Saleemul Huq @SaleemulHuq Twitter profile

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Saleemul Huq

@SaleemulHuq

3 years

The people of Bangladesh have been adapting to floods and are prepared to provide technical assistance to Germany on how to adapt to climate change!

Anthony Quintano

@AnthonyQuintano

3 years

My god. This is Germany today.

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My 3 weeks in Scotland have been very pleasant outside the Blue Zone of the @COP26 . The highlight was being invited for tea at the residence of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon in Edinburgh! Already planning next steps on Loss and Damage Fund towards COP27 next year in Egypt!

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3 years

We actually don't expect so many deaths from floods in Bangladesh! We get a lot of floods which cause a lot of damage but we no longer have so many deaths! We would be happy to share our knowledge with Germany!

Rise up Movement

@Riseupmovt

3 years

Wait what?

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2 years

@NicolaSturgeon is the only true developed country leader to emerge from @COP26 in Glasgow! All the rest have let us down!

Kay Burley

@KayBurley

2 years

Get back up here and drive this deal over the line... 🚆 First Minister of Scotland @NicolaSturgeon calls on Boris Johnson to return to #Glasgow and push the climate agreement through. #KayBurley #COP26 UF

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2 years

Heading in to do battle on the extra day of @COP26 We cannot afford to give up, so will fight until the last minute! One thing I have learned from attending ALL the COPs so far, is to always buy my return journey TWO days after the official closing date! It never ends on time!

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@SaleemulHuq

3 years

Just got my badge for my 26th COP in Glasgow. Had to brave cancelled and delayed trains (due to climate change impacts!) to get to Glasgow. Looking forward to seeing many friends here soon (make sure to bring galoshes and weatherproof clothes!).

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@SaleemulHuq

3 years

The G20 countries promised to deliver their emission reduction plans in line with staying below 1.5 Degrees (we are actually headed for 2.7 Degrees!). Also rich countries promised to deliver 100 B$ in 2020 (they failed) and another 100B in 2021 (not met)

Stop climate smoke and mirrors, rich nations told - BBC News

Ministers meeting in Milan hear calls for sweeping carbon cuts ahead of the COP26 climate summit.

www.bbc.co.uk

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@SaleemulHuq

1 year

Celebrating today's @COP27P decision to establish a fund for responding to loss and whose mandate includes a focus on addressing loss and damage!!!

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@SaleemulHuq

2 years

Just got told off by the @BBC for calling the @COP26 text on #GlasgowLossandDamageFacility "bullshit" !

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@GreenRupertRead

2 years

BBC World Service reprimands @SaleemulHuq live on air for getting angry & calling the failure of rich countries to create a climate loss&damage fund “bullshit”. I’d say that’s a pretty genteel word for what is being done to the countries being worst affected by climate damage..

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1 year

With my long time warrior friend @harjeet11 celebrating the establishment of the @LossandDamage Fund in @COP27P

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@SaleemulHuq

3 years

Dear global media and journalists, kindly note that the costs of inaction are many, many times the costs of taking action to reduce the adverse impacts of climate change. So when you question leaders you need to ask why they aren't spending what is needed to avert the crisis?

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@SaleemulHuq

5 years

Honoured and humbled to be selected

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@SaleemulHuq

2 years

One reason that @COP26 is new is that we now have to deal with two climate change problems: the old one of preventing catastrophic impacts for everyone if we go above 1.5 Degrees and a new one of dealing with the loss and damage already happening due to increase of 1.1 Degrees!

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Saleemul Huq

@SaleemulHuq

2 years

Very honoured indeed to have received the OBE in the UK's New Year's Honours list for 2022.

Raheela Rehman

@Raheela_Rehman

2 years

Congratulations to Dr Saleemul Huq! @SaleemulHuq Director, International Centre for Climate Change and Development, for services to combatting International Climate Change @ICCCAD #ClimateJustice #2022NewYear #COP26 #newyearshonours

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1 year

Very happy to announce that we have a Loss and Damage Fund!

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@SaleemulHuq

1 year

Saturday 19th November in @COP27P venue a full day after the COP was supposed to end and still no agreement!! Only a few hours left to agree the @LossandDamage Fund or the COP will be a failure!!

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2 years

The proposal for setting up the #GlasgowLossandDamageFacility was submitted by all the 138 developing countries representing 5 billion people was in the text yesterday but removed from the final text by the US UK and EU! This was how the rich polluters treat their victims!

Sam Goodman

@SamGClimate

2 years

#COP26 has failed to establish a #GlasgowLossandDamageFacility for finance. This is a travesty for developing countries and has grave implications for human rights.

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Saleemul Huq

@SaleemulHuq

4 years

Resolutions for the new year: Instead of climate change "problem" let's call it an "emergency". Instead of "climate deniers" they are now "climate criminals". Instead of trying to achieve collective global decisions, build coalitions of the willing! Happy new year to everyone!

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@SaleemulHuq

9 months

I am honoured to be a member of this scientific advisory board to the @UNSG @antonioguterres

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@SaleemulHuq

2 years

Maldives expressing great disappointment in the @COP26 outcome

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@SaleemulHuq

5 years

Drilling for more fossil fuels should be declared a crime against humanity!

NRDC 🌎🏡

@NRDC

5 years

Our oceans are under attack like never before with the Trump Administration's pro-polluter plan to auction off huge swaths of our coasts to Big Oil. We can't stand for this. Join us and #ProtectOurCoast :

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3 years

Having travelled from Bangladesh to Glasgow to attend @COP26 and suffering @LossDamage from climate change once I got to Scotland! Trains cancelled and delayed due to floods. Hundreds told to evacuate homes as torrential rain triggers ‘major’ flooding

Hundreds told to evacuate homes as torrential rain triggers ‘major’ flooding

Homes and businesses evacuated in Scottish Borders town of Hawick as rising rivers threaten ‘significant damage’

www.independent.co.uk

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@SaleemulHuq

3 years

This so-called 'plan' to deliver funds promised many years ago is nothing but a joke! They were supposed to deliver 100 B$ a YEAR from 2020 onwards. They still cannot make it until 2023! They are simply taking the developing countries for fools!

UK COP26 Presidency publishes Climate Finance Delivery Plan led by German State Secretary Flasbarth...

The plan shows the trajectory for developed countries to deliver on the agreed goal of mobilizing $100 billion per year in climate finance to support developing countries.

www.gov.uk

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Saleemul Huq

@SaleemulHuq

3 years

The @G20 ministers talk about 'the 100 Billion' as if it is a one off payment to be delivered now! It was pledged as an annual amount every year from 2020 onwards. It was NOT delivered in 2020 so that has to be delivered first and ANOTHER 100 Billion is now due for 2021!

Luca Bergamaschi

@lucaberga

3 years

Finally, G20 “highlight the global need to address adaptation and the importance of integrating adaptation in budgetary processes and in national planning” and “look forward” to new climate finance commitments “well ahead of COP26” towards the 100 billion.

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1 year

For those of you at @COP27 who want to know where my 'office' is: I am in the Capacity Building Hub (turn left when you enter the premises and it is the last room on the left before the Exhibition Hall). Come see me here!

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@SaleemulHuq

2 years

Sitting in the plenary hall waiting for the session to start. Not feeling very hopeful but willing to fight until the last minute!

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@SaleemulHuq

3 years

You are quite correct @GeorgeMonbiot . However what you are seeing now in the rich countries has been happening here in Bangladesh and other poor countries for many years already. Perhaps now the rich countries will treat it like the global emergency that it truly is!

George Monbiot

@GeorgeMonbiot

3 years

For 20 years, the billionaire press told us "we can easily adapt to a warmer world". Try telling that to people in Germany, Belgium and the western seaboard of North America. And this is just one degree of heating. The media did this, as surely as the fossil fuel companies.

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2 years

Language on @LossDamage has in fact gone BACKWARDS from yesterday's text! It seems @COP26 Presidency has been nobbled behind closed doors by the US! Unacceptable!

Megan Rowling

@meganrowling

2 years

Quick impressions on changes in new #COP26 draft cover decisions text: on adaptation finance adds base year of 2019 from which to "at least double", so still $40bn by 2025; no ref to loss & damage funding facility but establishes a "dialogue" to discuss "arrangements" for funding

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1 year

Rich people use so much water that it is threatening the global supply

A three-year drought in Cape Town, South Africa, may have been worsened by high-income people filling their swimming pools and irrigating their gardens

www.newscientist.com

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2 years

And the developed countries couldn't come up with a mere 100 Billion USD they had promised to tackle climate change which is a greater threat to global peace than any local or regional conflict! We are Indeed living in an upside down world!

Florian Krampe

@FlorianKrampe

2 years

Who were the top 10 military spenders in 2020? 1) USA🇺🇸 2) China🇨🇳 3) India🇮🇳 4) Russia🇷🇺 5) UK🇬🇧 6) Saudi Arabia🇸🇦 7) Germany🇩🇪 8) France🇫🇷 9) Japan🇯🇵 10) South Korea🇰🇷 Together they spent $1482 billion, accounting for 75% of global military spending ➡️

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Saleemul Huq

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3 years

People are asking me whether the vibe in Glasgow before @COP26 , is like Copenhagen (which was a failed COP) or Paris (a successful COP)? I am afraid it feels worse than Copenhagen! I very sincerely hope that I am wrong and Glasgow may be better than Paris. It is up to leaders!

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@SaleemulHuq

2 years

Impacts of human induced climate change will not be like falling off a cliff but rather like walking through a minefield where the density of mines keeps increasing! Also the poor and rich countries are going on different paths where the density of mines is lower for the rich!

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With my @ICCCAD team in @COP26 in Glasgow

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Just arrived at the @COP27P venue on Saturday afternoon (a day after the official end of COP27!). Still no agreement!! If there is no agreement on setting up the @LossandDamage Fund here by tonight the whole COP will have been a failure. Only a few hours left to prove me wrong!

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2 years

Better for whom? Speaking for the most vulnerable communities in the world it was a disgraceful abdication of responsibility by the rich polluting countries!

James Murray

@James_BG

2 years

I understand the impulse to condemn the proposed COP26 agreement as inadequate given the scale of the crisis, but it really is a lot better than its critics are claiming.

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Saleemul Huq

@SaleemulHuq

3 years

Taking a day off from @COP26 to visit Edinburgh castle with my @ICCCAD team

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@SaleemulHuq

2 years

Pathetic media coverage by @BBC @SkyNews @CNN of the Loss and Damage failure of @COP26 Presidency. No one asked @AlokSharma_RDG why he betrayed the vulnerable countries by deleting the #GlasgowLossandDamageFacility ? Also no one covering the @LossDamage fund by @NicolaSturgeon

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Saleemul Huq

@SaleemulHuq

3 years

Saleemul Huq ranks 4th among global climate change Influencers

www.dhakatribune.com

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@SaleemulHuq

1 year

Pleased to announce that we achieved a deal to set up the fund for @LossandDamage at @COP27P . Congratulations to all the negotiators involved! Great victory for the vulnerable developing countries and people

Saleemul Huq

@SaleemulHuq

1 year

Just arrived at the @COP27P venue on Saturday afternoon (a day after the official end of COP27!). Still no agreement!! If there is no agreement on setting up the @LossandDamage Fund here by tonight the whole COP will have been a failure. Only a few hours left to prove me wrong!

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@SaleemulHuq

1 year

Time to agree to establish the Sharm Al Shaikh Finance Facility for @LossandDamage in @COP27P

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@SaleemulHuq

2 years

The US, UK and ÉU have been bullying the Vulnerable Developing countries behind closed doors to persuade them to accept the unacceptable text and swallow the bitter pill of a failed @COP26 by not calling out its failure! Governments may be bullied but the people won't accept it!

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@SaleemulHuq

5 years

Climate change is no longer just a “problem” but an “emergency “ and it is no longer a “debate “ but a “war” between polluters and victims of pollution (ie poor people around the world and children everywhere over time). Everyone has to choose a side!

Gerald Kutney - 🌏🔥#ClimateBrawl🔥🌍

@GeraldKutney

5 years

Conrad Black: "Whatever is happening to the climate, we don’t know the extent of it, the direction, whether it will be positive or negative, whether human activity influences it," Another trashy climate-denial article. via @nationalpost - #climatecrisis

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@SaleemulHuq

1 year

Dear @antonioguterres , why not appoint Nicola Sturgeon as your Special Envoy for @LossandDamage from human induced climate change to make sure the @COP27P decision is implemented? After all, she was the first global leader to commit funding for victims of climate change!

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Saleemul Huq

@SaleemulHuq

2 years

Many thanks @SimonMaxwell001 . A great honour indeed.

Simon Maxwell

@SimonMaxwell001

2 years

Great news that @SaleemulHuq has been awarded an OBE in the New Year honours: recognition for a lifetime of commitment to climate action.

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4 years

That is absolutely correct. The failure of the COP is not a collective failure of all nations but rather a cynical sabotage of the process by a few nations acting in the interests of the fossil fuel companies rather than their own citizens!

Prof Michael E. Mann

@MichaelEMann

4 years

Blaming the "COP model" on the lack of climate progress and distributing blame broadly provides cover for the relatively small number of bad petrostate actors who are blocking progress for rest of world. It actually enables them.

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2 years

The outcome of @COP26 was in effect a 'Declaration of War' on the Pacific Islands!

‘Declaration of war’: Pacific islands blast COP26 pledges

Nations most vulnerable to climate change say rich world must step up, meet goal to limit temperature rise to 1.5C.

www.aljazeera.com

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@SaleemulHuq

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Earth needs a world climate crisis organisation, says eminent scientist

Such a body, which could be established through the UN, would help facilitate a united global effort against climate change.

www.independent.co.uk

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Saleemul Huq

@SaleemulHuq

5 years

Sorry but I am unable to celebrate small victories when they are completely inadequate compared to the scale and emergency we are facing.

ingrid formanek

@ingridfcnn

5 years

Not quite enough, @COP24 Listen to @GretaThunberg and act. #ClimateJustice

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@SaleemulHuq

1 year

The key text of the agreement to establish the fund for addressing Loss and Damage at @COP27P

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@SaleemulHuq

5 years

Further exploration for new fossil fuel reserves should be declared a crime against humanity

Climate Watcher 🔥

@pmagn

5 years

Burning all fossil fuels would scorch Earth: study Using up all known fossil fuel reserves would render Earth even more unliveable than scientists had previously projected,

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@SaleemulHuq

1 year

Dear @UNFCCC , the setting up of the Transitional Committee to establish the @LossandDamage funding mechanism is overdue already. When will it be set up and when and where will it meet? I hope Observers are allowed as I plan to attend!

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@SaleemulHuq

3 years

For those who may still be confused as what @LossDamage from human induced climate change means, this is what it means !

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@SaleemulHuq

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Saturday 19th November in @COP27P venue a full day after the COP was supposed to end and still no agreement!! Only a few hours left to agree the @LossandDamage Fund or the COP will be a failure!!

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2 years

Millions stranded, dozens dead as flooding hits Bangladesh and India

Heavy rains have caused widespread flooding in parts of Bangladesh and India, leaving millions stranded and at least 57 dead, officials said Saturday.

phys.org

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@SaleemulHuq

2 years

Days after Canada joined the US to block the vulnerable developing countries getting the #GlasgowLossandDamageFacility in @COP26 , Canadians suffer @LossandDamage from human induced climate change!

Record rainfall prompts evacuations in British Columbia and Pacific north-west

Communities in western Canada and Washington state forced to flee homes after record downpour leads to severe floods

www.theguardian.com

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Saleemul Huq

@SaleemulHuq

2 years

Let's do the research needed on @LossDamage so we can come to COP27 prepared with evidence. Let me know if you wish to join this effort?

Diana Liverman

@DianaLiv

2 years

@SaleemulHuq @COP26 @AlokSharma_RDG @BorisJohnson Thank you so much Saleemul for your sustained work. What would you advise as next steps for scientists and for activists?

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@SaleemulHuq

3 years

In front of the Bangladesh Pavilion in the Blue Zone

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@SaleemulHuq

2 years

As we near the end of @COP26 with an extremely wishy washy 'Cover Decision' here is a way for @AlokSharma_RDG and @BorisJohnson to redeem some credibility: announce the formation of the Glasgow Financial facility for Loss and Damage. With details to be worked out in COP27

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@SaleemulHuq

1 year

It is very true that every COP runs into extra time, when most of the vulnerable developing countries negotiators have to leave, and when they get home, and see the result they see everything they fought for has been deleted as they were not present at the end! This is deliberate

Adil Najam 

@AdilNajam

1 year

#COP27 now enters its inevitable farcical phase. Like every COP before, negotiators are insulting our intelligence. They have added a day, NOT because they want to search for a solution, but because they will ensure none is found. EVERY COP ends this way.

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2 years

From January 2022 the climate change emergency is no longer about plans/promises for 2050 or even staying below 1.5 Degrees but about dealing with the 1.1 Degrees of warming already caused. In the era of @LossandDamage each and everyone of us must act every single day from now on

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@SaleemulHuq

5 years

Accepting that coal has to be phased out to tackle climate change but then taking 20 years to phase out, reminds me of the slave owners of the 18th Century who agreed that slavery was bad and needed to be ended, but took several decades to minimise the burden on slave owners!

Greenpeace International

@Greenpeace

5 years

BREAKING News: Germany will #EndCoal , no additional coal plants will be built and the #HambacherForest is saved. But there’s a problem: A coal exit by 2038 is too late for the #climate

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Prof Saleemul Huq awarded OBE for climate fight

His scientific research in the UK and Bangladesh has informed international policy on climate change for over 35 years

www.dhakatribune.com

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@SaleemulHuq

2 years

While wishing all my followers a safe and happier 2022 than we had in 2021, let me reiterate that in the new era of @LossandDamage we can expect a record breaking extreme weather event to take place somewhere in the world every day for many years to come! This is now the reality!

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@SaleemulHuq

2 years

If there is one investment that was a game changer for the last fifty years of Bangladesh's development it was in girls education. It led to reducing births and garment industry. The best investment for next fifty years is in the next generation of girls!

Bangladesh's success story is a lesson in poverty reduction. Here's why

Since its founding in 1971, Bangladesh has emerged from overwhelming poverty to achieve the highest cumulative GDP growth globally from 2010 to 2020.

theprint.in

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Saleemul Huq

@SaleemulHuq

2 years

The Spinning game is about to begin! @COP26 Presidency under @AlokSharma_RDG and @BorisJohnson have certainly failed the vulnerable developing countries in Glasgow. We will take up the struggle again in COP27 next year in Egypt!

Greta Thunberg

@GretaThunberg

2 years

Now as #COP26 is coming to an end, beware of a tsunami of greenwashing and media spin to somehow frame the outcome as “good”, “progress”, “hopeful” or “a step in the right direction”.

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2 years

About to start first session of the Glasgow Dialogue on Finance for Loss and Damage in Bonn

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@SaleemulHuq

5 years

Just registered at #COP24 in Katowice, Poland for my 24th COP! Wonder how many others have been to every COP?

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@SaleemulHuq

4 years

Adding an extra day of negotiations is a tactic of the rich and powerful countries who know that the poor and vulnerable countries negotiators will not be able to stay the extra day to defend their red lines. So they find that their words have disappeared from the final text !

ColinMcQuistan

@ColinMcQuistan

4 years

Entering the #Cop25Madrid2019 venue on final day plus one, halls are empty, few people and certainly most ministers/senior delegates have gone home Why does @UNFCCC leave the difficult stuff until the very end? Is this a deliberate negotiating strategy? #ClimateEmergency

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There is still a failure to recognise that the post @COP26 world is no longer about preventing future climate change impacts by staying below 1.5 Degrees but about dealing with the @LossandDamage due to the 1.1 Degrees global temperature rise already!

Climate change: Storm clouds gather after COP26

Is the progress made in Glasgow in jeopardy from a rising tide of challenges in the year ahead?

www.bbc.co.uk

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@SaleemulHuq

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In front of Bangladesh and Climate Vulnerable Forum pavilion inside Blue zone

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@SaleemulHuq

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The @COP26 decision was to allow unabated Loss and Damage from human induced climate change to continue ! Trying to dress that up as 'progress' is a cruel joke by the rich polluting countries!

COP26

@COP26

2 years

For the first time, Loss and Damage was included in the cover decision at #COP26 . Recognising that loss of life, livelihoods and ecosystems is already occurring, and urging providers to improve finance and technical support. Learn more about what was agreed ⬇️

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For those interested in who is actually paying for the @LossDamage from human induced climate change: studies in Bangladesh show that the victims who are mostly poor households pay around 10 times what the government pays to help them and the international funds are less than 1 %

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@SaleemulHuq

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Dear @POTUS , I hear you want to make the United States into a leader on tackling climate change. @NicolaSturgeon has put 2 Million Pounds on the table towards a new @LossDamage fund. She is the true leader, while you are restricting any mention of finance in the @COP26 text!

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@SaleemulHuq

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Wonderful to meet you @NicolaSturgeon and thanks for agreeing to stick with the vulnerable developing countries and people as we build the Snowball of Loss and Damage Fund which you started last week in Glasgow. We are already attracting others to chip in so we are just starting!

Nicola Sturgeon

@NicolaSturgeon

2 years

A pleasure to catch up with @SaleemulHuq in wake of #COP26 to pledge my continued support for a Loss & Damage fund - which is an obligation the developed world owes to countries suffering impacts of climate change now - and to work with others to build momentum ahead of COP27

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Time for you @antonioguterres to appoint a Special Envoy on @LossandDamage to ensure the decision of @COP27P to establish a fund is implemented.

António Guterres

@antonioguterres

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This year, I visited Pakistan, the Sahel & other places affected by the climate crisis. I could see first hand that leaders worldwide aren't doing enough to address the climate emergency. We need more #ClimateAction to realize everyone’s right to a healthy environment.

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The rich countries have been offering the 100 Billion USD from 2009 and then again in 2015 to be delivered each year by 2020 but failed to deliver. They are still playing bait and switch! Time to acknowledge they have no intention of paying it!

G7 pledges climate action but disappoints activists - BBC News

The plan renews a promise to raise $100bn a year, but environmentalists say it lacks detail.

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@SaleemulHuq

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Only 100 days left to @COP27 . Must get a decision on finance for @LossandDamage for @UNFCCC to remain relevant!

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The secret weapon unleashed by @GretaThunberg is friendship and solidarity of young people across countries and continents. This will prove to be more powerful than money or politics! They have only just begun.

Greta Thunberg: ‘I really see the value of friendship. Apart from the climate, almost nothing else...

The world’s most famous teen activist opens up about how she’s been transformed since she started her school climate strike in 2018

www.theguardian.com

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Dear @antonioguterres , it is time for you to appoint a Special Envoy for @LossandDamage from human induced climate change whose mandate would be multi year and cover both the @UNFCCC as well as @UNOCHA . There us no time to lose. @SelwinHart @UNSG

António Guterres

@antonioguterres

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Our fragile planet is hanging by a thread. Every fraction of a degree warming matters. We need maximum ambition – from all countries on all fronts – to keep the 1.5 degree warming goal of the #ParisAgreeement alive. It's time to go into emergency mode.

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Spending the day at Newcastle university where I will give a talk this afternoon

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Glasgow l is being battered by heavy rains and flooding causing severe delays to trains! Climate change got here before @COP26 even started! Delegates will have to walk long stretches through this inclement weather to talk about what they should do! Actions needed not words!

COP26

@COP26

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Only 2 days to go! 🌍 #COP26 is the world’s last, best chance to tackle #ClimateChange . #TogetherForOurPlanet

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On a boat at Khulna about to sail into Sundarbans holding a roundtable discussion inside the Sundarbans tomorrow on Conserving the Sundarbans mangrove forest. @ICCCAD

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@SaleemulHuq

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Climate change is not taking a break because of the pandemic!

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Dear negotiators from Australia who questioned the need to discuss action on @LossDamage at @COP25CL in Madrid: this is what Non-economic @LossDamage from Climate Change looks like!

Nearly Half A Billion Animals Feared Dead In Australian Wildfires

Harrowing scenes showing fleeing kangaroos, burnt koalas and dead birds have appeared on social media.

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Despite Talk of New Funds for Climate Change, Rich Nations Are Only Diverting Development Aid

A new report finds that richer countries' tendency to reroute funds meant for development – including those meant for poverty eradication – harms poorer countries. But this is unsurprising, say...

m.thewire.in

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I am often advised not to use the terms loss and damage because many people (they mean in the North!) Don't understand the terms. My answer is that they need to learn the terms as they will face the reality soon enough!

Stephen Woroniecki

@StephenWoroniec

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Due to the tireless & effective interventions of many activists & country negotiators, in the last month, Loss & Damage has moved from an issue unknown to even climate buffs to a core aspect of the conversation. What an incredible foundation for justice those leaders have built.

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She deserves the Nobel prize !

TED Talks

@TEDTalks

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Students around the world are striking today to demand action on climate change. Many were inspired by 16-year-old @GretaThunberg , who was just nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Watch Greta's full TED Talk here: #ClimateStrike

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These are climate refugees!

Anthony Albanese

@AlboMP

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The biggest evacuation in Australian history. Residents in areas the size of European countries are being told to leave. This is not business as usual.

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Climate emergency is the biggest health crisis of our time. Bigger than Covid | Pascal Soriot

As toll on public health and global economy rises, radical action is needed on greenhouse gas emissions

www.theguardian.com

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@SaleemulHuq

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The @IPCC needs to prepare a Special Report on @LossandDamage from human induced climate change What is the IPCC AR6 synthesis report and why does it matter?

What is the IPCC AR6 synthesis report and why does it matter?

Summary report by world’s leading climate scientists sets out actions to stave off climate breakdown

www.theguardian.com

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@SaleemulHuq

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On panel in session on adaptation in room 4

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The Media’s Climate Blind Spot Is Geographic

When climate coverage ignores the Global South, it’s bad for everyone.

www.thenation.com

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@SaleemulHuq

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Pleased to be listed at no 208 !

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@SaleemulHuq

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Taking the @COP25CL into extra days is not only inefficient but deeply unfair to the poorest and most vulnerable developing countries, as their delegates cannot stay the extra days, and hence decisions (mostly against their interests) are made in their absence!

UN Climate Change

@UNFCCC

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At midnight stocktaking session of #COP25 , COP President @CarolaSchmidtZ thanks delegates for working very late hours: "I request all your strength to get an ambitious agreement. I count on you to reach consensus". Next stocktake plenary announced for 3:30 a.m., on 15 December.

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Roundtable discussion on conserving Sundarbans forest on a boat on the middle of the Forest

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The secret weapon that @GretaThunberg has unleashed is friendship and solidarity amongst youth from different countries and continents! This will prove more powerful than money and politics and has only just started!

Greta Thunberg

@GretaThunberg

3 years

“I think naivety and childishness are sometimes a good thing.” The great thing about youth, she says, is you’re not blinded by realpolitik and the assumption of compromise. “I do think older people make things more complicated than they actually are.”

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Nearly $2tn of damage inflicted on other countries by US emissions | Climate crisis | The Guardian

Nearly $2tn of damage inflicted on other countries by US emissions

Research puts US ahead of China, Russia, India and Brazil in terms of global damage as climate expert says numbers ‘very stark’

www.theguardian.com

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@SaleemulHuq

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The '1%' are the main drivers of climate change, but it hits the poor the hardest: Oxfam report

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@SaleemulHuq

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Amongst all the competing narratives out there about @COP26 here is one I find most telling: the vulnerable developing countries of @TheCVF demanded a 'Glasgow Climate EMERGENCY Pact' and @AlokSharma_RDG made it the 'Glasgow Climate Pact' ! No emergency! Business as usual only!

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@SaleemulHuq

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Please tweet

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Attending the Stockholm +50 conference in Stockholm

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