📢 This piece on @microsoft employees confronting #greenwashing has deep parallels w/ science publisher #Elsevier , where employees also told leaders their #fossilFuel expanding activity negates its positive efforts. 1/5🧵 grist.org/accountability… grist Drilled Maddie Stone
Our climate can’t afford a single new #fossilfuel project – yet Wall Street banks spent more than $347 billion on new and expanded fossil fuelprojects in 2023.
Get the report: bankingonclimatechaos.org
Take action to demand they #DefundClimateChaos NOW: 198methods.org/2024/05/14/wal…
Despite #humanRights obligations, Microsoft & Elsevier continue to partner with O&G majors, informing new #fossilFuel projects w/ vast additional emissions. Neither company has included those indirect emissions in their carbon accounting. The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change Aarón Cantú 4/5🧵
To keep temperature rise below 1.5°C, #fossilfuel operations must reduce their methane emissions by 75% by 2030. 📉
New research from WRI Climate looks at why a #justtransition is crucial to methane action planning: bit.ly/443sNJH
EU Arctic Forum starting in #Brussels today. Let's see if the elephants in the room will be addressed properly: stopping #fossilfuel extraction and #deepseamining .
Absolutely disgraceful.
#FossilFuel companies are forcing govts to compensate them for lost earnings in the transition to a low-carbon global economy, and destroying the world’s ability to counter their harmful activities, former top UN official said 🧵 theguardian.com/environment/ar…
Did you know that #fossilfuel corporations pool their money into 'American values' nonprofits that actually function to peddle climate denial talking points?
#climatechange #climateaction
🔴 A group with no legitimacy & dominated by #FossilFuel interests is shaping #EU climate policy.
To deliver #RealZero & real solutions to the #ClimateCrisis , the EU must cut fossil fuel interests out of politics!
Read the blog post by Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)👇
realzeroeurope.org/resources/ceo-…
The use of #fossilfuel powered agric equipment for farming & agro processing is not only detrimental to the health of smallholder farmers 👩🏽🌾 👨🏾🌾 but also costly & inefficient.
This is why INFoCAT seeks to support the innovation of affordable, clean agritech solutions for 👩🏽🌾 👩🏽🌾
Ahead of the @AFDB_Group AGM, join us in an X space with Don't Gas Africa on the need for a #fossilfuel free future for Africa & strategies to make this a reality:
21 May, 4pm to 5.30pm UTC
x.com/i/spaces/1ypjd…
#AFDBAM2024
#AFDBstopfundingfossilfuels
#AFDBbankingonrenewables
'A travel blogger on a scenic road trip with her husband posing with a #Shell gas pump, a famous chef making fish tacos on a #gas stove, promoting #cookingwithgas ' 🧐 How are influencers promoting the #fossilfuel industry?
Learn more with Jennie King (jkingy.bsky.social), @ISDGlobal🎙️
International IDEA
Because it is all smoke and mirrors it's
Gavin Newsom who is gouging #California ns .
#California #gas #fossilfuel #Newsom
🌍 #Renewables soared to unprecedented heights in 2023, heralding an era of declining #FossilFuel generation, shows Ember's Global Electricity Review #GER24
It’s #Time4Action to speed up the transition to reach #3xRenewables by 2030.
Read more:
ember-climate.org/insights/resea…
🦋🐒🐋 Every living thing on earth breathes out #carbondioxide and this is overwhelming 😩 but nature has its own way of balancing this, Then what is causing the problem? The answer is #Humanactivities 😢
Stop ✋ 🛑
#Deforestation
#Fossilfuel
#Plasticpollution
#Refusedump
Seeking to protect health & human rights, the Climate Rights Coalition UN Guiding Principles grievance mechanism has asked #Elsevier to consider how the #fossilFuel expansion it supports is undermining health & human rights—and to join Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative: climaterightscoalition.com 5/6🧵
Even my dog knows that you can’t be half way in & half way out on #ClimateAction 💩
If mongrel #duopoly politicians can’t break their ties with the deadly #FossilFuel #Gas lobby, then we need more #community #independents who will 🌏
#BetterIsPossible Nicolette Boele - Independent for Bradfield
' #Fossilfuel companies have known for more than 60 years that burning fossil fuels causes climate change—yet have worked for decades to undermine public understanding and to deny the underlying science.' #ClimateActionNow budget.senate.gov/chairman/newsr…
Ask your MP to sign
MPs & peers urge Sunak to U-turn on oil & gas extraction. 50 politicians, inc 3 Conservatives, wrote calling for UK to regain international leadership by ending licensing of new #FossilFuel fields & backing Beyond Oil & Gas Alliance. theguardian.com/environment/ar…
