"The law commands it," António Guterres tells the UN General Assembly, urging states to submit more ambitious climate plans. The language and urgency of the International Court of Justice's advisory opinion is starting to bleed into diplomatic discourse: www.independent.co.uk/news/earth-a...

Improvement to London gothic monstrosity. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Expectations outside the court are high. Cynthia Houniuhi, president of Pacific Island Students Fighting Climate Change, told me it was "nerve-wracking" waiting for the advisory opinion she and others first dreamed of six years ago. #ICJAO #climatejustice

Later today, the International Court of Justice will hand down its much-anticipated advisory opinion on climate change which will shape climate politics & law for years to come. Find out more about this historic moment, and the young people who sparked the whole thing 👇 #climatejustice #ICJAO

Most avocados sold in the U.S. come from Mexico, where farming methods have serious environmental and human-rights impacts. Yet importers continue to market the fruit as sustainably grown. Read more from @isabellakaminski.bsky.social ⬇️

Most avocados sold in the US come from Mexico, where farming methods have big environmental & human rights impacts. Yet importers continue to market the fruit as sustainably grown, so they're being sued for 'greenwashing' their products. By me for @civileats.com #greenwashing #climatelitigation

There is a human right to a stable climate and states have a duty to protect it. That's one of the key findings of a new advisory opinion by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which was requested by Chile and Colombia two years ago.

Greenwashing lawsuits - Judges across the world are proving sceptical of companies’ attempts to offset their greenhouse gas emissions by buying carbon credits - report Story by @isabellakaminski.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Fascinating look at the ruling earlier this month from Hungary's Constitutional Court ordering the government to improve its climate law, from @isabellakaminski.bsky.social for @drilledmedia.bsky.social drilled.media/news/Hungari...

My new investigation for @unearthednews.bsky.social — we found truly shocking scenes of UK labels washed ashore, and vast illegal fast fashion dumps mushrooming in a beautiful conservation area in Ghana 👇

“By injecting a staggering $869bn into fossil fuel financing in 2024 alone, the world’s largest banks fund the climate chaos... Governments must step in & take urgent action to hold financial institutions accountable for their role in the #climatecrisis” - @davidxvx.bsky.social‬

Put on your blue face mask and your asthma inhaler

If you think you're having a bad day, I just joined a webinar where hardcorn porn started playing over a jaunty tune and the host couldn't stop it

Beware the middle-aged female journalist for she is invisible and will hear the incautious or idiotic things you think you're saying in private. It's a cursed superpower.

It's worth noting that several European courts have dismissed the argument that a state or corporation's contribution to global emissions is too small to matter - including recently in Germany www.france24.com/en/live-news...

The EPA's reasoning to justify repealing greenhouse gas regulations for power plants is so tortured, I feel like my brain has been waterboarded after reading it 🤯 The justification goes like this...🧵(1/8)

Climate.gov, a major US government website supporting public education on climate science, will likely shut down after almost all of its staff were fired. What would be worse is if the website were co-opted to publish climate denial content.

This is the context I need

With #UNOC3 just around the corner, it's good to reflect on what courts and the law can - and can't - do to promote climate action and protect the oceans. This was a really interesting article to write for @dialogueearth.bsky.social 👇 #climatelitigation #climatejustice #oceanjustice

In 2018, 25 young people with the support of NGO Dejusticia took the Colombian government to court arguing that their right to a healthy environment was under threat from deforestation. They won, in an judgment that went further than they could have hoped. But did the court ruling change anything?

BREAKING: Saul Luciano Lliuya has LOST his claim for climate compensation from RWE. But the court ruled that the principle that major emitters can be sued for climate damages is sound, if someone can make a stronger claim

It's a very big day in #climatelitigation today. I'm on holiday but follow @duycks.bsky.social for updates!

Well this is a far more eloquent and concise explanation of the answer I give when people ask 'Am I optimistic about the future'. I guess I'm off to read Gramsci?

After disasters, AmeriCorps was everywhere. What happens when it’s gone? Elon Musk's DOGE has gutted the 30-year-old national service agency. grist.org/extreme-weat... #Musk #DOGE #Weather #Disaster #Climate #AmeriCorps

"Do look up: how science and international cooperation closed the ozone hole" | Really important editorial in @nature.com (w/ a nod to @ghostpanther.bsky.social): www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This study is making the rounds, but it’s important for people to understand that “the world’s wealthiest 10%” includes most American adults (if not virtually all American adults — it depends on how you disaggregate households).

We already know this but here it is again..!! Wealthiest 10% contribute to two thirds (66%) of global warming since 1990. phys.org/news/2025-05...

Property lawyers should encourage homebuyers to commission climate change surveys examining risks such as flooding, erosion, wildfires, the Law Society recommends - emphasising lawyers who don't make this clear to clients risk being sued for negligence. www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

BREAKING: Dutch NGO @milieudefensie.bsky.social is threatening Shell with a fresh lawsuit in the Netherlands over its development of new oil and gas fields around the world. #climatelitigation. See my full article in @euronews.com: www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...

BREAKING: Dutch NGO @milieudefensie.bsky.social is threatening Shell with a fresh lawsuit in the Netherlands over its development of new oil and gas fields around the world. #climatelitigation. See my full article in @euronews.com: www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...

Here's JSO's short cut of my protest rant on Politics Live. www.youtube.com/shorts/L_93v...

Why isn’t there a “coalition of the willing” to stop the mass starvation and genocide in Gaza?

World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...

Just a few days after Columbia announces the Pulitzers, the university goes and suspends its own student journalists.

This is an absolute disaster. If we don't stop this, they will turn NSF into a pawn of the Trump administration. There will be no research on climate, biodiversity, or anything that isn't eugenics or AI or how to more efficiently destroy the planet for profit. This cannot be allowed to happen.

An important environmental justice case underway in London today. At the Royal Courts of Justice, Laz Tamana of the Bodo community explained why the community is taking Shell to court over what they allege has been its failure to clean up two massive spills in 2008.

My interview with @samlmontano.bsky.social Trump cuts to will increase deaths and from disasters: ‘It is really scary’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

BREAKING: The African Court on Human and Peoples'​ Rights has been asked for its expert view on climate change - the fourth international court likely to weigh in on the unfolding crisis. Campaigners filed a petition for an advisory opinion this morning after months of “deeply collaborative” work.

BREAKING: The African Court on Human and Peoples'​ Rights has been asked for its expert view on climate change - the fourth international court likely to weigh in on the unfolding crisis. Campaigners filed a petition for an advisory opinion this morning after months of “deeply collaborative” work.

The real costs of climate-related damages by fossil fuel companies may be impossible to calculate, but the picture is getting clearer: According to new study, Chevron alone caused between US $791 billion and $3.6 trillion in heat-related losses over the period 1991–2020.

🎉 Effects of climate protests by scientists paper published! Our findings suggest that scientists can engage in public protest without compromising their credibility, but that such actions alone may have less impact than one would like to believe: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

A Welsh government body is promoting climate change misinformation in support of the meat industry Great scoop by @willhaycardiff.bsky.social here open.substack.com/pub/willhayw...

Brilliant breaking news: this year’s Goldman Prize—the Nobel of environmentalism—is won by activist Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari for her work defending the rights & life of Peru’s Marañon River. “For us, the river isn’t just a body of water. It’s fundamental.” insideclimatenews.org/news/2104202...

By me: Hundreds of marches, pickets and cleanup events are taking place across the US in the run-up to Earth Day on Tuesday, as environmental and climate groups step up resistance to the Trump administration’s authoritarianism and its war on the planet www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

7 out of the 9 law firms capitulating to Trump received an ‘F’ grade for their climate work in the latest scorecard from @lsca.bsky.social. Those firms could now be deployed on a wide range of issues for Trump, who said he'd use them to revive the coal industry www.exxonknews.org/p/the-law-fi...

Worth noting that a number of universities have now sued over withheld and canceled grants, but no university has yet sued over the arrest, detention, and threatened deportation of its foreign students. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...

Having spoken to many people who worked on military bases and labs this is only scratching the surface of the kind of contamination these sites contain and leach...

"On Wednesday, just days before her wedding, 25-year-old Hassouna was killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit her home in northern Gaza. Ten members of her family, including her pregnant sister, were also killed." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

🌳 We went to the Amazon to ask dozens of ranchers and industry insiders on the ground what THEY think about whether a zero-deforestation promise made by Brazilian beef behemoth JBS is feasible. The majority said, in so many words, NOPE Full story here: unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/04/17/j...