Adam Sneyd 🇨🇦
@adamsneyd.bsky.social
Author of Hidden Politics in the UN SDGs & Associate Professor @ Moo U in Guelph - critical thoughts on commodities, sustainability & CSR + check out www.theicsdp.org and https://adamsneyd.com
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Adam Sneyd 🇨🇦
@adamsneyd.bsky.social
· Jun 23
Adam Sneyd on Rethinking Sustainable Development: The ICSDP Initiative
YouTube video by David Peck Live
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A call to action from me: we can and must independently assess the sustainability impasse, reinvent the SDGs, and create better metrics of progress m.youtube.com/watch?v=KwJr...
So the Swiss🇨🇭have successfully bribed Trump w tacky gold crap + billions in promised investment for lower tariffs (for now). Wonderful to see the @wto.org host country bolstering the enshittification of global trade governance and failing to support collective solutions….
November 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
So the Swiss🇨🇭have successfully bribed Trump w tacky gold crap + billions in promised investment for lower tariffs (for now). Wonderful to see the @wto.org host country bolstering the enshittification of global trade governance and failing to support collective solutions….
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An extraordinary mapping of Big Food/Big Ag's influence at COP30, by @rachelsherrington.bsky.social and co at @desmog.com.
As #COP30 begins in Belém @DeSmog can reveal over 140 ways food & agriculture firms to sway the summit. Meet the main players in Brazil's powerful agro lobby, along w/ US meat, dairy & grain industries -- and where they will target messages #AgroLobby. By @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & Gil Alessi
November 12, 2025 at 8:40 AM
An extraordinary mapping of Big Food/Big Ag's influence at COP30, by @rachelsherrington.bsky.social and co at @desmog.com.
New from @marcfroese.bsky.social and Daniel Drache rabble.ca/economy/we-k...
We know what a Trump trade deal looks like and it’s worse than you think
Trump's tariffs may be causing Canada economic pain, but his recent so-called "trade deals" with other countries show that things an get much worse.
rabble.ca
November 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
New from @marcfroese.bsky.social and Daniel Drache rabble.ca/economy/we-k...
Check out one of our greatest regenerative farmers campaigning for Canada's @ndp.ca leadership while citing @jasonhickel.bsky.social drive.google.com/file/d/1EXcz...
November 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Check out one of our greatest regenerative farmers campaigning for Canada's @ndp.ca leadership while citing @jasonhickel.bsky.social drive.google.com/file/d/1EXcz...
I just donated to the Tony McQuail Green-Progressive campaign: join our effort to put one of Canada's biggest sustainability voices front and centre on the national stage tonymcquailgreenprogressive.ca
Tony McQuail Green Progressive 2026
tonymcquailgreenprogressive.ca
November 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I just donated to the Tony McQuail Green-Progressive campaign: join our effort to put one of Canada's biggest sustainability voices front and centre on the national stage tonymcquailgreenprogressive.ca
Good to see David Pilling's take on Simandou...but there are huge gaps here. Read @jeuneafrique.com for more on Russia's ongoing surge into France's power vacuum, the rise of narcotrafficking, and massive governance backsliding (i.e. the essential story behind the story) www.ft.com/content/9fe8...
How the world’s biggest mining project is a win for China
The $23bn Simandou mine in Guinea has taken almost three decades to begin operating but could tilt the balance of power in the global iron ore market
www.ft.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Good to see David Pilling's take on Simandou...but there are huge gaps here. Read @jeuneafrique.com for more on Russia's ongoing surge into France's power vacuum, the rise of narcotrafficking, and massive governance backsliding (i.e. the essential story behind the story) www.ft.com/content/9fe8...
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Excellent commentary from @stephenbrown.bsky.social on the McLeod Group Blog about Canada's ill-timed cuts to its global aid responsibilities:
"The World Needs Less Canada?"
www.mcleodgroup.ca/2025/11/the-...
"The World Needs Less Canada?"
www.mcleodgroup.ca/2025/11/the-...
The world needs less Canada? - The McLeod Group
McLeod Group blog by Stephen Brown, November 10, 2025 Does the world need less Canada? One might think so, reading last week’s federal budget. The cuts to foreign aid and how they are justified sugges...
www.mcleodgroup.ca
November 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Excellent commentary from @stephenbrown.bsky.social on the McLeod Group Blog about Canada's ill-timed cuts to its global aid responsibilities:
"The World Needs Less Canada?"
www.mcleodgroup.ca/2025/11/the-...
"The World Needs Less Canada?"
www.mcleodgroup.ca/2025/11/the-...
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My analysis of his year's Economics Nobel is out in EPW! What's wrong with the Economics Nobel this time around? I've written a little commentary arguing that the Prize rewards Eurocentric foundations for (innovation-driven) growth and supports a technology fetish. PDF: ingridhk.com/wp-content/u...
November 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
My analysis of his year's Economics Nobel is out in EPW! What's wrong with the Economics Nobel this time around? I've written a little commentary arguing that the Prize rewards Eurocentric foundations for (innovation-driven) growth and supports a technology fetish. PDF: ingridhk.com/wp-content/u...
Imagine a world where sustainability goals were achieved at the pace that Greg Foat drops immersive, transportative albums.... gregfoat.bandcamp.com/album/6-days...
6 Days in Leysin, by Greg Foat
9 track album
gregfoat.bandcamp.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Imagine a world where sustainability goals were achieved at the pace that Greg Foat drops immersive, transportative albums.... gregfoat.bandcamp.com/album/6-days...
David Peck's documentary Broken Courage is heading to the Palais des Nations, the Hague and back to Cambodia - check it out and join @globalaffairs.canada.ca in supporting this crucial work on land mines www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpOb...
Broken Courage Tour Campaign Update
YouTube video by David Peck Live
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
David Peck's documentary Broken Courage is heading to the Palais des Nations, the Hague and back to Cambodia - check it out and join @globalaffairs.canada.ca in supporting this crucial work on land mines www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpOb...
Lula keeps dropping meaningful truth bombs that get to the heart of the matter
November 7, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Lula keeps dropping meaningful truth bombs that get to the heart of the matter
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NEW from me:
Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.
That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀
Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.
That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀
October 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
NEW from me:
Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.
That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀
Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.
That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀
It is indisputable that recent ‘elections’ in Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon and Tanzania were either blatantly stolen or total shams. international officials should have the courage to call this authoritarian turn what it actually is.
October 31, 2025 at 1:39 PM
It is indisputable that recent ‘elections’ in Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon and Tanzania were either blatantly stolen or total shams. international officials should have the courage to call this authoritarian turn what it actually is.
More eyes on Tanzania please rfi.my/C8ti
Présidentielle en Tanzanie: les tensions persistent, la population reste confinée
Au lendemain d'élections présidentielle et parlementaires ponctuées de manifestations et de violence, la situation était toujours tendue ce jeudi 30 octobre en Tanzanie, où les heurts se sont poursuiv...
rfi.my
October 31, 2025 at 12:14 AM
More eyes on Tanzania please rfi.my/C8ti
An intriguing new book is coming out on the global political economy of French hip-hop complete w diplomatic passports, narco-trafficking, money laundering, authoritarians and the decline of the West rfi.my/C8VU
October 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
An intriguing new book is coming out on the global political economy of French hip-hop complete w diplomatic passports, narco-trafficking, money laundering, authoritarians and the decline of the West rfi.my/C8VU
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Donald Trump annonce une hausse de 10 % des droits de douane sur le Canada après la diffusion d’une publicité
Donald Trump annonce une hausse de 10 % des droits de douane sur le Canada après la diffusion d’une publicité
Le président américain a rompu cette semaine les relations commerciales avec Ottawa, en rétorsion à une campagne publicitaire de la province de l’Ontario contre les droits de douane américains utilisant des extraits d’un discours de Ronald Reagan.
www.lemonde.fr
October 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Donald Trump annonce une hausse de 10 % des droits de douane sur le Canada après la diffusion d’une publicité
One of our strongest Canadian organic farm heroes is running to bring the NDP and Greens together - check him out!! tonymcquailgreenprogressive.ca
Tony McQuail Green Progressive 2026
tonymcquailgreenprogressive.ca
October 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
One of our strongest Canadian organic farm heroes is running to bring the NDP and Greens together - check him out!! tonymcquailgreenprogressive.ca
Accountability forthcoming? rfi.my/C7Hu
Madagascar: comment va se dérouler la période de transition
Après la nomination de l'économiste Herintsalama Rajaonarivelo au poste de Premier ministre lundi 20 octobre, les consultations se poursuivent pour organiser la transition entre les équipes sortantes…
rfi.my
October 22, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Accountability forthcoming? rfi.my/C7Hu
US screws over green shipping deal and veteran diplomats tell it like it is in the @FT. Mark Carney needs to wake up to this reality / you can’t negotiate with gangster wannabe fascists….
October 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
US screws over green shipping deal and veteran diplomats tell it like it is in the @FT. Mark Carney needs to wake up to this reality / you can’t negotiate with gangster wannabe fascists….
Need calm? Jump into Chip Wickham’s beautiful universe music.apple.com/ca/album/the...
The Eternal Now by Chip Wickham on Apple Music
Album · 2025 · 9 Songs
music.apple.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Need calm? Jump into Chip Wickham’s beautiful universe music.apple.com/ca/album/the...
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From Canada Strong (p. 13):
"A Mark Carney-led government will:
Safeguard our economy and our values and protect Canada from attempts to buy up our businesses,....,critical minerals and other resources by strengthening the Investment in Canada Act"
Leaving aside that it is the responsibility...
"A Mark Carney-led government will:
Safeguard our economy and our values and protect Canada from attempts to buy up our businesses,....,critical minerals and other resources by strengthening the Investment in Canada Act"
Leaving aside that it is the responsibility...
October 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
From Canada Strong (p. 13):
"A Mark Carney-led government will:
Safeguard our economy and our values and protect Canada from attempts to buy up our businesses,....,critical minerals and other resources by strengthening the Investment in Canada Act"
Leaving aside that it is the responsibility...
"A Mark Carney-led government will:
Safeguard our economy and our values and protect Canada from attempts to buy up our businesses,....,critical minerals and other resources by strengthening the Investment in Canada Act"
Leaving aside that it is the responsibility...
At the groupof78.org conference we challenged the #SDGs #GlobalGoals groupthink and articulated our aim to build something better: a more clearly-defined, less contradictory agenda with robust metrics www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vIY...
Beyond Agenda 2030
YouTube video by The Group of 78
www.youtube.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
At the groupof78.org conference we challenged the #SDGs #GlobalGoals groupthink and articulated our aim to build something better: a more clearly-defined, less contradictory agenda with robust metrics www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vIY...
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“When crops are burned for fuel, new land can be needed to grow new crops for food or fuel. This can lead to indirect land clearance and deforestation. Staggeringly, biofuels globally therefore today emit 16% more CO₂ emissions than the fossil fuels they replace.”
October 15, 2025 at 12:46 AM
“When crops are burned for fuel, new land can be needed to grow new crops for food or fuel. This can lead to indirect land clearance and deforestation. Staggeringly, biofuels globally therefore today emit 16% more CO₂ emissions than the fossil fuels they replace.”
The group78.org conference was fantastic! David Peck, Ruby Dagher and I enjoyed talking about theicsdp.org, the experience, and the great facility @cepi-cips.bsky.social.
October 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The group78.org conference was fantastic! David Peck, Ruby Dagher and I enjoyed talking about theicsdp.org, the experience, and the great facility @cepi-cips.bsky.social.
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Vous êtes-vous inscrit à la conférence de vendredi ?
➡️Panel 3 – Au-delà de l’Agenda 2030
Avec @adamsneyd.bsky.social et Ruby Dagher, modéré par David Peck.
Inscrivez-vous dès aujourd'hui ! >>> bit.ly/3IsIpzU
➡️Panel 3 – Au-delà de l’Agenda 2030
Avec @adamsneyd.bsky.social et Ruby Dagher, modéré par David Peck.
Inscrivez-vous dès aujourd'hui ! >>> bit.ly/3IsIpzU
October 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Vous êtes-vous inscrit à la conférence de vendredi ?
➡️Panel 3 – Au-delà de l’Agenda 2030
Avec @adamsneyd.bsky.social et Ruby Dagher, modéré par David Peck.
Inscrivez-vous dès aujourd'hui ! >>> bit.ly/3IsIpzU
➡️Panel 3 – Au-delà de l’Agenda 2030
Avec @adamsneyd.bsky.social et Ruby Dagher, modéré par David Peck.
Inscrivez-vous dès aujourd'hui ! >>> bit.ly/3IsIpzU