SOMO - Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations
@somoamsterdam.bsky.social
🔎 Non-profit investigating multinationals.
🎯 Critical, independent, and factual.
🌍 Mission: a world where people & planet > profit!
💻 More info at https://www.somo.nl/
🎯 Critical, independent, and factual.
🌍 Mission: a world where people & planet > profit!
💻 More info at https://www.somo.nl/
📣 We demand: No more access to climate negotiations for fossil fuel and other polluting industries’ lobbyists!
Big polluters’ agenda will cost millions of people their homes, livelihoods, and lives.
#UNFCCC, #KickBigPollutersOut now!
Big polluters’ agenda will cost millions of people their homes, livelihoods, and lives.
#UNFCCC, #KickBigPollutersOut now!
November 14, 2025 at 9:17 AM
📣 We demand: No more access to climate negotiations for fossil fuel and other polluting industries’ lobbyists!
Big polluters’ agenda will cost millions of people their homes, livelihoods, and lives.
#UNFCCC, #KickBigPollutersOut now!
Big polluters’ agenda will cost millions of people their homes, livelihoods, and lives.
#UNFCCC, #KickBigPollutersOut now!
That means:
📄 Robust divestment policies from producer country governments
🔎 Safe closure of infrastructure
💰 Mandatory company contributions to decommissioning and remediation funds
Justice can't be a dusty side road on the map to the fossil fuel phase-out. It must be central to it.
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📄 Robust divestment policies from producer country governments
🔎 Safe closure of infrastructure
💰 Mandatory company contributions to decommissioning and remediation funds
Justice can't be a dusty side road on the map to the fossil fuel phase-out. It must be central to it.
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November 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM
That means:
📄 Robust divestment policies from producer country governments
🔎 Safe closure of infrastructure
💰 Mandatory company contributions to decommissioning and remediation funds
Justice can't be a dusty side road on the map to the fossil fuel phase-out. It must be central to it.
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📄 Robust divestment policies from producer country governments
🔎 Safe closure of infrastructure
💰 Mandatory company contributions to decommissioning and remediation funds
Justice can't be a dusty side road on the map to the fossil fuel phase-out. It must be central to it.
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It’s time for real, just climate action - not carbon colonialism.
-Phase out fossil fuels fast & fairly & disengage responsibly
-Uphold sovereignty & territorial rights for communities
-End harmful subsidies, taxing corps. & the ultra-rich, & close loopholes that let them dodge responsibility
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-Phase out fossil fuels fast & fairly & disengage responsibly
-Uphold sovereignty & territorial rights for communities
-End harmful subsidies, taxing corps. & the ultra-rich, & close loopholes that let them dodge responsibility
(4/4)
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM
It’s time for real, just climate action - not carbon colonialism.
-Phase out fossil fuels fast & fairly & disengage responsibly
-Uphold sovereignty & territorial rights for communities
-End harmful subsidies, taxing corps. & the ultra-rich, & close loopholes that let them dodge responsibility
(4/4)
-Phase out fossil fuels fast & fairly & disengage responsibly
-Uphold sovereignty & territorial rights for communities
-End harmful subsidies, taxing corps. & the ultra-rich, & close loopholes that let them dodge responsibility
(4/4)
🔥From a climate perspective:
Carbon offsets don’t cut emissions; they only claim to compensate for emissions that continue elsewhere and let big polluters continue business as usual while the climate crisis worsens.
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Carbon offsets don’t cut emissions; they only claim to compensate for emissions that continue elsewhere and let big polluters continue business as usual while the climate crisis worsens.
(3/4)
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM
🔥From a climate perspective:
Carbon offsets don’t cut emissions; they only claim to compensate for emissions that continue elsewhere and let big polluters continue business as usual while the climate crisis worsens.
(3/4)
Carbon offsets don’t cut emissions; they only claim to compensate for emissions that continue elsewhere and let big polluters continue business as usual while the climate crisis worsens.
(3/4)
🤚From a social justice perspective:
🚩 Communities in the Global South - least responsible for the climate crisis - are being pressured to turn their lands & forests into “carbon sinks” for corporate profits, trapping them in new forms of financial dependency through carbon trading schemes.
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🚩 Communities in the Global South - least responsible for the climate crisis - are being pressured to turn their lands & forests into “carbon sinks” for corporate profits, trapping them in new forms of financial dependency through carbon trading schemes.
(2/4)
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM
🤚From a social justice perspective:
🚩 Communities in the Global South - least responsible for the climate crisis - are being pressured to turn their lands & forests into “carbon sinks” for corporate profits, trapping them in new forms of financial dependency through carbon trading schemes.
(2/4)
🚩 Communities in the Global South - least responsible for the climate crisis - are being pressured to turn their lands & forests into “carbon sinks” for corporate profits, trapping them in new forms of financial dependency through carbon trading schemes.
(2/4)
No more corporate power influencing climate policy and actions - inside and outside COPs!
Full analysis: www.somo.nl/from-cop-to-...
#COP30 (3/3)
Full analysis: www.somo.nl/from-cop-to-...
#COP30 (3/3)
From COP to corporate - SOMO
How business interests hijack the climate agenda As the world turns its eyes to Brazil ahead of the next UN climate negotiations, the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30), the urgency of the climate...
www.somo.nl
November 3, 2025 at 8:43 AM
No more corporate power influencing climate policy and actions - inside and outside COPs!
Full analysis: www.somo.nl/from-cop-to-...
#COP30 (3/3)
Full analysis: www.somo.nl/from-cop-to-...
#COP30 (3/3)
We must address the root causes of climate change, which means that phasing out fossil fuels has to be central in the agenda.
COP and other climate conferences can only help with real climate action if they move away from corporate interests.
#COP30 (2/2)
COP and other climate conferences can only help with real climate action if they move away from corporate interests.
#COP30 (2/2)
From COP to corporate - SOMO
How business interests hijack the climate agenda As the world turns its eyes to Brazil ahead of the next UN climate negotiations, the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30), the urgency of the climate...
www.somo.nl
November 3, 2025 at 8:43 AM
We must address the root causes of climate change, which means that phasing out fossil fuels has to be central in the agenda.
COP and other climate conferences can only help with real climate action if they move away from corporate interests.
#COP30 (2/2)
COP and other climate conferences can only help with real climate action if they move away from corporate interests.
#COP30 (2/2)
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October 31, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Energy Transfer's investments have only been under public scrutiny in Germany, as a result of civil society and parliament activity.
Given the Trump administration’s political agenda, all EU member states must be particularly vigilant with investors from the US. ⚠️
Full analysis ⬇️ 3/3 🧵
Given the Trump administration’s political agenda, all EU member states must be particularly vigilant with investors from the US. ⚠️
Full analysis ⬇️ 3/3 🧵
EU countries are selling critical energy infrastructure to Trump-aligned fossil fuel giant Energy Transfer - SOMO
Since winning a second term, President Trump has rolled out a policy agenda that, amongst other things, gives strong support to the interests of fossil fuel energy companies(opens in new window) . Thi...
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October 27, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Energy Transfer's investments have only been under public scrutiny in Germany, as a result of civil society and parliament activity.
Given the Trump administration’s political agenda, all EU member states must be particularly vigilant with investors from the US. ⚠️
Full analysis ⬇️ 3/3 🧵
Given the Trump administration’s political agenda, all EU member states must be particularly vigilant with investors from the US. ⚠️
Full analysis ⬇️ 3/3 🧵