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Nicolas Mainville @carbonick.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

#Forest loss and #degradation is continuing, at an average rate of 25 million hectares a year over the last decade, 63% higher than the rate needed to meet existing targets to reverse forest loss by 2030. Yet climate pledges from Belém COP remain far off track theconversation.com/millions-of-...

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Nicolas Mainville @carbonick.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

#Renewables will grow faster than any major energy source in the next decade, according to the world’s #energy watchdog, making the transition away from #fossil fuels “inevitable”, despite a green backlash in the US and parts of Europe

theguardian.com

Supply boom in cheaper renewables will seal end of fossil fuel era, says IEA

Watchdog’s flagship report says rise in low-carbon electricity will make transition ‘inevitable’, despite Trump’s calls to carry on drilling

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Nicolas Mainville @carbonick.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Levels of #carbon dioxide in the atmosphere soared by a record amount in 2024 UN data shows. Scientists are worried that land and ocean “sinks” that remove #CO2 from the air are weakening as a result of global heating, which could form a vicious circle and drive temperatures up even faster.

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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Nicolas Mainville @carbonick.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

The world’s #wind and #solar farms have generated more electricity than coal plants for the first time this year, marking a turning point for the global power system, according to research www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.com

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

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Nicolas Mainville @carbonick.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Nope, this is not "fake news"... The Energy Department has added “climate change,” “green” and “decarbonization” to its growing “list of words to avoid” at its Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

politico.com

Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list

It is the latest in a series of Trump administration efforts to dispute, silence or downplay climate change.

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Nicolas Mainville @carbonick.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Only 28 countries have so far submitted #carbon-cutting proposals to the UN, with some of the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases – including China and the EU – still to produce their plans. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.com

Brazil issues last-ditch plea for countries to submit climate plans ahead of Cop30

Only 28 countries have submitted carbon-cutting proposals to the UN, with some of the biggest emitters yet to produce plans

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SNAP Québec @snapquebec.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

@carbonick.bsky.social, directeur #conservation & #climat, nous explique ce que la science dit sur l’empreinte carbone des coupes forestières & pourquoi nos #forêts laissées debout sont un meilleur outil que des billots de #bois pour lutter contre la crise climatique www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNb5...

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L’empreinte climatique du secteur forestier, de la forêt à l’usine

YouTube video by SNAP Quebec

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Nicolas Mainville @carbonick.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

#Climate action being obstructed and delayed by false and misleading information stemming from fossil fuel companies, rightwing politicians and some nation states. The report systematically reviewed 300 studies. www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🌎

theguardian.com

Climate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe – major report

False claims obstructing climate action, say researchers, amid calls for climate lies to be criminalised

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Nicolas Mainville @carbonick.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Four sources with knowledge of the situation at the EPA’s Region 5 office, which oversees six Midwestern states, told CNN that enforcement officials were informed that “there is a pause on oil and gas enforcement” at staff meetings. www.cnn.com/politics/epa...

cnn.com

The Trump Environmental Protection Agency is telling staff to stop policing the oil and gas industry | CNN Politics

The Environmental Protection Agency has told staff overseeing the country’s industrialized Midwest– a region plagued by a legacy of pollution– to stop enforcing violations against the fossil fuel comp...

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Sam Furgiuele @furgiuele.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

In North Carolina, the State legislature has blocked cities and towns from protecting trees. With no home rule, we have to comply. They reduced dramatically the jurisdiction of Boone NC because we protected the mountain-sides which surround us. Enlightened Republicans killing us all!

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Nicolas Mainville @carbonick.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

A new study has calculated that increasing vegetation in urban areas by 30 per cent could have prevented more than one third of all global heat-related deaths between 2000 to 2019. In total, 1.16 million lives may have been saved with more greenery during this 20-year period. 🌎

euronews.com

How more trees in cities could have saved 400,000 lives in Europe

‘Expanding greenness’ could save millions of lives, a comprehensive new study finds.

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Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts for US science in next fiscal year NASA cut by 24% NIH cut by 40% EPA cut by 55% NSF cut by 56% Analysis from @maxkozlov.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social @alexwitze.bsky.social and @nature.com team www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nature.com

Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts to US science

Huge reductions, if enacted, could have ‘catastrophic’ effects on US competitiveness and the scientific pipeline, critics say.

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Nicolas Mainville @carbonick.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

“The science is clear on what needs to change: Stop using fossil fuels, respect and protect nature, use resources sustainably.” “Our societies were made by us, so human-made problems can be unmade. We limit ourselves when we focus only on preventing the worst, rather than striving for the best.” 🌎🧪

nationalobserver.com

‘Deep change theory’ could pull us out of a global crisis, scientists say

A new U.N. report maps a path toward a more sustainable future and challenges society to question basic assumptions and values about the environment, consumption and waste.

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Nicolas Mainville @carbonick.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Erasing #climate science, one dumb decision at a time... "The move will allow the administration to either skip the congressionally mandated report altogether, or pursue an alternative, potentially far more skeptical take on what is otherwise widely accepted climate science." 🌎🧪

cnn.com

Trump administration dismisses all authors of major climate report, throwing US assessment into limbo | CNN

The Trump administration has dismissed all the scientists and other authors working on the next authoritative look at how climate change is affecting the United States, according to an email sent to a...

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Nicolas Mainville @carbonick.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

"Every 1% of greenhouse gas emitted since 1990 has caused $502 billion in damage from heat alone, excluding costs from hurricanes, droughts and floods." Top-emitters: Saudi Aramco: $2.05 trillion Gazprom: $2 trillion Chevron: $1.98 trillion ExxonMobil: $1.91 trillion BP: $1.45 trillion 🌎🧪

cbsnews.com

Fossil fuel companies caused $28 trillion in climate damage, study finds. These 5 are tied to the most harm.

Extreme heat caused by emissions from 111 fossil fuel companies cost an estimated $28 trillion between 1991 and 2020, according to researchers at Dartmouth College.

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SNAP Québec @snapquebec.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Projet de loi 97 | La SNAP Québec juge alarmante cette proposition qui interdirait notamment la création d’aires protégées sur une vaste portion du territoire et permettrait la récolte de bois dans des zones de conservation, et ce sans consultations. Lire le communiqué👉 bit.ly/42LSqP0

snapquebec.org

Projet de loi 97 (réforme du régime forestier) : Des reculs inacceptables face à la gestion de nos forêts publiques - SNAP Québec

Montréal, 23 avril 2025 – La Société pour la Nature et les Parcs (SNAP Québec) est vivement préoccupée par la réforme du régime forestier présentée aujourd’hui par le gouvernement du Québec à travers ...

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Nicolas Mainville @carbonick.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Important and desperately needed! @theguardian.com is launching a year-long collaborative reporting project that seeks to explore a pivotal but little-known fact about the #climate crisis: the overwhelming majority of the world’s people want their governments to take stronger action. 🌎

theguardian.com

Most of the world’s population wants stronger climate action. They just don’t realize that they are a majority

The Guardian is joining forces with dozens of newsrooms around the world to launch a year-long exploration of the ‘silent majority’ of people who want to fight climate change

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Nicolas Mainville @carbonick.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

This is so wrong. “Unfortunately, all data and services offered under the base contract, including this website, will be unavailable unless and until funding is resumed,” The White House’s Office of Management and Budget has recommended ending funding for the regional climate centers

science.org

U.S. climate data websites go dark

Lapse may be temporary, but draft budget plans would eliminate service

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Dear Neighbo(u)r 🇨🇦 @dearneighborshow.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Pierre Poilievre said 15,000 people showed up at his Edmonton rally. CBC counted 1,558. Lesson: Inflating crowd numbers is standard political strategy but it only works if you don’t get caught. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

analytical-style grid with dots counting each person in the image

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One Health U of Guelph @onehealthuofg.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

The COPEH-Canada course & webinar series on Ecosystem Approaches to Health begins May 8! This year's theme is "Reciprocity, land and health." Available to grad students from all disciplines as well as interested professionals. Learn more: tinyurl.com/5fsb62yj 🧪 @copeh-canada.bsky.social

The COPEH-Canada course and webinar series is a hybrid course on ecosystem approaches to health. It is organized by the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, University of Guelph, and the University of Northern British Columbia.

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CoPEH-Canada @copeh-canada.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Découvrez l'équipe d'enseignantes pour notre formation sur les approches écosystémiques de la santé *Sandra Martin Harris, Witsuwit'en Nation et UNBC *Tannis Reynolds, Stellat'en First Nation et UNBC *Cathy Vaillancourt, INRS *Jena Webb, UQAM *Jane Parmley, UofGuelph copeh-canada.org/fr/champs-d-...

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CoPEH-Canada @copeh-canada.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Meet our stellar teaching team for the 2025 webinar series & course on Ecosystem approaches to health *Sandra Martin Harris, Witsuwit’en Nation & UNBC *Tannis Reynolds, Stellat’en First Nation & UNBC *Cathy Vaillancourt, INRS *Jena Webb, UQAM *Jane Parmley, UofGuelph copeh-canada.org/en/key-areas...

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Nicolas Mainville @carbonick.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Bravo à l'Assemblée nationale qui a réitéré son appui au Système de plafonnement et d’échange de droits d’émission de gaz à effet de serre (SPEDE) entre le Québec et la Californie. 🌎

ici.radio-canada.ca

Québec réaffirme son engagement envers le marché du carbone

Le Système de plafonnement et d’échange de droits d’émission de GES est là pour rester. Une motion à cet effet a été adoptée à l'Assemblée nationale.

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Nicolas Mainville @carbonick.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Going backwards: Global #reforestation and forest #restoration efforts are facing a serious setback due to the recent U.S. foreign aid freeze. The sudden halt in funding has left projects around the world scrambling for alternative resources, jeopardizing years of progress 🌎

news.mongabay.com

Funding freeze threatens global reforestation and restoration efforts

Global reforestation and forest restoration efforts are facing a serious setback due to the recent U.S. foreign aid freeze. The sudden halt in funding has left projects around the world scrambling for...

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Shoulder2wheel @shoulder2wheel.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

No one is asking where this mining would take place. Any mining under US law in the Clarion Clipperton Zone would be tantamount to an invasion of Greenland, a gross violation of international law. Discussions at the ISA today made it clear that circumventing UNCLOS would be universally condemned.

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Nicolas Mainville @carbonick.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

A Canadian deep-sea mining firm has revealed it has been negotiating with the Trump administration to bypass a UN treaty and potentially gain authorisation from the US to mine in international waters 🌎

theguardian.com

Canadian company in negotiations with Trump to mine seabed

Environmentalists call bid to skirt UN treaty ‘reckless’ amid fears that mining will cause irreversible loss of biodiversity

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Nicolas Mainville @carbonick.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Logging drastically reduces forests capacity to store #carbon. Failing to account for the potentially decreasing ability of #forests to absorb CO₂ could make reaching the Paris agreement targets significantly harder, if not impossible, and much more costly 🌎🧪🌐

pik-potsdam.de

Losing forest carbon stocks could put climate goals out of reach

27.03.2025 - In the past, intact forests absorbed 7.8 billion tonnes of CO₂ annually – about a fifth of all human emissions – but their carbon storage is increasingly at risk from climate change and h...

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Nicolas Mainville @carbonick.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Empreinte climatique : Les coupes forestières émettent plus de gaz à effet de serre que les transports routiers, aériens, maritimes et ferroviaires combinés au Canada. Il est temps pour le secteur forestier de reconnaître sa participation à la crise climatique 🌎

lapresse.ca

Gaz à effet de serre au Canada | La foresterie pollue plus que les transports, dénonce une ONG

Les coupes forestières émettent plus de gaz à effet de serre (GES) que les transports routiers, aériens, maritimes et ferroviaires combinés au Canada, déplore une organisation écologiste, qui accuse l...

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Nicolas Mainville @carbonick.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

“Today marks the most disastrous day in #EPA history. Rolling these rules back is not just a disgrace, it’s a threat to all of us. The agency has fully abdicated its mission to protect Americans’ health and wellbeing." 🌎

theguardian.com

Trump officials to reconsider whether greenhouse gases cause harm amid climate rollbacks

Activists horrified as EPA reverses pollution laws and reviews landmark finding that gases harm public health

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Nicolas Mainville @carbonick.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Canada’s managed #forest is one of the largest living reservoirs of #carbon on Earth. For centuries it slowly filled, as billions of growing trees pulled CO2 from the air and stored it away in wood and soil. But in the last decades, the flow of CO2 has completely reversed mostly due to logging 🌎🧪🌐

nationalobserver.com

Canada is opening the floodgates on one of Earth’s greatest living reservoirs of CO2

Canada’s forest is in trouble – and so are we. Chainsaws and fossil fuel burning are draining billions of tonnes of CO2 out of our managed forest and pouring it back into the atmosphere. And the outfl...

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Nicolas Mainville @carbonick.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Climate #whiplash is already hitting major cities around the world, bringing deadly swings between extreme wet and dry weather as the #climate crisis intensifies. Data shows some regional trends, with drying hitting Europe, the already-parched Arabian peninsula and much of the US 🌐🌎🧪

theguardian.com

‘Global weirding’: climate whiplash hitting world’s biggest cities, study reveals

Swings between drought and floods striking from Dallas to Shanghai, while Madrid and Cairo are among cities whose climate has flipped

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Nicolas Mainville @carbonick.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

The world’s nations convened this week to plan the next major international assessment of climate science—but without the US. Trump’s administration denied officials permission to travel to the meeting and cut off technical support contract for the seventh assessment of the #IPCC 🌎🧪

science.org

NASA cuts off international climate science support

U.N. panel meets for first time without U.S. leadership

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Nicolas Mainville @carbonick.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

#Peatlands occupy just 3% of all land, but contain more carbon than all of the world’s forests. However, farmers and miners are draining the peatlands, releasing so much CO2 that if they were a country, they would be the fourth biggest polluter in the world after China, the US and India. 🌎🧪🌐

theguardian.com

World’s largely unprotected peatlands are ticking ‘carbon bomb’, warns study

Bogs and swamps are a colossal carbon store but their continued destruction would blow climate change targets

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Nicolas Mainville @carbonick.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

WAKE UP CALL: More than half the world’s countries have no plans to protect 30% of land and sea for nature, despite committing to a global agreement to do so less than three years ago, new analysis shows 🌎🧪 #biodiversity www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.com

More than half of countries are ignoring biodiversity pledges – analysis

Many of the nations gathering in Rome for Cop16 have offered no plans to honour their agreement to protect 30% of land and sea for nature

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Alejandra Zaga Mendez @alezagamendez.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Merci @snapquebec.bsky.social pour ce beau cadeau : un biscuit avec un message écrit par des jeunes pour nous rappeler les véritables priorités ! On ne peut pas abandonner la protection de la biodiversité et de l’environnement, même en période d’instabilité économique.

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Patrick Bonin @patbonin.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

#GNLQc est un mirage. Aucun promoteur ne voudra relancer ça «En 2023, la conso. de gaz l’Union européenne a été 18% + faible vs la moy.. de 2017 à 2021. Encore + faible en 2024 (janv. à mai, le recul vs 2017-2021 =19%» 👉L’UE vise -90% de GES pour 2040 www.journaldemontreal.com/2025/02/08/g...

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Nicolas Mainville @carbonick.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

"Radical right populists are using misinformation as a tool to destabilise democracies and gain political advantage. The findings underscore the urgent need for policymakers, researchers, and the public to understand and address the intertwined dynamics of misinformation and radical right populism"

theguardian.com

Far-right populists much more likely than the left to spread fake news – study

Amplifying misinformation is now part of radical right strategy, says Dutch study of tweets by MPs in 26 countries

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Fiona N. Brown, AMRIN @fionanbrown.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

In 2021, the Magpie River was granted legal personhood, which bestowed rights upon the #river, including the right to live, respect for its natural cycles, to be protected and preserved, maintain its natural #biodiversity, be free from pollution, and to be restored. www.cbc.ca/documentarie...

cbc.ca

This pristine Canadian river has legal personhood, a new approach to conserving nature | CBC Documentaries

New documentary examines how a Quebec river became a person under the law and how that protects it from harm

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Nicolas Mainville @carbonick.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

False solutions: "it is highly likely that 52% of wind farms supported by Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) would have been built anyway, which means more than 28 million tonnes CO2 were approved incorrectly. Same rate to all CDM projects worldwide could lead to 6.1 billion more tonnes of CO2" 🌎

nature.com

Ineffective carbon offset - Nature Climate Change

Nature Climate Change - Ineffective carbon offset

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Magdaline Boutros @magdalineboutros.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Quand l'homme le plus riche de la planète s'en prend aux enfants les plus pauvres de la planète... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

nytimes.com

Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children

I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I'm a journalist. My profession is the only one named and protected in the U.S. Constitution. Our founding fathers understood that if the press was stifled, their new democracy would not survive. Here's how you can help journalists like me preserve democracy: freedom.press/digisec/blog...

freedom.press

Here’s how to share sensitive leaks with the press

Thinking about securely leaking information to news organizations? This guide will show you how.

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Nicolas Mainville @carbonick.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Some areas of the U.S. and Canada are so vulnerable to #climate impacts that they are increasingly uninsurable. A number of major #insurance companies have pulled out of California, Florida and Louisiana, for example, because of their susceptibility to a variety of environmental risks 🌎

cbc.ca

Climate disasters lead to billions in insurance losses. Could they trigger a financial crisis?

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