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Laura Pereira
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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 .. more

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Jessica Blythe, PhD @jessicablythe.bsky.social · 3d
🌊 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...
www.nature.com

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Laura Pereira @laurap18.bsky.social · 9d
Honoured to be able to speak today on the #BBNJ and #oceangovernance and what this means for #Africa here on the @greenpeace.org #RainbowWarrior 🌈 🌊

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12d
"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
www.nytimes.com

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Laura Pereira @laurap18.bsky.social · 15d
💙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 💪🏾
inspiriprojecteu.bsky.social inspiriprojecteu.bsky.social @inspiriprojecteu.bsky.social · 16d
🌊 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
www.youtube.com

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inspiriprojecteu.bsky.social @inspiriprojecteu.bsky.social · 16d
🌊 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
www.youtube.com

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Douglas Maraun @dmaraun.bsky.social · 18d
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

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Laura Pereira @laurap18.bsky.social · 19d
Great thread here 👇🏽
lisaschipper.bsky.social Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 19d
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

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 19d
"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

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 19d
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...

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 19d
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

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Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · 23d
There, the expedition aims to establish a 'zero baseline' for monitoring biodiversity in the Eastern Weddell Sea.

Read more about the expedition and Susa Niiranens role on our webpage: buff.ly/dS4W6tM

And follow the expedition here: buff.ly/b03rFUO
Voyage to the Weddell Sea: Establishing a baseline for one of Earth’s last pristine ecosystems
Centre researcher Susa Niiranen is setting sail for the Eastern Weddell Sea, Antarctica, joining a team of nearly 40 scientists on a major expedition to monitor one of the most remote marine…
buff.ly

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 23d
“We cannot withdraw from the fact that over 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction.” 🧪

IPBES remains committed to its mandate to provide the most credible science and evidence about biodiversity to all decision makers and actors. 🌍

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 23d
“We cannot withdraw from the fact that over 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction.”

IPBES remains committed to its mandate to provide the most credible science and evidence about biodiversity to all decision makers and actors.

— @davidobura.bsky.social , @ipbes.net Chair
Split-screen image on a deep green background. Left side contains a statement from Dr David Obura, IPBES Chair, regarding the US withdrawal from IPBES and extinction threats to over 1 million species. Right side shows a photograph of a man wearing glasses, dressed in a dark jacket and grey shirt, seated at a conference table with a microphone. The IPBES logo appears at the bottom with the tagline "Science and Policy for People and Nature". The design features white typography on the dark green background, creating a professional contrast. Several small pins or badges are visible on the speaker's jacket.

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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 24d
'Every state not calling out this blatant aggression helps hold the axe that shatters the international order.'

Why the biggest problem for international law is not the invasion of Venezuela and capture of President Maduro, but how the US and the world made sense of it ⬇️
Expert Comment: The illegality of the US attack against Venezuela is
Professor Janina Dill, Dame Louise Richardson Chair in Global Security at the Blavatnik School of Government, outlines why the biggest problem for international law is not the invasion of Venezuela
www.ox.ac.uk

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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 24d
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’
www.theguardian.com

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 28d
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says the US crossed an 'unacceptable line' following attacks on Venezuela and the capture of its president, Nicolas Maduro.

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Laura Pereira @laurap18.bsky.social · 29d
Me too?

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Communications Earth & Environment @commsearth.nature.com · Dec 15
🌊Sea-level rise in African large marine ecosystems has accelerated markedly since 2010, mostly due to ice sheet loss and land subsidence, with the Red Sea and Guinea Current rising fastest.

👉Read more here:
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Accelerating sea level rise in Africa and its large marine ecosystems since the 1990s - Communications Earth & Environment
Sea-level rise in African large marine ecosystem has accelerated markedly since 2010, mostly due to ice sheet loss and land subsidence, with the Red Sea and Guinea Current rising fastest, according to...
www.nature.com

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IPBES @ipbes.net · Dec 12
At #UNEA7, IPBES Executive Secretary, Dr. Luthando Dziba, and Chair @davidobura.bsky.social joined UNEP’s Executive Director, IngerAndersen.bsky.social, and Mary Creagh MP as they signed the #IPBES12 Host Country Agreement.

Thanks to the UK for hosting, and we look forward to a successful event!
United Nations Environment Assembly, December 2025. UNEP Executive Director, Inger Andersen, and UK’s Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Nature , Mary Creagh MP, sign the Host Country Agreement for the upcoming #IPBES12. They are joined by IPBES Executive Secretary, Luthando Dziba, and Chair David Obura. United Nations Environment Assembly, December 2025. UNEP Executive Director, Inger Andersen, and UK’s Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Nature , Mary Creagh MP, sign the Host Country Agreement for the upcoming #IPBES12. They are joined by IPBES Executive Secretary, Luthando Dziba, and Chair David Obura. United Nations Environment Assembly, December 2025. Executive Secretary, Luthando Dziba, and Chair David Obura, are joined by UK's Parliamentary Under Secretary for Nature, Mary Creagh MP.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Dec 11
We're next, probably
Orcas team up with dolphins to hunt salmon, study finds
Northern resident killer whales appear to use dolphins as ‘scouts’, in a surprising cooperative hunting strategy
www.theguardian.com

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Joachim Claudet @joachimclaudet.bsky.social · Dec 11
🚨 Paper Alert ! 🚨

🐟 🎣 5 opportunities to enhance #conservation:

1️⃣ 🪧 Common #standards for accountability
2️⃣ 🚢 Elevate conservation objectives in #MSP
3️⃣ ⏳ Plan now, manage for the #future
4️⃣ 🤝 Coordination to #ScaleUp efforts
5️⃣ Align #design with intended outcomes

📰 doi.org/10.1038/s441...
Five key opportunities to enhance the effectiveness of area-based marine conservation - npj Ocean Sustainability
npj Ocean Sustainability - Five key opportunities to enhance the effectiveness of area-based marine conservation
doi.org

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · Dec 9
Forty years!!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp-W...
Carl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985 on climate change
YouTube video by carlsagandotcom
m.youtube.com

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IPBES @ipbes.net · Nov 28
That’s a wrap on the First Authors' Meeting of 🏡 IPBES #2ndGlobalAssessment!

Huge thanks to our fellows, authors & experts for their dedication this week, setting the vision and foundations for the next 3 years. 🌍

Grateful to UNESCO for hosting us!

🧪 https://www.ipbes.net/second-global-assessment
Group picture of IPBES Second Global Assessment authors, fellows and experts during the first author meeting held at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France, from November 24 to 28 2025, Group picture of IPBES Second Global Assessment authors, fellows and experts during the first author meeting held at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France, from November 24 to 28 2025,

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Future Ecosystems for Africa @futureecoafrica.bsky.social · Nov 28
FEFA co-PI @laurap18.bsky.social shares her thoughts on the importance of African voices in shaping global climate policies🌍🍃. Read the full interview here: www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...
‘African voices must be brought into global climate debates’
Climate change discussions should not become overly focused on carbon as the sole metric. Climate action must also consider biodiversity, ecosystems a...
www.universityworldnews.com

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Laura Pereira @laurap18.bsky.social · Nov 22
Very cool to see @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social here to greet President Ramaphosa prior to the opening session of the #G20

Fresh from the #COP30 negotiations to be here 🙏🏽

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Loss and Damage Collaboration (L&DC) @lossanddamage.bsky.social · Nov 21
1/10. 📣 MUST DO BETTER: 📢Early this morning the #COP30. Presidency released a new text 📜 for the #GlobalMutirão but it still does not go far enough to urgently scale up 📈 #LossAndDamage action and support!🤯

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · Nov 21
Nearly 30 countries refuse to sign a final #COP30 agreement that doesn't include "fossil fuel phase-out," as negotiations head into overtime.

Live updates from @fionaharvey.bsky.social, @olliemilman.bsky.social and @theguardian.com here: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
An image of two activists wearing long trains reading "end the fossil fuel era" and "phase out fossil fuels" with banners above them reading "stop Amazon oil" and "1.5oC under threat: time to act."

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Laura Pereira @laurap18.bsky.social · Nov 20
Yay for kitty cat being all good and well 😻

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · Nov 20
🚨If you are at #COP30, evacuate the Blue Zone immediately.

(from a source)

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Laura Pereira @laurap18.bsky.social · Nov 14
I’m not at vitriolic, I’m just like- it’s easy to say this and now suddenly hundreds of years of colonialism disappears because I acknowledge whose land it is before I give a presentation? 🤔