🙌Fantastic news! The @IACourtHR just ruled that states have a legal duty to tackle the #climate emergency and guarantee our right to a safe climate. 🧵Thread ⬇️
☠️Jeff Bezos’s wedding emitted 1,000 t CO₂ - just from guests’ private jets.
✈️Yesterday at #FFD4, the EU + 8 countries backed a tax on luxury flights.
🤑Because billionaires shouldn't party while the planet burns.
#TaxTheirBillions #MakePollutersPay
As #India & #Pakistan rattle their nuclear sabres, the real issue may be control of the Indus River. Tensions over Indus water sharing are nothing new. But with a 50% water deficit looming due to #climatechange, escalation to all-out war is a real risk. csis.org/blogs/new-perspecti…
Today, #InternationalWorkersDay, millions of workers in 🇵🇰 🇮🇳 🇮🇷 face temps close to the limits of human survivability. Without sick pay, air conditioning, or robust heat regulations, informal workers must either lose wages or lose their health. Climate justice = labour justice.
Once-theoretical fire behaviour, including fire tornadoes, is now becoming routine due to #climate change.
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Important victory for the #StopEACOP campaign as Chubb becomes the 30th insurer to refuse to cover the pipeline project. Without insurance, the project cannot go ahead. Insurers who have yet to take a stand, like AIG, need to step up now. static1.squarespace.com/stat…
#Climate defenders and indigenous leaders have scattered ashes from Amazon forest fires outside Brazil's Ministry of Foreign Affairs - demanding an end to fossil fuels and a just energy transition, as well as recognition of indigenous land rights.
africanews.com/2025/04/16/in…
US tariffs likely to trigger a full-blown debt crisis in developing countries:
- Countries w/ high debt payments all hit with tariffs
- Borrowing costs will rise
- Global downturn will tank export revenues
- No benefit from falling dollar
debtjustice.org.uk/blog/us-t…
How will Trump's tariffs affect #renewables? Our analysis shows they won't slow global momentum for clean energy. The US now accounts for only 7% of the world's #solar market. But they will hurt ordinary people, especially Americans . independent.co.uk/climate-ch…
35 years ago today.
Love is hate
War is peace
No is yes
And we're all free
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Dear President @LulaOficial, you say #Brazil needs to produce more oil in order to fund clean energy. We have a better idea: you can stop giving $14.5bn a year to the #fossil industry and invest it in renewables instead.🧵 dw.com/en/is-brazil-abandoni…
Brazil has the money, it's just not being put in the right places. What's missing is the courage to make bold decisions on fossil fuel phaseout. Visionary leadership is what @LulaOficial brought to social policy - now, as #COP30 chair, we need you to do the same for #climate.
The new scramble for Africa is on. 🇨🇳China to rehabilitate rail line bringing 🇿🇲Zambia's #criticalminerals to 🇹🇿Tanzania's ports for export to the east, as 🇺🇸US backs rival railway to ferry resources to 🇦🇴Angola to ship to the west. #energysky #greensky
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Carbon colonialism: Big polluters Japan & South Korea pour billions into risky scheme to export their emissions for storage in poorer countries. “The real solution isn’t to bury carbon; it’s to stop digging up more,” says 350 Indonesia's @sisiliand. climatechangenews.com/2025/0…
Renewables now account for 1/3 of US utility-scale generating capacity and almost 100% of new capacity being added. cleantechnica.com/2025/03/21… #greensky #energysky cleantechnica.com/2025/03/21…
BREAKING: The average 5-year-old now faces a future with:
🥵 7x more heatwaves
🌊 3x more floods, droughts & crop failures
🔥 2x more wildfires
If this isn't the world you want for your kids, consider joining - or starting - a @350.org local group.
independent.co.uk/climate-ch…
Check our global map for a group near you. If you're already part of another local group, you can connect it with our network. You can also support by taking a campaign action or donating. 350.org/get-involved/?r=ZA&c…
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"Hope is a human condition that is necessary for me to take my next step. Hope is a condition that we choose, and we choose it irrespective of whether our difficulties are great or small." @Miaamormottley, #Barbados PM. #wordstoliveby bloomberg.com/green-zero-emi…
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🔒ANTHONY BUTLER: "For the first time since Mbeki’s departure it is possible to imagine there is an underlying, if implicit, foreign policy strategy at play, based upon the national interest." businesslive.co.za/bd/opinio… via @BusinessLiveSA
The world's biggest banks, despite having $54 trillion to their names, are apparently so scared of the man in the White House that they are running away from their Paris pledges to stop funding #fossilfuels. As they say in Texas: grow a set. thebanker.com/content/3faa52…
With banks, asset managers and big companies all rushing like lemmings to abandon #netzero targets, the need for binding regulations and accountability measures to prevent mass #climate suicide has never been more urgent. 350.org/media/
