Alex Rafalowicz @alexraf.bsky.social · 22/08/2025It’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. 220
Alex Rafalowicz @alexraf.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Huge 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"lnkd.inLinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn 111
Reposted by Alex RafalowiczDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/06/2025I got 99 reasons to plant trees, but carbon offsetting ain't one.apnews.comWant to plant trees to offset fossil fuels? You'd need all of North and Central America, study findsPlanting trees can help save the planet, right? A new study finds that to offset all the planet-warming carbon emissions from fossil fuel reserves, trees would have to entirely cover an area the size ... 818427
Reposted by Alex RafalowiczFossil Fuel Treaty Initiative @fossiltreaty.bsky.social · 19/06/2025🇰🇳 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? 33622
Reposted by Alex RafalowiczFossil Fuel Treaty Initiative @fossiltreaty.bsky.social · 05/06/2025🔊 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. 🎶🌍 34925
Reposted by Alex RafalowiczKate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Equally 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. 03828
Reposted by Alex RafalowiczRecourse @re-course.org · 26/05/2025The 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. 101
Reposted by Alex RafalowiczOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/05/2025"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...huffpost.com'Indiscriminate, Unrestrained, Brutal': Former Israeli PM Calls Gaza Assault 'War Crimes'"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination," former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wrote in an op-ed aimed at Israeli citizens. 7234191558
Alex Rafalowicz @alexraf.bsky.social · 26/05/2025If 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 110
Reposted by Alex RafalowiczAmy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 15/05/2025A 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...drilled.mediaIn Colombia, Chevron has a habit of buying carbon credits from projects made behind indigenous people’s backs.Leaders of the Cotuhé Putumayo indigenous reservation, in the Colombian Amazon, say that they do not know about the carbon credit project taking place in their land, which has sold more than 3 million... 211372
Alex Rafalowicz @alexraf.bsky.social · 08/05/2025fossilfueltreaty.org/australian-e...fossilfueltreaty.orgPacific leaders urge reelected Albanese to lead with climate solidarity ahead of COP31 — The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty InitiativePacific government leaders and civil society respond to the outcome of the 2025 Australian election, looking ahead to a possible COP31 hosted in the region, creating the opportunity and urgent need fo... 120
Reposted by Alex RafalowiczAmanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 09/04/2025We’re hiring a climate reporter to cover Latin America! Details here:bloomberg.avature.netLatin America Climate Reporter 05038
Reposted by Alex RafalowiczAntonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 04/04/2025HUGE 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...nola.comJury orders Chevron to pay $745 million for Louisiana coastal damage in landmark trialThe jury delivered its verdict in the landmark case, which sought to make Chevron pay to restore an area of coastal wetlands near Bayou Gentilly. 623584
Reposted by Alex RafalowiczAdam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Arctic 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...nsidc.orgSpring is in the airArctic sea ice extent for March set a record low in the 47-year satellite data record. Extent was below average everywhere except the East Greenland Sea. 02525
Alex Rafalowicz @alexraf.bsky.social · 02/04/2025At 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 000
Alex Rafalowicz @alexraf.bsky.social · 26/03/2025A 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! 010
Alex Rafalowicz @alexraf.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Kicking off our formal side event at the @who.int conference on clean air and health that focuses on listening to frontline and fence line voices on the health risk posed by fracking and fossil fuel extraction generally 300
Reposted by Alex RafalowiczGlen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Q: Should Norway included LULUCF (land sink) in its new NDC (climate target)? A: Only as a separate target Why should LULUCF be separated, particularly in countries with large sinks? I explain for Norway, but the lessons are general. @klimastiftelsen.no www.linkedin.com/pulse/should... 1229
Alex Rafalowicz @alexraf.bsky.social · 28/02/2025If after the trump-Zelensky presser the pope dies today do we just assume that satan is a real thing and is winning? 000
Reposted by Alex RafalowiczDr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Will there ever be any accountability for the private-entity CDR boosters? Haha, sorry. I know I'm being silly. Of course there won't be. 0285
Alex Rafalowicz @alexraf.bsky.social · 19/02/2025very much this. the threat of fossil fuels is existential not only to the biosphere but to our human systems too. they literally poison everything they come into contact with. 010
Alex Rafalowicz @alexraf.bsky.social · 19/02/2025personally I’m looking forward to the obscenely sexy m&m coming back 000
Reposted by Alex RafalowiczTessa Khan @tessakhan.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Uplift is hiring! We have an amazing opportunity for someone with a policy and/or legal background to join our team at a crucial time for the future of oil, gas and just transition policy (and politics) in the UK. Feel free to DM with questions www.environmentjob.co.uk/jobs/104719-...environmentjob.co.ukLegal and Policy AdviserWe are currently looking for a Legal and Policy Adviser to join our growing team to drive forward our strategic legal and policy advocacy. This is an exciting opportunity to help build an ambitious ..... 064
Alex Rafalowicz @alexraf.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Had the chance yesterday to offer some reflections on why so few countries have submitted NDCS (Paris climate goals) when the deadline was this week -https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/most-countries-miss-un-climate-plan-deadline-as-fears-over-trump-effect-on-global-diplomacy-grow-1.7455310 210
Reposted by Alex RafalowiczNick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 08/02/2025This opaque and secretive system that’s now being seen as a scam even by the farmers underpins our only legislated emissions reduction program btw. Great reporting: www.theage.com.au/national/par...theage.com.au‘Parasites’, ‘cowboys’: The carbon companies dividing rural AustraliaCarbon developers descended on rural Australia 10 years ago promising big money and an easy fix to complex problems. Today, farmers are crying foul. 14222
Alex Rafalowicz @alexraf.bsky.social · 07/02/2025This misprojection continues to be true year on year. Sadly fossil fuel emissions peaks continues to be a year away. Evrry year. 2024 was the year with highest coal consumption in history. We have to tackle fossil fuel use head on and not hope RE will displace them as a matter of course. 100
Reposted by Alex RafalowiczRichard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 30/01/2025The Southern Environmental Law Center attorney quoted in this article is correct. Burning trees for power *increases* CO2 in the atmosphere for *decades* relative to burning fossil fuels. Cutting down trees in the US, shipping the wood to Europe, and burning it there accelerates climate change. 🧪wri.orgINSIDER: Why Burning Trees for Energy Harms the ClimateTrees are renewable, so why not let them count under the proposed revisions to the EU renewable energy target? Here we answer this and other questions to demonstrate why burning trees for energy is no... 911942
Alex Rafalowicz @alexraf.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Important news from the UK with a court requiring the climate impact of new fossil fuel fields to be taken into account, and the Gov including a reference to consultations on ending new licences in their NDC/Paris goal. Progress on ending the expansion of this deadly industry. Read more 👇 111
Reposted by Alex RafalowiczStop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · 30/01/2025BREAKING 🚨: WE WON OUR CASE AGAINST ROSEBANK. The court has ruled the oil field UNLAWFUL and Rosebank’s approval has been overturned. This is a monumental victory in the fight for a liveable future for all. 8733871034
Reposted by Alex RafalowiczAndreas Sieber @andreassieber.bsky.social · 29/01/2025🧵1/X #Switzerland has a new #climate target as the basis for their #NDC How good or bad is it? Rather bad, here is why - thoughts and comments welcome! www.admin.ch/gov/en/start... #UNFCCC #COP30admin.chClimate: Federal Council approves new reduction targets under the Paris AgreementCurrent information from the Federal Administration. All press releases from the Federal Administration, the departments and offices. 1137
Alex Rafalowicz @alexraf.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Nothing is funny about this but the idea that “party membership” would be a determinable fact (the ‘party’ doesn’t even legally exist every second day here) is amusing to me personally… 000
Reposted by Alex RafalowiczBasav @basavsen.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Claims that US LNG exports can be good for the climate by replacing coal (or more methane-intensive LNG sources) are greenwashing. Plus, they don't account for how US LNG can crowd out a transition from gas to renewables/electrification in importing countries. 0105
Alex Rafalowicz @alexraf.bsky.social · 20/01/2025The US withdrawal from Paris (again) is not an anomaly (not like global temps and sea ice coverage). It’s the norm. The country consistently refuses and rejects international law that would constrain its elites’ interests. Doesn’t mean we don’t need more and better international law. 012
Alex Rafalowicz @alexraf.bsky.social · 17/01/2025the acceleration of warming is frightening but also really reinforces that every gram of carbon we can keep out of the atmosphere counts 010
Reposted by Alex RafalowiczAndreas Sieber @andreassieber.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Here an overall overview from their NDC for conditional and unconditional budgeting. Overall, we are still drastically underestimating the support needs for the energy transition - see e.g. here www.nature.com/articles/s44... 041
Alex Rafalowicz @alexraf.bsky.social · 18/12/2024As the #ICJ asks a question directly about fossil fuel production and now with this news - there’s reason to hope on climate justice in 2025! 010
Alex Rafalowicz @alexraf.bsky.social · 07/12/2024This is a good thread. It’s also been extremely important the extent to which particularly ocean states / island states have focussed on the risk to self-determination that climate change presents as well as broader human rights impacts which would ground a need for reparation and repair. 110
Reposted by Alex RafalowiczMark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Proud to have signed open letter to world leaders, along with @doctorvive.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com @michaelemann.bsky.social and others, calling for global plan to phase out fossil fuels. Please join fossilfueltreaty.org/cop29-open-l...fossilfueltreaty.orgCOP29 Open Letter — The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty InitiativeLetter to world leaders calling for global plan to phase out fossil fuels: Scientists have issued a stark warning for decades: extracting fossil fuels threatens everything we love. 18234
Reposted by Alex RafalowiczSimon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 22/11/2024NEW TEXT at #COP29 confirms we won't get a decision on who hosts COP31 in 2026 until June next year, at the earliest Seems neither Australia nor Turkey are willing to step back from their bids www.carbonbrief.org/... 12814
Alex Rafalowicz @alexraf.bsky.social · 22/11/2024The new #cop29 text is out suggesting the global finance goal for climate action will be $250B by 2035… a colleague @powershiftafrica.bsky.social points out given inflation this is less than the 100B promised in 2009 in real terms. In real terms less money today for climate action is pretty fd 041