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Clive Spash and I just published an article analysing the claims made in the recent paper, that attempted to rehabilitate #biodiversity #offsets. 1/2 seecentre.org/wp-content/u...

Many recent surveys show that we are by far the majority, but we just don't know it. Let's start acting like it. - UNDP / University of Oxford — Peoples' Climate Vote 2024 lnkd.in/eX4-V6_b - Green Economy Coalition — Global Green Attitudes Survey 2024 lnkd.in/exdmqA87 1/5

"custodial sentences for acts of direct action or civil disobedience were once rare but are now being imposed with increasing length & frequency" The mean detention period in 256 cases for which data was available was 28 weeks, with 1 in 3 protesters jailed for 6 months or more & 1 in 5 for >a year

This paper shows that public support for an ecosocialist-style transformation is very high in the US and UK. Support is high regardless of the label when policies are explained. But when the word "degrowth" is used without explanation, support drops considerably. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

"96% of Australians surveyed want more action to care for nature," we are the majority, let's start to act like it!

Legendary global water activist Maude Barlow will discuss her new book Earth for sale on 28 May. Link to the webinar : lnkd.in/esqvXmyj

The EU Commission just launched a public consultation on EU’s Habitats and Birds Directives, ahead of a stress test. “The Commission plans to spot ways to reduce unnecessary administrative burden.” #HandsOffNature carbon-pulse.com/511266/?site... link to the consultation ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

🎉 "On May 1, Amsterdam became the first capital city in the world to ban ads for fossil fuel products and meat. It is part of the city’s efforts to discourage consumption of goods linked with high carbon emissions."

“This is illegal under international law. Israel has no jurisdiction in these waters. Boarding these boats amounts to illegal detention – potentially kidnapping on the high seas,” said Gur Tsabar, a spokesperson for the Global Sumud Flotilla. Attack on unarmed civilians in international waters.

Important petition on fair access to pathogens, vaccines and fair sharing of revenues: fairpabs.com #biopiracy

If you're in Brussels on 19 May and want to hear about biodiversity credits, come and say hi! frdo-cfdd.be/fr/activites...

Meanwhile

🔴 ReCommon condemns ENI’s decision to file yet another frivolous lawsuit against the association in an attempt to silence its representatives. 👇 www.recommon.org/en/new-slapp...

“Our results show that the next 20 years will be decisive. The choices we make now will set Britain on a path either towards accelerating biodiversity loss or towards nature recovery.” www.ceh.ac.uk/press/we-hav...

Open letter to Peru’s environment ministry regarding the draft guidelines for the design and operation of biodiversity credit projects greenfinanceobservatory.org/wp-content/u...

Our comicbook on #biodiversity credits / #offsets is finally available in print! You can order a copy for the price of $10 here: twn.my/title2/books... And you can still download the pdf for free here: greenfinanceobservatory.org/wp-content/u... Happy reading!

the only fucking decent European leader, again! apparently, the rest are back to happy vassals, cheering US and Israel into another war.

IPBES: Public spending on environmentally harmful subsidies is approximately $2.4 trillion! Forget bs #biodiversity credits markets, we must focus our demands on shifting harmful subsidies and not stop until we get it.

Is water insecurity going to follow the same political playbook as climate change and biodiversity loss? Water insecurity is on the map of forthcoming national security risks, together with food shortages. Rather than addressing the root causes of water insecurity, many of which are political, 1/5

For every $1 spent protecting nature, over $30 goes to damaging ecosystems, UN finds. h/t #ShiftHarmfulSubsidies #NoNeedForNatureCredits www.sustainableviews.com/for-every-1-...

‼️Carbon budgets to start 2026 👀👇 Climate - Prof Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social National Emergency Briefing 11 Dec 2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8z... @cducsueuropa.bsky.social @spdeuropa.bsky.social @spdfraktion.de @gruene-bundestag.de @dielinkebt.de @reuters.com

World Economic Forum recommends tech firms buy #biodiversity offsets to address their impacts and dependencies on nature or "risk undermining their licence to operate." 1/3 carbon-pulse.com/464775/?site...

The secretive cabal of US polluters that is rewriting the EU’s human rights and climate law www.somo.nl/the-secretiv...

Today the IAPB will host a session at #COP30 titled "IAPB Carbon & Biodiversity Credits – Integrity in Focus." Yet, their proposal for high integrity credits includes many features that arguably contradict the high integrity claim: from the allowance for offsetting, 1/2

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

Deregulation - the dark path to poison in your lungs, excrement in your rivers, carcinogens in your food. A growing movement in Brussels is spreading the message that asking business to follow rules leads to economic death. They're working hard to destroy EU environmental + chemical protections.

Far from being a game changing innovation, the #TFFF launched at #COP30 is a cleverly packaged fund where conservation funding is conditional and the last wheel of the wagon; as payments for conservation come last and are first to be impacted in case of underperformance; 1/3

Today 9 Brazilian Amazon States are launching a unified #biodiversitycredit scheme at #COP30. If you want to know what biodiversity credits are and why they are a predictable environmental failure, read this comicbook: 1/2 greenfinanceobservatory.org/wp-content/u...

On 12 Nov 9 Brazilian Amazon States will launch a unified #biodiversitycredit scheme at #COP30. This feels like a good time to publish the last 2 chapters of our comicbook on biodiv credits: who promotes these markets, why, and what are the alternatives greenfinanceobservatory.org/50-shades-of...

EU’s roadmap for #naturecredits confirms the fears we expressed about the leaked version. We understand that #naturecredits will most likely be used as international compliance offsets. 1/3 eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...

Today's EU session on creating a water smart economy leaves me with open questions; while I support the goal to increase water reuse, including through recovering phosphorus and nitrogen in water, I wonder: 1/3

EU's draft roadmap on #NatureCredits raises serious concerns and questions. We find that EU’s €37bn biodiversity funding gap could be closed entirely by redirecting existing subsidies to harmful activities, and doesn't require “making nature investable,” 1/3

IAPB/UN/WEF published a week ago their revised and updated high integrity principles to guide the biodiversity credits market. 1/4

EU to launch roadmap for building hashtag#nature markets by year end, still claims that credits won't be used for hashtag#offsetting, despite providing details that suggest the opposite. 1/11 carbon-pulse.com/398453/?utm_...

French private reinsurer SCOR offers a new insurance product for #biodiversity restoration projects. Note how this insurance is presented as a way for private companies with destructive activities to prevent tighter environmental regulations and to keep their social licence to operate 1/2

I had a discussion with a prominent proponent of #biodiversity credits, and his support came down to this: it's biodiversity credits or nothing; asking to address the root causes of the biodiversity crisis via env legislation and redirecting harmful subsidies would be "politically unrealistic," 1/10

Gaza humanitarian aid ship bombed by drones in waters off Malta

Just to note, the "well below 2°C" budget is for an 83% chance of not exceeding 2°C. As for the budgets, updated to start from January 2025. For a 50% chance of not exceeding 1.5°C it is ~170GtCO2 For an 83% chance of not exceeding 2°C it is ~575GtCO2 Attached table may be of interest.

We just responded to EU Commission's call for evidence on EU's #carbon market. We find that the call for evidence: - fails to ask input on a crucial weakness of the #EUETS, namely the weakness of the price signal due to excess price volatility, 1/7 greenfinanceobservatory.org/wp-content/u...

Now that French OBC is launching a #biodiversity credit pilot project in Abidjan, that TotalEnergies is doing biodiversity offsetting in Uganda & that the EU Commission launched a #NatureCredit pilot project in Peru, 1/2

It's hard to get your head around the scale of the environmental vandalism the Labour government is hoping to unleash. The Planning and Infrastructure Bill is up there with Trump's executive orders. And the reason is the same: corporate power. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

EU Commissioner for Environment, Jessika Roswall, is organising today a roundtable discussion on #NatureCredits. The fact that only one NGO has been invited, the WWF, one that has long supported #biodiversity credits, while other participants are big agribusiness lobbies & financial institutions 1/2

For me, I will remember Francis as the Pope who called the Holy Family Church in Gaza every day as the city, and even the church itself, was bombed by Israel.

UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development plans to support #biodiversity and #carbon credit markets to reward small-scale farmers in its new 2025-2031 environmental strategy. According to IFAD, small-scale farmers need an estimated $75 billion in nature and climate finance annually 1/3

Exactly why we can’t rely on private capital for critical conservation policies: “I passionately dislike the idea of locking up land for 30 years.” (...) Castro also advocates for shorter, renewable contracts on another basis. 1/2 www.ft.com/content/e28b...

“We used to have land grabs. Now we are having hashtag#carbon grabs,” Akinwumi Adesina, the president of the African Development Bank, said of what he described as low prices paid for African carbon credits. 1/2 www.ft.com/content/0468...

Yet the French envt minister recently called to get ready for a +4°C world 😅