Brazil has the opportunity to bring these issues together in their high level dialogues and action agenda. Unfortunately their focus currently seems primarily on the TFFF and also on granting licences for exploration at the Amazon mouth so more international pressure is required.
🇨🇴 I was a proud Colombian to see how my government tried to bring the issue to the fore. It now rests in the hands of Brazil as Cop30 host to find a way to force international attention onto the most significant driver of risk to the Amazon and the climate crisis - expansion of fossil fuels.
You can see our full reaction here. -https://lnkd.in/g254-xK2
A mix of recognizing the historic advance but also the historic missed opportunity and the potential costs that poses.
For me it was an honour to join many Indigenous and non-Indigenous allies from the Assembly for An Amazon Free of Fossil Fuels in advocating for the worlds first extraction and fossil fuel exclusion zone - in the formal dialogues, to the International Parliamentary Inquiry, and in public meetings.
It’s been a huge week in Bogotá for the Amazon Summit. The decision to adopt the Mechanism for Amazonian Indigenous Peoples participation (MAPI for its acronym in Spanish) to bring Indigenous nations into the formal governance structure of the Amazon Treaty is historic.
And to the team who helped make our submission particularly Rebecca Byrnes and Rohan Nanthakumar and allies at Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)
The court's decision in Spanish is here: lnkd.in/gq6mgpzY
Our submission- lnkd.in/gWHGfET8
The Court also noted the efforts by states to develop a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative and Plastics Treaty.
Huge congratulations to all the movements across the world that have made what seems obvious now a much clearer norm in international law.
Huge news from the InterAmerican Court. So much to process in the 300+ pages but the finding is clear and should send a message across the Americas and the world
"States are obliged to... supervise and control, as a minimum the exploration, extraction, transport and processing of fossil fuels"
I got 99 reasons to plant trees, but carbon offsetting ain't one.
🇰🇳 It's official—St. Kitts and Nevis has become the 17th nation to back the proposal for a Fossil Fuel Treaty 🔥
🗣️ Tell us in the comments: which countries do you want to see participating next?
🔊 BREAKING NEWS!
In a historic moment, @mayorofgm.bsky.social and Massive Attack came together at a sold-out concert in Manchester to endorse the #FossilFuelTreaty on #WorldEnvironmentDay.
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Equally shitty is that this is also true at fossil fuel extraction sites: so many missing & murdered Indigenous women, in particular, have disappeared in proximity to "man camps" for oil & gas mining.
We did it @rohanconnolly65.bsky.social ! Blueskeets work.
The African Development Bank did not approve any direct funding for fossil fuel projects in 2024, but its failure to exclude #FossilGas leaves the door open for backsliding.
Continued investment in gas risks locking #African countries into stranded assets, energy insecurity, and inequality.
"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,” [former Prime Minister Olmert] said."
www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...
If the club “exists to win premierships” it has to ask how it’s working toward that goal with current setup. Deluded if they think Ins post bye will make a difference. I think they’ve missed a trick by not putting Marshall on long term injury list and going to MSD. Connected to Ken imo
A wild carbon credit boondoggle in which Chevron bought credits for a project on Indigenous land that residents didn't (and still don't) know anything about, painstakingly documented by the great Andres Bermudez-Lievano @elclip.bsky.social @mongabaylatam.bsky.social
drilled.media/news/CLIP-Ch...
No one says they will be phased out on current policies. Don’t rational people (and those not paid by petrostates) look at the climate crisis and say - therefore we should change those policies in order to phase out them out. Proposing any other course of action is hard to reconcile with reality?
Colombia also has the gotta vote at the specific polling stations place thing just in case you start a count
We’re hiring a climate reporter to cover Latin America! Details here:
HUGE verdict in Louisiana with significant implications for oil majors. BREAKING: Jury orders Chevron to pay $745 million in damages in landmark Louisiana coastal damage lawsuit.
www.nola.com/news/environ...
Arctic sea ice extent for March set a record low since satellite monitoring started 47 years ago
The amount of ice "missing", compared to 1979, is an area the size of Alaska!
March is when Arctic sea ice extent hits its maximum, before declining to minimum, usually Sept
nsidc.org/sea-ice-toda...
At the fourth assembly on an Amazon free of fossil fuels - leaders from Indigenous nations across the Amazon sharing stories of their resistance to the industry of death and their wisdom and traditions of life. Three more days of sharing, building relations and political planning to come
A great start to an historic event in Cartagena. Intersections btwn clean air, human health and our energy systems have never been clearer. We face a real cross roads on public priorities - we can keep paying our own public money to burn our lungs and our climate or we can choose the side of life!
Local (not far!) activists from Cesar Sin Fracking emphasise that their struggle is part of a global effort and a feminist effort to define a just energy transition and that every breath they take is an ecological and a political act
From the “belly of the beast” John Beard Jnr from Port Arthur and home of the US’s biggest refineries highlights the downstream impact of fracked gas. Poisoned air, high cancer rates, and a decimated local economy. Every step of the process harms human life and human health
From Mexico Carla Flores Lot raises the risk to agriculture and food sovereignty from fracking but also the poisoning of the political system where despite two popular mandates and congressional majorities the practice has not been prohibited
Speaking from Argentina @fernandocabrera.bsky.social says it’s not only air pollution. what’s officially called “water consumption” in Vaca Muerta - is the pollution, waste and theft of public waters on a grand scale to push an export led growth scheme which has not worked for the community so far
