Sameera Savarala

🧵 Debt’s climate link: Why climate finance to developing countries must not be loans: Developing countries are hit hardest by climate disasters, yet forced to borrow to recover from impacts they did not cause. @CSE_Climate examines how debt and climate vulnerability overlap.

🗞️Climate Reparations are no longer a radical idea: they’re the law. The @CIJ_ICJ’s climate ruling puts polluters on notice. CIEL’s @lienvandamme and @joie_chowdhury explain what’s next.👇 context.news/climate-justic…

Happy world mangrove day! Where would we be without these incredible plants? Here are some photos I took of mangroves near Kep, Cambodia.

Just found out Amazon’s annual CO2 emissions from 2023 (68.82 million metrics tons) is more than over 150 countries and territories individual annual CO2 emissions from 2022…

Take some time to watch our film, where @kri_tikka brewed magic into our travel across 200 km in bengal & Sikkim. What is it like to live in the shadow of glacial lakes and hydropower projects? Especially, when the two are a bad combo. @pulitzercenter scroll.in/video/1084817/…

“At the heart of this case was a demand for repair: not just of ecosystems but of relationships, futures, and worlds already lost.” - @PantheaLee @pisfcc @VanuatuUN @AOSISChair #ClimateJustice #LossAndDamage #ICJAO thenation.com/article/enviro…

The new #ICJAO on countries obligation on climate change states any internationally wrongful act (which could include fossil fuel production/consumption) could lead to "Full reparation to injured States in form of restitution, compensation & satisfaction" icj-cij.org/sites/default/…

Vanuatu 🇻🇺 launches the world’s first standalone Loss & Damage Policy to confront climate impacts 🗣️“The policy is done. The plan is clear. Now, Vanuatu asks you to stand with us. Provide the resources. Share the responsibility.” - Minister Ralph Regenvanu pasifika.news/2025/07/vanuat…

The Pacific's voice is echoing loudly in front of the Peace Palace as the ICJ is set to deliver the AO on #ClimateJustice in 30 minutes. Visit pisfcc.org for more details on AO delivery and related events. #ClimateJusticeAtTheAO #ICJAO

Unrelated but the Dil Se original soundtrack has no skips and still holds up to this day

Something I think about often is recent IPCC report estimated 99% of tropical coral reefs would be gone by 2100 under 2° Celsius of global warming — warming has already reached nearly 1.5° Celsius. More than 80% of the corals in the Caribbean alone have disappeared so far!

“Big Tech makes promises about AI future, but its models are built on backs of underpaid workers in Africa”…who had to “read and watch most hateful, violent, grotesque content on the internet and get it taken down so the rest of us didn’t have to see it.” codastory.com/authoritarian-…

Blue carbon! 🇸🇧 ‘I couldn’t watch the forests vanish’: the man restoring Solomon Islands’ vital mangroves | Solomon Islands | The Guardian share.google/oVTvVepm6KvR8j…

Flooding in coastal areas of the United States is projected to occur 10 times more often over the next 25 years, with about 2.5 million people and 1.4 million homes facing severe property damage from sea level rise. floodlightnews.org/flood-risks-ge…

Migration visas for Tuvalu citizens at risk of #sealevelrise "are the repercussion of our failure to meet the Paris Agreement's targets," @RosanneMartyr told the BBC. To protect the land, cultural sites and ecosystems "the best solution we have is to reduce our emissions now".

Some 2,300 people are likely to have died of heat-related causes across 12 European cities during a severe heatwave that ended last week, according to a new study aje.io/8dncx6

Torrential monsoon rains and associated incidents have left at least 124 people dead and 264 others injured across Pakistan over the past three weeks xhtxs.cn/5fc

New findings from the UN’s International Law Commission affirm the legal rights of climate-threatened nations like Tuvalu to retain sovereignty, boundaries, and identity. Read here: bit.ly/ILCStatehood

🌍 Wetlands are vanishing faster than any other ecosystem — 22% lost since 1970. We’re on track to lose $39 trillion in economic benefits by 2050 if we don’t act. In Dhaka, we’re fighting back through #ReWET — restoring wetlands, reclaiming resilience. reuters.com/sustainability…

AP, Kerala and Tamil Nadu to see hot and humid weather #heatwave #heatwaveIndia #humidweather #IMD #Andhra #Kerala #TN #temperature #weatherIndia