Seamless Trade
@seamlesstrade.bsky.social
Exploring the crossroads of trade, environment, and geopolitics. Can we find balance in a divided world? Advocating for sustainable solutions where economies thrive, the planet is protected, and collaboration wins over conflict.
📣 We're hiring📣 🎓 Come and join the UK's newest law school. We have two posts available at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level (@lborouniversity.bsky.social) 🌏 Please share this opportunity widely with your networks! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRP034/l... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRP041/s...
We’re hiring an Advocacy Manager at the Trade Justice Movement. A great role for someone interested in politics, parliamentary engagement and influencing UK trade policy. Apply by 17 May 👇 tjm.org.uk/about-us/jobs/
Jobs - Trade Justice Movement
Advocacy Manager Key details Salary: £51,215 Duration: Full time, permanent. 40 hours per week (open to considering 0.8 FTE). Location: TJM’s office is in London SW9. Hybrid and flexible arrangements ...
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I would like to share a new SSRN working paper presenting my views on property regimes and environmental harm under conditions of planetary crisis Presented at the Newcastle Law School PGR Colloquium 2026. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #EnvironmentalLaw #PlanetaryJustice
Property regimes under planetary crisis: strategic rationality and ecological embeddedness
This paper examines how planetary ecological limits alter the strategic role of property regimes within contemporary legal orders. Drawing on ecological economi
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Sharing a visual reflection from my doctoral research on planetary justice, trade, and the environment — the Tevolution Pendulum, exploring how human development and the environment remain central to our shared future. #PlanetaryJustice #TradeLaw #Environment #Justice#EcologicalAwakening
#RightsofNature - delighted to be hosting this event in #HouseofLords today www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK campaigners launch bill to give nature legal rights
Private member’s bill backed by Chris Packham and Natalie Bennett would impose a duty of care on government and business
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⏰There is still time to join us for day 2 of #ClimateForChange2025 Join us tackling #ClimateJustice through fair & progressive taxation. Together, we’ll push for the funds and policies needed for a #JustTransition. Sign up & watch live🔗https://bit.ly/4msXBL
The IAS is pleased to announce the publication of the new NAB. 🎉 This edition offers a comprehensive look back at the IAS’s initiatives, projects, & events throughout 2024. 👉 You can access the digital version directly here: www.ias.uni-bayreuth.de/de/IAS-Publi... @africamultiple.bsky.social
🎥Corporate Underminers of Democracy 2025 🗣️"Why are govts awarding contracts to a company like Amazon—one that bullies workers, ignores democratic norms, and flouts ethical standards? Unions worldwide are demanding better." Nick Rudikoff @uniglobalunion.org 📺 buff.ly/sCSacwB 📰 buff.ly/2dJKKWU
Fascinating (and worrying) analysis, with some grounds for optimism - and potentially a number of warnings for the UN #TaxConvention negotiations...
Magnus Løvold@magnuslovold.bsky.social · 11mo agoAfter the Geneva round of the #PlasticsTreaty talks ended without a deal, troubling questions are being raised about the role played by @unep.org Executive Director Inger Andersen — and an apparent bid to topple the Committee’s elected Chair medium.com/points-of-or...
Klare Ansage von @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social , gegenüber einer Moderatorin, die sichtlich bemüht war, den deutschen "StaatsräsonDiskurs" zum Genozid in Gaza aufrechtzuerhalten. www.deutschlandfunk.de/musik-fuer-m...
"Musik für Menschlichkeit" - Ein Benefizkonzert für Kinder in Gaza
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Have you just joined @greenparty.org.uk, or thinking about joining the rush? With perfect timing @wiltonsquare.bsky.social has published the Second Edition of #ChangeEverything, setting out, in accessible, easy-to-read form, Green political thinking wiltonsquarebooks.com/products/cha...
Change Everything
A practical and hopeful guide for anyone who wants a route map to a fairer, greener future, by a veteran former Green Party leader
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Since 2012, at least 2,253 environmental defenders have been murdered or disappeared. Far more have been abducted, threatened, harassed and assaulted.
An Average Week in 2024: Three Environmental Defenders Murdered or Disappeared - Inside Climate News
The mining industry is the sector linked to the most attacks against people trying to protect the environment and their homelands.
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#IndustrialAgriculture - setting out monoculture feasts inviting in pests and diseases. Huge danger to #FoodSecurity phys.org/news/2025-09...
Wheat disease losses between 2018 and 2021 cost farmers $2.9 billion across the US and Canada, study reveals
A multi-year study has revealed that between 2018 and 2021, wheat diseases caused the loss of approximately 560 million bushels—valued at US $2.9 billion, or $18.10 per acre, in farmer revenue—across ...
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A debate I secured on these issues in #HouseofLords in 2023 hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2023-1...
Food and Biological Security: Agricultural Fungicide - Hansard - UK Parliament
Hansard record of the item : 'Food and Biological Security: Agricultural Fungicide' on Thursday 23 November 2023.
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Natalie Bennett@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 12mo agoCurrently hosting event on antifungals in medicine and agriculture, focusing on #AntiMicrobialResistance #AMR. With 6.5 million invasive infections globally each year, and 3.8 million deaths attributable to them. Area of fast-rising concern!
Registration is still open for our final 'Rethinking Fables' conference (May 22–24, 2025, U of Kent & online), featuring keynote speakers Profs Vinciane Despret and Susan McHugh. We’d love for you to join us 😊 Please visit: research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f...
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If the Camel Could Speak – Reflections on Trade, Fables, and Global Connections
The introduction to the volume "Animal Trade Histories in the Indian Ocean World" opens with a reference to an Aesop’s fable about a merchant and his camel, capturing the essence of human-animal relat...
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When a superpower runs a trade deficit, does it stay a domestic issue — or does it become everyone's problem? I just published this reflection on how empathy, not escalation, might reshape global trade. www.seamlesstrade.international/post/navigat...
Navigating the Turbulence: Empathy, Leadership, and the Future of Global Trade
Global trade needs empathy, not escalation. A third path is possible—fairer, simpler, and rooted in shared values, not submission.
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Title: The ‘degrowth’ movement envisions global climate justice, but must adapt to global south realities
Green growth or degrowth? Experts debate the best solutions to address climate change, biodiversity loss, and global inequalities.
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Please support journos at The Observer & Guardian. Sign the petition 👇
Steve B@stevebasnett.bsky.social · 2y agoA smashing article in support of journalists at The Observer & Guardian. If you would like to show your support as well, you can sign a petition here: Thank you. www.change.org/p/stop-the-t...
Trading up: How carbon markets can help development and the planet. The #WeeklyTradecast looks at how carbon markets can help the most vulnerable countries address inequalities and protect the planet with UNCTAD's Paul Akiwumi and Jean-Paul Adam from the UN Office of the Special Adviser on Africa.
Trading up: How carbon markets can help development and the planet
YouTube video by UN Trade and Development
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