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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
“A much clearer link now needs to be made to environmental taxation and climate change, with clearer agreements on the actions that must be taken, nationally and internationally, particularly for the countries and industries who are most responsible.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Fossil fuel firms may have to pay for climate damage under proposed UN tax
Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation could also force ultra-rich to pay global wealth tax
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Looking forward to exploring this important work on New Economies for Eradicating Poverty led by Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. www.neep-poverty.org
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New Economies for Eradicating Poverty (NEEP)
New Economies for Eradicating Poverty (NEEP) is an initiative led by the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter, to move the world away from destructive economi...
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
“If current rates of biodiversity loss continue, every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse.. There is a realistic possibility that trends to date mean we have unknowingly crossed thresholds already..” UK Gov publish biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security assessment
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Kumi Naidoo @kuminaidoo.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
2026 opens w/ clear eyes and stubborn hope. Even as democracy is attacked and climate action delayed, solidarity, imagination, and people-power are rising. From frontline leadership to a million voices demanding an end to fossil fuel expansion—this belongs to all of us. ✊🌍 @fossiltreaty.bsky.social
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Breaking climate limits is not a neutral act and will inevitably lead to dangerous climate tipping points. This moment should trigger a tipping point in our approach to climate action. A critical window to reset ambition, to address root causes, and to put people at the centre of our approach.
jrnl.ie
Climate tipping point will be reached by the end of this decade, Copernicus institute warns
2025 was the third-warmest year on record
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
“More than 80 countries signalled their support for a global fossil fuel phaseout plan at COP30 last November. This weekend’s events should be a nudge to them all to get to work this January and start drafting emergency plans to implement this.“
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Venezuela crisis underlines urgency of ditching oil & gas
Trump’s actions show why rapid fossil fuel phaseout is critical for global peace and security
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
“Ireland had its warmest spring and summer since 1900 last year, according to Met Éireann, and its overall second warmest year on record. The last four years - 2022 to 2025 - are now the top four warmest years on record in Ireland.” jrnl.ie/6919300
jrnl.ie
Ireland had its warmest spring and summer since 1900 last year
As Ireland grows warmer, it is forecast to face increasingly turbulent weather.
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Norway to examine scenarios for post-oil economy "We are now beginning to write the final chapter in Norway's oil history, and paving the way for all the new adventures that will make Norway progress” www.rte.ie/news/busines...
rte.ie
Norway to examine scenarios for post-oil economy
Norway said today it will set up a commission to study potential scenarios for the country's post-oil economy, a commitment the Greens Party secured in exchange for backing the government's 2026 budge...
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
“Europe’s drying trend will have “far-reaching” impacts, hitting food security, farming and water-dependent ecosystems, especially groundwater-fed habitats..” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Thanks to @sioldridge.bsky.social @nickoldridge.bsky.social & the team for their monumental efforts in pulling together yesterday’s National Emergency Briefing www.nebriefing.org on climate change. Thanks also go to those MPs, journalists & others who attended. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Scientists warn of severe climate-related risks to UK economy and security
Experts lay out scale of changes needed in ‘first-of-its-kind national emergency briefing’ in Westminster
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Tessa Khan @tessakhan.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Huge news from the UK today: after UN climate talks in which there was a massive fight over language on fossil fuels, the UK government today announced that it will in fact be keeping many millions of barrels of oil & gas in the ground. Deeds rather than just words for a change! 🧵
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Big development as the UK government rules out any new North Sea oil and gas exploration. A decision which recognises the ongoing movement away from fossil fuels and underscores the urgency of managing the transition in a planned and just way. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6926de...
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
‘Inequality is damaging our society, so you can’t act on the climate crisis and ignore inequality. For us, it’s about combining community and wellbeing with climate action.” www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
irishtimes.com
How one football club is taking climate action into its own hands
‘Inequality is damaging our society, so you can’t act on the climate crisis and ignore this’
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
The story of the climate crisis told in two numbers: $2.5 billion a day in direct subsidies to fossil fuels companies. 1440 deaths per day from extreme heat. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals
Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year because of failure to tackle climate crisis
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
“I will be a president who listens & who reflects & who speaks when it's necessary & a voice for peace..A voice that articulates the existential threat posed by climate change and … that recognises the tremendous work being done, the length & breadth of the country” Comhghairdeas Catherine Connolly
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Catherine Connolly delivers speech after officially becoming Ireland’s 10th president
YouTube video by The Journal
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
“The world is stalling on progress to limit warming to 1.5°C, with none of the 45 indicators of climate action on track for 2030. All systems are flashing red.” It is increasingly difficult to comprehend the retreat in the prioritisation of climate action when this is the context we are facing.
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RELEASE: No Sector on Track to Meet Global Climate Goals, State of Climate Action 2025 Finds
WASHINGTON (October 22, 2025) – A major new assessment finds that the world is stalling on progress to limit warming to 1.5°C, with none of the 45 indicators of climate action on track for 2030.
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere soared by a record amount in 2024 to the highest ever. Scientists warn of 3 key concerns: Unrelenting fossil fuel burning Wildfires surging in a record-hot year and releasing Co2 Nature’s carbon sinks may be failing #ClimateCrisis
theguardian.com
Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating
CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
“Water quality has declined across rivers, lakes and estuaries… the EPA has warned that it means Ireland is on track to fail to meet national and EU goals for water quality in the next two years.” jrnl.ie/6843246
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Ireland's water quality is declining, with pesticides, drainage and sewage making it worse
Nearly half of Ireland’s surface waters were of bad, poor or moderate status between 2019 and 2024.
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
“We tell our children each night that the world hasn’t forgotten them, they are watching your boats coming and we are telling them stories of this, that while this genocide happened people from the world were sailing, because they love Palestinian people”. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
irishexaminer.com
Sarah Clancy: Flotillas show that ordinary people must be the antidote to toxic world powers
After arrest, imprisonment, and deportation from Israel, Sarah Clancy, an Irish Gaza flotilla participant, reflects on solidarity, conscience, and the power of ordinary people
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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
A tragic loss. Manchán has helped us define a different kind of relationship with nature based on our language and traditions. RIP.
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
“Although global GDP doubled between 2000 and 2022 … only modest improvements were achieved in reducing social shortfalls worldwide, whereas ecological overshoot increased rapidly, disrupting the critical planetary processes on which all life depends.“ @doughnuteconomics.bsky.social
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
“Every September, the Civil Contingencies Agency runs Preparedness Week, educating the public on preparing for emergencies… Voluntary civil defence groups receive ongoing basic training in first aid, food handling, language skills and flood management.” www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
irishtimes.com
Ella McSweeney: After Storm Éowyn, Ireland must do what Sweden did 20 years ago
Storm Gudrun shocked the Nordic country into building a new, climate-proofed power grid. Will Ireland follow suit?
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Dublin's Metrolink project has been granted planning permission jrnl.ie/6832816
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Dublin's Metrolink project has (finally) been granted planning permission
The 18.8km route will connect Dublin Airport to the city centre.
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Kate Raworth @kateraworth.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Big Doughnutty News. Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Drilled @drilledmedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
In this week's episode, we dig into the psychology of mis/disinformation and why it works so well. We thought we knew a lot about disinformation, and then we talked to these experts! drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
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S14, Ep3 | The Psychology of Misinformation: Why Does It Work So Well?
Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
‘Solar power is reshaping economies, industrial systems and geopolitics, largely under the radar of mainstream debate. We are living through an energy transition that, for once, feels exponential rather than incremental.’ @hannahdaly.ie www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
irishtimes.com
Let the sun shine: solar is fast becoming the world’s new energy superpower
Solar power is reshaping economies, industrial systems and geopolitics
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
“We are on a path to breach the 1.5°C multi-decadal boundary within the next 5 to 10 years. Here, we must admit failure. Failure to protect peoples and nations from unmanageable impacts of human-induced climate change. But we don’t have to keep failing… Failure is not inevitable. It is a choice.”
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The window to a manageable climate future is still open. Failure isn't inevitable. It's a choice.
This week I had the honor of addressing heads of state, ministers and world leaders at the UN Secretary General’s Climate Summit during the United Nations General Assembly High-level Week 2025 in New ...
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
“Countries are now collectively planning even more fossil fuel production than 2 years ago, with projected 2030 production exceeding levels consistent with limiting warming to 1.5°C by more than 120%.” productiongap.org/wp-content/u...
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
A long term vision, creating the conditions for change and society wide engagement… www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
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He got an entire country running on clean energy. Can he do it again?
Ramón Méndez Galain helped Uruguay decarbonize its grid in just five years, with 98 percent of its energy coming from renewable sources.
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
“From innovations in the financial sector to community-scale organizations, pockets of bold and ambitious action are already emerging. It is only by helping them to flourish that we might better face up to life in a harsher and less predictable world.” www.chathamhouse.org/publications...
chathamhouse.org
Are we ready for life beyond 1.5°C of global warming?
We are on the verge of crossing the threshold set out in the Paris Climate Agreement. David Gunn and Matthew Harris explore the ideas that may help us navigate a world of more frequent and severe clim...
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
“These numbers represent real people who have lost their lives,” said Friederike Otto, a co-author of the study. “If we continue on the path that we are now — continue burning fossil fuels — these deaths will only increase.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Climate Change Led to At Least 16,500 Heat Deaths in Europe This Summer
A new study tracked the effects of higher temperatures in hundreds of European cities.
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
“Almost 1,500 hectares of land is now being managed by 250 farmers and landowners to conserve the corncrake.” Irish corncrake numbers have increased by a fifth, while breeding territories for the endangered bird have increased substantially www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
irishtimes.com
Surge in Irish corncrake numbers and in breeding territories, survey shows
Farming community key to success in recovery of bird threatened with local extinction
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
“1-in-5 children live in families below the poverty line when housing costs are accounted for… This rate is largely unchanged in recent years and differs little from that seen from 2007 to 2009 when the financial crisis was unfolding.” www.tcd.ie/news_events/...
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Child poverty at similar levels to financial crisis when housing costs accounted for
The latest ESRI report on child poverty was co-authored by Trinity economists Barra Roantree, Mide Griffin, and Tara Mitchell.
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Ireland’s climate transition should not only address emissions, but also existing inequalities. We have a unique opportunity to harness the climate transformation ahead to deliver better, safer and fairer futures for everyone. Some great inspiration here:
irishtimes.com
10 ways to make Dublin better: From public baths to scrapping gated communities
Open schoolyards at weekends, softer lighting and more places to sit down would help
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
“Provisional Met Éireann data shows that summer 2025 is the warmest on record since 1900, when this temperature dataset began…Future projections show that summer temperatures are expected to continue increasing under moderate and high emission scenarios.” jrnl.ie/6806023
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
“We have to change the way people think about oil, gas and coal, which are responsible for 86% of the CO2 emissions that are trapped in our atmosphere. The world is on track to produce 110% more oil, gas and coal by 2030 than we can ever burn if we want to keep global warming below 2C…”
theguardian.com
‘Every company wants to produce the last barrel sold’: the treaty to stop fossil fuel production
Tzeporah Berman’s campaign group believes Cop30 will help its initiative to phase out oil, coal and gas take shape
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
“When the AMOC collapses, the Northwestern European climate changes drastically and this will likely induce severe societal impacts.” Rapid climate action is needed to avoid the increasing risk of a climate transition that is by disaster rather than by design.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Physics‐Based Indicators for the Onset of an AMOC Collapse Under Climate Change
Multiple AMOC collapses are simulated in the CESM under transient climate change scenarios A physics-based indicator derived from surface buoyancy fluxes is proposed for the onset of an AMOC coll...
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
“The faster our world heats up, the faster the divide between the cooled and the cooked will widen. Ultimately, it is symptomatic of the larger injustice of the climate crisis, which is that the people who have done the least to cause it are the ones who will suffer the most from its impacts.”
nytimes.com
Opinion | The New American Inequality: The Cooled vs. the Cooked
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 23/08/2025
Blackwater mass fish kill confirmed as due to pollution incident
irishtimes.com
Blackwater mass fish kill confirmed as due to pollution incident
Marine Institute experts are not yet able to identify chemical involved in Co Cork incident or where it came from
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Hundreds of people have died in Pakistan from deadly flooding. Rising temperatures due to burning fossil fuels allow the atmosphere to hold more moisture, leading to heavier downpours during storms. Pakistan is responsible for less than 1% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
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Monsoon floods kill more than 700 in Pakistan, with heavy rains set to continue
Heavy monsoon rains and flash floods have killed at least 739 people across Pakistan since late June, displacing thousands and destroying homes and crops, with more severe weather expected in the week...
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Storm Éowyn was most expensive weather event in history for Irish insurers, costing €301m Breakdown of figures shows 33,768 claims were lodged following storm #ClimateRisk www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
irishtimes.com
Storm Éowyn was most expensive weather event in history for Irish insurers, costing €301m
Breakdown of figures shows 33,768 claims were lodged following storm
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
“Fossil fuels accounted for 81.4 per cent of overall Irish energy consumption last year, an increase of 0.7 per cent on 2023.” Unless the increase in renewable energy is permanently displacing fossil fuels, it is not a climate transition. www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
irishtimes.com
Ireland relied on fossil fuels for 80% of energy use in 2024
Ireland ranks eighth out of top 10 countries for renewable electricity use, Energy Institute report says
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
“The enormity of the yes vote said Ireland had changed. That people are kind...It benefitted everyone – that’s what fairness does. Everyone felt better for it. It made Ireland, society, feel more open, not just for same-sex couples. Being a fair and just society is good for everyone.“
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Paula Fagan: 'The marriage referendum was healing, being a fair and just society is good for everyone'
What a Difference a Day Makes: "...and the people in the house all shouting: ‘It’s a yes from us too’. It was just joy, to feel that support, no hesitation – ‘It’s a yes from us’."
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Commissioners of the Pan-European Commission on Climate and Health have issued an urgent open letter on extreme weather to the governments and health authorities of the WHO European Region. “This is no longer a distant threat..It is a public health emergency unfolding in real time.”
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Extreme weather events in the European Region are a health emergency not just a climate one
An open letter from the Pan-European Commission on Climate and Health
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
“This summer, like every summer now, has been exceptional in terms of extreme heat around the world….This is what climate change looks like, and it will only get worse.” Until we stop burning fossil fuels, climate change will continue to make the world more dangerous.
theguardian.com
Temperature records broken as extreme heat grips parts of Europe
Unprecedented temperatures causing difficulties in south-west France, Croatia, Italy and Spain with wildfire destruction across Europe up 87%
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
The recent ICJ Advisory Opinion on climate has been cited for the first time in a climate litigation case in South Africa, challenging the approval of an oil project. thegreenconnection.org.za/wp-content/u...
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
The AGCM also took issue with the retailer’s claims it would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25% by 2030 and reach zero emissions by 2050. These “vague” pledges .. “were contradicted by an actual increase in Shein’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2023 and 2024.”
jrnl.ie
Italy fines fast fashion giant Shein over 'green' claims
Claims about the recyclability of products “were found to be either false or at least confusing”.
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
“Unseasonably impactful weather is expected for Sunday night and into Monday as a deepening low pressure system, Storm Floris, will likely track to the northwest of Ireland bringing a spell of heavy rain and very strong winds.” www.met.ie/forecasts/me...
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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
An important development as the European Central Bank announces it is introducing a ‘climate factor’ to its collateral policy to address climate risks. Making access to finance increasingly dependent on climate disclosures and transition plans and making it harder to fund high-carbon assets.
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ECB to introduce 'climate factor' into lending operations
The European Central Bank will add climate change considerations to its lending operations from late 2026, it said today, raising pressure on banks to channel financing towards greener sectors as the ...
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