I often hear people say that we need to include the Global South in CO₂ removal (CDR). I disagree. CDR is waste management and a bummer. Rich countries created this CO₂ mess and it’s our responsibility to clean it up. The Global South shouldn’t be burdened with this task.
Laura Pereira
@laurap18.bsky.social
South African sustainability scientist. Prof in Sustainability Transformations and Futures at Global Change Institute, Wits University and researcher at Stockholm Resilience Centre. IPBES expert, Earth Commissioner and general academic traveller
Excited to convene with @laurap18.bsky.social FUT11 at #WBF2026 — "Shaping #Biodiverse #Futures: Applying the #NatureFuturesFramework from Local to National Scales." Come talk about nature futures with us 👇 Mon 15 + Tue 16 June, Room Flüela. meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/WBF2026/sess...
Session FUT11
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Solving science conundrums in the climate-nature-equity polycrisis with integrated transformative scenarios @laurap18.bsky.social + authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... research agenda towards a more diverse and embedded global scenario approach
On this third year anniversary of the war in Sudan we woke up to the devastating news that our friend and comrade Muzan Al Neel has passed away. She was a brilliant revolutionary thinker, writer and organizer and a wonderful human. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un
The creators of gloriously unearthly anti-capitalist deckbuilder All Will Rise have announced that they're joining the No Games For Genocide boycott against Microsoft's business links with the Israeli military. https://bit.ly/4unTxBz
Israel's attack, echoing similar carnage it wrought in Gaza, kills doctors, paramedics and nurses who were on duty.
Israel kills 12 medics in attack in southern Lebanon as war ravages nation
Israel's attack, echoing similar carnage it wrought in Gaza, kills doctors, paramedics and nurses who were on duty.
aljazeera.com
"We are not powerless, every action matters" - Indie studio Speculative Agency returns Microsoft Xbox funding and urges others to boycott www.eurogamer.net/speculative-...
Thinking of those with Iranian links in the UK, worrying about family and friends. "There is every chance the regime will get tougher on Iranians to cover its vulnerability. I worry that ordinary people in Iran and beyond will be in harm’s way.” www.thetimes.com/world/middle...
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: I fear for Iran and my family
She dreamt of a free Iran during her six-year incarceration. Then when Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe heard America had attacked she was worried for her relatives. She reveals why sitting for a portrait wa...
thetimes.com
Headlines moved on quickly from the schoolgirls in Minab. We don’t know their names; no media profiles about their lives and aspirations. No smiling photos attached to quotes from mourning families. How unfair that some dead are memorialised while others are relegated to ‘estimated casualties.’
A new study published today in @natsustain.nature.com reveals major blind spots in global sustainability research, overlooking critical strategies, sectors & actors needed to address climate & biodiversity crises. #SystemsChange transformationscommunity.org/news/new-ana...
New Analysis Exposes Blind Spots in Global Sustainability Research | Transformations Community
A new study published in Nature Communications, based on an analysis of 4 million scholarly documents, reveals major blind spots in sustainability research. ...
transformationscommunity.org
🚨 HUGE NEWS! 🚨 All Will Rise is now LIVE on Kickstarter! Fundraising has begun to bring our revenge fantasy against the powerful to life. Want to try before you fund? All Will Rise currently has a demo on Steam too! Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe... #IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev
A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
‘Give your love a book or something’ ❤️ 🥀
Most of the roses for sale in the US are raised in hideous labor and environmental conditions in Colombia and Ecuador before they're loaded onto 747s to fly here. I know because I visited one of the rose plantations/sweatshops for my book Orwell's Roses. Give your love a book or something.
This morning, delegates at #IPBES12 heard about progress across negotiation groups The @ipbes.net Plenary is wrapping up on Sunday and delegates need to finalize their consideration of the #BizBiodiversity Assessment and other outstanding matters before then
New Paper ❗️ 🪸Reimagining #CoralReef futures Where we develop aspirational visions for coral reefs towards a #SafeAndJust space 👇🏽 doi.org/10.1038/s44183-025-00179-6 With @joachimclaudet.bsky.social @jessicablythe.bsky.social @vbrn.bsky.social et al @sthlmresilience.bsky.social
Reimagining coral reef futures - npj Ocean Sustainability
npj Ocean Sustainability - Reimagining coral reef futures
doi.org
*DEADLINE EXTENDED* February 8 Submit your suggestions and nominate (yourself or others) as a co-author for the 2026 edition of the 10 New Insights in Climate Science
What climate insights are policymakers missing? If you’re working on new or emerging climate research, now’s the time to surface it. Help shape the 2026 10 New Insights in Climate Science. Submit by 31 Jan 2026: form.jotform.com/Future_Earth...
⚡ #BreakingNews ⚡ / 🚨 Paper Alert! 🚨 🚀 The Ocean Equity Index is out! 🫂 🎣 🐟 The Ocean Equity Index (#OEI) is a tool to guide the development of more equitable #ocean #governance and #management. 📰 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
🚨 Paper Alert! 🚨 🪸🐟🎣🫂 Reimagining #CoralReef futures 🌟🌠🌌 ♾️ Visions + narratives constitute key stepping stones to reimagining desirable relationships between people and coral reefs and speak to both anticipatory and adaptive pathways toward desired change. doi.org/10.1038/s441...
Today’s crises aren’t just about what we do but who decides and what we value. Commissioner @laurap18.bsky.social highlights the need to rethink the goals and power structures shaping our economic and governance systems. A #SafeAndJust future means changing direction, not just speed.
🌊 The global community has made ambitious commitments to advancing ocean equity – what is missing is a transparent & replicable way to measure equity and track progress 🐠 📢 Our new @nature.com paper, the #OceanEquityIndex, offers a simple yet robust solution: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The Ocean Equity Index - Nature
The Ocean Equity Index provides a systematic, twelve-criteria framework to assess and improve equity in ocean initiatives, projects and policies, producing structured data that guide evidence-bas...
nature.com
Honoured to be able to speak today on the #BBNJ and #oceangovernance and what this means for #Africa here on the @greenpeace.org #RainbowWarrior 🌈 🌊
"But when I landed in Minneapolis and saw the size, scope and lawlessness of the federal onslaught unfolding here, I understood that Good’s killing was emblematic of its true mission: to stage a spectacle of cruelty upon a city that stands in stark defiance of Trump’s dark vision of America."
Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War
nytimes.com
💙So excited for this epic project with @joachimclaudet.bsky.social @sebasvillasante.bsky.social and the e rest of the team @inspiriprojecteu.bsky.social 🌊Watch this space over the next 3 years 💪🏾
🌊 How do we imagine the future of European oceans and waters? We proudly introduce INSPIRI – an EU funded Horizon Europe project dedicated to co-designing actionable visions for a restored ocean and water system in the EU by 2030 and 2050. Watch our launch video below to learn more!
🌊 How do we imagine the future of European oceans and waters? We proudly introduce INSPIRI – an EU funded Horizon Europe project dedicated to co-designing actionable visions for a restored ocean and water system in the EU by 2030 and 2050. Watch our launch video below to learn more!
INSPIRI Project Launch Video
YouTube video by INSPIRI PROJECT_ EU
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After a long journey: why user values, power relationships and language have to be accounted for to construct user-relevant trustworthy climate information: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... @wegenercenter.bsky.social @stefansobo.bsky.social @laurap18.bsky.social @leabdiaz.bsky.social
The Importance of Accounting for Stakeholder Values, Power Relationships and Language in Constructing Relevant and Trustworthy Climate Information
Accounting for stakeholder values, power relationships and language is important to construct user-relevant climate information These aspects cannot be treated separately as they influence each o...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
"The Trump administration’s oil grab and plans to expand Venezuelan production flouts last year’s landmark climate ruling from the International Court of Justice" @ninalakhani.bsky.social's first piece for @drilledmedia.bsky.social: drilled.media/news/Venezue...
U.S. Invasion of Venezuela Violates International Climate Law Too
The Trump administration’s oil grab and plans to expand Venezuelan production flouts last year’s landmark climate ruling from the International Court of Justice.
drilled.media
Great thread here 👇🏽
In my environmental justice seminar today, we discussed the extent to which research on climate justice is informed by knowledge on justice outside the climate field. This was inspired by @bcoolsaet.bsky.social et al's 2025 response to a piece by Zimm et al from 2024. 1/n
As I often say, you cannot distinguish justice as a research or policy objective from epistemic injustice and knowledge politics - if our research is based on positivist models of Western science, we won't see the real problems - and maybe not even the solutions. I recommend reading both papers...
Solidarity with climate warriors @harjeet11.bsky.social & Jyoti Aswati, whose Delhi home was raided by Indian authorities amid outrageous claims their fossil fuels campaign is funded by foreign actors and threatens national security - part of a global crackdown www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Indian police raid home of environmental activists over anti-fossil fuel campaign
Sarat Sampada founders Harjeet Singh and Jyoti Aswati say allegations are ‘baseless, biased and misleading’
theguardian.com