7️⃣ This case is indeed way bigger than Antwerp. It is a test of whether Europe will apply its own climate laws to stop the fossil-to-plastic buildout — and choose a just transition instead of locking in decades of fossil fuel dependence. Europe does not need more plastics‼️

6️⃣ A transatlantic movement is rising: the lawsuit comes just after community members from U.S. fracking hotspots and petrochemical hubs visited Antwerp — joining forces with locals to highlight the global costs of petrochemical expansion. 🌍✊ 👉 toxictours.org/location/bel... 👈

5️⃣ 🗣️ Community members are speaking out 🗣️ The burden of INEOS’ Project One's is invisible in its environmental impact assessment. But it cannot be invisible in court.

4️⃣ This case, filed by @clientearth.bsky.social and partners, is precisely what accountability is for: To bring the entire chain of impact into view before we get locked into decades of harm from new fossil infrastructure. www.clientearth.org/latest/press...

3️⃣ The landmark case will weigh full-lifecycle emissions: For the 1st time, a court will weigh Scope 3 emissions for plastics — the full climate footprint from fracked feedstocks to waste incineration. ⚖️ The law requires the whole system to be seen, not just what fits inside the fence line.

2️⃣ The problem: INEOS drastically understated the climate + health impacts of the project. New independent research shows Project One would bring: 🏭 3.8M tons of CO₂e/yr 🫁 More early deaths from pollution than the jobs it will bring. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

1️⃣ 🚨NEW plastics lawsuit just landed, targeting INEOS’s Project One in Antwerp. Why? This €4bn #Plastics project would cause 5x more emissions than INOES claimed — and drive serious health harms. This is #PlasticAccountability! READ: www.clientearth.org/latest/press...

This #GlobalFertilizerDay, let’s call it clearly: fertilizers are #fossilfuels in disguise. This means when gas prices rise, food prices rise too —fertilizer companies profit while farmers and families pay. Read more ⤵️ ipes-food.org/report/fuel-... @ciel.org @ipes-food.org @grain.org

⚠️ Big Ag has a dirty secret. More than half of fertilizers are made from fossil fuels. Industry claims we need fertilizers to feed the world — but we can feed the world without fossil fuels. 👉Read more in “Frack to Fork”https://bit.ly/4nYirn7 #GlobalFertilizerDay

Macron has defied the will of the people. He leaves the French public no choice but to Block Everything | Rokhaya Diallo

We’re hiring! 🌏 Join CIEL as our Director of Development to help advance climate justice and human rights worldwide. 👉 Apply: bit.ly/3IfR9tf

🌬️ 1/2 Our new review on #plastic and microbes in the air that we breath, i.e.„Potential planetary health impacts of the airborne plastisphere“, is out 👇 #plastic #microplastic www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

EXCLUSIVE: England’s farms are being fertilised with a cocktail of toxic landfill juice + sewage sludge. 750,000 tonnes of landfill leachate tankered to sewage works every year → mixed into sewage → spread on farmers' fields. 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Plastics Treaty talks are over. After 11 grueling days of delays, distractions, and gaslighting, we are leaving Geneva without a treaty. But countries stood firm against fossil-fueled interests — hope for an ambitious #PlasticsTreaty lives on. 🎥 @dlevialvares.bsky.social + @davzoul.bsky.social

Penultimate day of the last scheduled #PlasticsTreaty negotiations and Kuwait speaks again on behalf of the 'Like-minded countries', a group that has NEVER disclosed its membership. As far as we know it could be Kuwait and 1 other country. The bad faith is blatant, the gaslighting is disgusting.

⚠️ Fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists have flooded #PlasticsTreaty talks at a record high. They're working with petrostates to distract, delay, and drag the treaty toward the lowest common denominator. #KickPollutersOut #INC5-2 👉 Read more: bit.ly/41wUn1L

Legendary John Beard (Port Arthur) addressing need for proper #Plativstreaty at UN's #INC5! @breakfreefromplastic.org @ciel.org @dlevialvares.bsky.social @exitplastik.bsky.social @parentsforfuture.de

@pbolo.bsky.social @ffivaz.bsky.social and Natacha Kpochan's oped in the @genevasolutions.bsky.social today is spot on! And check this beautiful art piece by @vonwong.bsky.social 🥰 genevasolutions.news/climate-envi... #PlasticsTreaty

The @lancetcountdown.bsky.social on health and plastics is OUT! Findings are shockingly clear: Plastics harm and kill, and are responsible for health-related economic losses exceeding US$1·5 trillion annually. 🤓 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PlasticsTreaty

“I want to be more radical, but I can’t” Indonesian lawyer and activist Tiza Mafira on the frustrating expectation that she’ll silence her feelings in the name of professionalism gendread.substack.com/p/i-want-to-...

Breaking: activists blocking #Ineos #Fracking4Plastics supply chain dragon ships at Forth Road Bridge near Edinburgh! #INC5 #Plasticstreaty now! @dlevialvares.bsky.social @breakfreefromplastic.org @ciel.org @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social @clientearth.bsky.social

Did you know the plastic industry is Making Oil Great Again? 🛢️🤑🛢️ But “Drill Baby Drill” doesn’t have to be the future for plastic (99% of which is made of oil or gas) or the planet! 🎥 Watch & check out @Greenpeaceuk’s new report www.greenpeace.org.uk/resources/pl...

📰The #CIJ_ICJ has spoken—fossil fuel production is no longer just bad policy, it’s a violation of international law. Read our NYT op-ed on why this ruling is a legal game-changer for climate justice. nyti.ms/3IKYNvs

Joint statement following the EU-JP Summit 2025! #LNG becomes more and more the central issue! Von der Leyen also congratulated Japan on its deal with Trump (which includes a possible US-JP-LNG-joint-venture)! ec.europa.eu/commission/p... @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social @foejapan.bsky.social

🤓 IEEFA just released a briefing note with their considerations for the final round of UN Plastic Treaty negotiations! *Read the full Briefing Note: tinyurl.com/4cmu3m6p #PlasticsTreaty

It's time for a #FossilFreeFood system. 🧪 Phase out fossil-based inputs 🌱 Invest in agroecology & local food systems 🛑 Cut plastic use in food packaging 💰 Rein in corporate control 📖 Read more in @ipes-food.org's new report 👇🏽

The fossil-fueled food system is a trap: 🧑🏽‍🌾 Farmers are locked into chemical-heavy farming ⚠️ Our supply chains rely on polluting plastics 🏭 A few corporations control our food system 📈 When oil prices surge, food prices follow.

🌽 Our food systems are deeply reliant on fossil fuels! 🛢️ A whopping 15% of fossil fuels goes into food systems 🚜 40% of all petrochemicals — namely, synthetic fertilizers and plastic packaging — are used to produce food. 🧵 A #FuelToFork Thread 👇

🌍 New Briefing Note by @ieefainstitute.bsky.social "Trade Measures Key to the Success of Global Regulation to Curb Plastic Pollution" highlights how strong trade provisions are essential to make the global plastics treaty effective. 🔗 tinyurl.com/yv3bzay8

🚨BREAKING: 8 out of 10 surveyed around the world think that polluters - not the people - should pay for climate damages. That’s an OVERWHELMING majority saying - it’s time to make polluters pay. Sign the Polluters Pay Pact today 👇 act-int.greenpeace.org/polluters-pa...

🚨 Big Tech, Big Oil & political interests thrive on chaos & disinformation, polluting the public sphere with AI-generated slop & corporate propaganda. We can't fight climate change without tackling information pollution, CIEL's @lilifuhr.bsky.social and S. Hankey write. More: bit.ly/4dLeEpk

European fertiliser plants use US ammonia made with shale #gas (ie fracked gas), investigation reveals www.theguardian.com/environment/... @dlevialvares.bsky.social @ciel.org @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social @ssteingraber1.bsky.social @pascoesabido.bsky.social @profbobhowarth.bsky.social

3/ Fertilizers are often fossil fuels in another form. Frack to Farm = 💨 Methane emissions ☠️ Toxic chemicals 🏭 Air pollution 💧 Water contamination Communities near fracking sites face higher risks of asthma, cancer & preterm birth. Yara profits, US Gulf South suffers.👇 bit.ly/45xEwTx

2/ 🚜 Fertilizers create more emissions than aviation and shipping combined. While claiming its commitment to “mitigate climate change,” Yara — Europe’s largest buyer of natural gas — emits as much as 16 coal-fired power plants each year.

⚠️ NEW INVESTIGATION: Norwegian chemical giant Yara claims its fertilizers are “sustainable.” But a new investigation by @desmog.com.web.brid.gy reveals a toxic reality: Yara relies on fracked gas. 🧵 A Thread on Yara’s Climate problem.

The agrochemicals giant is contesting the fine it got in France for refusing to comply with the law during 22 years, and after 33 formal notices. The fine is 850 000€, it became this big because it took them so long to pay. www.ouest-france.fr/societe/just...

JR is at it again: "Carbon tax is ‘killing manufacturing’ in UK, says #Ineos boss Ratcliffe"! www.peeblesshirenews.com/news/nationa... @clientearth.bsky.social @dlevialvares.bsky.social @ciel.org @breakfreefromplastic.org

Countries must reject Trump’s unlawful plan to “take over” #Gaza. Forcible displacement of Palestinians violates international law and amounts to crimes against humanity. No leader is above the law. We must resist early signs of imperial darkness.

Doerte Fouquet: big energy companies have been banking on data centres remaining power-hungry. When efficiency gains were made in data centres, the share prices of nuclear power companies building "small" reactors went down

@lnbdublin.bsky.social : the war in Ukraine was exploited to push for more liquid gas terminals in Ireland. Ireland could be a net exporter of renewables, with such offshore wind capacity. but at the moment all the new renewable electricity is being taken by data centres

Luca De Carli, DG CLIMA at the European Commission: this would be a drastic law, but it would be legally possible. The jury is out on whether you would need unanimous agreement of national governments or not

@lnbdublin.bsky.social : we need to use every tool available to us to address the climate crisis @lenaats.bsky.social : we have to start making new progress on climate protection, not just try to preserve past progress that is now under attack

MEPs @lnbdublin.bsky.social and @lenaats.bsky.social now taking the stage to talk about practically how to make an EU ban on new fossil fuel projects work

Professor Doerte Fouquet: For an EU ban on new fossil fuel projects, we need to show: - The EU has the legal competence ✔️ - National governments can't do it alone ✔️ - A ban would be necessary and proportionate ✔️

Professor Doerte Fouquet: the EU could sign the Paris agreement because it is competent and responsible for climate and environment. The EU's climate law is what implements this agreement, but the science shows we need to go faster -- so additional measures are needed

Lawyer Andrea Carta: to ask for something as apparently radical as a ban on new fossil fuels, we had to show that the EU has competence for such a ban, what the legal basis would be and make sure an ban could stand up in the face of attacks

Greenpeace's @tomgelin.bsky.social : global temperatures went over 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels on average for the first time last year. We know fossil fuels are the main culprit, and a phase out has to start with a ban on all new projects

Starting now: a discussion in the EU Parliament on an EU ban on new fossil fuel projects, hosted by @lenaats.bsky.social and @lnbdublin.bsky.social Livestream here: europarl.webex.com/europarl/j.p...