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CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #256, November
10, 2025. Compiled by Dick Bennett.
Yale Climate Connections. US Rejects COP30, China Leads in
Renewable Energy.
UNIPCC Report on Climate Change and Land, 2019.
Friederike Otto. Climate Injustice.
The Living New Deal.
Yale Climate
Connections (11-11-25). Yale Center for Environmental
Communication · 195 Prospect St. · New Haven, CT 06511.
The world is on track to overshoot the 1.5 degrees
Celsius warming target negotiated in the Paris Agreement 10 years ago. “Current commitments put the world on a path of 2.3-2.5°C of
warming by the end of the century. We are very likely to overshoot 1.5°C within
the next decade – the priority now is to keep that overshoot as small and short
as possible,” the U.N. Environment Program said ahead of the summit.
The U.S. is basically ignoring the negotiations. As NPR reported, “no
high-level officials will attend COP30 – breaking a long-standing
tradition.”
Trump’s work to block U.S. progress on climate change is the outcome of a decades-long campaign by oil companies. “Unlike China’s state-run coal companies, which never attacked climate science, in the United States, Big Oil began implementing a massive scheme to poison the public with climate denial in order to, as one 1988 internal Exxon memo put it, block the 'development of nonfossil fuel resources,’” the New Republic reports.
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China is poised to lead. “When the U.S. withdrew from the
Paris Agreement for the second time, China’s position as the global supplier
of low-carbon goods was all but unassailable,” Yale E360 reports. “Last year,
the country that carried much of the blame for the failure of 2009’s COP15 in
Copenhagen installed more renewable energy capacity than the rest of the
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What the UN’s IPCC report
says about climate change and land . August 9, 2019.
The Summary of the incomparable UN’s Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change’s 1200-page report titled Climate Change and Land. Esp. agriculture and land abuse.
Friederike
Otto. CLIMATE
INJUSTICE: Why We Need to Fight Inequality to Combat Climate Change. Greystone Books, 2024.
Climate scientist Otto shows how global inequality is exacerbating the effects
of climate change and exposes damning truths about the failures of political
and social infrastructures around the world — failures that ensure the rich are
protected while others bear the brunt of climate disasters.
“I
can’t recommend this book highly enough. It will change how you think about the
most important story of our time."—JEFF GOODELL, New
York Times bestselling author of The
Heat Will Kill You First. Climate
change concerns everyone, but it does not affect us all equally. In this
gripping, provocative manifesto, climate scientist Friederike Otto makes the
case that the world’s most vulnerable populations are the most at risk of being
impacted by climate change—though they did the least to cause it.
From one of the world’s most celebrated thinkers on climate change comes a
groundbreaking investigation into the human costs of extreme weather.
The Living New Deal celebrates the achievements of the New
Deal as a model for what our nation can accomplish even in times of great
difficulty. livingnewdeal.org
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