Alex Rafalowicz @alexraf.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Brazil 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. 122
Alex Rafalowicz @alexraf.bsky.social · 22/08/2025🇨🇴 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. 011
Alex Rafalowicz @alexraf.bsky.social · 22/08/2025You 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. 110
Alex Rafalowicz @alexraf.bsky.social · 22/08/2025For 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. 100
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 · 03/07/2025And 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/gWHGfET8lnkd.inLinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn 030
Alex Rafalowicz @alexraf.bsky.social · 03/07/2025The 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.lnkd.inLinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn 110
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
Alex Rafalowicz @alexraf.bsky.social · 27/05/2025We did it @rohanconnolly65.bsky.social ! Blueskeets work. 000
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. 7234171558
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
Alex Rafalowicz @alexraf.bsky.social · 01/05/2025No 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? 000
Alex Rafalowicz @alexraf.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Colombia also has the gotta vote at the specific polling stations place thing just in case you start a count 100
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 · 24/03/2025Local (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 000
Alex Rafalowicz @alexraf.bsky.social · 24/03/2025From 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 000
Alex Rafalowicz @alexraf.bsky.social · 24/03/2025From 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 100
Alex Rafalowicz @alexraf.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Speaking 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 010
Alex Rafalowicz @alexraf.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Keynote from @ssteingraber1.bsky.social highlights that fracking brings the “murder” caused by the “serial killer” of fossil fuel driven air pollution to a greater scale all along the supply chain - so now children living within 12km of oil and gas are at increased risk of lukemia. 100
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
Alex Rafalowicz @alexraf.bsky.social · 22/03/2025This has a pretty good breakdown of the methodology on those lists and why Nordics (it just means income) but looking at subjective experience of emotions it’s probably Colombia - science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-...science.howstuffworks.comColombia, Not Finland, May Be the Happiest Country in the WorldThe Scandinavian countries tend to come out on top in the World Happiness Report. But the report doesn't actually ask participants if they're happy. When that question is included, the country ranking... 192
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 · 10/03/2025Burying the lede here a bit… no lawful authority to detain him or revoke his residency (not of the university but of the United States) and his location has not been shared with his family or lawyer. 010
Alex Rafalowicz @alexraf.bsky.social · 06/03/2025When you say clearer do you mean - it’s clearly obvious how we would do it if we wanted to? Rather than… the path we are clearly taking because I feel we’re on road 2 right now and that elites are prioritizing AGI 000
Alex Rafalowicz @alexraf.bsky.social · 01/03/2025This is mad! What you said… but also trans “issues” rather than “rights” has been “less consequential”? To who?! 190
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 · 11/02/2025But it does indicate there is a need for more focussed plurinational cooperation with more specific requirements and standards and the @fossiltreaty.bsky.social proposal is one example of this, particularly focussed on one of climate breakdowns biggest drivers - coal, oil and gas. 010
Alex Rafalowicz @alexraf.bsky.social · 11/02/2025The NDC process is essential and reflects a key element of the Paris system, the universal climate forum that must be supported, reinforced and implemented. As can be seen the lack of rules and structure for NDCs leads to a great diversity of approaches and issues. This is ok as umbrella system 100
Alex Rafalowicz @alexraf.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Some cracks of hope with Brazil wanting an “international schedule for transitioning away from fossil fuels” and the UK promising to consult on “no new contracts” 100
Alex Rafalowicz @alexraf.bsky.social · 11/02/2025It’s also not only disappointing in terms of process but also the substance of those who have submitted is far far off what we need. 100
Alex Rafalowicz @alexraf.bsky.social · 11/02/2025I think it also reflects the disastrously weak Baku outcome which indicates there is unlikely to be sufficient resources to back next round of goals in the global south 100
Alex Rafalowicz @alexraf.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Basically it’s always been a soft deadline and these are first drafts so it’s not surprising but it is disappointing. 100
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