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Biofuelwatch @biofuelwatch.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
New article co-authored by our colleague @vozsilvestre.bsky.social illustrates how the push for "Carbon Dioxide Removal" is greenwashing highly destructive monoculture tree plantations: www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/carbon-dioxi... Published by @geoengmon.bsky.social #CDR
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Carbon Dioxide Removal Narrative is Greenwashing Monoculture Tree Plantations - Geoengineering Monitor
Guest article by Gary Hughes, Biofuelwatch, and Oli Munnion, Global Forest Coalition
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Biofuelwatch @biofuelwatch.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Illusory Emissions Reductions from #Biofuels Undermine California Progress on Climate - Article by @vozsilvestre.bsky.social exposes how ~45% of recent ghg reductions are attributed to "renewable diesel" which is no better for the climate than fossil fuels: www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2025/illusor...
Photo of a large oil refinery. Text: Martinez refinery in California converted to biofuels by Marathon and Neste
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Geoengineering Monitor @geoengmon.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Grassroots victory over California wood pellet export scheme shows folly of burning biomass to capture carbon Guest article by @vozsilvestre.bsky.social The failure of a proposal to bring the export-oriented wood pellet sector to CA exposes the global unviability of BECCS schemes #geoengineering
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Grassroots victory over California wood pellet export scheme shows folly of burning biomass to capture carbon - Geoengineering Monitor
Guest article By California resident Gary Hughes, Biofuelwatch
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Real Zero Europe @realzeroeurope.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
🚨 Join the first in our new webinar series! These sessions unpack some of the most common false solutions to the climate crisis, exploring the risks they pose & empowering NGOs and activists to challenge them. 🗓️ Friday, 27 June 2025 🕒 12–14 CEST 👉 Register now: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 1/
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 23/06/2025
As @ClimateHome announces, in 30 minutes, we will issue mass call for reforms to rescue @UNFCCC process: bit.ly/3GbCeiA 🚨 LIVE ⏰ 4:30 PM CEST | 📍 Nairobi Room 4 | 🔴 Livestream: shorturl.at/ohJ0K #TheCOPWeNeed #FixTheUNFCCC
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Campaigners to issue a call for reforms to the UN climate process
Activists want reforms to the UN climate process so it makes decisions by voting, not just through consensus, so it allows for more ambition
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Lien Vandamme @lienvandamme.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
🚨 LIVE from #SB62: 200+ env, youth, women, disability & Indigenous orgs launch bold proposals to reform the UN Climate Talks #TheCOPWeNeed 📅 Mon June 23, 4:30 PM CEST 📍 Nairobi Room 4 🔴 Livestream: shorturl.at/ohJ0K 30 years of talks have failed to deliver #ClimateJustice. Time to #FixTheUNFCCC.
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Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance @handsoffmotherearth.org · 08/06/2025
🪼🐳🦀 Read our statement calling for an end to marine geoengineering experiments ENG: bit.ly/4lgKU6v SPA: bit.ly/3HuP7op FR: bit.ly/3HuJCGi #WorldOceansDay #Geoengineering #OceanProtection #ClimateJustice #IndigenousRights #HandsOffMotherEarth @geoengmon.bsky.social @gfc-forest.bsky.social
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Biofuelwatch @biofuelwatch.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
New podcast about the problems with large-scale wood #biomass energy by Solutions for Our Climate, an NGO campaigning for a transition to genuinely clean renewable energy in Asia: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eIE...
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SFOCify | Ep. 1 | All That Glitters: Debunking the Biomass Myth
YouTube video by Solutions for Our Climate (SFOC)
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Solar Geoengineering Non-use Agreement @solargeoeng.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
🚨 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱: “𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗔'𝘀 '𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴' 𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗹𝘆” Professors R. Pierrehumbert, M. Hulme, P. Newell & A. Stirling critique the UK Advanced Research and Invention Agency’s unprecedented £60 million solar geoengineering research initiative. A thread on their key concerns 👇
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ARIA’s ‘Exploring Climate Cooling’ Folly - Solar Geoengineering Non-Use Agreement
On 7 May 2025, the UK Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) announced the list of projects to be funded under its £60 million solar geoengineering research initiative. Readers of this blog wil...
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Gary Graham Hughes @vozsilvestre.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
The Great Carbon Capture Scam <Carbon capture has always been a bioenergy and fossil fuel industry scam, designed to distract and delay critical measures to cut emissions by phasing out coal, oil, and gas and other dirty emissions intensive energy sources.>
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The Great Carbon Capture Scam | Rex Weyler - Greenpeace Aotearoa
Carbon capture has always been a fossil fuel industry scam, designed to take attaention away from measures to cut emissions by phasing out coal, oil and gas.
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Biofuelwatch @biofuelwatch.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
As the race for biofuels intensifies, we’re sounding the alarm about their environmental impacts. This excellent piece details the dangers of unrestrained biofuel production: news.mongabay.com/2025/05/as-r...
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As renewable diesel surges, sustainability claims are deeply questioned
Renewable diesel is a biofuel made from vegetable oils and animal fats touted by proponents as an almost miraculous “drop-in” transition fuel able to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions while eas...
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Gary Graham Hughes @vozsilvestre.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Just amazing: Trump grew angry over a Biden-era program with the word "equity" in its name, so he ended it. But a key part of the program was sending money to red states to expand internet access in rural/MAGA country. Now they might not get it. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1950...
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Angry Trump Kills “Woke” Program—and Accidentally Screws MAGA Voters
It’s called the Digital Equity Act. That word—“equity”—caught the White House’s attention. So now Trump is moving to nix funding—but it could cut off millions destined for red America.
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Reclaim Finance @reclaimfinance.org · 07/05/2025
We were at #Barclays’ AGM today to ask the bank to stop financing all companies expanding oil and gas production, as well as liquefied natural gas #LNG projects AND companies developing them, starting with TotalEnergies’ #PapuaLNG. ⤵️🧵 [1/8]
The teams of Reclaim Finance, ShareAction and Fuel Poverty Action in front of Barclays' AGM.
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Mary Church @mmchch.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
5 outdoor experiments are amongst the first projects to receive funding under UK research agency ARIA’s highly controversial £56.8 million solar geoengineering program - crossing a major red line by enabling technology development www.ciel.org/news/uk-agen...
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UK Agency Starts Funding Highly Controversial Solar Geoengineering Experiments Despite Enormous Risks
UK Agency ARIA Is Funding Controversial Risky Solar Geoengineering Outdoor Experiments. The Center for International Environmental Law Says Solar Geoengineering Experiments Must Be Halted to Safeguard...
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Global Justice Ecology Project @gjep123.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Living Carbon wants to create #GMO trees that don't rot to sell as carbon offsets to huge emitters like Microsoft so they can do nothing to ACTUALLY reduce their emissions. What about the impact on soils, fungi, forests? They don't know. We visited them at their facilities on Santana St in Hayward.
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Biofuelwatch @biofuelwatch.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Campaigners from Biofuelwatch, Stop Burning Trees, York TUC, Global Justice York, XR York & York FoE protesting against Drax's tree burning, carbon pollution and profiteering on the day of its AGM on Thursday! Take action against Drax's subsidies - contacct your MP! actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
Protesters wearing tree masks gather around a tree in York city centre wearing tree masks and holding placards.
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Biofuelwatch @biofuelwatch.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Drax are climate criminals!! And they were sent the message loud and clear last week at their AGM as they announced vast profits on the back of environmental, community and animal harm - Drax destroys the planet for profit - take action - contact your MP: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...?
Two protesters wearing black holding a banner with red on black text reading Drax are Climate Criminals, followed by white on black text reading Stop Polluting Communities outside Drax's AGM in London.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
This is an official plan for ethnic cleansing. If you supported Israel for the past 18 months or so under the assumption that this was about the hostages you were taken for a ride. If you still support Israel's assault on Gaza, you support ethnic cleansing. It's that simple.
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Israel plans to occupy and flatten all of Gaza if no deal by Trump's trip
Trump has effectively given Netanyahu a green light to do as he sees fit, Israeli officials say.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/04/2025
MUST READ especially for climate change concerned folks who think they can choose silence on genocide: “War causes extensive, long-lasting environmental damage, affecting landscapes, ecosystems, biodiversity, and vital resources.” 🧪 @iuscientist.bsky.social www.iuscientists.org/militarism-a...
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Militarism: A Leading Cause of Environmental and Climate Crises
By Manabendra Nath Bera. Synopsis - The climate and environmental impacts of war and military operations are often neglected in global climate negotiations. This article highlights how war, being the...
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Gary Graham Hughes @vozsilvestre.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
#handsoffmotherearth #sayno2solargeo
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Geoengineering is climate denial. Geoengineering is like trying to stop dying of thirst in the desert by applying a new brand of lip balm. Geoengineering is like trying to beat your heroin addiction by pretending fentanayl is methadone. Geoengineering is predatory delay. Don't fall for it. 2/2
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Geoengineering Monitor @geoengmon.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
🔥 New Update on Biochar 🔥 💸 Lucrative carbon offset sales are driving a boom in biochar production around the world, despite doubts that biochar can remove carbon from the atmosphere long term 🧐 See who’s involved, where, and what you should know: www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/geo-map-bioc...
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Carbon markets are driving the biochar boom despite questionable climate claims - Geoengineering Monitor
This update on Biochar summarises the latest developments on the Geoengineering Monitor Map, highlighting new trends to aid civil society and climate justice
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Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance @handsoffmotherearth.org · 21/04/2025
🌍 Today marks 15 years since the launch of the Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) campaign — a powerful, global resistance against geoengineering. 🧵⤵️ #NoGeoengineering #HandsOffMotherEarth @geoengmon.bsky.social @ciel.org @etcgroup.bsky.social @cjaourpower.bsky.social @foeus.bsky.social
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Biofuelwatch @biofuelwatch.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
MPs question value of billions in subsidies granted to Drax power plant www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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MPs question value of billions in subsidies granted to Drax power plant
Spending watchdog warns £6.5bn in funding may not offer value for public money amid ongoing sustainability concerns
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Stop the Money Pipeline @stopmoneypipeline.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Preserving a stable climate demands that we engage in the struggle against authoritarianism. That means we must be in solidarity with our most vulnerable communities —especially migrant and immigrant families. Join Session #1 in our 3 part workshop series on 4/30! RSVP: stmp.link/immigrationj...
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Global Justice Ecology Project @gjep123.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
From our excellent event in Berkeley on the 25th anniversary of A16 mass mobilization in Washington, DC. GJEP ED Anne Petermann @annegjep.bsky.social speaks to an enthusiastic crowd. Thanks to @vozsilvestre.bsky.social @biofuelwatch.bsky.social and Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters! Photo: Langelle
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Global Justice Ecology Project @gjep123.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
GJEP's event in Berkeley last night about the Mapuche struggle for land, autonomy and culture was fantastic. As well, Orin's book Portraits of Struggle flew off the table. For those who missed it, here is our Breaking Green podcast on the findings of our Chile delegation @biofuelwatch.bsky.social
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Ancestral Rights and Political Prisoners in Chile's Wallmapu - Breaking Green
The Mapuche people of Chile are fighting to reclaim ancestral lands taken over by vast industrial eucalyptus and pine plantations established during the Pinochet dictatorship in the 1970s. Their strug...
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Gary Graham Hughes @vozsilvestre.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
“I feel like something is happening generally in America,” she said, in an interview over a video link. “Something bad is happening. I don’t think everybody understands.”
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She Worked in a Harvard Lab to Reverse Aging, Until ICE Jailed Her (Gift Article)
President Trump’s immigration crackdown ensnared Kseniia Petrova, a scientist who fled Russia after protesting its invasion of Ukraine. She fears arrest if she is deported there.
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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Arbitrarily detained because she didn’t fill out an obscure form required for transporting frog embryos, which she wasn’t aware of. She’s still in prison. #Fascism
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 01/04/2025
This is "a deeply unpopular and politically motivated attack on Planned Parenthood and reproductive freedom that will disproportionately harm families who are already struggling to make ends meet," said one advocate. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-p...
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Trump Blasted for Attack on Reproductive Care Across Numerous States | Common Dreams
Critics slam Trump admin for withholding Title X funds from Planned Parenthood, jeopardizing crucial reproductive care services for low-income Americans.
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Gary Graham Hughes @vozsilvestre.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
“Biofuels have no place in any policy designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in shipping or in other forms of transport." Press release: www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2025/imo-shi...
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Gary Graham Hughes @vozsilvestre.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
📻 <learn about the concerns arising from the #California pivot to high #deforestation risk liquid #biofuels> lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/mar/22/...
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THE ECONEWS REPORT: What is 'Renewable Diesel'?
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Global Justice Ecology Project @gjep123.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
📣 Join GJEP on Wed 4-16-25 in Berkeley! "Indigenous Rights, Climate and Forests in Chile: report back from our human rts delegation last October with @annegjep.bsky.social PLUS West Coast launch for Portraits of Struggle photo book by Orin Langelle. @vozsilvestre.bsky.social @ienearth.bsky.social
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Biofuelwatch @biofuelwatch.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Beyond shocking: @unepwcmc.bsky.social holds a "Nature Action Dialogue" with polluters including Drax: www.events-unep-wcmc.org! Drax was found to repeatedly have sourced significant quantities of wood from clearcutting of primary and oldgrowth forests in BC. #AxeDrax
Drone photo of clearcuts in a boreal oldgrowth forest, taken during the winter.
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KQED News @kqednews.kqed.org · 25/03/2025
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Hundreds Rally in SF in Support of EPA, as Trump Cuts Climate Funds
Hundreds of environmentalists and activists demonstrated in support of the embattled Environmental Protection Agency after Trump slashed funding for clean energy and environmental justice programs.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 14/03/2025
"If the government can do this to universities, we don't live in a free society. Five alarm fire," wrote one professor. www.commondreams.org/news/dept-of...
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'A Hallmark of Autocracy': Flurry of Trump Attacks on Universities Sparks Alarm | Common Dreams
"If the government can do this to universities, we don't live in a free society. Five alarm fire," wrote one professor.
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Josh Gabbatiss @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Trump's aid cuts are bad news for international climate finance. I looked through the available data to work out how bad... Around 8% of the climate finance pledged to developing countries by rich countries last year came from the US. Those funds are now under threat. ➡️ buff.ly/BuxwfSL
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Gary Graham Hughes @vozsilvestre.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
the rate of natural sequestration of CO2 from the atmosphere by the terrestrial biosphere is now declining rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Natural sequestration of carbon dioxide is in decline: climate change will accelerate
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Environmental Investigation Agency @eia-news.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Loopholes in EU regulations appear to be driving unsustainable and fraudulent palm oil trade. Get the full story and read EIA’s new briefing 'The Palm Oil Black Box – EU trade loopholes' now at eia-international.org/news/alarmin... #forests #deforestation #palmoil #biofuel #EU
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Biofuelwatch @biofuelwatch.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Important new report by Environmental Investigations Agency: eia-international.org/report/the-p... - looks at how lots of palm oil is getting into EU #biofuels under dubious, often false 'wastes and residues' labels. Same is likely to be true for imports to the UK and probably other countries.
Photo of palm oil bunches being delivered by truck. Text: eia - Environmental Investigations Agency - Forests, The Palm Oil Black Box, EU trade loopholes, March 2025
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Biofuelwatch @biofuelwatch.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Please listen to soundcloud.com/garygrahamhu... where our colleague @vozsilvestre.bsky.social describes the devastating impacts which large-scale #biofuel use in shipping would have. #biofuels
Photo of two large tankers.
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Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance @handsoffmotherearth.org · 05/03/2025
🌍 Who are we? HOME Alliance is a coalition of civil society, Indigenous Peoples, human rights, and climate justice groups. We reject geoengineering as a false climate solution and fight for real climate action.🧵👇 📖 Read our manifesto: handsoffmotherearth.org/resources/ha... #HandsOffMotherEarth
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Gary Graham Hughes @vozsilvestre.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
The $300 million lawsuit against #Greenpeace is an attack on us all. We will not stand idly by. We will not be bullied. We will not be divided and we will not be silenced. @biofuelwatch.bsky.social stands with Greenpeace. See open letter to Energy Transfer. www.greenpeace.org/usa/energy-t...
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Oil and Gas Action Network @oilgasaction.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
We stand with Greenpeace support the right to protest.
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Gary Graham Hughes @vozsilvestre.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
👉 There is mounting evidence that carbon markets do not deliver real emissions reductions and often lead to human rights abuses, land grabs, and violations of the rights of Indigenous Peoples. #HandsOffMotherEarth handsoffmotherearth.org/resources/pr...
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Press Release: Carbon Markets Are Not The Magic Pill To Scale Up Carbon Dioxide Removals – HOME Alliance
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 20/02/2025
📢 On the eve of #IPCC62, 100+ CSOs & #IndiegenousPeoples groups are calling on the @ipcc.bsky.social to center equity in how it approaches modeling and scenarios, prioritizing the #FossilFuelsPhaseOut & end reliance on highly speculative techs: www.realsolutions-not-netzero.org/ipcc-62-call...
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Biofuelwatch @biofuelwatch.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
#Biofuels are a major threat to #forests, communities & climate. Read the open letter we signed with 67 NGOs where we ask @imohq.bsky.social to NOT allow biofuels to count towards the new global fuel standard 👇Follow the next #IMO summit – London, 17/21 Feb. www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2025/open-le...
Photo of deforestation next to an oil palm plantation. Text: “Communities in many countries of the global South are already facing the consequences of vast and rapidly expanding monocultures of oil palm, soy and other crops in demand for biofuels.”
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Biofuelwatch @biofuelwatch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Join us outside DESNZ to say: Ed, it’s time to #DumpDrax! 📅 Bring Valentine’s-themed placards, wear red & pink! Can’t make it to London? Host your own action! 🔗 Action pack: tinyurl.com/dump-drax-toolkit 📍 Register: tinyurl.com/register-dump-drax-demo
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