Louisa Casson
@louisacasson.bsky.social
Oceans & climate campaigner. Lead Greenpeace campaign to stop deep sea mining. Global environmental politics, extractivism in the transition and the high seas. Opinions my own
Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.
SLOW CLAP "AI boom means US is now ‘investing more’ in fossil-fuel power than China" Congratulations to US AI Tech Oligarchs www.carbonbrief.org/ai-boom-mean...
Breaking: 141 countries just voted for a just transition away from fossil fuels! Vanuatu and Pacific nations’ leadership have achieved a VICTORY for climate justice. More >> www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
UNGA heeds Pacific voices, backs world court on states’ climate obligations - Greenpeace International
The United Nations General Assembly voted to adopt a landmark resolution led by Vanuatu and 12 other countries.
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Dawn of the Electric World Order: Global shockwaves from the war on Iran are accelerating the energy transition “What makes this shock different from the 1970s? As analysts at Ember put it: “this is the first energy shock with a superior alternative.” www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/daw...
Robinson complained on stage that without the support of wealthy Americans, it wouldn’t have happened. “This event would not be happening if I didn’t go to America,” Robinson told a crowd of people who otherwise complain about foreign influences on UK politics.
Tommy Robinson’s pointless, confused, US-funded march
If the hard right rabble rouser has to cross the Atlantic for financial backing, what does that say about his level of support in Britain?
thenewworld.co.uk
Today @europarl.europa.eu voted for the EU to defend a #moratorium on #DeepSeaMining + to take action against any unlawful US-led deep-sea mining. The vote is a clear signal to the EU to step-up its game to defend the rules and the #DeepSea. Read more here🔗 seas-at-risk.org/general-news...
European Parliament backs EU action against unlawful US deep-sea mining plans - Seas At Risk
The European Parliament today adopted, with a strong majority, a resolution on international ocean diplomacy that presses for the European Union (EU) and its 27 Member States to respond to unlawful de...
seas-at-risk.org
Longer term “everybody knows” that the world “cannot rely on oil” - not an activist but emerging markets chief investment officer at private banking arm of Deutsche Bank www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Deutsche Bank Declares China Energy ‘Winner’ in New Era of War
As war injects extreme volatility into oil and gas markets, the global race for energy security is making China stronger, according to Jacky Tang, emerging markets chief investment officer at the priv...
bloomberg.com
It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...
Tonight I'm thinking of the many Hungarians I've met over the years - many of them abroad against their wishes, many of them queer - who haven't stopped fighting, for sixteen years. For most of us, Orbán was an on-and-off nuisance on TV - at best. For them, he was a constant nightmare.
Vote hope! Greens win Kent County Council by-election and take seat previously held by Reform🙌 www.kentonline.co.uk/thanet/news/...
Greens win Kent by-election and take seat previously held by Reform
A minor political earthquake shook Kent this morning after the Green Party defied expectations to snatch victory at a crunch by-election.
kentonline.co.uk
As a glimmer of hope for international cooperation to protect the environment, the new High Seas Treaty must stop the lobbyists and bring the science oceanographicmagazine.com/news/high-se...
High Seas Treaty must stop the lobbyists and bring the science - Oceanographic
Campaigners warn fishing industry lobbyists are attempting to rewrite the High Seas Treaty in their favour — with days left of UN ocean talks.
oceanographicmagazine.com
India pauses its first deep sea mining auction after ZERO companies bid for offshore mineral blocks "The impression we have is that it is not economically feasible for companies" (Not an April fool - but this industry is a joke) economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/ind...
India does not plan to revive offshore mining auction in near term, sources say
India has shelved plans for deep-sea mining auctions, citing a lack of technological readiness and anticipated low bidder interest. The initial auction for critical mineral blocks, valued over 1.5 tri...
economictimes.indiatimes.com
VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England. I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Government to lift paywall from large parts of the Land Registry
Exclusive: finding out who owns land will become simpler under plans to make the best use of green spaces and hit net zero targets
theguardian.com
A reminder: Matt Goodwin lost heavily in spite of an almost total lack of tactical voting, not because of it. The combined Green/Labour vote was 66%, versus 28.7% for Reform. If Labour and the Greens split the vote 50/50 – a total coordination fail – he'd have finished third, not second.
True development strengthens resilience rather than risking it. For Tonga, saying no to deep sea mining is not fear—it is leadership Former MP makes strong case that “companies move on, but the environmental, legal & reputational consequences remain with the nation” matangitonga.to/2026/02/12/w...
Why Tonga should say no to deep seabed mining
Nuku'alofa, Tonga: Deep seabed mining is often presented as a new economic frontier for Pacific nations—a source of revenue, jobs, and minerals needed for the global energy transition. But when we loo...
matangitonga.to
Listen to the elders! Scientist still diving at 90 says deep sea mining won’t succeed www.mining.com/web/scientis...
Scientist still diving at 90 says deep-sea mining won’t succeed
“Going up in space is relatively easy compared to going deep into the ocean,” said Sylvia Earle.
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"This is a wildly unpopular initiative that the Trump administration is trying to force on the territories in the Pacific" Bipartisan resistance to "violent proposal for deep sea mining" unites across Guam, American Samoa and Northern Marianas www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
'A really big threat': US territories brace for Trump's deep sea mining
A Trump administration push to begin deep-sea mining is gathering momentum — and stirring alarm in United States Pacific territories.
abc.net.au
Loving that clean energy is increasingly how governments are responding to Trump's chaotic oil grabs From Canada-China & India-EU deals cutting tariffs on electric vehicles & renewables, to UK and EU hugely scaling up offshore wind to "get off the fossil fuel rollercoaster" - this is true security
The global ocean treaty is a sign that in a divided world, protecting nature and protecting our global commons can still triumph over political rivalries. The ocean connects us all. www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
What is the High Seas Treaty? The agreement ratified by 83 countries
The world’s first legally binding agreement to protect marine life in international waters took effect on Saturday
independent.co.uk
Loving the unintended irony that putting British flags up lampposts is how China is welcoming Starmer to Beijing 😂
Another day, another political disaster for Starmer New poll for the New Statesman: Let Burnham stand, voters say www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
‘Under my leadership, Starmer was admitting, this party is too broke and too unpopular to risk asking the voters of Greater Manchester — Greater Manchester! — for a mandate’ - not a good look
Harry Taylor@harrytaylor.bsky.social · 6mo agoThis is one of the most incisive columns I've read on Starmer's Labour, and explains some of the issues that go beyond the Burnham selection row
Would you believe me if I told you a new international law dedicated to environmental protection is coming into force today? And that it covers nearly half the surface of the planet? 🌊
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning." -Churchill
“This is not the time to comment on the legality of the recent actions” - this is PRECISELY the time to comment on the illegality of attacking & abducting another country’s leader Upholding international law means actually defending it, esp when it’s not “easy” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
European leaders appear torn in face of new world order after Venezuela attack
Leaders try to focus on what comes next, as backing for ejection of Maduro mingles uncomfortably with voicing of support for international law
theguardian.com
Wrote a thing: The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....
Five Facets of the Attack on Venezuela by the Rogue Nation the US Has Become
1 They are saying it baldly: this is an oil grab. There is a history of oil grabs going back to British imperialism in the middle east in the late nineteenth century and murders of Osage Nation triba...
meditationsinanemergency.com
Maduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela. Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law. Both of those facts are simultaneously true.
What changed for deep sea mining in 2025? Everything - except the fundamental point that this risky industry still hasn’t started anywhere in the oceans, and Trump’s interest is galvanising more opposition than ever before grist.org/global-indig...
What changed for deep-sea mining in 2025? Everything.
Trump reshaped the industry this year, even as it faced opposition from the United Nations, scientists and Indigenous peoples.
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