icj-cij.org/case/187/req...
Explanation : www.carbonbrief.org/interview-pr...
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🚨How to get support for ambitious climate policy: some incredibly valuable work that shows you CAN achieve public buy-in for change if you engage with people positively and proactively.
🚨 How are more ambitious climate policies feasible politically? We have published 4 new research briefs on the political viability of climate policies. You can find all the briefs on our website.
Here is a 🧵summarizing the briefs.
Please share.
politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/progressive-...
Here is a 🧵summarizing the briefs.
Please share.
politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/progressive-...
December 6, 2024 at 10:35 AM
🚨How to get support for ambitious climate policy: some incredibly valuable work that shows you CAN achieve public buy-in for change if you engage with people positively and proactively.
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Interest in news has fallen dramatically in some of the countries covered by our research. This is one of the trends identified by @richardfletcher.bsky.social in this piece on how AI can help journalists address 3 challenges
Read the article now reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-ai-...
Read the article now reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-ai-...
December 6, 2024 at 10:48 AM
Interest in news has fallen dramatically in some of the countries covered by our research. This is one of the trends identified by @richardfletcher.bsky.social in this piece on how AI can help journalists address 3 challenges
Read the article now reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-ai-...
Read the article now reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-ai-...