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Extinction Rebellion Belgium
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We are facing ecological and social breakdown! We are the Belgian branch of Extinction Rebellion - a non-violent civil disobedience movement rebelling for life ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏻💚 Act now! Join us! For the people, for the planet 🌍🔥⌛
👏@xrbelgium.bsky.social are currently blocking @cefic.bsky.social 's offices Cefic is the lobby group of the chemicals industry, you can read some of our research into their activities here: corporateeurope.org/en/2025/06/f... corporateeurope.org/en/chemical-... corporateeurope.org/en/2024/02/c...
The Dirty Industrial Deal FAQs part III: Chemicals | Corporate Europe Observatory
The Clean Industrial Deal is the EU Commission’s flagship policy – but despite the name, it’s definitely not clean. This series will guide you through the basics with our answers to some frequently as...
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Extinction Rebellion Belgium@xrbelgium.bsky.social · 6mo ago✊ We are currently blocking CEFIC @cefic.bsky.social - the biggest chemical industry lobbying agency in the EU. Our brave rebels are saying NO to dirty corporate lobbying, poisoning our food and contaminating our water. #PeopleOverLobbies #extinctionrebellion
✊ We are currently blocking CEFIC @cefic.bsky.social - the biggest chemical industry lobbying agency in the EU. Our brave rebels are saying NO to dirty corporate lobbying, poisoning our food and contaminating our water. #PeopleOverLobbies #extinctionrebellion
📍HAPPENING NOW @xrbelgium.bsky.social and activists from Greenpeace Belgium are blocking the offices of CEFIC, the European chemicals lobby group ‼️ 50 activists have declared the area a climate crime scene!
🚨The European Parliament just rejected the #Forest Monitoring Law 🚨 The proposal was a much-needed piece of legislation, essential to better understanding the state of Europe’s forests and how best to tackle their current breakdown. Our reaction 👇
Let's push the EU to respect the environmental and social justice! 🌻 We are proudly joining the manifestation organized by @riseforclimate.bsky.social 📅 Thursday 23/10 18h00 📍 Schuman, Brussels Climate change: €43 bln in Europe this summer No to the dismantling of the European Green Deal!
🔥 🏭 Waste-to-energy is a FALSE solution to plastic pollution. The REAL solution? CUT plastic production and scale up REUSE systems. Learn more about reuse: https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/reuse-solutions/ #BreakFreeFromPlastic #WasteToEnergy #Incineration
❌ Fossil Fuel projects ≠ Sustainable finance ❌ We, together with 120 organisations, call @ec.europa.eu to cut down the greenwashing opportunities & ensure companies developing new fossil fuel projects are 100% excluded from future sustainable financing regulation.
Reclaim Finance@reclaimfinance.org · 10mo ago📣 Avec plus de 120 organisations, experts, chercheurs et entreprises, nous appelons la Commission européenne à garantir l'exclusion des entreprises développant de nouveaux projets d'énergies fossiles des futures catégories du SFDR afin de lutter efficacement contre le greenwashing. Lire la lettre ⤵️
New research shows that ocean acidification has now crossed the planetary boundary. That's 7 of 9 boundaries crossed. Capitalism is driving ecological catastrophe and will continue to do so until we align production to a new law of value. www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Scientists announce that 7 of 9 key 'planetary boundaries' have been crossed
A team of global scientists issued a new report on Wednesday, noting that seven out of nine of key "planetary boundaries" have been crossed. Carbon dioxide emissions have increased ocean acidification...
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L'emprunte toxique du phosphate : documentaire et table ronde
1/3 ✊PEOPLE OVER LOBBIES Interest groups play a significant role in shaping political decisions. This is particularly visible within the #European institutions, where #lobbyists representing harmful #industries continue to enjoy disproportionate access to decision-makers’ offices.
Europe is burning and we know who is to blame - the #fossil #fuels and their #lobbyists. This year, more than 2000 #wildfires burned through European #forests 🔥😣 🫵 Join our #campaign against the dirty lobbying in the European institutions. 📍 Brussels Schuman, 25/09 17h00 #peopleoverlobbies
📍 Thursday 25/09 at 17h at Schuman in #Brussels 🇪🇺 The European Commission still maintains close ties with an industry that’s complicit in the destruction of the living world and undermining a liveable future for all. 💪 Come to the trial of Ursula von der Leyen and the European Commission!
Juli, aboard the Seulle with the Global Sumud Flotilla, reports on yesterday’s drone attacks targeting the boats‼️
Le 5 octobre, Bruxelles doit trembler ! Rejoignez-nous 👉 www.cncd.be/marche-climat-2025 #MarcheClimat #UrgenceClimatique
We have brought together human rights lawyers, academics, and decisionmakers to literally walk the talk 🥾 Here's why Marina Stefanova, a corporate sustainability professor from Bulgaria has trekked across Belgium in the past 3 days to say no to deregulation 🙅♀️
Wise words from Maya Doneva from the European Women's Lobby. This is why everyone should join the Back to the Future end event today✊ 🧷 Sept 23 at Schuman 🕐 18:30 Come for the inspiring speeches, stay for the incredible music by Planete Boum Boum.
📢 We need strong climate obligations, accountability, and access to justice for those harmed by pollution, extraction, displacement and unsafe working conditions. We are walking the talk 🫰 @ec.europa.eu, can you hear us coming yet⁉️
📣 RULES FOR BUSINESS ❗️ RIGHTS FOR PEOPLE Come say it with us when get to Brussels. Full program at www.backtothefuturemarch.org
Keeping that energy high this morning ⚡️ Only 20k more to go until we get to Brussels and sing this in full ❤️ Meet us at 17:30 at Parc Woluwe to hear our anti-omnibus anthem 💪 #BackToTheFuture
We are many. We are united. We are on our way 🪧🥾 Together with decision makers, communities, and allies—we are marching and calling for the EU institutions to start fighting for a green and social Europe. We will march until the EU quarter and they hear our call: 📢 No ❌ deregulation!
It's coming!! The #BackToTheFuture march 🥾💪 Let’s get together to demand - Accountability for human rights violations and pollution - Protection for communities from corporate harm We're ready to pound the pavement, fly our flags and sing out loud. Will you come along? backtothefuturemarch.org
Zondag 5 oktober, over 3 weken! Je zet het meteen in je agenda omdat het voor jou belangrijk is... Vertel je het aan je vrienden? #klimaatmars #climatemarch #brussel
Le dimanche 5/10, c'est dans 3 semaines! Note le directement dans ton agenda parce que c'est important! Tu en parles à tes potes? #marcheclimat #climatemarch #brussels
✊ THIS AUTUMN WE MOBILISE! Today kicks off the Global Week of Action to #DrawTheLine! 🔴 Marches for #DrawtheLine & #BackToTheFuture on 19-21 Sept 🔥 Brussels march on 5 Oct ⚖️ Call for justice 13-18 Oct 🌏 Marches for COP30 Around the Globe 15 Nov
ALL INFO: Autumn Mobilisations
Let's show the world that we demand change! There is a lot at stake at COP30 & beyond.
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Une marée humaine rouge a déferlé dans les rues de Bxl ce dimanche pour dresser un carton rouge à 🇮🇱 et exiger de la 🇧🇪 et l'UE qu'elles prennent des sanctions fortes pour contraindre Israël à mettre fin au génocide en cours. Les mesures décidées par le gouvernement belge ne sont qu'un début ! #Gaza
You had more than 900 meetings with fossil fuel #lobbyists in the last 5 years, while their industry kills our people and #nature We invite everyone to join us on Thursday 25/09 at 5PM at Schuman, Brussels. For our firefighters and victims of the wildfires #peopleoverlobbies #extinctionrebellion
Ursula von der Leyen@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 11mo agoEurope is on the frontline of devastating wildfires and 2025 is already the worst year on record. Summer after summer, we can count on our brave firefighters. Working together to save lives, protect communities and our environment.