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Rachel Kyte
@rkyte365
CMG. Dean Emerita . Director . Co-chair . . Advisor #climatefinance, energy, #SDGs. Forever blowing bubbles.
Lexington, MassachusettsA rejoint Twitter en décembre 2008
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Applause for and a lot of awkward shifting of positions and discomfort. Air left the room. Truth hurts. Accountability is tough. Her unwavering focus and blistering anger burns. A moment that must tilt action on its axis. #ClimateActionSummit2019
A new exciting chapter opened for me today. I am looking forward to making my contribution in a different way - working with the faculty and staff of Fletcher and the broader Tufts community - to keep shaping the next generations... fletcher.tufts.edu/dean-announcem
This absolutely made my day. Hurrah . Greenpeace boss Morgan to become Germany's new climate envoy
Trying not to spoil crossword but “clean coal” is not a greener energy source. Clue could have been “expensive and futile delay to just transition”. I am sure there are other suggestions out there.
Honoured to be appointed CMG in #NewYearHonours. I stand on shoulders of many. Glad work on climate change leaving no one behind is recognized. We have decade to ensure clean, affordable, reliable energy for all and we can. #SDGs
Not erased. Ignored. Four countries putting fingers in their ears and going “lalalalala”. Young people won’t forgive us. We have to move forward gathering pace while UN process corrects. Climate science on 1.5C erased at UN talks as US and Saudis step in
Having followed #COP24 so far from a distance I think leaders and negotiators don’t understand the tectonic plates beneath them have shifted. Listen carefully to the clarity of thought and purity of message of , and students in Oz.
. is final. We await its release. Now is a moment to thank those that pushed for 1.5 in Paris and those that pushed for this report and got it agreed. They had the sense of urgency and moral clarity - the lives that would hang in the balance between 2 and 1.5. RESPECT.
Stunned by . 99 men. 1 woman. No wonder the pace of change to a cleaner economy working for everyone is so sluggish when mindset is to rely on half the population for leadership and wall out the creativity, talent and collaboration of the rest.
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puts its finger on it. Big Oil has a do-or-die decade ahead because of climate change | Business | The Economist
Reflecting on the #LeadersClimateSummit - it was all momentum building which is good even if not yet enough. But then came empty-handed. Why? 🇦🇺will do well with renewables. As for dodgy carbon accounting. It’s like ball tampering. No team ever trusts you again.
I am very excited about working with . Leadership matters and small states can make big states do things - we will examine how and how to support them - #ClimateAction #plasticpollution #NatureBasedSolutions #Peace #Diplomacy
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The Fletcher School welcomes Carlos Alvarado Quesada, 48th President of Costa Rica, to our faculty.
An innovative leader on decarbonization and conservation, @CarlosAlvQ joins as Professor of Practice with a focus on small states diplomacy.
More here: ow.ly/aZzY50JZi1C
“Women belong in all places where decisions are being made.” Thank you #RBG. May her memory be a blessing.
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Editorial in today's FT on new IPCC report:
"The science of climate change is now well understood, as are the technical solutions. The larger problem is politics..."
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#NationalComingOutDay Still coming out every day. And proud to do so as part of the #LGBTQ+ community
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Germany to back EU-wide net zero emissions target
UK renewables prove a shining success during pandemic
I am pleased to join @globalsubsidies campaign ahead of #ClimateAction Summit w/ to say #StopFossilSubsidies The world is facing a #ClimateEmergency, yet we spend $526 billion a year to support #FossilFuels.
Big day at #COP26 - welcome 🇺🇸🇨🇳pact shouldn’t cement under ambition in final text. No backsliding on fossil fuel focus. 🇺🇸 has much further to go on finance - package must be stronger with signal to IFIs that they need to shift gears. Also a good day for the 🇪🇺to make a showing.
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Climate Madness: Saudi Arabia pledges net zero by 2060 while excluding its world-leading oil & gas exports from the emissions measured - and making no mention of reducing investment in oil and gas
Just about sums up the “net zero” twilight zone
ft.com/content/399f3c #COP26
Fair price for a mangrove. #ClimateAction
. and me on sustainable cooling - @Toby_Peters_
Haven’t had a moment to reflect as some students head home and we move online. But the heavy drizzle and grey sky today seems to sum it up. Together we can help flatten the curve, take care of each other and get through this. Resilience - it’s what we train for.
#Climate on the #WEF19 agenda, but not the urgency. “There are still fossil fuel subsidies from G7 countries. Why we are subsidizing something we know is killing our children, poisoning them and affecting their ability to learn? That's beyond me." cnn.com/2019/01/25/bus
Now all we need is a treasury secretary that understands climate as systemic risk and who can gain senate confirmation. 2021 - the year of the stress test. The next president can force the financial sector to take climate change seriously vox.com/energy-and-env #climate
My message at #seforallforum Sustainable energy provides answers to our global challenges. Can we afford not to act? tinyurl.com/m28jpt6
It’s a make or break decade. We have leadership, dedication, wisdom and vision all around. We must get behind it, invest in and vote for it when we see it. We must stare down shortsightedness, nimbyism, exclusion, xenophobia and hate whenever we see it. Be kind. See you in 2020s.
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Putting emphasis on the “invest” in Divest/Invest. Low rates provide a historic opportunity to tackle climate change ft.com/content/c75269 #Climate #EnergyTransition
NEW Energizing Finance report is out and shows #SDG7finance remains off track to meet #SDG7 by 2030. To ensure we leave no one behind in a clean, affordable & sustainable energy transition, we must rapidly increase investment in energy access: buff.ly/2D5UWqJ
Proud to work for Leading countries blocked from speaking at UN climate summit #ClimateActionSummit
#ClimateAction #SDGs #LeaveNoOneBehind on.ft.com/31zphWu
Thinking of and thanking everyone working so hard at #COP25 trying to breathe life and urgency into a process weighed down by what the has referred to as insipid political leadership in too many countries.
The EU could go cold turkey on Russian gas, speeding up investments it will have to make anyway, writes columnist bloomberg.com/news/articles/ via
Needed this.
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Former Pres. Barack Obama at Elijah Cummings' funeral: "I tell my daughters...being a strong man includes being kind. That there's nothing weak about kindness and compassion. There's nothing weak about looking out for others." abcn.ws/2qKn4df
. got it right this year. She is courageous and unblinking - her blunt words and simple ask surfaces our shame and makes us uncomfortable. And so it should. Great piece by et al. Respect
Good. Tackling climate crisis is what we should be doing, says new IMF boss
Important election in Australia next year - Australians need a hand break turn as every Australian in Glasgow not on the delegation noted.
In a paradox worthy of Kafka, ConocoPhillips plans to install “chillers” into the permafrost ... to keep it solid enough to support the equipment to drill for oil, the burning of which will continue to worsen ice melt. nytimes.com/2021/05/26/cli
We [the G20] are increasingly disconnected from the rest of the world … scientists remind us of our duty in matters of climate change...our youth every week remind us of our duty, while we at the G20 discuss whether we can still cite the Paris agreement.
Touch points between climate risk and pandemic risk have become clearer. How can we learn from this extraordinary time for future risk events and ensure in our recovery from the health and economic shocks we come back with a fairer and greener/cleaner economy - a few thoughts 1/1
Final stages of planning for #SEforALLForum May 2-3, Lisbon. Really excited to see many hundreds of participants focused on what it takes to make #SDG7 a reality in people's lives and such a strong program of speakers who are making a difference and sharing their how-to.
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I'm very proud to announce I have been appointed the new @SEforALLorg CEO and Special Representative of the @UN SG for Sustainable Energy for All.
As the world faces ongoing development challenges, it's a true honor to join SEforALL & lead #SDG7 efforts: seforall.org/news/damilola-
In today , 100+ others and me call for more ambition from national leaders on #ParisAgreement, including delivery of fossil fuel exit plans. It’s necessary & achievable: nature.com/articles/d4158 #SDG7 #ClimateAction #COP24
I was always taught “follow the money”. Money Is the Oxygen on Which the Fire of Global Warming Burns | The New Yorker newyorker.com/news/daily-com
Deeply saddened to lose Mario Molina. What an impact one man can have - from #MontrealProtocol to #KigaliAmendment he gave us the tools to protect our world. May his memory be a blessing - his life’s work was. sandiegouniontribune.com/news/science/s
The E-ferry has been designed with integrated battery + transmission systems, offering increased efficiency
Don’t mess with Mary! Mary Robinson on climate change: ‘Feeling “This is too big for me” is no use to anybody’ #DontMessWithMary #ClimateAction #LeaveNoOneBehind #SDGs
So looking at the photo someone has decided that a very large piece of knowledge isn’t needed? That’s part of the problem. As Bella Abzug used to say - men have had 2,000 years to get it right maybe time to let some women have a go as well.
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@GCF_News Executive Director a.i. @_Javier_Manza at the opening of the Global Knowledge Exchange and Development Centre (GKEDC): "The centre will help developing countries learn from the Korean examples of rapid development".
From the moment she declared ‘Canada’s back’ in the run up to #ParisAgreement has been a fierce advocate for #ClimateAction. Can’t wait to see how she continues to fight in her next chapter
At we promote gender and intersectional research where student research alongside faculty. This essential read on #Tigray is one example of how a gender lens has to be the basis for action and change. sites.tufts.edu/reinventingpea
A good piece on today’s big news. China Beat the U.S. to a Carbon Neutrality Pledge bloomberg.com/news/articles/
And adopt best in class targets for energy efficiency and emissions reduction all the way through scope 3 of his supply chain.
Wow! Great to be included on ’s World’s 100 Most Influential People in Climate Policy for 2019 alongside treasured colleagues and powerful leaders from around the world. Here’s the list: bit.ly/2Hkc5hK #100ClimateLeaders
I am pleased to welcome to to head up our Climate Policy Lab. As we #BuildBackBetter recovery has to spur a clean energy transition and work for the planet and everyone #SDGs #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #EnergyTransition
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We are pleased to welcome @AmyJaffeenergy to The Fletcher School as Research Professor and our new Managing Director of the Climate Policy Lab!
Learn more about Professor Myers Jaffe: bit.ly/3jpTIre #climatechange #climatepolicy
A few years ago #hydrogen discussion at #WEF19 was a discreet affair in a small room. That’s all changed now with global focus on hard to abate industrial use, heavy transportation and more. And ICYMI forbes.com/sites/jamesell #SDG7
Good to see strong women as leading candidates for one of the more important and challenging jobs of these times. And delighted to see EU support for - broad based experience and no shortage of the toughs needed for the top trade job.
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Two questions for y'all:
1. Who are the most badass women you know working on (any aspect of) climate?
2. Who are the most badass women you WISH were working on climate?
Alwsys an honour to brief and plot the way forward. Fresh back from his trip to the Pacific the focus was on urgent political mobilization in the run up to the #ClimateActionSummit. To start - end coal investment, fossil fuel subsidies + tax pollution not people.
Game on. Total government approach to climate diplomacy. And as they say, a week is a long time in (climate) politics. whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/ #ClimateEmergency
In an up and down week for climate politics this is an up. France sets 2050 carbon-neutral target with new law | Article [AMP] | Reuters
. thank you for being the smart, brave, collaborative climate advocate that Canada and the world needs. beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/
And ICYMI the future arrived in the US in April. America's renewable energy set to surpass coal for the first month ever - CNN #SDG7 #renewables cnn.com/2019/04/29/bus
This reveals something of the @JanetYellen approach to the economy in this winter of our discontent. Sensible. Pragmatic. Comprehensive. Resilient to climate risk.
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everyone is talking about Michelle Obama but turns out my fashion icon is Janet Yellen
Happy 80th birthday to Gro Harlem Brundtland. It was her work on the #WCED that got me started on the work of sustainable development listening and watching her work in the run-up to #UNCED in #Rio. Thank you Gro and here’s to the young ones taking over #OurCommonFuture #SDGs
. has just reinvented the primer - something for everyone to read this summer. High schools students, undergrads, grads in all disciplines and a few people in the nation’s capital will benefit.
The preponderance of evidence means we should shift to an emergency footing. The #ClimateActionSummit called by SG must move governments to act more boldly and more quickly. Climate and economic risks 'threaten 2008-style systemic collapse'
Kudos to on #AnyQuestions - most comprehensive analysis of food, fuel and finance crises compounding around the world I’ve heard. But with only 1/2 an energy strategy, no food strategy and devt strategy in flux #UK will need to do more home and away.
The #SEforALLforum team is looking forward to welcoming you all to Lisbon on May 2-3, 2018. Working to ensure we leave no one behind as we push to reach #SDG7
To the kind man who thrust a Tunnock’s tea cake into my hand on the way in to #COP26 this morning - Thank you.
It’s been a tough day today. But tomorrow I will still be european. My values will be those we share. And we will find ways to work together for peace, prosperity and the planet.
Another significant step for the insurance industry with ramifications for the financial sector, coal companies and coal assets, and more widely across the economy. Lloyd's of London to divest from coal over climate change theguardian.com/business/2018/
Really pleased to see named as next president of . Nature has a tireless advocate on its side.
Vale EO Wilson. Vale Tom Lovejoy. Nature has lost two great intermediaries.
"Gas will be a repeat of coal, but quicker" . Important given how many are trying to sell a gas bridge to Africa even for those with no gas infrastructure. Rather we see a commensurate plan for investment in green infra from
Smart! 'World-first' legal case: student accuses Australia of misleading investors on climate risk
US and Canada acting together. Obama invokes 1953 law to indefinitely block drilling in Arctic and Atlantic oceans cnb.cx/2hWTUOW
Nothing new under the sun but as ever is precise and eloquent - a 20-30 year concerted effort using every policy tool available is not beyond us - the need for political leadership looms large
is one way forward on climate change
Chile learns to harvest its formidable solar power opportunities
That’s what petrostate pressure and the gas lobby gets you at #COP27. 🇪🇺perceived as hypocritical, and 🇺🇸 gas expansion at pace. 🇪🇬 got its large energy investment deal early on, but was unable to build on Indian language on phasing down all fossil fuel despite wide support.
Proud to work for Great piece by on #PacificIsland courage. Follows on from #NetZero announcements by and others. Political leaders must be on an emergency footing and bring their plans for faster progress to #ClimateActionSummit
A great honor to meet with brand new environment minister of Japan today. #ShinjiroKoizumi together with to discuss the energy transition in SEAsia.
‘Green steel’: Swedish company ships first batch made without using coal
