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Carbon Brief launches a new climate-driven migration miniseries: 1️⃣ In-depth Q&A: How does climate change drive human migration?https://lnkd.in/erGxMh2c 2️⃣ Inside HABITABLE: Investigating climate-driven migration in rural Thailand https://lnkd.in/efeBqEvV ✍️ Written by Ayesha Tandon 📊 Design by Tom Prater, Joe G. and Kerry Ann Cleaver 💡 Extreme weather, such as floods and storms, is already displacing people, but there is no legal definition of "climate migrant". 📖 The 1951 Refugee Convention – the key international treaty on refugees – does not mention climate change. Experts told Carbon Brief that opening safe, legal migration options for all is key to improving migration outcomes. 🎯 The Q&A looks into the drivers of climate migration, the use of migration as an adaptation strategy, the state of climate migration policy and media coverage of international migration. Read the full Q&A here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/erGxMh2c 🔊 Meanwhile, researchers from the HABITABLE Project are interviewing thousands of people about their perceptions of climate change and migration. 🇹🇭 In Thailand’s Chiang Rai province, villagers rarely bring up climate change unprompted, but they are all highly attuned to changes in local temperature and rainfall patterns – especially regarding the nuanced changes in weather that impact their own crops. 🌏 In one village, as crop yields drop, villagers in their 20s and 30s are leaving to find better-paid work. They often send money back home to their parents and children, but the "missing generation" can be detrimental for the people left behind. 🏡 In another village, residents think they can adapt to the changing climate, and many do not want to migrate. Read more responses from Thailand residents here ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/efeBqEvV #ClimateMigration #ClimateAdaptation #ClimateChange #Migration

What’s happened this week in climate change? Read the latest issue of Carbon Brief’s weekly newsletter, DeBriefed, here ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/evuvrDg6 In this issue... 🌡️ Countries across south-east Asia sweltered under an intense heatwave 🏛️ The Inter-American Court on Human Rights heard from climate change “victims” 💡 At the #EGU24 conference, Carbon Brief learns how climate science is used in court, in an interview with Prof Wim Thiery 🗓️ Key dates for next week and pick of the jobs 📊 Captured | The past 10 months have all set new all-time monthly global temperature records, with April 2024 on track to extend this streak to 11. More here ➡️ https://buff.ly/3JzdY8r. ✍️ Written by Ayesha Tandon 💻 Edited by Daisy Dunne Sign up to DeBriefed here ➡️ https://bit.ly/4a4gsGR #ClimateChange #ClimateCourtCase #TemperatureRecord

This year is shaping up to either match or surpass 2023 as the hottest year on record, Carbon Brief’s latest ‘state of the climate’ report projects. 📈 Global temperatures have been exceptionally high over the past three months – at around 1.6C above pre-industrial levels – following the peak of current El Niño event at the start of 2024. 🌡️ The past 10 months have all set new all-time monthly temperature records, though the margin by which new records have been set has fallen from around 0.3C last year to 0.1C over the first three months of 2024. Read more from Dr Zeke Hausfather here ⬇️ https://buff.ly/3QgVLjC #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #ElNiño #RecordTemperatures

🏦 The World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently held their spring meetings in Washington DC – a key event in a critical year for international climate finance. 🔎 In this Q&A, Carbon Brief explains the key outcomes from the spring meetings, including: 🌏 Countries' contributions to climate finance 🔐 The World Bank's efforts to ‘unlock’ more money 🤝 Debt relief for climate-vulnerable countries ⏳ What comes next for global financial system reform Read more here from Josh Gabbatiss ⬇️ https://buff.ly/3Wb5ZWA #ClimateFinance #ClimateAction #WorldBank #IMF

NEW: I covered research finding that fossil-fuel drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would leave polar bears at risk of lethal oil spills for Carbon Brief Republicans and Democrats have fought over whether to drill in the refuge since the 1970s. The 7.7m-hectare refuge is home to Indigenous people, all three North American bear species, wolves, caribou and hundreds of bird species. It is also sitting on top of an estimated 11bn barrels of oil. Donald Trump passed a law to enable drilling in the refuge in 2017. It came after nearly 50 attempts from Republicans to pass laws to drill in the wildlife haven. Joe Biden suspended drilling inside the refuge on his first day in office pending an environmental review. But, by law, he is still required to hold a second oil and gas lease sale by December 2024, unless Congress is able to pass legislation undoing Trump's provision. This is yet another example of how Biden's campaign promise of "no new drilling, period" is often being hamstrung by Congress and the courts. It comes as the US continues to pressure other countries to phase out fossil fuels at UN climate talks. The study lead author tells me that polar bears are now at an even greater risk of oil spills because climate change is melting away their sea ice habitat, forcing them to spend more time on land. The subpopulation that use the refuge to raise young is already in decline. As climate journalists we are often told not to focus on polar bears, but I can't help thinking, if this is how we treat one of our most beloved species, what chance have the rest of them got? https://lnkd.in/enXzj6nB

🌽 New Cropped just dropped 🌽 Read Dr Giuliana Viglione and Yanine Quiroz's newest issue here ⬇ https://lnkd.in/evsA8QsU In this issue... 🪸 Corals around the world are suffering from intense bleaching 🌊 Several countries committed to greater ocean protection 🇨🇷 Carbon Brief reports on COP3 of the Escazú Agreement ⚖️ A new Florida law prevents protections for agricultural workers 🐂 Researchers have requested a retraction of a UN livestock report Sign up to Carbon Brief's Cropped newsletter here ⬇️ https://buff.ly/3j992gD #Cropped #CoralBleaching #COP3

People keep saying heat pumps don't work in cold climates. But almost 5 million heat pumps have been installed in Finland, Sweden and Norway (10 million households combined) - countries known for their warm climate. My article in Carbon Brief has more information on the Nordic transition to heat pumps: 👇 https://lnkd.in/esEWaZj5

What’s happened this week in climate change? Read the latest issue of Carbon Brief’s weekly newsletter, DeBriefed, here ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/ewFu6MMB In this issue... 🌊 Climate change killed corals in the world’s fourth planet-wide mass bleaching event 🏦 Debt and climate damages headlined at the World Bank spring meetings 🗓️ Key dates for next week and pick of the jobs 💡 Spotlight | Elections in India’s coal and elephant country. 🐘🇮🇳 On the eve of India’s general elections, Carbon Brief travels to the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh to speak to Indigenous communities protesting against coal mining in their sacred Hasdeo Arand forest. ✍️ Written by Aruna Chandrasekhar 💻 Edited by Daisy Dunne Sign up to DeBriefed here ➡️ https://bit.ly/4a4gsGR #ClimateChange #IndiaVotes #CoralBleaching

🇮🇳 Hundreds of millions of Indians will head to the polls from 19 April to 1 June amid scorching heat to cast their votes in the world’s biggest elections. 🗳️ But what choices lie ahead? 📊 Carbon Brief has designed an interactive grid to track the commitments made by India’s major national political parties in their latest election manifestos across a range of issues connected to climate change, including: 🔎 Climate change framing 🪨 Coal ☀️ Renewables 🛢️ Oil 🌾 Agriculture For the full range of issues and the positions of India's major political parties, read more here from Aruna Chandrasekhar ⬇️ with comment from Aditya Valiathan Pillai Disha Ravi and Sustainable Futures Collaborative https://buff.ly/49D6yvb #India #IndiaVotes #IndiaDecides #ClimateChange

China Briefing | Here are the key climate & energy developments from China over the past fortnight: ⚙️ China rejected clean technology industrial “overcapacity” claims from the West ♻️ More policies issued to support “green finance” with goods recycling 🪨 95% of the world’s new coal power construction in 2023 was in China 💬 Carbon Brief interviews the China Photovoltaic Industry Association 🔎 New research on the economic impact of ETS and forest carbon storage and sink Read more in the latest edition of China Briefing ➡ https://buff.ly/3U2LwR4 Sign up to China Briefing here ➡ http://bit.ly/3WycMb5 ✍️ Wanyuan Song #ChinaBriefing #ClimateChange #China