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December 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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‼️Carbon budgets to start 2026
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Climate - Prof Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social
National Emergency Briefing
11 Dec 2025
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@cducsueuropa.bsky.social @spdeuropa.bsky.social @spdfraktion.de @gruene-bundestag.de @dielinkebt.de @reuters.com
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Climate - Prof Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social
National Emergency Briefing
11 Dec 2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8z...
@cducsueuropa.bsky.social @spdeuropa.bsky.social @spdfraktion.de @gruene-bundestag.de @dielinkebt.de @reuters.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:27 AM
‼️Carbon budgets to start 2026
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Climate - Prof Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social
National Emergency Briefing
11 Dec 2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8z...
@cducsueuropa.bsky.social @spdeuropa.bsky.social @spdfraktion.de @gruene-bundestag.de @dielinkebt.de @reuters.com
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Climate - Prof Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social
National Emergency Briefing
11 Dec 2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8z...
@cducsueuropa.bsky.social @spdeuropa.bsky.social @spdfraktion.de @gruene-bundestag.de @dielinkebt.de @reuters.com
World Economic Forum recommends tech firms buy #biodiversity offsets to address their impacts and dependencies on nature or "risk undermining their licence to operate." 1/3
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WEF recommends tech firms buy biodiversity offsets « Carbon Pulse
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December 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
World Economic Forum recommends tech firms buy #biodiversity offsets to address their impacts and dependencies on nature or "risk undermining their licence to operate." 1/3
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The secretive cabal of US polluters that is rewriting the EU’s human rights and climate law www.somo.nl/the-secretiv...
The secretive cabal of US polluters that is rewriting the EU’s human rights and climate law - SOMO
Leaked documents reveal how a secretive alliance of eleven large multinational enterprises has worked to tear down the EU’s flagship human rights and climate law, the Corporate Sustainability Due Dili...
www.somo.nl
December 3, 2025 at 9:03 AM
The secretive cabal of US polluters that is rewriting the EU’s human rights and climate law www.somo.nl/the-secretiv...
Today the IAPB will host a session at #COP30 titled "IAPB Carbon & Biodiversity Credits – Integrity in Focus." Yet, their proposal for high integrity credits includes many features that arguably contradict the high integrity claim: from the allowance for offsetting, 1/2
November 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Today the IAPB will host a session at #COP30 titled "IAPB Carbon & Biodiversity Credits – Integrity in Focus." Yet, their proposal for high integrity credits includes many features that arguably contradict the high integrity claim: from the allowance for offsetting, 1/2
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BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids
Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
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Deregulation - the dark path to poison in your lungs, excrement in your rivers, carcinogens in your food.
A growing movement in Brussels is spreading the message that asking business to follow rules leads to economic death. They're working hard to destroy EU environmental + chemical protections.
A growing movement in Brussels is spreading the message that asking business to follow rules leads to economic death. They're working hard to destroy EU environmental + chemical protections.
November 13, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Deregulation - the dark path to poison in your lungs, excrement in your rivers, carcinogens in your food.
A growing movement in Brussels is spreading the message that asking business to follow rules leads to economic death. They're working hard to destroy EU environmental + chemical protections.
A growing movement in Brussels is spreading the message that asking business to follow rules leads to economic death. They're working hard to destroy EU environmental + chemical protections.
Far from being a game changing innovation, the #TFFF launched at #COP30 is a cleverly packaged fund where conservation funding is conditional and the last wheel of the wagon; as payments for conservation come last and are first to be impacted in case of underperformance; 1/3
November 13, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Today 9 Brazilian Amazon States are launching a unified #biodiversitycredit scheme at #COP30. If you want to know what biodiversity credits are and why they are a predictable environmental failure, read this comicbook: 1/2 greenfinanceobservatory.org/wp-content/u...
November 12, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Today 9 Brazilian Amazon States are launching a unified #biodiversitycredit scheme at #COP30. If you want to know what biodiversity credits are and why they are a predictable environmental failure, read this comicbook: 1/2 greenfinanceobservatory.org/wp-content/u...
On 12 Nov 9 Brazilian Amazon States will launch a unified #biodiversitycredit scheme at #COP30. This feels like a good time to publish the last 2 chapters of our comicbook on biodiv credits: who promotes these markets, why, and what are the alternatives greenfinanceobservatory.org/50-shades-of...
November 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
On 12 Nov 9 Brazilian Amazon States will launch a unified #biodiversitycredit scheme at #COP30. This feels like a good time to publish the last 2 chapters of our comicbook on biodiv credits: who promotes these markets, why, and what are the alternatives greenfinanceobservatory.org/50-shades-of...
EU’s roadmap for #naturecredits confirms the fears we expressed about the leaked version. We understand that #naturecredits will most likely be used as international compliance offsets. 1/3
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July 7, 2025 at 12:09 PM
EU’s roadmap for #naturecredits confirms the fears we expressed about the leaked version. We understand that #naturecredits will most likely be used as international compliance offsets. 1/3
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Today's EU session on creating a water smart economy leaves me with open questions; while I support the goal to increase water reuse, including through recovering phosphorus and nitrogen in water, I wonder: 1/3
June 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Today's EU session on creating a water smart economy leaves me with open questions; while I support the goal to increase water reuse, including through recovering phosphorus and nitrogen in water, I wonder: 1/3
EU's draft roadmap on #NatureCredits raises serious concerns and questions. We find that EU’s €37bn biodiversity funding gap could be closed entirely by redirecting existing subsidies to harmful activities, and doesn't require “making nature investable,” 1/3
June 2, 2025 at 8:53 AM
EU's draft roadmap on #NatureCredits raises serious concerns and questions. We find that EU’s €37bn biodiversity funding gap could be closed entirely by redirecting existing subsidies to harmful activities, and doesn't require “making nature investable,” 1/3
IAPB/UN/WEF published a week ago their revised and updated high integrity principles to guide the biodiversity credits market. 1/4
May 26, 2025 at 9:40 AM
IAPB/UN/WEF published a week ago their revised and updated high integrity principles to guide the biodiversity credits market. 1/4
EU to launch roadmap for building hashtag#nature markets by year end, still claims that credits won't be used for hashtag#offsetting, despite providing details that suggest the opposite. 1/11
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EU to launch roadmap for building nature markets by year-end « Carbon Pulse
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May 21, 2025 at 9:31 AM
EU to launch roadmap for building hashtag#nature markets by year end, still claims that credits won't be used for hashtag#offsetting, despite providing details that suggest the opposite. 1/11
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French private reinsurer SCOR offers a new insurance product for #biodiversity restoration projects. Note how this insurance is presented as a way for private companies with destructive activities to prevent tighter environmental regulations and to keep their social licence to operate 1/2
May 20, 2025 at 10:33 AM
French private reinsurer SCOR offers a new insurance product for #biodiversity restoration projects. Note how this insurance is presented as a way for private companies with destructive activities to prevent tighter environmental regulations and to keep their social licence to operate 1/2
I had a discussion with a prominent proponent of #biodiversity credits, and his support came down to this: it's biodiversity credits or nothing; asking to address the root causes of the biodiversity crisis via env legislation and redirecting harmful subsidies would be "politically unrealistic," 1/10
May 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I had a discussion with a prominent proponent of #biodiversity credits, and his support came down to this: it's biodiversity credits or nothing; asking to address the root causes of the biodiversity crisis via env legislation and redirecting harmful subsidies would be "politically unrealistic," 1/10
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Gaza humanitarian aid ship bombed by drones in waters off Malta
Gaza humanitarian aid ship bombed by drones in waters off Malta
Freedom Flotilla Coalition claims Israel to blame for attack on unarmed civilian vessel in international waters
A ship carrying humanitarian aid and activists for Gaza has been bombed by drones and disabled while in international waters off Malta as it headed towards the Palestinian territory, its have organisers said.
“At 00:23 Maltese time, the Conscience, a Freedom Flotilla Coalition ship came under direct attack in international waters,” the group said in a statement. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 2, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Gaza humanitarian aid ship bombed by drones in waters off Malta
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Just to note, the "well below 2°C" budget is for an 83% chance of not exceeding 2°C.
As for the budgets, updated to start from January 2025.
For a 50% chance of not exceeding 1.5°C it is ~170GtCO2
For an 83% chance of not exceeding 2°C it is ~575GtCO2
Attached table may be of interest.
As for the budgets, updated to start from January 2025.
For a 50% chance of not exceeding 1.5°C it is ~170GtCO2
For an 83% chance of not exceeding 2°C it is ~575GtCO2
Attached table may be of interest.
February 14, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Just to note, the "well below 2°C" budget is for an 83% chance of not exceeding 2°C.
As for the budgets, updated to start from January 2025.
For a 50% chance of not exceeding 1.5°C it is ~170GtCO2
For an 83% chance of not exceeding 2°C it is ~575GtCO2
Attached table may be of interest.
As for the budgets, updated to start from January 2025.
For a 50% chance of not exceeding 1.5°C it is ~170GtCO2
For an 83% chance of not exceeding 2°C it is ~575GtCO2
Attached table may be of interest.
We just responded to EU Commission's call for evidence on EU's #carbon market. We find that the call for evidence: - fails to ask input on a crucial weakness of the #EUETS, namely the weakness of the price signal due to excess price volatility, 1/7 greenfinanceobservatory.org/wp-content/u...
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April 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM
We just responded to EU Commission's call for evidence on EU's #carbon market. We find that the call for evidence: - fails to ask input on a crucial weakness of the #EUETS, namely the weakness of the price signal due to excess price volatility, 1/7 greenfinanceobservatory.org/wp-content/u...
Now that French OBC is launching a #biodiversity credit pilot project in Abidjan, that TotalEnergies is doing biodiversity offsetting in Uganda & that the EU Commission launched a #NatureCredit pilot project in Peru, 1/2
April 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Now that French OBC is launching a #biodiversity credit pilot project in Abidjan, that TotalEnergies is doing biodiversity offsetting in Uganda & that the EU Commission launched a #NatureCredit pilot project in Peru, 1/2
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It's hard to get your head around the scale of the environmental vandalism the Labour government is hoping to unleash. The Planning and Infrastructure Bill is up there with Trump's executive orders. And the reason is the same: corporate power.
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot
The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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April 24, 2025 at 6:34 AM
It's hard to get your head around the scale of the environmental vandalism the Labour government is hoping to unleash. The Planning and Infrastructure Bill is up there with Trump's executive orders. And the reason is the same: corporate power.
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
EU Commissioner for Environment, Jessika Roswall, is organising today a roundtable discussion on #NatureCredits. The fact that only one NGO has been invited, the WWF, one that has long supported #biodiversity credits, while other participants are big agribusiness lobbies & financial institutions 1/2
April 23, 2025 at 8:50 AM
EU Commissioner for Environment, Jessika Roswall, is organising today a roundtable discussion on #NatureCredits. The fact that only one NGO has been invited, the WWF, one that has long supported #biodiversity credits, while other participants are big agribusiness lobbies & financial institutions 1/2
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For me, I will remember Francis as the Pope who called the Holy Family Church in Gaza every day as the city, and even the church itself, was bombed by Israel.
April 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
For me, I will remember Francis as the Pope who called the Holy Family Church in Gaza every day as the city, and even the church itself, was bombed by Israel.
UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development plans to support #biodiversity and #carbon credit markets to reward small-scale farmers in its new 2025-2031 environmental strategy. According to IFAD, small-scale farmers need an estimated $75 billion in nature and climate finance annually 1/3
April 18, 2025 at 9:58 AM
UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development plans to support #biodiversity and #carbon credit markets to reward small-scale farmers in its new 2025-2031 environmental strategy. According to IFAD, small-scale farmers need an estimated $75 billion in nature and climate finance annually 1/3