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🔎 New research has called for a “fundamental, decolonial constitutional change” to address climate justice issues affecting indigenous communities. 📖 The study introduces a new tool designed to facilitate a “qualitative assessment” of the policymaking process.   ⚖️ The tool evaluates whether a policy encompasses Indigenous climate justice  and guides non-Indigenous policymakers towards inclusive climate justice in their practices, including mechanisms to move towards securing “just” outcomes. 💡 While the authors acknowledge the limitations of the tool in providing a measure of true “justness”, they argue that the dimensions it tests can provide insight into whether a policy upholds Indigenous climate justice. Read more from Antara Basu here ⬇️  https://buff.ly/3LKUY7L #NewZealand #IndigenousRights #ClimateJustice #ClimateChange

🌽 New Cropped just dropped 🌽 Read Orla Dwyer Yanine Quiroz Antara Basu Giuliana Viglione Aruna Chandrasekhar Daisy Dunne's newest issue here ⬇️ https://buff.ly/3WO2S6Y In this issue... 🇺🇳 A UN report found that one in five Africans is facing hunger. 👩🔬 Scientists discovered “dark oxygen” in the deep ocean. ☀️ Extreme heat may have played a role in bird flu spread in the US. 🇻🇪 What Maduro’s contested re-election could mean for the Amazon. Sign up to Carbon Brief's Cropped newsletter here ⬇ https://buff.ly/3j992gD

Vacancy: Section Editor (Science) Deadline: 2 September, 8AM BST ➡️ Are you a journalist or editor with deep expertise in climate science?  ➡️ Do you want to contribute to accurate and timely coverage of climate change?  ➡️ Do you have experience managing teams and editorial workflow? Carbon Brief is seeking an experienced candidate to help us explain and analyse the latest developments in climate science. Find out how to apply here ➡️ https://buff.ly/4fF5Xh5 #Vacancy #ClimateJobs #Hiring #ScienceEditor #JournoJobs

The phrase ‘new quality productive forces’ was first mentioned by 🇨🇳Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2023. 📜 Since then, the term has featured in Chinese state media in numerous high-level policy documents and commentaries about industrial development and low-carbon growth. According to Xi, one important element of NQPF is “green development”, which he has described as the “base colour of high-quality development”. However, there is significant debate as to whether the concept will result in concrete policy outcomes and support further development of industries critical to China’s energy transition. Read more from Anika Patel here ⬇️ https://buff.ly/4dddPUI #China #ChinaPolicy #GreenDevelopment #EnergyTransition

What’s happened this week in climate change? Read the latest issue of Carbon Brief’s weekly newsletter, DeBriefed, here ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/e4iBcc-s In this issue... 🗽 Biden dropped out of the presidential race as the US remained off track on emissions 🔥 Wildfires raged across the US, Canada and Europe 💼 Key dates for next week and pick of the jobs Also in this issue... 💡 Spotlight | Carbon Brief speaks to a campaigner in Louisiana’s petrochemical “Cancer Alley”. 📊 Captured | Carbon Brief analysis shows that the greenhouse gas emissions from the Paris 2024 Olympics are expected to be less than half of those from London 2012. ✍️ Written by Dr Verner Viisainen 💻 Edited by Daisy Dunne Sign up to DeBriefed here ⬇ https://bit.ly/4a4gsGR #DeBriefed #ClimateNews #ClimateChange #ParisOlympics

The steel and iron industry is responsible for 7% of greenhouse gas emissions and 11% of carbon dioxide emissions globally, more than the total emissions from all the world’s cars and vans 🚘. 🪨 This is largely because the bulk of steelmaking around the world still relies on coal-based blast furnaces. 📈 However, according to a report from Global Energy Monitor, 93% of new steelmaking capacity announced thus far in 2024 promises to use lower emission electric arc furnaces (EAFs). Read more from Molly Lempriere here ⬇️ https://buff.ly/3WzFiL3 #Steel #Coal #GlobalEmissions #ClimateChange

🔌 Is the world making progress towards decarbonising electricity supplies? Despite a proliferation of power-sector targets, there is a need for timely data in order to keep tabs on progress to answer that question. 💻 The new Global Energy Monitor (GEM) global integrated power tracker (GIPT) brings together the latest data on power-plant developments around the world, making it easier to track progress. This guest post introduces the GIPT and illustrates the sorts of insights it can generate, using the example of the G7’s pledges – and progress towards meeting them. Read more from James Norman here ⬇️ https://buff.ly/3WuIis6 #Electricity #Decarbonisation #Renewables #CoalPower

🔎 What are “debt-for-nature swaps”? And why have they regained prominence in recent years? In short, they are financial agreements in which an organisation or government buys a developing country’s debt in exchange for investment in local conservation activities. They are seen as part of efforts to raise finance for conservation across biodiverse developing countries. Carbon Brief takes a deep dive to explain . . . ➡️ Where the idea of debt-for-nature swaps come from ➡️ How the swaps work ➡️ How they are now gaining traction ➡️ What some of the chief criticisms are ➡️ Whether debt-for-nature swaps can be done better Read more from Aruna Chandrasekhar and Yanine Quiroz here ⬇️ https://buff.ly/4bRIs0X #Nature #Conservation #ClimateFinance #Biodiversity