It’s been a huge week in Bogotá for the Amazon Summit. The decision to adopt the Mechanism for Amazonian Indigenous Peoples participation (MAPI for its acronym in Spanish) to bring Indigenous nations into the formal governance structure of the Amazon Treaty is historic.

Huge news from the InterAmerican Court. So much to process in the 300+ pages but the finding is clear and should send a message across the Americas and the world "States are obliged to... supervise and control, as a minimum the exploration, extraction, transport and processing of fossil fuels"

I got 99 reasons to plant trees, but carbon offsetting ain't one.

Want to plant trees to offset fossil fuels? You'd need all of North and Central America, study finds

Planting trees can help save the planet, right? A new study finds that to offset all the planet-warming carbon emissions from fossil fuel reserves, trees would have to entirely cover an area the size ...

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🇰🇳 It's official—St. Kitts and Nevis has become the 17th nation to back the proposal for a Fossil Fuel Treaty 🔥 🗣️ Tell us in the comments: which countries do you want to see participating next?

🔊 BREAKING NEWS! In a historic moment, @mayorofgm.bsky.social and Massive Attack came together at a sold-out concert in Manchester to endorse the #FossilFuelTreaty on #WorldEnvironmentDay. 🎶🌍

Equally shitty is that this is also true at fossil fuel extraction sites: so many missing & murdered Indigenous women, in particular, have disappeared in proximity to "man camps" for oil & gas mining.

Amy Westervelt@amywestervelt.bsky.social · last yr.

An absolutely chilling story about a cost of climate disasters we don't think/talk about enough, from @ninalakhani.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The African Development Bank did not approve any direct funding for fossil fuel projects in 2024, but its failure to exclude #FossilGas leaves the door open for backsliding. Continued investment in gas risks locking #African countries into stranded assets, energy insecurity, and inequality.

"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,” [former Prime Minister Olmert] said." www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...

'Indiscriminate, Unrestrained, Brutal': Former Israeli PM Calls Gaza Assault 'War Crimes'

"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination," former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wrote in an op-ed aimed at Israeli citizens.

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If the club “exists to win premierships” it has to ask how it’s working toward that goal with current setup. Deluded if they think Ins post bye will make a difference. I think they’ve missed a trick by not putting Marshall on long term injury list and going to MSD. Connected to Ken imo

Rohan Connolly@rohanconnolly65.bsky.social · last yr.

Port Adelaide's controversial coaching handover is having a detrimental impact on the team, writes Ronny Lerner on FOOTYOLOGY. He says the club should install Josh Carr in the senior role as soon as possible. #footyology

A wild carbon credit boondoggle in which Chevron bought credits for a project on Indigenous land that residents didn't (and still don't) know anything about, painstakingly documented by the great Andres Bermudez-Lievano @elclip.bsky.social @mongabaylatam.bsky.social drilled.media/news/CLIP-Ch...

In Colombia, Chevron has a habit of buying carbon credits from projects made behind indigenous people’s backs.

Leaders of the Cotuhé Putumayo indigenous reservation, in the Colombian Amazon, say that they do not know about the carbon credit project taking place in their land, which has sold more than 3 million...

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Pacific leaders urge reelected Albanese to lead with climate solidarity ahead of COP31 — The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative

Pacific government leaders and civil society respond to the outcome of the 2025 Australian election, looking ahead to a possible COP31 hosted in the region, creating the opportunity and urgent need fo...

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We’re hiring a climate reporter to cover Latin America! Details here:

Latin America Climate Reporter

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HUGE verdict in Louisiana with significant implications for oil majors. BREAKING: Jury orders Chevron to pay $745 million in damages in landmark Louisiana coastal damage lawsuit. www.nola.com/news/environ...

Jury orders Chevron to pay $745 million for Louisiana coastal damage in landmark trial

The jury delivered its verdict in the landmark case, which sought to make Chevron pay to restore an area of coastal wetlands near Bayou Gentilly.

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Arctic sea ice extent for March set a record low since satellite monitoring started 47 years ago The amount of ice "missing", compared to 1979, is an area the size of Alaska! March is when Arctic sea ice extent hits its maximum, before declining to minimum, usually Sept nsidc.org/sea-ice-toda...

Spring is in the air

Arctic sea ice extent for March set a record low in the 47-year satellite data record. Extent was below average everywhere except the East Greenland Sea.

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At the fourth assembly on an Amazon free of fossil fuels - leaders from Indigenous nations across the Amazon sharing stories of their resistance to the industry of death and their wisdom and traditions of life. Three more days of sharing, building relations and political planning to come

A great start to an historic event in Cartagena. Intersections btwn clean air, human health and our energy systems have never been clearer. We face a real cross roads on public priorities - we can keep paying our own public money to burn our lungs and our climate or we can choose the side of life!

Clean Air Fund@cleanairfund.bsky.social · last yr.

Delighted to co-host opening reception for @who.int Conference on #AirPollution & #Health with @fossiltreaty.bsky.social. Made for an inspiring start to a week of discussions, announcements & collaborations to drive action on clean air & protect health @drmarianeira.bsky.social @alexraf.bsky.social

Kicking off our formal side event at the @who.int conference on clean air and health that focuses on listening to frontline and fence line voices on the health risk posed by fracking and fossil fuel extraction generally

Q: Should Norway included LULUCF (land sink) in its new NDC (climate target)? A: Only as a separate target Why should LULUCF be separated, particularly in countries with large sinks? I explain for Norway, but the lessons are general. @klimastiftelsen.no www.linkedin.com/pulse/should...

If after the trump-Zelensky presser the pope dies today do we just assume that satan is a real thing and is winning?

Will there ever be any accountability for the private-entity CDR boosters? Haha, sorry. I know I'm being silly. Of course there won't be.

Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)@doctorvive.bsky.social · last yr.

A new paper from Drew Shindell and @joerirogelj.bsky.social shows that using carbon dioxide removal for anything other than "hard to abate" emissions and overshoot would make achieving net-zero emissions impossible.

very much this. the threat of fossil fuels is existential not only to the biosphere but to our human systems too. they literally poison everything they come into contact with.

Jaakko Haikonen@jaakkoha.bsky.social · last yr.

There. Fossil fuels prevents and corrupts democracy.

personally I’m looking forward to the obscenely sexy m&m coming back

pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky”@pixelatedboat.bsky.social · last yr.

Now that wokeness is dead the Mars corporation is finally free to put lead back into the M&M's coating

Uplift is hiring! We have an amazing opportunity for someone with a policy and/or legal background to join our team at a crucial time for the future of oil, gas and just transition policy (and politics) in the UK. Feel free to DM with questions www.environmentjob.co.uk/jobs/104719-...

Legal and Policy Adviser

We are currently looking for a Legal and Policy Adviser to join our growing team to drive forward our strategic legal and policy advocacy. This is an exciting opportunity to help build an ambitious .....

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Had the chance yesterday to offer some reflections on why so few countries have submitted NDCS (Paris climate goals) when the deadline was this week -https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/most-countries-miss-un-climate-plan-deadline-as-fears-over-trump-effect-on-global-diplomacy-grow-1.7455310

This opaque and secretive system that’s now being seen as a scam even by the farmers underpins our only legislated emissions reduction program btw. Great reporting: www.theage.com.au/national/par...

‘Parasites’, ‘cowboys’: The carbon companies dividing rural Australia

Carbon developers descended on rural Australia 10 years ago promising big money and an easy fix to complex problems. Today, farmers are crying foul.

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This misprojection continues to be true year on year. Sadly fossil fuel emissions peaks continues to be a year away. Evrry year. 2024 was the year with highest coal consumption in history. We have to tackle fossil fuel use head on and not hope RE will displace them as a matter of course.

Jan Rosenow@janrosenow.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW RESEARCH: IEA WEO energy scenarios have significantly underestimated solar PV growth potential. There's a consistent underestimation of PV. The projected annual additions of solar PV have not aligned with real market developments. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Southern Environmental Law Center attorney quoted in this article is correct. Burning trees for power *increases* CO2 in the atmosphere for *decades* relative to burning fossil fuels. Cutting down trees in the US, shipping the wood to Europe, and burning it there accelerates climate change. 🧪

Michelle Alfini@michellealf.bsky.social · 2y ago

What if I told you, there’s a way to fight climate change by taking wood from the southeast, shipping it across the ocean and burning it in Europe? Sound far-fetched? I investigated that claim and explored the global and local impact of this growing industry. www.wsoctv.com/news/local/e...

Important news from the UK with a court requiring the climate impact of new fossil fuel fields to be taken into account, and the Gov including a reference to consultations on ending new licences in their NDC/Paris goal. Progress on ending the expansion of this deadly industry. Read more 👇

Tessa Khan@tessakhan.bsky.social · 2y ago

Breaking: Uplift welcomes a very sensible decision from the Court of Session invalidating the decision to approve the Rosebank oil field. Rosebank is a disaster for the climate & will do next to nothing to create the prosperity & stability that the UK needs. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...