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Isabel Bottoms

@IBottoms

Participatory modelling & transformation processes. Scenarios & policies developer for an equitable, collaborative & zero carbon world @ReosPartners Associate

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Joined December 2011
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Quite agree @rkyte365: a good idea has many parents! HT to amazing human beings working with fierce love esp @SDDecleve @shaxi @kellyrigg @IBottoms @pazsuarezperez @e3g @IDiplomat @CANIntl @CA_Latest @AOSISChair @TheCVF @LDCChairUNFCCC @apirapino @akleysteuber @Arch2030 – at Bellagio, Lombardy
Rachel Kyte (@rkyte365) profile pictureRachel Kyte@rkyte36516 Sep 2019
As with any change no one person changes things on their own. So those who moved me also include @kathykijiner @AchalaC @BerniceWLee @katehamptongray @dwspice and so many, many more. Together we amplify each other. climatechangenews.com/2019/0…
Net zero: the story of the target that will shape our future

Net zero: the story of the target that will shape our future

The 'lionesses' who changed the way we measure climate ambition

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Replying to @Jamesogradycam @_richardblack
Thanks James. Remembering you and everyone who helped birth the idea of net zero by 2050. Thinking of so many:Tessa Tennant, @climatemorgan @LaurenceTubiana @rkyte365 @CFigueres @BerniceWLee @katehamptongray @shaxi @jancorfee @AchalaC @kellyrigg @pazsuarezperez @IBottoms
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Just 3 days to apply! Are you a future leader working to develop an education project? You could win $25.000 and much more with our #NextGenForesight Award 2019. Apply online by FRIDAY May 31st before 23:59 BST. nextgenforesight.org #education #learning #teachergoals #academic
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Advocating small, manageable, personal consumption changes as a way of dealing with climate change actually reduces support for the larger-scale policy changes that are necessary, at least according to this one study: nature.com/articles/s41558-0…
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Jenn Burt@burt_jenn20 May 2019
In case you didn't know, there are kelp forests in the arctic! And they are likely going to expand in a warming future. Nice article and link to great review paper by @Filbeek & co. News: theconversation.com/underwat… Pub: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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We want your views on reforming and modernising agricultural tenancy regulations. Have your say before 2 July: gov.wales/agricultural-tenan…
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Stuart Goodall@StuGood310 Apr 2019
Exciting call for action from @forestsandwood on 🌲 🌳 planting to tackle #climatechange English and Welsh Govts need to up their game... big time! @blackgull @ttjonline @Forestry_UK @FORESTEUROPE @FAOForestry
Confor (@forestsandwood) profile pictureConfor@forestsandwood10 Apr 2019
Time to #ThinkGlobalPlantLocal “Climate change is the biggest challenge for us all; politicians must raise their game, not set a low bar then fail to get over it." Confor sets "ambitious, realistic" planting targets to 2030 to help tackle #climatechange confor.org.uk/media/247361/w…
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@CNN6 Apr 2019
The last time carbon dioxide levels were this high, Greenland was mostly green, sea levels were up to 20 meters higher and trees grew on Antarctica. That was 2.6-5.3 million years ago. cnn.it/2Kec68Y
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Andrew Heald@andyheald22 Mar 2019
Imagine being a forester and getting paid $100 a tonne for your Carbon .... imagine if that captured carbon was used in construction instead of CO2 emitting material like concrete.... – at Edinburgh, Scotland
Jos Cozijnsen (@timbales) profile pictureJos Cozijnsen@timbales22 Mar 2019
Canada B.C.’s Carbon Engineering secures $68-million to commercialize direct CO2-capture technology. The company says its technology costs less than $100 a tonne. Reusing or storing it brings down cost further. @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/business…
B.C.’s Carbon Engineering secures $68-million to commercialize CO2-removal technology

B.C.’s Carbon Engineering secures $68-million to commercialize CO2-removal technology

Chief executive Steve Oldham said in an interview that Carbon Engineering is in negotiations with five to 10 unidentified large companies around the world that would build their own carbon-capture...

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Andrew Heald@andyheald21 Mar 2019
On the #internationaldayofforests this is an excellent article about how we can move to a low #carbon future. More trees & more forests of all types are urgently needed. 🌳🌲🌳🌲 – at Edinburgh, Scotland
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@newscientist17 Mar 2019
Our wooden future: making cars, skyscrapers and even lasers from wood bit.ly/2TQvSLz
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At the farm level, Caro wants to see more fruit trees. At the landscape level, she wants to see less soil erosion and degraded land. Overall, she thinks in the future we should produce more food on less land. #AfricaClimateWeek
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Belonging is what people crave in an ever-more divided society. Can increasing their ownership of assets achieve this? thealternative.org.uk/dailya… #UBI @dagdetter @theRSAorg @ProSyn @francesca_bria
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Riverford@Riverford19 Mar 2019
3 corporations sell 75% of the worlds seed. But for Fred Groom of @VitalSeedsUK, saving and sharing seed is at the very heart of life itself and nature’s ability to evolve. Read more this #SeedWeek on #WickedLeeks. @GaiaFoundation wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/…
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Carbon Brief
@CarbonBrief12 Mar 2019
An investigation by @UE has revealed that the oil and gas major BP successfully lobbied the Trump administration to roll back key climate regulations preventing methane emissions, despite claiming publicly to support the Paris Agreement. | @lawrencecarter1 unearthed.greenpeace.org/201…
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#KingArthur, the Mabinogion and #Wales’ Legendary Landscapes by @NLWales bit.ly/2yl3fe6
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Tessy Britton@TessyBritton19 Feb 2019
"Stop shouting 'future' - start doing it". Anab Jain of Superflux in praise of "alternative trajectories” ♥ @anabjain thealternative.org.uk/dailya…
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Shirt@SHIRTNYC7 Feb 2019
My boy blew up a note left by Chief Technology Officer @dpatil of Obama White House to poster size for his office and he doesn’t even know that’s art
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A way to remember deep time (via @imgur)
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Simon Donner@simondonner19 Jan 2019
Australia has to keep adding colours to its temperature maps. Pretty soon it'll just be a flame emoji.
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2nd Year in a row that Extreme Weather Events, Failure of Climate Change mitigation and adaptation, and Natural Disasters, are among the Top Five Global Risks. Time to Act as a World Community www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Gl…
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