Great info @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org! Is the complete document available somewhere? It would be greatly helpful in my research on UNFCCC decision texts :)

1/8. 📢 This important paper from @douwe.bsky.social , @guyjackson.bsky.social, Olivia Serdeczny, and Kees van der Geest questions the dichotomy between economic💰 and non-economic ❤️‍🩹 #LossAndDamage and the implications for policy and research.

🔗Read it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Wow — very impressed with Rachel Donald in how she questions Hannah Ritchie's techno-optimism and perspective on objectivity and being apolitical as a scientist. Must listen!

In an interview with Shell's CEO, he says "you also have, especially on the technical side, who say that you have to collaborate with Shell"; seemingly an indirect response to the successful Cut The Ties with Shell campaigns from Dutch universities. He knows how this hurts Shell, activism works.

Thank you! That makes a lot of sense :)

I’m curious, what issue do you have with Our World in Data? I disliked Max Roser’s arguments when arguing with Jason Hickel over degrowth, so am not surprised, but I haven’t read about it before. Is it about their positivist/economic stance on complex and subjective issues?

Introducing the concept of "capitalogenic disease".

We present 8 ways that capitalism makes people sick, perpetuates disease, or produces health inequalities. Published in the BMJ Global Health with @drguddisingh.bsky.social. gh.bmj.com/content/8/12...

Thank you so much! :)

We describe our (slightly) different methodologies in detail. In Fiji, illustrated value cards were used by researchers to better convey each value and support discussion.

most intolerable. A values-based approach can unify the often artificially dichotomised 'economic' and 'non-economic' losses and damages. Resulting in more comprehensive assessments that recognise the complexity of life.

We describe three benefits. Centring locally-identified values ensures that people's experiences and perspectives are recognised, valued, and results in a more context-sensitive assessment. Such an approach can better help with defining what losses and damages are...

The first article of our loss and damage research in Bangladesh is published. Together with Karen McNamara and co-researchers, who did research in Fiji, we advocate for assessing loss and damage based on 'local values' instead of using top-down frameworks

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The wins are small and insufficient, but they exist! It cannot be a coincidence that after years of intensive campaigning and blockades by Extinction Rebellion NL, the Netherlands "has been at the forefront of combating fossil fuel subsidies". Blocking roads works.

No one has ever told me how stressful it is to have journals make you proofread your submission, to have to reread every sentence you wrote many months ago and not be able to change it is dreadful.

I am really proud of this brief in which we, a large group of researchers and practitioners, critique the gap between Non-Economic Loss and Damage research and UNFCCC-level policy, and propose ways forward on how bridge this.

I appreciate the author's idea of leaving quotes in their original language, so that meaning is not lost in translation, and putting English versions in endnotes. But in some places that will just result in unreadable pages where I'm going back and forth all the time.

I keep coming back to the manifesto "Power, Prestige & Forgotten Values" on the Western hegemony in disaster studies and ways forward in how to address it.

A recommendation to anyone doing any kind of research in contexts outside of their own!

From 'At Risk: natural hazards, people's vulnerability and disasters'. Published nearly two decades ago and, day by day, becoming increasingly relevant.

You can call me a 'climate catalyst' as well because I'm also not flying private (from the TIME100 most influential climate leaders list).

A reminder that already in 1991, more than 30 years ago, Vanuatu voiced an urgent need for climate reparations.

Agree!

Same here in Dutch! It’s impossible not to sound informal as i haven’t done that in ages.

Adding another to the list...

A petition led by ICCCAD, Dr Huq’s research institute, on naming the Loss and Damage Fund the “Huq Fund”

A small personal win to share. The new Adaptation Gap report, which has a chapter on Loss and Damage, references a technical paper I lead. I assume that people get insensitive for these things for a while, but as this is the first bigger mention, I am delighted :)

Yes exactly, and it is hard to imagine how many things in life can keep progressing in the same ways without his physical presence. Take care!

What a loss for his family, Bangladesh, and the climate community. So many hearts are broken. Without Dr. Huq, many of us would not have been able to do what we do, or be who we are; his generosity and support seemed infinite. May his soul rest in peace.

Does anyone know what 'prima instantiapertractis' might mean? At first I thought it was a classic case of researchers using overly complicated Latin terms to make their texts unreadable, but 'instantiapertractis' only gives 3 Google results. So I wonder what is up here...

Very worrying article, but good to see how some scientists are using more urgent language