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📣 NEGOTIATING FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE: KIRSTEN MADDISON 🇲🇭
🌊 Many frontline negotiators carry the trauma of experiencing severe climate devastation firsthand. 🌀 Evacuating from a king tide at age ten deeply impacted Kirsten’s life.
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Pacific Islands Climate Action Network (PICAN) retweeted
Civil society voices in the Pacific are shaping regional priorities ahead of #PreCOP31.
In Tuvalu, delegates from across the Pacific shared experiences and strengthened Pacific-led recommendations that reflect the realities of communities on the front lines of climate change.
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Rising fuel prices aren’t pushing climate down the Pacific agenda. They make the case for climate action even stronger.
Fuel shocks expose the cost of our dependence on imported fossil fuels.
The answer is not less climate action. It is more.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Kia orana, Kūki ’Āirani. 🌺
Today we celebrate 61 years of self-government and the enduring connection between self-determination and the Moana. Wishing everyone a happy Constitution Day. 🇨🇰✊🏽
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🧵/ What happens when governments face legal and financial consequences for acting in the public interest?
Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) is a legal mechanism that’s becoming increasingly important in conversations about climate, mining and the energy transition.
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3/ According to UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), more than 1,300 treaty-based ISDS cases have been brought globally, with developing countries facing most disputes.
Around one-third involve the energy supply and extractive sectors.
🔗 investmentpolicy.unctad.org/…
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🧵/ The world’s ecological budget has already been exhausted for 2026.
Today is #EarthOvershootDay - the point when humanity has used more ecological resources than the Earth can regenerate in a year.
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2/ Over the last five decades, Earth Overshoot Day has moved from late December to the end of July. We’re consuming nature’s annual budget faster and spending more of each year in ecological deficit.
Learn more:
overshoot.footprintnetwork.o…
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Vanuatu 🇻🇺 has a habit of seeing tomorrow before the rest of the world does.
From loss and damage to the ICJ Advisory Opinion and the @fossiltreaty, Ni-Vanuatu leadership continues to shape the global climate justice movement.
Hapi 46th Indipendens Dei, Vanuatu 🌺
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🧵/ New Zealand is now at risk of missing every major climate target—and it’s New Zealand’s own Climate Change Commission saying so!
rnz.co.nz/news/environment_c…
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3/ Climate targets should not be reduced to being political promises. They’re grounded in science and designed to keep the 1.5°C limit within reach.
When governments fall behind, it’s not just a missed target, it’s a setback for global climate ambition.
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Today, we welcome the newly constituted PICAN Board for 2026–2027 ✊🏽
Congratulations to Board Chair Lavetanalagi Seru, Vice Chair Johnston Riven, Treasurer Pritika Kumari, and our Board Members as they begin this new chapter of leadership. 🧵
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Pacific Islands Climate Action Network (PICAN) retweeted
#ElNiño is strengthening faster than forecast. NOAA now puts the odds of a "very strong" event at 81%. The latest #CVFScienceBulletin sets out recommendations for member nations ahead of the projected October–December peak. 🔗bit.ly/sciencebulletin3
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🪸 Was it really El Niño?
A major new study finds human-caused warming has overtaken El Niño as the dominant driver of coral bleaching across the world’s reefs.
🔗 tos.org/oceanography/article…
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Researchers tested what would happen without human-caused warming.
The result was stark. Much of the heat stress driving global bleaching disappeared.
Decades of fossil fuel pollution have fundamentally altered our ocean.
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