China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the final quarter of 2025, likely securing a decline of 0.3% for the full year as a whole.

This extends a “flat or falling” trend in China’s CO2 emissions that began in March 2024 and has now lasted for nearly two years.

#China #ClimateEmergency #CO2

Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been ‘flat or falling’ for 21 months - Carbon Brief
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-co2-emissions-have-now-been-flat-or-falling-for-21-months/

LA Times: Get more electricity from coal, Trump tells Department of Defense

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-02-11/get-your-electricity-from-coal-trump-tells-department-of-defense

#climateemergency #climate #USpol #Trump #DOD #coal

The world is closer than thought to a “point of no return” after which runaway global heating cannot be stopped.

Policymakers and the public remain largely unaware of the risks posed by what would effectively be a point-of-no-return transition.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/11/point-of-no-return-hothouse-earth-global-heating-climate-tipping-points

According to a Washington Post analysis, the fastest warming rate on record occurred in the last 30 years. The Post used a dataset from NASA to analyze global average surface temperatures from 1880 to 2025.

“We’re not continuing on the same path we had before,” said Robert Rohde, chief scientist at Berkeley Earth. “Something has changed.”
#climatechange #climatecrisis #climateemergency #science #climate #collapse #greenhouseeffect
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2026/climate-change-temperature-rate-accelerating/

Wheee

The Guardian: Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/11/point-of-no-return-hothouse-earth-global-heating-climate-tipping-points

#climateemergency #tippingpoint

Grim news from Germany on the right to protest and free speech

Mary Lawlor wrote a report for the UN about the criminalisation of protest:

https://srdefenders.org/germany-criminal-proceedings-and-investigations-against-members-of-climate-action-group-letzte-generation-joint-communication/

A German upper court ruled that "from the river to the sea" is an "illegal Hamas slogan" for the first time yesterday.

https://www.lto.de/recht/hintergruende/h/verfassungsbeschwerde-antisemitismus-palaestina-olg-duesseldorf-kg-from-river-sea

#ClimateEmergency #GlobaliseTheIntifada #FreePalestine

Probably worth keeping an eye out for @kathimmel

https://soulevements-lefilm.org/seances-rencontres-debats/

#Film #Documentary #ClimateEmergency

#ClimateEmergency #Inequality #TaxTheMegaRich
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Three Australian millionaires say the nation’s super-rich should face higher taxes | Inequality | The Guardian

The open letter, timed to coincide with the World Economic Forum in Davos, argued that extreme wealth was polluting politics, driving social exclusion and fuelling the climate emergency.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/11/australian-millionaires-super-rich-higher-taxes