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Martin Sokol

@martinsokol.bsky.social
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Associate Professor, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
People can "just adapt" to a changing climate, a thousand rightwing voices keep telling us. Either they lack imagination or they don't care. Try "adapting" to this. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Nepal flash flood: more than 1,500 missing, mostly tourists, after disaster kills at least 165 at Tibet border
Entire populated areas swept away after glacial collapse causes catastrophic flood in mountainous region popular with trekkers and pilgrims
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Helen Shaw - Athena Media @athenamediaie.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Excellent op-ed by @clarekelly.bsky.social @aideenod.bsky.social and Orla Kelleher - there are times in anyone's life when you need to call stop - #spéirghorm www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
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Opinion: The Government is trying to undermine climate laws. President Connolly could stop it
The potentially irreversible impacts of climate change will be experienced by our children and grandchildren
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Tomás Ryan @tjryan.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
‘Sad day for Ireland’s future’: Academics and Research Ireland row over how to spend €4.55bn of taxpayers’ money. www.independent.ie/irish-news/e...
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‘Sad day for Ireland’s future’: Academics and Research Ireland row over how to spend €4.55bn of taxpayers’ money
In a letter to Higher Education Minister, 2,300 academics criticise state agency’s strategy, saying it was an assault on Ireland’s research ecosystem, with too much focus on industry interests
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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Climate justice broadens the #climate agenda beyond narrow, technology-focused carbon emission reductions. A vision of alternative economic systems prioritising human rights & quality housing, food, healthcare, education for all. www.irishtimes.com/environment/... @climatejusticeuni.bsky.social
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Martin Sokol @martinsokol.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Calling on all academics and researchers in Ireland and beyond to sign this open letter: openletter.earth/concern-abou...
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Concern about Research Ireland’s Strategy and Programme Plan
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Martin Sokol @martinsokol.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
“The Europe that we want” - organised by Oxfam Ireland with Dr Clare Kelly @clarekelly.bsky.social of @climatejusticeuni.bsky.social 👏👏👏
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Clare Kelly @clarekelly.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Chatbots offer a magnificent bribe - a fast, frictionless route to information that bypasses the discomfort of learning. In this op-ed, we describe this as a Faustian bargain, in which we trade away what it means to be human & universities trade away their value www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Learning is complex, messy, emotional: AI can’t replicate that
ChatGPT and other AI tools may seem irresistible. But educators should beware, as they could end up trading away the thing that gives them value — the rich experience of slow learning
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Martin Sokol @martinsokol.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Trinity College Dublin @tcddublin.bsky.social endorsing Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty @fossiltreaty.bsky.social ! Great victory for @climatejusticeuni.bsky.social ! #EndFossilFuels #JustTransition #ClimateJustice www.tcd.ie/news_events/...
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Trinity formally endorses Fossil Fuel Treaty
Trinity has formally joined the global network calling for a Fossil Fuel Treaty, following approval by the Environment and Sustainability Principal Committee of Board.
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Martin Sokol @martinsokol.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Great article on the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty and a petition started by my students to urge @tcddublin.bsky.social to back it! @fossiltreaty.bsky.social @climatejusticeuni.bsky.social universitytimes.ie/2026/01/trin...
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Trinity and the Fossil Fuel Treaty
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Climate Justice Universities Union @climatejusticeuni.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Fantastic article from @jenniecoughlin.bsky.social on how corporations operate to ensure their interests are prioritised over the needs of the public👇 Want to learn more? Register for the release of a new report exposing corporate power in Ireland on Tues Jan 20: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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SAVE THE DATE: Corpwatch Report Launch Event
RSVP here to join the launch event for the 'Corporate Power in Ireland: A Review' Date: Tuesday January 20 2026 Time: 1-2pm. People will be encouraged to hang around afterwards to connect with othe...
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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
My column in the Irish Times on the dangers of corporate capture. Corporate interests dominate public policy while community needs go unmet. Greta Thunberg & BohsFC show us how to reclaim the public good @thunberggreta.bsky.social @bfcdublin.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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Time to challenge corporate power in Ireland
Greta Thunberg and Bohemian Football Club together stress need to put communities before companies
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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
The fossil fuel industry’s “energy security” argument is dangerous, misleading and fundamentally flawed. Ireland should not be building new fossil fuel infrastructure. My piece in today’s Irish Times. #climate #climateobstruction #climatejustice #fossilfuels www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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Ireland is falling for the American fossil fuel industry’s ‘energy security’ con
One of the reasons this argument has been so effective is because, like all good propaganda, there is an element of truth to it
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Martin Sokol @martinsokol.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
A student wing of Trinity’s ClimateUni branch is emerging! 👏👏👏 Climate Justice Universities Union @climatejusticeuni.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social #ClimateJustice
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Climate Justice Universities Union @climatejusticeuni.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
President Connolly quoted CJUU Co-Chair @jenniecstephens.bsky.social in her inspiring speech: "the climate crisis is a symptom of bigger structural & systemic problems that are concentrating wealth and power among large corporate interests that are increasingly influencing our democratic processes"
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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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Ireland’s new climate justice President
Catherine Connolly won over 63% of the vote because she effectively linked many different climate justice issues to a vision of a better future and a unified Ireland, writes Jennie C Stephens, Profess...
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An Taisce @antaisce.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Moral duty ‘to act now’ on climate change for future generations, says President Catherine Connolly “Transformative action is required, action that places environmental responsibility and climate justice at the heart of everything we do” www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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Moral duty ‘to act now’ on climate change for future generations, says Catherine Connolly
Figures of possible fines of between €8bn and €26bn for breaching emissions targets ‘incredible’, President says
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Martin Sokol @martinsokol.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Climate Justice Universities Union @climatejusticeuni.bsky.social marching outside Trinity College Dublin @tcddublin.bsky.social - National Climate Demonstration 15th Nov 2025 #EndFossilPower #ClimateJustice #COP30
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Climate Justice Universities Union @climatejusticeuni.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
The Climate Justice Universities Union proudly marched with thousands in Dublin today, in solidarity with indigenous peoples in Belém and people all around the world. Together, we called for faster, fairer climate action and an end to fossil power, influence, and obstruction of clinate justice!
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Martin Sokol @martinsokol.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Climate Justice Universities Union @climatejusticeuni.bsky.social marching in Dublin today - National Climate Demonstration 15th Nov 2025 #EndFossilPower #ClimateJustice #COP30
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Martin Sokol @martinsokol.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
National Climate Demo in Dublin today - we will be marching under our ClimateUni flags! @climatejusticeuni.bsky.social #ClimateJustice #EndFossilPower
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Iris Moeller @imcoasts.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Wonderful to see our students become engaged thanks to the education we provide them with. A particular credit goes to @martinsokol.bsky.social for his finance and climate justice module. Please sign our students' petition! c.org/5R7CkWHmSm
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Urge Trinity College Dublin to sign the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
New open-access resource on climate obstruction detailing all the ways industry has been strategically sabotaging climate action. Great collaborating with many colleagues at @cssn.org. I’m a lead author on last chapter on resisting climate obstruction. Check it out!
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Climate Justice Universities Union @climatejusticeuni.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Join us on Nov 13th for the Climate Justice Universities Union Autumn-Winter All-Ireland Meeting, hosted by SETU Carlow. The focus is GenAI, Big Tech & implications for higher ed, with lots of time to connect with fellow CJUU members. Sign up here: climatejusticeuniversitiesunion.org/events/setu-...
GenAI, Big Tech and the critical implications for higher education, Climate Justice Universities Union all-island meeting. SETU Carlow, Kilkenny Road Campus, R93 V960. QR code to this sign up link: https://www.cognitoforms.com/SETU10/ClimateJusticeUniversitiesUnionAllIslandMeetingAtSETU
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
"while #climate action was, at best, part of the ‘3rd mission’ of the financialized university, it could be seen as the ‘1st mission’ of the climate justice university" - @martinsokol.bsky.social & @jenniecstephens.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Mat Paterson @matpaterson.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Various chapters focus on different economic sectors, with @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social focusing on coal phaseouts, @matpaterson.bsky.social looking at peat politics, @jenniecstephens.bsky.social and @martinsokol.bsky.social at central banking, @vah301.bsky.social at insurance companies. 8/
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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Just published chapter on on "Politicizing financial innovations for transformative climate justice” with @martinsokol.bsky.social in open access book on climate politics. Thanks to @matpaterson.bsky.social Paul Tobin & @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social 4 editing+ www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
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Politicizing Financial Innovations for Transformative Climate Justice (Chapter 7) - Stability and Politicization in Climate Governance
Stability and Politicization in Climate Governance - August 2025
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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Check out our new research w/ @martinsokol.bsky.social on redistributing higher ed to meet urgent community needs - moving away from financialized universities reinforcing profit-seeking competitiveness toward transformative accessible collective community-based orgs more like public libraries
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Universities, polycrisis and regional redistribution - Review of Regional Research
As humanity faces a worsening polycrisis, the need for systemic change in society is becoming more widely recognized. This time of increasing disruptions of all kinds comes with new opportunities for ...
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Martin Sokol @martinsokol.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
NEW PAPER co-authored with @jenniecstephens.bsky.social : We need to transform #universities from financialised, entrepreneurial ones to #ClimateJustice universities! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Universities, polycrisis and regional redistribution - Review of Regional Research
As humanity faces a worsening polycrisis, the need for systemic change in society is becoming more widely recognized. This time of increasing disruptions of all kinds comes with new opportunities for ...
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Martin Sokol @martinsokol.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Inspiring Educator Award 2025 (one of 12 in Trinity College Dublin @tcddublin.bsky.social ) Many thanks to my wonderful #Geography students for nominating me!
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Martin Sokol @martinsokol.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Congratulations @jenniecstephens.bsky.social ! Powerful inaugural with standing ovations! 👏👏👏 @maynoothuniversity.ie #ClimateJustice
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Martin Sokol @martinsokol.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
“Central banks and monetary policy in the age of climate disruption: between climate justice and climate obstruction” - joint paper with @jenniecstephens.bsky.social Great discussion! #FinGeo conference in Singapore #climatejustice #climateobstruction #centralbanks
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Martin Sokol @martinsokol.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Agreed! Also, how central #centralbanks are to all this - especially to #climate ! Great start to the #FinGeo Global Conference!
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Martin Sokol @martinsokol.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Great to be in Singapore at the 2nd Global Network on Financial Geography (FinGeo) conference - just opened by our wonderful #FinGeo Chair Dariusz Wojcik With @karenpylai.bsky.social , David Bassens , Michael Grote , and many others
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Kimberley Thomas @kimanh.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Financial systems have been implicated in climate change from the start. Yet they’re also central to wealth redistribution and thus to CJ. @jenniecstephens.bsky.social and @martinsokol.bsky.social locate a profound contradiction where central banks aim to stabilize an inherently unstable system.
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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · 21/01/2025
An analysis of tweets from three major U.S. sectors shows coordinated messaging to reinforce fossil-fuel reliance by denying the science and delaying change. @alainakinol.bsky.social Y. Si, J.Kinol, & @jenniecstephens.bsky.social propose a discourse of climate obstruction framework: bit.ly/4gcA1iW
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Networks of climate obstruction: Discourses of denial and delay in US fossil energy, plastic, and agrichemical industries
The use of fossil-derived hydrocarbons in fossil energy, plastic production, and agriculture makes these three sectors mutually reinforcing and reliant on sustained fossil fuel extraction. In this pap...
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Green Central Banking @greencb.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The Federal Reserve has left the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) saying its work had “broadened in scope, covering a wider range of issues that are outside of the Board’s statutory mandate”. greencentralbanking.com/2025/01/21/n...
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Global central banks vow to keep fighting climate change together even without Fed
Network for Greening the Financial System committed to climate change fight as Fed departs on eve of Trump presidency.
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Martin Sokol @martinsokol.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Excellent piece by @jenniecstephens.bsky.social on #ClimateJustice in Ireland
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Ann Pettifor @annpettifor.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
So much for CB independence..“If the Fed wants to fulfill its mandate, it will need to resist the political whims of the president & actually live up to claims of political independence. Policy reversals on the eve of the Trump inauguration” are revealing. greencentralbanking.com/2025/01/21/n...
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Global central banks vow to keep fighting climate change together even without Fed
Network for Greening the Financial System committed to climate change fight as Fed departs on eve of Trump presidency.
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kirbypeadar.bsky.social @kirbypeadar.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Brilliant book by @jenniecstephens.bsky.social Powerful critique of how universities have become for-profit companies legitimising our unequal fossil fuel capitalist order. Provides radical but hopeful proposals. Must read for all university staff and policy makers. Will shock students
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The Climate Alarm Clock @climatealarmclock.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
New special episode today! Darragh goes to Cork to find out about climate justice in universities and has a great chat with the irrepressible @profjohnbarry.bsky.social and @jenniecstephens.bsky.social who are working to transform higher education! player.captivate.fm/episode/80d3...
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Martin Sokol @martinsokol.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
CfP: Central banks, monetary policy, and overlapping crises: Bringing space into the picture 7th Global Conference on Economic Geography, June 2025, Clark Uni Email dan.cohen@queensu.ca by 6 Jan. @dancohen.bsky.social @jenniecstephens.bsky.social @martinsokol.bsky.social #ClimateJustice
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Martin Sokol @martinsokol.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Delighted to be part of this starter pack on financialization! Thank you Stefan Ouma @econgeo.bsky.social for putting it together!
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Martin Sokol @martinsokol.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
The best book launch ever - Jennie C. Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social “Climate Justice and the University” - full house at the Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie, with excellent chairing by Anna Davies and great response by John Barry @profjohnbarry.bsky.social #ClimateJustice #University #Hope
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Martin Sokol @martinsokol.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I am so grateful to Dr Clare Kelly, my Trinity College Dublin colleague, for a recent super interesting lecture for my Finance & Climate Justice students, including a highly engaging exercise Reimagining the Good Life! 👏👏👏 #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice #DoughnutEconomics #PostGrowth
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Martin Sokol @martinsokol.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Delighted to have my own copy of this amazing book from my favourite author Jennie C. Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social and looking forward to the book launch on Tuesday 10th December! #ClimateJustice and the #University
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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Disappointing to see this “academic capture” with @TCD aligning their climate agenda with a bank despite research revealing the greenwashing climate obstruction of industry funding universities. The dangers of this is a focus of my new book Climate Justice & the University www.tcd.ie/news_events/...
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AIB commits €10m investment to AIB Trinity Climate Hub
The AIB Trinity Climate Hub will bring researchers together to address challenges around maintaining a stable and liveable climate, securing biodiversity and the ecosystem services provided by nature,...
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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Invitation to launch of my new book Climate Justice and the University: Shaping a Hopeful Future For All (Hopkins University Press, 2024) on Tuesday December 10th 1-2 EST 6-7 GMT. All welcome to discuss reimagining higher ed & transformative climate justice. Register here bit.ly/JennieStephe...
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Martin Sokol @martinsokol.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
“If we want the children of today to have a future on this planet, we cannot keep obediently colouring inside the lines.” - Sally Rooney in The Irish Times #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis?
Capitalism is driving the destruction of our planet. We have to think outside – and against – the framework of our current political system
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Martin Sokol @martinsokol.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Global Climate Justice march Dublin 16 Nov 2024. Students from Trinity College Dublin marching alongside Climate Justice Coalition Ireland, Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative, Climate Justice Universities Union and others demanding: #ClimateJustice #EndFossilFuels 👏👏👏
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Martin Sokol @martinsokol.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Brilliant podcast by my Finance & Climate Justice students ahead of the march for Global #ClimateJustice in Dublin (Sat 16 Nov) 👏👏👏 #COP29 #EndFossilFuels open.spotify.com/episode/4Qwf...
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COPcast: Dublin Global Climate Justice March 16th November 2024
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