
Valerie Hickey
@valeriemhickey
@WorldBank Global Director Climate Change. The views are mine and are not positions of the WB. Retweets are not endorsements.
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14-07-2022 02:39:21
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Friends, #nature is on the last day of #COP29 because it bookends everything - we cannot bend the curve of emissions without nature; we cannot build resilience against the #ClimateCrisis without nature Join World Bank online or in person at #COP29Baku tomorrow Thursday for more

Amen sister! Romina Khurshid Alam from #Pakistan making a compelling call at #COP29 to stop using the term natural disasters Itās time to start being honest - these are all man-made disasters. And yes, I said man-made.


On #nature day at #COP29 Marina Silva reminds us that forests are more than shared carbon sinks & wood lots. They are home to millions and their hopes, dreams, livelihood ambitions & cultural riches Weāll never win the war on #climatechange without stopping the war on forests


The hardest working woman in environment Inger Andersen read a Robert Frost poem to call our attention to forests to #EndPoverty & combat the #ClimateCrisis World Bank Environment stands with you from #COP16 to #COP29 to #INC5 & #UNCCDCOP16 There are miles to go before we sleep



One of the privileges of my job is listening to smart people share their analysis to make the world a better place, #EndPoverty & build #climateresilience. Today Iām Bennett Institute University of Sussex , the university that sent the worldās first transatlantic email in 1973. Cool!


I rarely disagree with Jim Skea , but Bennett Institute he said āwithout a just transition, there wonāt be a transition at allā The truth is that the energy revolution will move forward even if people are left behind. Itās our job World Bank Climate to ensure that doesnāt happen


Iām an optimist by profession, but it can be hard, especially when I learn from Benjamin Sovacool Bennett Institute that in the UK, one in three households is in energy #poverty In the UK In 2025 We have to do more to #EndPoverty everywhere


Best metaphor Iāve heard about #Data by Ben Goldacre Bennett Institute event Itās like nuclear material, itās only powerful when concentrated and refined and qualitatively changed. And it can be used for good or bad. And when it does leak, it canāt be unleaked. Yikes!


On this #WorldWildlifeDay Iām proud that World Bank is making nature count for people and the planet. There will never be a world without poverty in a world without nature thedocs.worldbank.org/en/doc/d25335aā¦





Blended finance & derisking can change how attractive the fight for clean air is to the private sector. Nuru Lama, IFC Global Lead for Waste and Circularity is sharing examples Climate & Clean Air Coalition #NowWeCan conf about how this is working in #Brazil in the waste management sector


The brilliant Adalberto Maluf telling us not just that #NowWeCan during Climate & Clean Air Coalition meeting, but now we must tackle super-pollutants because pollution is destroying economic activity & hurting people, killing kids


So often discussions around super pollutants are highly exclusive terrain for scientists. That isnāt the spirit of Climate & Clean Air Coalition & #NowWeCan . Drew Shindell Duke Environment and #Nigeriaās Dr Nkiruka Chidia Maduekwe reminded us that bridging the science-policy-society divide matters



Whatās the first step on the ladder to #EndPoverty ? Access to affordable, reliable electricity Iām proud that World Bank is going to halve the number of Africans without electricity by 2030 Thatās 300m more people on their way into the middle class! blogs.worldbank.org/en/climatechanā¦