Emma Bryce
@emmaanne.bsky.social
Journalist, covering #plasticstreaty, oceans, food systems, forests. Writing in @theguardian.com @dialogueearth.bsky.social @anthropocenemag.bsky.social @ted-ed.bsky.social & more
Why did the CEO of one of the world's largest demining charities The HALO Trust defend a shipment of banned landmines from the US to Ukraine? spoileralerts.substack.com/p/questionab...
Questionable incentives
Why is the CEO of the world’s largest demining organisation defending banned landmines?
spoileralerts.substack.com
July 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Why did the CEO of one of the world's largest demining charities The HALO Trust defend a shipment of banned landmines from the US to Ukraine? spoileralerts.substack.com/p/questionab...
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The story — written by journalist @emmaanne.bsky.social — raises tough questions about the perverse incentives at play in mine action.
Emma reached out @thehalotrust.bsky.social for comment. They declined.
Read the full story: spoileralerts.substack.com/p/questionab...
Emma reached out @thehalotrust.bsky.social for comment. They declined.
Read the full story: spoileralerts.substack.com/p/questionab...
Questionable incentives
Why is the CEO of the world’s largest demining organisation defending banned landmines?
spoileralerts.substack.com
July 23, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The story — written by journalist @emmaanne.bsky.social — raises tough questions about the perverse incentives at play in mine action.
Emma reached out @thehalotrust.bsky.social for comment. They declined.
Read the full story: spoileralerts.substack.com/p/questionab...
Emma reached out @thehalotrust.bsky.social for comment. They declined.
Read the full story: spoileralerts.substack.com/p/questionab...
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Why is the CEO of the world’s largest de-mining NGO defending landmines?
James Cowan of @thehalotrust.bsky.social has publicly supported the shipment of anti-personnel mines to Ukraine — even suggesting the Mine Ban Treaty should be revised 🧵
James Cowan of @thehalotrust.bsky.social has publicly supported the shipment of anti-personnel mines to Ukraine — even suggesting the Mine Ban Treaty should be revised 🧵
July 23, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Why is the CEO of the world’s largest de-mining NGO defending landmines?
James Cowan of @thehalotrust.bsky.social has publicly supported the shipment of anti-personnel mines to Ukraine — even suggesting the Mine Ban Treaty should be revised 🧵
James Cowan of @thehalotrust.bsky.social has publicly supported the shipment of anti-personnel mines to Ukraine — even suggesting the Mine Ban Treaty should be revised 🧵
The UN Human Rights Council has just officially recognised plastic pollution as a threat to human rights. Here's a look at how plastic disproportionately affects Indigenous Peoples - and how they're fighting back dialogue.earth/en/pollution... @dialogueearth.bsky.social
Indigenous Peoples fight to be heard at plastics treaty talks
Though disproportionately affected by plastic pollution, Indigenous Peoples are struggling to shape a global treaty on it
dialogue.earth
April 4, 2025 at 6:04 AM
The UN Human Rights Council has just officially recognised plastic pollution as a threat to human rights. Here's a look at how plastic disproportionately affects Indigenous Peoples - and how they're fighting back dialogue.earth/en/pollution... @dialogueearth.bsky.social
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✊ "We were completely being ignored. We were saying: ‘Chair, we need just two minutes. Chair, Indigenous Peoples are also here!’"
– Prem Singh Tharu, Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact
Indigenous Peoples fight to be heard at plastics treaty talks.
✍️ @emmaanne.bsky.social
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– Prem Singh Tharu, Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact
Indigenous Peoples fight to be heard at plastics treaty talks.
✍️ @emmaanne.bsky.social
loom.ly/7ACy-To
Indigenous Peoples fight to be heard at plastics treaty talks
Though disproportionately affected by plastic pollution, Indigenous Peoples are struggling to shape a global treaty on it
loom.ly
March 25, 2025 at 10:50 AM
✊ "We were completely being ignored. We were saying: ‘Chair, we need just two minutes. Chair, Indigenous Peoples are also here!’"
– Prem Singh Tharu, Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact
Indigenous Peoples fight to be heard at plastics treaty talks.
✍️ @emmaanne.bsky.social
loom.ly/7ACy-To
– Prem Singh Tharu, Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact
Indigenous Peoples fight to be heard at plastics treaty talks.
✍️ @emmaanne.bsky.social
loom.ly/7ACy-To
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Super proud of this co-publication with @emdashsanders.bsky.social at ExxonKnews, about the DOE's unusual relationship with plastics industry lobbying groups. @gristnews.bsky.social grist.org/accountabili...
‘Plastics are awesome’: Inside the Energy Department’s partnership with the plastics industry
Critics argue that the agency’s work with a lobbying group is a conflict of interest.
grist.org
February 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Super proud of this co-publication with @emdashsanders.bsky.social at ExxonKnews, about the DOE's unusual relationship with plastics industry lobbying groups. @gristnews.bsky.social grist.org/accountabili...
"Plastic, he added, is undeniably useful. But it comes with a clear risk. One day, if fire strikes, 'it will burn faster, and it will burn hotter.' The advantages will turn to threats." www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
What Happens When a Plastic City Burns
Most modern couches are basically blocks of gasoline.
www.theatlantic.com
January 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
"Plastic, he added, is undeniably useful. But it comes with a clear risk. One day, if fire strikes, 'it will burn faster, and it will burn hotter.' The advantages will turn to threats." www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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Lovely to wrap up the year (nearly) by publishing this piece from @oliveheffernan.bsky.social on @dialogueearth.bsky.social
dialogue.earth/en/ocean/exp...
dialogue.earth/en/ocean/exp...
Explainer: Why ocean temperatures are a growing concern
Cleaner global shipping, El Niño and a subsea volcano have all been implicated, as scientists rush to understand record-breaking ocean heat
dialogue.earth
December 18, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Lovely to wrap up the year (nearly) by publishing this piece from @oliveheffernan.bsky.social on @dialogueearth.bsky.social
dialogue.earth/en/ocean/exp...
dialogue.earth/en/ocean/exp...
I don't think we talk nearly enough about the quiet wonders of #peat and what it does for our planet - or how frightening it is when it catches fire! Thanks to TED Ed for featuring this video, with beautiful animation by Ivana Volda, and expert insight from Guillermo Rein youtu.be/brdrOzVgZX0?...
How are these fires burning underground? - Emma Bryce
YouTube video by TED-Ed
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December 18, 2024 at 7:52 AM
I don't think we talk nearly enough about the quiet wonders of #peat and what it does for our planet - or how frightening it is when it catches fire! Thanks to TED Ed for featuring this video, with beautiful animation by Ivana Volda, and expert insight from Guillermo Rein youtu.be/brdrOzVgZX0?...
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I spoke to BBC Radio Wales' Science Cafe about Christmas waste, listen:
🗓️ 17th December
⏰ 18.30
📍 BBC radio Wales
Or on demand : www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
@bangoruniversity.bsky.social
#Christmas #plasticwaste #plasticpollution
🗓️ 17th December
⏰ 18.30
📍 BBC radio Wales
Or on demand : www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
@bangoruniversity.bsky.social
#Christmas #plasticwaste #plasticpollution
BBC Radio Wales - Science Cafe, Christmas Waste
Adam Walton explores the environmental impact of Christmas.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 15, 2024 at 9:16 AM
I spoke to BBC Radio Wales' Science Cafe about Christmas waste, listen:
🗓️ 17th December
⏰ 18.30
📍 BBC radio Wales
Or on demand : www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
@bangoruniversity.bsky.social
#Christmas #plasticwaste #plasticpollution
🗓️ 17th December
⏰ 18.30
📍 BBC radio Wales
Or on demand : www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
@bangoruniversity.bsky.social
#Christmas #plasticwaste #plasticpollution
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When the history of the #PlasticsTreaty process is written, #INC5 in Busan 🇰🇷 will be remembered as the point where the large majority of countries in favour of a strong treaty discovered their capacity for collective action medium.com/points-of-or...
M for Majority
BUSAN, MONDAY 2 DECEMBER 2024: Ambassador Luis Vayas had until the very last moment been unwilling to consider requests for extension…
medium.com
December 13, 2024 at 3:47 PM
When the history of the #PlasticsTreaty process is written, #INC5 in Busan 🇰🇷 will be remembered as the point where the large majority of countries in favour of a strong treaty discovered their capacity for collective action medium.com/points-of-or...
Late to post, but still thinking about the INC-5 plastics treaty talks in Busan, where 100+ countries stood up to support an ambitious agreement to tackle the escalating quantities of plastic that enter our lives each day dialogue.earth/en/pollution... @dialogueearth.bsky.social
INC-5: ‘dark arts’, filibusters, and the final meeting that wasn’t
Plastic treaty stalls despite 100 nations pushing for deal, as lobbyists outnumber larger delegations and negotiations spill over into ‘INC-5.2’
dialogue.earth
December 13, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Late to post, but still thinking about the INC-5 plastics treaty talks in Busan, where 100+ countries stood up to support an ambitious agreement to tackle the escalating quantities of plastic that enter our lives each day dialogue.earth/en/pollution... @dialogueearth.bsky.social
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#PlasticsTreaty: La communauté internationale quitte aujourd'hui Busan sans l’accord qu’elle était venue y chercher. Si la majorité en faveur d’un traité ambitieux repart renforcée, elle se heurte à la ferme opposition d’une minorité de pays. Partie remise en 2025.
www.contexte.com/article/envi...
À Busan, l’échec des négociations sur le traité plastiques promis deux ans plus tôt - Contexte
Après sept jours de pourparlers, la communauté internationale a quitté la Corée du Sud, ce 2 décembre, sans l’accord qu’elle s’était engagée à conclure avant la fin de l’année 2024. Si la majorité en ...
www.contexte.com
December 2, 2024 at 7:03 AM
#PlasticsTreaty: La communauté internationale quitte aujourd'hui Busan sans l’accord qu’elle était venue y chercher. Si la majorité en faveur d’un traité ambitieux repart renforcée, elle se heurte à la ferme opposition d’une minorité de pays. Partie remise en 2025.
www.contexte.com/article/envi...
"There’s a great lot of countries that want to see the betterment of this planet.” Fiji's Sivendra Michael on the 100+ nations who now want curbs on plastic production to be included in a global #plasticstreaty being debated in Busan www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...
Hope of breakthrough at international plastic treaty talks after two-year deadlock
‘Important shift’ made in global attempts to address plastic pollution though final treaty text yet to be agreed
www.google.com
November 30, 2024 at 10:10 AM
"There’s a great lot of countries that want to see the betterment of this planet.” Fiji's Sivendra Michael on the 100+ nations who now want curbs on plastic production to be included in a global #plasticstreaty being debated in Busan www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...
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What’s going on at the #PlasticsTreaty talks? Slightly jetlagged, I got together with the one and only @magnuslovold.bsky.social for an update last night. Listen to where we stand midway at #INC5:
m.soundcloud.com/plastisphere...
m.soundcloud.com/plastisphere...
How (Not) To Make a Plastics Treaty - Part V: Things Get Circular
Play How (Not) To Make a Plastics Treaty - Part V: Things Get Circular by Plastisphere Podcast on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.
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November 28, 2024 at 11:29 PM
What’s going on at the #PlasticsTreaty talks? Slightly jetlagged, I got together with the one and only @magnuslovold.bsky.social for an update last night. Listen to where we stand midway at #INC5:
m.soundcloud.com/plastisphere...
m.soundcloud.com/plastisphere...
220 industry lobbyists here at the global #plasticstreaty talks in Busan, making it the largest delegation, outnumbering those of both Korea and the EU @cielorg.bsky.social www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...
Plastics lobbyists make up biggest group at vital UN treaty talks
Fossil fuel and chemical industry representatives outnumber those of the EU or host country South Korea
www.google.com
November 27, 2024 at 11:33 PM
220 industry lobbyists here at the global #plasticstreaty talks in Busan, making it the largest delegation, outnumbering those of both Korea and the EU @cielorg.bsky.social www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...
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Huge congrats to @karyna-mi.bsky.social for her paper published today in Science! She found that the hippocampus is really important for a key strategy we use to make decisions called hidden state inference! 🧪 🧠https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq5874 1/7
Hidden state inference requires abstract contextual representations in the ventral hippocampus
The ability to use subjective, latent contextual representations to influence decision-making is crucial for everyday life. The hippocampus is hypothesized to bind together otherwise abstract combinat...
www.science.org
November 22, 2024 at 1:20 PM
Huge congrats to @karyna-mi.bsky.social for her paper published today in Science! She found that the hippocampus is really important for a key strategy we use to make decisions called hidden state inference! 🧪 🧠https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq5874 1/7
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Next week in Busan, South Korea a final meeting on a treaty to curb plastic pollution starts. @emmaanne.bsky.social outlines what to look out for at INC-5 for Dialogue Earth.
dialogue.earth/en/pollution...
dialogue.earth/en/pollution...
INC-5: What to look out for at plastics treaty talks in Busan
Nations gather in South Korea this month for a final meeting on curbing plastic pollution. Who are the key players – and is a deal likely?
dialogue.earth
November 18, 2024 at 11:23 AM
Next week in Busan, South Korea a final meeting on a treaty to curb plastic pollution starts. @emmaanne.bsky.social outlines what to look out for at INC-5 for Dialogue Earth.
dialogue.earth/en/pollution...
dialogue.earth/en/pollution...
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New - At least 123 oil & gas company bosses and staff were invited to #cop29 as “guests” by the Azerbaijan and given host country badges - i.e. the red carpet treatment, inc
Aramco, Exxonmobil and BP CEOs
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Aramco, Exxonmobil and BP CEOs
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Cop29 live: calls grow to ban fossil fuel lobbyists at summit as numbers soar
UK Greens say climate measures ‘being derailed by the fossil fuel lobby’ and that Trump’s victory underlines the need to reform Cop
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2024 at 1:27 PM
New - At least 123 oil & gas company bosses and staff were invited to #cop29 as “guests” by the Azerbaijan and given host country badges - i.e. the red carpet treatment, inc
Aramco, Exxonmobil and BP CEOs
Post by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Aramco, Exxonmobil and BP CEOs
Post by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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with the final round of UN plastics treaty negotiations in two weeks, we have published a preprint paper on the risks and limits of 'plastic credits' as a solution to this planetary crisis
@melaniebergma18.bsky.social @emmaanne.bsky.social @lisalsong.bsky.social
zenodo.org/records/1411...
@melaniebergma18.bsky.social @emmaanne.bsky.social @lisalsong.bsky.social
zenodo.org/records/1411...
Unpacking plastic credits: Challenges to effective and just global plastics governance
Amid growing concerns over plastic pollution and ongoing efforts to develop a global plastics treaty, this paper critically examines plastic credits as a compensatory measure for addressing plastic po...
zenodo.org
November 13, 2024 at 9:31 AM
with the final round of UN plastics treaty negotiations in two weeks, we have published a preprint paper on the risks and limits of 'plastic credits' as a solution to this planetary crisis
@melaniebergma18.bsky.social @emmaanne.bsky.social @lisalsong.bsky.social
zenodo.org/records/1411...
@melaniebergma18.bsky.social @emmaanne.bsky.social @lisalsong.bsky.social
zenodo.org/records/1411...
NDCs, Article 6 and finance: this is a very helpful guide on what to watch at #COP29 and the key terms to know www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Cop29 jargon buster: key terms for this year’s climate conference in Azerbaijan
Here are some of the phrases that are likely to crop up over the coming days in Baku
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2024 at 9:55 AM
NDCs, Article 6 and finance: this is a very helpful guide on what to watch at #COP29 and the key terms to know www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The world is working on a treaty to end global plastic pollution, and the final meeting is this month in Busan: here's my take on what to watch: dialogue.earth/en/pollution... @dialogueearth.bsky.social
INC-5: What to look out for at plastics treaty talks in Busan
Nations gather in South Korea this month for a final meeting on curbing plastic pollution. Who are the key players – and is a deal likely?
dialogue.earth
November 5, 2024 at 11:24 AM
The world is working on a treaty to end global plastic pollution, and the final meeting is this month in Busan: here's my take on what to watch: dialogue.earth/en/pollution... @dialogueearth.bsky.social