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Remi Parmentier

@remiparmentier.bsky.social
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Ocean Advocate since 1975. Director, The Varda Group. Coordinator, Let's Be Nice to the Ocean. My bio online: www.vardagroup.org/bio/remi-parment…

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Remi Parmentier @remiparmentier.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Walk the Nice talk. Better yet, run! "Walking the Nice Talk", my op-ed one week after #UNOC3, published by @iisd.org SDG Knowledge Hub one week after #UNOC3, the Nice Ocean Conference. sdg.iisd.org/commentary/g...
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Walking the Nice Talk
By Rémi Parmentier, Co-Director of The Varda Group, Coordinator of the Let’s Be Nice to the Ocean campaign Sixty-four Heads of State and Government attended the UN Ocean Conference in Nice last wee...
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Remi Parmentier @remiparmentier.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Nice talk - Now, walk the talk! letsbenicetotheocean.org/nice-talk-no... #LetsBeNicetotheOcean #BeyondBlueBlueBlue #UNOC2025 #UNOC3
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Nice Talk – Now, Walk the Talk! - #LetsBeNicetotheOcean
Outcomes of UNOC 2025
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Remi Parmentier @remiparmentier.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Good job, Canada! www.cnn.com/2025/04/28/a...
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Remi Parmentier @remiparmentier.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
You can now sign & share the revamped #ProtectionPrinciple petition for the 3rd UN Ocean Conference (#UNOC3). IN english. En français. En español. #LetsBeNicetotheOcean letsbenicetotheocean.org/sign-the-pet...
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Remi Parmentier @remiparmentier.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Gracias Arturo, María y equipo. #LetsBeNicetotheOcean www.letsBeNicetotheOcean.org
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Arturo Larena @arturolarena.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Activista, consultor, fundador de Greenpeace en España y Francia y creador de Let's Be Nice to the Ocean..., Remi Parmentier (@remiparmentier.bsky.social) es uno de los grandes defensores del medio ambiente y, por ello; es el #PersonajeAmbiental de la semana efeverde.com/remi-parment...
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Remi Parmentier @remiparmentier.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Way to go! Spain's Deputy Prime Minister Sara Agesen @saraaagesen.bsky.social @miteco.gob.es writes to 140 countries asking them to ratify the UN #HighSeasTreaty [#BBNJ]: www.lavanguardia.com/natural/2025...
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Remi Parmentier @remiparmentier.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
If you're in #Madrid this Tuesday, come & join Romain Troublé from @fondationtaraocean.bsky.social, myself & others for a roundtable conversation at the Institut Français about our expectations before the Nice UN Ocean Conference (#UNOC3). Click here to register: www.eventbrite.es/e/salvar-el-...
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Salvar el Océano
En vísperas de la UNOC3, te invitamos a esta mesa redonda de alto nivel sobre el Océano, que reunirá a expertos franceses y españoles.
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Dona Bertarelli @donabertarelli.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
What if protecting the ocean became the norm, not the exception? As UNOC approaches, we call with @benicetotheocean.bsky.social for a new paradigm: reverse the burden of proof. A constructive step toward ocean protection, included in SOS Océan Conference manifesto. Read here (FR): shorturl.at/VZiCv
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OPINION. « Et si la protection de l'océan devenait la règle, et non plus l'exception ? »
OPINION. A l'occasion de la 3e Conférence de l'ONU sur l'Océan qui se tiendra à Nice, un appel urgent est lancé pour prendre des mesures ambitieuses afin de protéger l'Océan, notre bien commun vital. ...
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 21/03/2025
The UN World Food Programme is scrambling to plug a multi-billion-dollar funding gap after the US froze foreign aid and slashed humanitarian budgets. The situation has forced the agency to make previously “unthinkable choices.” 👉 ow.ly/IbzT50Vm3WQ
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Remi Parmentier @remiparmentier.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 20/03/2025
OPINION: The legal tools to address internal opposition from Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán exist. Europe just needs to use them, and meet the moment with courage.
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How to confront Orbán and save the EU
The legal tools to address this internal opposition exist — Europe just needs to use them, and meet the moment with courage.
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Remi Parmentier @remiparmentier.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Why does Emmanuel Macron continue to use Musk's X? Why doesn't he use Agence France-Presse @afpfr.bsky.social instead? Incomprehensible.
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Remi Parmentier @remiparmentier.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Statement of Independent Trial Monitors 👇On Verdict in Greenpeace Trial — Energy Transfer v. Greenpeace Trial Monitoring Committee www.trialmonitors.org/statement-of...
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Statement of Independent Trial Monitors On Verdict in Greenpeace Trial — Energy Transfer v. Greenpeace Trial Monitoring Committee
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Remi Parmentier @remiparmentier.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
If the Nice Ocean Conference (#UNOC2025, June 2025) does not incubate or launch one or more ambitious paradigm shifts, there is a risk that multilateralism sceptics say that the Nice conference was a waste of time and money. letsbenicetotheocean.org/annotated-dr...
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Let's Be Nice to the Ocean has published today a compilation of amendments aimed at strengthening the ambition and scope of the draft Nice Ocean Action Declaration, currently circulating at UN Headqua...
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Remi Parmentier @remiparmentier.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Thank you, gracias et merci, Roberto por mencionarme en este artículo. 🙏
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Remi Parmentier @remiparmentier.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Enhorabuena, España @miteco.gob.es 👇 La política ambiental necesita "success stories". 👏👏👏💪 Más que nunca.
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Remi Parmentier @remiparmentier.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
"Even if we try to escape the world, the world will not escape us" 👇(will not escape US)
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Remi Parmentier @remiparmentier.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
It's official as of tonight: UN #PlasticsTreaty negotiations will resume 5-15 August in Geneva. [Telling to my wife we need to reschedule summer holidays might be trickier than trying to convince Saudi Arabia to accept a treaty with strong provisions to phase down plastics production 😵‍💫]
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Remi Parmentier @remiparmentier.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Good read on yesterday's shit show, by Robert Reich. open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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Today’s disgusting scene
Friends,
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Valérie Masson-Delmotte @valmasdel.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere
US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.
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Remi Parmentier @remiparmentier.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
What would George Marshall, of Marshall Plan fame, think of that shameful TrumpMusk robbery plan?
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Remi Parmentier @remiparmentier.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
What would George Marshall, of Marshall plan fame, think of that shameful TrumpMusk robbery plan?
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Remi Parmentier @remiparmentier.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Stand with #Ukraine 603,628 km2 🇺🇦
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Remi Parmentier @remiparmentier.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
EU Commission VP Teresa Ribera in @elpais.com today: "The US offers us a wonderful opportunity to remind ourselves that we live in the best place in the world. An open, free market economy, with high environmental standards and high levels of protection [...] We must defend it." 👉 bit.ly/4ka1WDs
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Teresa Ribera: “Europa no va a jugar a la política espectáculo, pero sí tiene que ser firme”
La vicepresidenta europea para la Transición Limpia, Justa y Competitiva sostiene que la UE no debe caer en provocaciones sino actuar con inteligencia y defender sus valores frente a las injerencias
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Remi Parmentier @remiparmentier.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I wish everyone in the US would read this piece 👇 And that everyone in Russia could.
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Remi Parmentier @remiparmentier.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Project 2025 is the equivalent of Mein Kampf online.
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Remi Parmentier @remiparmentier.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐝 𝐔𝐍 𝐎𝐜𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 (#𝐔𝐍𝐎𝐂2025), 𝐢𝐧 𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐞? See below 👇 #LetsBeNicetotheOcean letsbenicetotheocean.org/what-level-o...
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What level of ambition can we expect at the Third UN Ocean Conference in the current geopolitical seascape? - #LetsBeNicetotheOcean
Potential modalities for the Nice Conference outcome
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Remi Parmentier @remiparmentier.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
As if everything else wasn't enough, here's Trump's declaration of love to single-use plastics. Bon appétit! www.aol.com/back-plastic...
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'BACK TO PLASTIC!': Trump says he will sign executive order ditching paper straws
President Trump said he will sign an executive order next week ending past efforts from Biden for the federal government to embrace paper straws.
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Remi Parmentier @remiparmentier.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Latest from #TrumpMusk killers: www.reuters.com/world/un-foo...
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UN food agency WFP received dozens of US stop work orders despite emergency waiver
The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) was ordered by Washington to stop work on dozens of U.S.-funded grants, according to an email seen by Reuters, that was sent five days after Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a waiver for emergency food assistance.
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Remi Parmentier @remiparmentier.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Snowball in the high seas? Now, France has also ratified the BBNJ Agreement yesterday: treaties.un.org/pages/ViewDe...
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UNTC
This is the United Nations Treaty Collection homepage. Here you will find related information and links.
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Remi Parmentier @remiparmentier.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Congratulations SPAIN for becoming today the first EU country to ratify the UN Agreement on the Conservation & Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity🐟 in Areas beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) 🌊https://treaties.un.org/pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=XXI-10&chapter=21&clang=_en
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UNTC
This is the United Nations Treaty Collection homepage. Here you will find related information and links.
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Remi Parmentier @remiparmentier.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
As the Third UN Ocean Conference (Nice, France, June 2025) is approaching, organizations wanting to support the #ProtectionPrinciple are welcome to join the #LetsBeNicetotheOcean movement. You can send inquiries or applications at: letsbenicetotheocean[at]gmail.com
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#LetsBeNicetotheOcean - Toward the Nice Ocean Conference
We call on governments to endorse and implement the Protection Principle in Nice at the 3rd UN Ocean Conference.
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Greenpeace Aotearoa @greenpeace.org.nz · 30/01/2025
BOOM! The Marshall Islands has established its first marine protected area, and it covers 48,000 sq kilometres of an area described as one of the most spectacular places on Earth.
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Safeguarding reefs: Marshall Islands establishes 48,000 sq kilometres marine protected area
The country is putting two of its most remote atolls, Bikar and Bokak, under protection from fishing, covering 48,000 square kilometres - about the size of Switzerland.
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Remi Parmentier @remiparmentier.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Listening to this podcast, it sounds like Teresa Ribera is the last safety net within the European Commission. 🙏
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Remi Parmentier @remiparmentier.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
She is the last safety net in the EU Commission 🙏 I've just listened to Teresa Ribera @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu's carefully worded podcast conversation on @euractiv.com.
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Remi Parmentier @remiparmentier.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
"The Trump administration placed nearly 60 senior officials at the USAid on leave on Monday, on suspicion they had been helping humanitarian organisations cope with the freeze." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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UN aid agencies cut back operations after Trump’s 90-day funding suspension
Exclusive: UNHCR chief orders clampdown on spending, including 90-day delay in ordering new supplies and hiring freeze
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Remi Parmentier @remiparmentier.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Ironic? When the new US Administration is planning to crush the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s research budgets,Trump croonies-enhanced AI speculative market is crashing under pressure from a Chinese App called...#DeepSeek whose logo is a whale. 🐳
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Explore - Deep Sea Conservation Coalition
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Remi Parmentier @remiparmentier.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Bluesky, Blueocean: The Ocean & Climate Platform is now on Bluesky: @ocean-climate.bsky.social #LetsBeNicetotheOcean
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/01/2025
We break down how President Trump’s first week in office unfolded — and what to expect over the next few weeks. Listen to "The Daily."
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Trump 2.0: Bans, Purges and Retribution
We break down how President Trump’s first week in office unfolded — and what to expect over the next few weeks.
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Dave Winer on Bluesky @scripting.com · 24/01/2025
I kept this screenshot assuming someday we might be asked to forget.
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Remi Parmentier @remiparmentier.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Sad. I hope he did not suffer on his departure. Condolences to his loved ones. I worked very closely with Pete Wilks in the late 1970s and through the 1980s, essentially on the nuclear campaigns and also Greenpeace "internal cuisine". I'd lost track of him for a long time.
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 22/01/2025
Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin (Collaboration with @politicalbeauty.bsky.social )
Picture of the Tesla gigafactory in Berlin with Elon Musk projected and the words Heil Tesla
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Remi Parmentier @remiparmentier.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
This 👇 just when the MAGA bigots are applauding Trump's announcement that he's walking out again of the Climate #ParisAgreement.
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Remi Parmentier @remiparmentier.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Thank you for your kind words. Brilliant to "see" you too, Wendy. #LetsBeNicetotheOcean letsbenicetotheocean.org
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#LetsBeNicetotheOcean - Toward the Nice Ocean Conference
We call on governments to endorse and implement the Protection Principle in Nice at the 3rd UN Ocean Conference.
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Wendy J F @wendyj.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Brilliant to see longtime Ocean protector @remiparmentier.bsky.social finally here! Welcome to the kinder place!
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Remi Parmentier @remiparmentier.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Trump suspends all US foreign assisstance for 90 days pending reviews. apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump suspends US foreign assistance for 90 days pending reviews
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order temporarily suspending all U.S. foreign assistance programs for 90 days pending reviews to determine whether they are aligned with his policy goals...
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Charles Thistlethwaite @charlest.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Donald Trump's order for the US to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement drew criticism from other signatories and environmental groups, as well as statements of continued support by states, cities and other countries for the agreement's goals. #ClimateChange www.reuters.com/business/env...
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World reacts to Trump's plan to withdraw US from Paris climate pact
President Donald Trump will order the U.S. to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, the White House said on Monday, once again placing the world's top historic emitter of greenhouse gas emissions outside of the global pact aimed at pushing nations to tackle climate change through domestic actions.
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Remi Parmentier @remiparmentier.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
20-01-25. We're entering the most dangerous four years of our existence. Spain's leading newspaper @ElPais Sunday edition yesterday had the illustrations which Edel Rodriguez, a newyorker of Cuban origin published during Trump's first term. My favourite are the two Der Spiegel covers at the bottom.
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