Aruna Chandrasekhar
Climate journalist, Carbon Brief. Interested in energy, climate, land, food, politics, rights, critters, culture. Recovering Twitter junkie. “Sekhar” as in “shaker”.📍Mumbai, India. Views, jokes = own.
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- The rules-based order has given way to a vibes-based order. That's what those in flagrant breach would have us believe. I tried to unpack my many feelings about international law, accountability and isolationism. Grateful for essential perspective from Lavanya Rajamani & @sivathambisetty.bsky.social
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- Modi govt raids climate activist Harjeet Singh's NGO, hailed for his work on loss & damage, adaptation. Indian tax authorities seem to think promoting a non-binding, activist-led fossil fuel treaty "could seriously impact India's energy security." Ridiculous. www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/e...
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- Reposted by Aruna ChandrasekharNEW – COP30: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Belém Read here ➡️ buff.ly/3isyGpX #COP30
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- While we wait for the plenary to resume after parties raised points of order: it's official, folks. Trade measures are on the COP cover that was adopted. Instead of being told to "go to the WTO", the WTO will come to the UNFCCC to dialogue with countries affected by carbon taxes + export bans.
- 🆕 UNILATERAL TRADE MEASURES #COP30 After fighting for inclusion on COP agendas in Dubai, Baku and Belém, climate-related trade measures are on the verge of having their big moment on the cover of COP30 climate talks.
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- Shots fired #COP30 plenary PANAMA: "Mr. President, Panama is extremely disappointed. We were promised a transparent process. That is not what we're seeing. I raise my flag and you ignore it. I raise a point of order, and you ignore it. I sustain it, and it can be ignored."
- PANAMA: "We spent weeks being paralyzed over issues, and now in this plenary, process is not being followed. We cannot endorse a GGA (adaptation) outcome that takes us backwards."
- 🆕 UNILATERAL TRADE MEASURES #COP30 After fighting for inclusion on COP agendas in Dubai, Baku and Belém, climate-related trade measures are on the verge of having their big moment on the cover of COP30 climate talks.
- The mutirão text 3.0 text (L): - retains a reference from the previous draft to Article 3.5 of the original climate convention (R). unfccc.int/files/essent...
- Reposted by Aruna Chandrasekhar++CLIMATE FINANCE! IN THE MUTIRÃO++ Article 9.1 – referring to finance provided by developed countries Key issue for LMDCs, Arab Group, who initially called for a 3-year work programme. Text has a 2-year programme on all climate finance from developed countries, including e.g. private finance.
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View full threadReposted by Aruna ChandrasekharOn the key "tripling adaptation finance" pledge – the target is now for 2035, not 2030. Also, as Aruna notes – from what levels? The previous text specified that this was from a 2025 baseline, but that has been deleted... Now this is possibly open to interpretation? bsky.app/profile/arun...
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- TL;DR: COP30 delivers a very weak outcome on adaptation finance, at what was supposed to finally be the Adaptation COP. Tripling goal pushed back five years. Still might be framed as a "win" by some, but far from the $120bn/yr by 2030 that least developed countries pushed for.
- 🆕 #COP30 Global goal on adaptation text - "takes note of" Glasgow goal to 2x adaptation finance/2025 - "calls for efforts to at least" 3x adaptation finance/2035 - "urges" developed countries to "increase trajectory of collective provision" of climate $$ for adaptation unfccc.int/sites/defaul...
- 🆕 #COP30 Global goal on adaptation text - "takes note of" Glasgow goal to 2x adaptation finance/2025 - "calls for efforts to at least" 3x adaptation finance/2035 - "urges" developed countries to "increase trajectory of collective provision" of climate $$ for adaptation unfccc.int/sites/defaul...
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- NEW: Mutirão text 2.0 is just out. #COP30 unfccc.int/sites/defaul...
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- Reposted by Aruna ChandrasekharBeyond the big COP30 issue of Article 9.1 climate finance for developing countries, the new draft cover text contains potential ways forward for the "Baku to Belem roadmap" to $1.3tn. It is covered by one of the "workstreams" being proposed as ways to advance "roadmaps" on various finance issues.
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- Truly an honour to have my joke make it to a headline in today's edition of ECO @canclimateaction.bsky.social 🙏. #COP30 climatenetwork.org/resource/eco...
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- Portugal: "We will contribute €1 million to the Adaptation Fund by the end of this year (2025) and also contribute a further €200,000 for additional UNFCCC activities." #COP30 #HLS
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- COP president André Corrêa do Lago floats the possibility of "two packages" at #COP30: - one for finance, trade measures, transparency and 1.5C in consultations: "four themes that are very important to COP" - package for the "main COP themes", including adaptation, fair or just transition.
- "One package we're going to try and sum up until half this week, and a second package, we'll try and close up until Friday ." Guess which package is which.
- Reposted by Aruna ChandrasekharFirst draft negotiating texts for the “dialogue” on Article 2.1c have dropped at COP30. This concerns making all “financial flows” consistent with global climate goals. There are two "options", reflecting a key divergence in the negotiations so far: Whether or not to continue discussing 2.1c.
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- Also: why should a UN watchdog body have to consider whether its standards will affect carbon market forecasts and “discourage the development” of nature-based credits?
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- The actual agriculture and food security negotiations at COP30: from a 4-page document yesterday (unfccc.int/sites/defaul...) that hailed agroecology and AI-farming in the same breath to a one-pager (unfccc.int/sites/defaul...), saying "cool draft, let's park this for next year".
- No public fireworks at #COP30 tonight, after all. "We therefore propose that consultations continue as agreed in the opening plenary with another stocktake plenary to be held on Saturday." The consultations will continue to serve as a safe space for parties".
- Reposted by Aruna ChandrasekharFirst #COP30 report. About the U.S., Australia, Norway and Canada and their oil and gas interests for @drilledmedia.bsky.social drilled.media/news/COP30-OCI
- India says #adaptation financing needs to exceed nearly 15x current flows. #COP30 pib.gov.in/PressRelease...
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- "Without new + sustained financial support, the GCOS secretariat will cease operations in 2027, ending the only mechanism that holistically assesses + coordinates global climate observations across all domains: from rescue to provision." #COP30 gcos.wmo.int/site/global-...
