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Even though Trump took the popular vote while pledging to roll back the country’s landmark climate legislation, the overall results present a more complicated message. Exit polls show more Americans than ever prioritized climate change. And in several battleground states that backed Trump, Democratic senators who ran on environmental platforms also won their races. Across the country — in blue and red states alike — environmental ballot measures prevailed. So what exactly happened to the climate vote?

Should the U.N. measure the number of deaths from disasters, or the value of property destroyed in floods, or the incidence of hunger, or the availability of clean water? How will the international community determine the efficacy of adaptation measures like sea walls and drought-resistant crops, given that the disasters they prevent remain so unpredictable?

A new analysis found that nearly a dozen international finance institutions directed over $3 billion to animal agriculture in 2023. The majority of those funds — upwards of $2.27 billion —?came from development banks and went towards projects that support factory farming, a practice that contributes to greenhouse gas emissions as well as biodiversity loss. The researchers behind the analysis are calling on the development banks?to scrutinize the climate and environmental impacts of the projects they fund, especially in light of the World Bank’s climate pledges. The story here: https://lnkd.in/d4kAHKUH

New from Grist Introducing ‘anti-COP’: A climate summit for activists who are fed up "Last week’s event was a byproduct of the sentiment that, after almost 30 years, COPs are doing too little to address runaway greenhouse gas emissions. Even the former head of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which governs the annual meeting, has called the whirlwind events — which attracts everyone from heads of states to oil industry lobbyists — “distracting.” https://lnkd.in/etTAJHTb #COP29 #Climate

If offshore wind can take off anywhere, it’s New England, whose waters provide the highest wind capacity factor (the amount of energy a turbine can produce over time) in the continental U.S. But the election of Donald Trump could arrest the region’s momentum before it has had a genuine chance to take off. Trump has made a point of demonizing the technology. However, there is growing support in the region from a somewhat unlikely corner: New England’s industrial unions, a group of whom published a report last week outlining an ambitious vision for supplying the region with not only offshore wind turbines but a locally based industrial manufacturing base to support it. “This entire industry that we’re trying to get launched has thousands and thousands of job opportunities," aid Patrick Crowley, the president of the Rhode Island AFL-CIO.

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Human-made climate change made all of this season’s 11 hurricanes — from Beryl to Rafael — much worse, according to an analysis released on Wednesday from the nonprofit science group Climate Central. In a companion study also released Wednesday, Climate Central found that between 2019 and 2023, climate change accelerated hurricane wind speeds by an average of 18 mph. An 18 mph boost in wind speeds might not sound like much, but that can mean the difference between a Category 4 and a Category 5, which packs sustained winds of 157 mph or higher. Click the link in our bio to learn more about the new research. The hotter the planet gets overall, and the hotter the Atlantic Ocean gets specifically, the more monstrous hurricanes will grow. https://lnkd.in/gGPdU_BN

Here is our latest. Our fall short story collection features brand new climate fiction envisioning futures in which cities are built in harmony with nature, farms revitalize a scorched Earth, and electric cars are just one element of a society that values sustainability and restoration. These stories, handpicked by our contest editors, bring climate fiction into new genres like magical realism, and bring hope into even the most dire scenarios. https://lnkd.in/eH8DTmFW #Fiction #Literature #solarpunk #Stories

The US no longer supports capping plastic production in UN treaty. by Grist Environmental advocates understand the announcement as a reversal, calling it “absolutely devastating.” https://lnkd.in/eWW7MZ9U #plastic #pollution #climate #EJ

‘Praying for rain’: How New York farmers are dealing with drought — and unexpected brush fires The dry weather in the Hudson Valley speaks to the difficulty of growing food on a warming planet. https://lnkd.in/ee4AkEax #Wildfires #NewYork #NY #Farmers