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Christine Milne

@christinemilne.bsky.social

I am an environmental and social justice activist who spent 25 years in Green politics in Australia. I work with many eNGOs, am Global Greens Ambassador, a devoted grandmother and a keen gardener.

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Yung En Chee@yungenchee.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Offset shills: "a strong ACCU market w increasing prices over time [..] Investors & landholders need confidence there will be demand in the future" But "The only reason a country needs to create more ‘carbon offsets’ is because it expects to fail to decarbonise." (👀@louisemorris.bsky.social 👇)

Screenshot of a LinedIn post from Growing Australia's Nature Economy (GANE) Australia has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to bring more private investment into climate and nature projects and build on the benefits these projects are already delivering across the country. That was the core message from our recent roundtable with Assistant Minister Josh Wilson MP. Environmental markets can play a much bigger role, but investors need confidence. That means credible outcomes, clear and consistent policy and, above all, a strong Australian Carbon Credit Unit (ACCU) market with increasing prices over time. These projects require significant upfront investment and commitments that can last for decades. Investors and landholders need confidence there will be demand in the future and that the rules won't keep changing. Strong compliance markets provide that demand, while voluntary investment from businesses, investors and philanthropists can help fund new ideas and projects beyond what regulation requires. We need both. Government also has an important role to play. Good environmental markets need credible methods, science, data, measurement, registries and regulation. They also need trusted organisations that can connect landholders with science, policy and investment, including Landcare Australia, First Nations organisations, agricultural groups and natural resource management organisations. As the Nature Repair Market develops, we should build on what Australia already does well. Accounting for Nature, Reef Credits and other credible voluntary initiatives have created experience and expertise we can use rather than starting again from scratch.One particularly important point came from First Nations participants, who increasingly talk about "core benefits" rather than "co-benefits". Cultural, social, economic and environmental outcomes aren't necessarily extras attached to these projects. They can be fundamental to their value. Environmental markets aren't the whole answer. Australia cannot offset its way to net zero. We need to reduce emissions and draw carbon from the atmosphere, alongside conservation, regulation and community action. But markets can do something incredibly important: bring private money into projects at a scale that government and philanthropy cannot achieve alone. The opportunity is there. The job now is to create the confidence needed for that capital to flow. Murray Watt Lena Saboisky Barry J Hunter North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance Ben Sawley Pastoral Partners Australia Bill Hurditch David Brand Goslik Schepers Izzy Jensen Transition Accelerator James Schultz GreenCollar Australian Climate and Biodiversity Foundation Sally Higgins Sasha Courville Carbon Market Institute (CMI) Brendan Foran Alasdair MacLeod Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water Shane Gaddes Kate Saunders Australian Ethical Investment
Yung En Chee@yungenchee.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"The only reason a country needs to create more ‘carbon offsets’ is because it expects to fail to decarbonise." "Whatever the paperwork calls it, an offset is a corporation saying we’re going to keep polluting, & we’re paying someone else for the permission slip." I urge you to read the full piece

Dr Charlie Gardner@charliejgardner.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If you see the destruction of the natural world as primarily an ecological problem, rather than a human problem best addressed by considering people and power, then scroll on You will find little of interest in this political ecology starter pack

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Dr. Aaron Thierry@thierryaaron.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Uneconomic growth is economic expansion where the social & environmental costs of production are greater than the economic benefits gained. "approval is likely to lead to future damages of at least £170bn – £483 bn over their lifetime, 6 – 17 times the economic value they will generate for the UK"

Projected climate loss and damages from new UK oil and gas fields unequivocally show their destruction of economic value globally

Modelled future emissions pathways compliant with limiting global temperature rises to 1.5C show the need to avoid expansion of oil and gas supply. However, several countries are examining reversals t...

researchsquare.com

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Despair is not just wrong. It's irrational. Things can change, at astonishing speed. In fact, the flip might be happening already. My article for the Guardian's climate support campaign. www.theguardian.com/membership/2...

Don’t despair about what’s happening to our planet. That’s what they want you to feel

There are social tipping points when the seemingly impossible suddenly becomes inevitable. Good journalism plays an essential role in helping drive these shifts and shows us how real change can happen

theguardian.com

Dr swift parrot@teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The most depressing thing about swift parrots is that this same story has been told repeatedly for the entire 16 years I’ve been working on them - same terrible conservation outcomes again and again with no changes to Tasmanian forest management www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

What happened when a rare bird found a place to nest near a logging coupe

It was late 2021 when one of Australia's rarest birds started to arrive in the native forests of Lonnavale. Ecologists had expected it but for a reacting forestry sector, it was "not sustainable".

abc.net.au

Fiona Katauskas@fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 4mo ago

So, I found out on Friday that my gig at the Guardian is coming to an end in late August. Needless to say I'm rather bummed by this development AND in need of a new job so if anyone's looking for a cartoonist HMU.

Peter Gleick@petergleick.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Case in point: the new Trumpian lead for the next National Climate Assessment is literally a #climate denier, disputing the most basic science fact about #climatechange. This is Stalin-like science.

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Peter Gleick@petergleick.bsky.social · 4mo ago

There have been 5 US National Climate Assessments, each advancing the science of #climate threats, prepared by the nation's top scientists.The 6th will be prepared by climate deniers & MAGA political hacks & will be a scientific embarrassment, forever to be ignored. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

stranger@strangerous.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Niki Savva takes aim at Abbott’s “very strange” & “very extreme” speech at a RW conference in London saying it could have just as well been delivered by Hanson/ON. “Maybe he should be President of One Nation?” 💥 Speers, agitated, tries to cut in. Savva ignores, powers on.💥

Senator Lidia Thorpe@senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 4mo ago

When I say Labor is all talk and no action, this is exactly what I mean. The Albanese government has just rejected hundreds of recommendations from the United Nations aimed at improving the terrible state of human rights in this country. nit.com.au/30-06-2026/2...

UN recommendations on Indigenous rights largely rejected by Albanese government

The Albanese government has rejected key United Nations recommendations aimed at improving outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, including calls to raise the age of criminal respo...

nit.com.au

Dan Ilic@danilic.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Can’t believe we’re going to get a fossil fuel supercharged Hanson under the guise of fighting for the everyday person… because the the people that elected to fight for everyday people forgot and started fighting for fossil fuels.

Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS@euanritchie.bsky.social · 5mo ago

If you’re ‘protest voting’ for One Nation you’re also saying you aren’t at all ashamed to support a party of vile racists and science-denialists. By association, that’s what YOU stand for. If you’re absolutely cool with this, please fuck off.

Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS@euanritchie.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This Tuesday, @yungenchee.bsky.social and I will join @amymullins.bsky.social on @3rrrfm.bsky.social's Uncommon Sense, at 9:20 am, to have a long chat about much of what's in our @australia.theguardian.com piece, below. 👇 #CommunityRadio #Environment #Conservation #Policy

Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS@euanritchie.bsky.social · 6mo ago

My good friend and colleague @yungenchee.bsky.social and I penned an Op Ed for @australia.theguardian.com about @australianlabor.bsky.social's failure to deliver on their promise to voters of 'ending environmental neglect' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 5mo ago

At some point in the next weeks / months, Pauline Hanson is going to try and hamfistedly wide the wave of opposition to data centres in Australia, so in advance of that: fuck all racists, and racist political parties, and everyone who accepts allyship with vicious, violent white supremacist ghouls 👍

American Rivers@americanrivers.bsky.social · 5mo ago

For nearly 100 years, four large dams on the Klamath River blocked salmon and steelhead trout from reaching more than 400 miles of habitat. 🐟 This World Fish Migration Day, enjoy this footage of their return to historic spawning habitat post-dam removal! 🎥 Swiftwater Films

Dana Bergstrom@danambergstrom.bsky.social · 5mo ago

But the treasurer said what he was doing was in line with the “good book”. Removing 1700 hundred jobs from hospitals, schools, police, environment while spending 1-2 billion on a gambling syndicate’s infrastructure disguised as sport is apparently a Christian act 🤷🏻‍♀️

Nina Lakhani@ninalakhani.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Britain has created a new breed of political prisoners through the systematic incarceration of people acting to prevent climate breakdown and the annihilation of Gaza, new research has found. www.theguardian.com/law/2026/may...

New breed of political prisoner arises in Britain as anti-protest sentences rise

More people are being jailed in England and Wales as a result of acting to prevent climate breakdown and the war in Gaza, research reveals

theguardian.com

Dr Monique Ryan@mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Time’s up. The Albanese Government must do better, to stop Australians being the world’s biggest losers, with gambling losses of $87 million every day. We must ban gambling ads and establish a national regulator.

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Yung En Chee@yungenchee.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Most of our protest crew (fr 5 local enviro grps) are >65 yrs, our eldest member is >80 Thru rain, hail & shine, illness, injury & serious life events, we've turned up wk after wk to protest the @albomp.bsky.social gov's environment, Indigenous cultural heritage & planet-destroying climate policies

Yung En Chee@yungenchee.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Nearly a YEAR since @leanaustralia.bsky.social Environment Champion, Josh Burns, refused to open his office to accept our petition opposing @albomp.bsky.social govt's approval of WoodCIDE's North West Shelf Extension carbon 💣 👎33 Coal+Gas proj approvals 👎42 Coal projs in the pipeline LABOR SHAME

Miles King@milesking.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Remand is “the first line of attack”, with the effect of chilling protest and civil disobedience. In 60% of cases, final sentences were more lenient than time already spent in custody awaiting trial. Political prisoners in Britain as anti-protest sentences rise www.theguardian.com/law/2026/may...

New breed of political prisoner arises in Britain as anti-protest sentences rise

More people are being jailed in England and Wales as a result of acting to prevent climate breakdown and the war in Gaza, research reveals

theguardian.com