Walk the Nice talk. Better yet, run! "Walking the Nice Talk", my op-ed one week after #UNOC3, published by @iisd.org SDG Knowledge Hub one week after #UNOC3, the Nice Ocean Conference. sdg.iisd.org/commentary/g...

Nice talk - Now, walk the talk! letsbenicetotheocean.org/nice-talk-no... #LetsBeNicetotheOcean #BeyondBlueBlueBlue #UNOC2025 #UNOC3

Good job, Canada! www.cnn.com/2025/04/28/a...

You can now sign & share the revamped #ProtectionPrinciple petition for the 3rd UN Ocean Conference (#UNOC3). IN english. En français. En español. #LetsBeNicetotheOcean letsbenicetotheocean.org/sign-the-pet...

Activista, consultor, fundador de Greenpeace en España y Francia y creador de Let's Be Nice to the Ocean..., Remi Parmentier (@remiparmentier.bsky.social) es uno de los grandes defensores del medio ambiente y, por ello; es el #PersonajeAmbiental de la semana efeverde.com/remi-parment...

Way to go! Spain's Deputy Prime Minister Sara Agesen @saraaagesen.bsky.social @miteco.gob.es writes to 140 countries asking them to ratify the UN #HighSeasTreaty [#BBNJ]: www.lavanguardia.com/natural/2025...

If you're in #Madrid this Tuesday, come & join Romain Troublé from @fondationtaraocean.bsky.social, myself & others for a roundtable conversation at the Institut Français about our expectations before the Nice UN Ocean Conference (#UNOC3). Click here to register: www.eventbrite.es/e/salvar-el-...

What if protecting the ocean became the norm, not the exception? As UNOC approaches, we call with @benicetotheocean.bsky.social for a new paradigm: reverse the burden of proof. A constructive step toward ocean protection, included in SOS Océan Conference manifesto. Read here (FR): shorturl.at/VZiCv

The UN World Food Programme is scrambling to plug a multi-billion-dollar funding gap after the US froze foreign aid and slashed humanitarian budgets. The situation has forced the agency to make previously “unthinkable choices.” 👉 ow.ly/IbzT50Vm3WQ

OPINION: The legal tools to address internal opposition from Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán exist. Europe just needs to use them, and meet the moment with courage.

Statement of Independent Trial Monitors 👇On Verdict in Greenpeace Trial — Energy Transfer v. Greenpeace Trial Monitoring Committee www.trialmonitors.org/statement-of...

If the Nice Ocean Conference (#UNOC2025, June 2025) does not incubate or launch one or more ambitious paradigm shifts, there is a risk that multilateralism sceptics say that the Nice conference was a waste of time and money. letsbenicetotheocean.org/annotated-dr...

Enhorabuena, España @miteco.gob.es 👇 La política ambiental necesita "success stories". 👏👏👏💪 Más que nunca.

"Even if we try to escape the world, the world will not escape us" 👇(will not escape US)

It's official as of tonight: UN #PlasticsTreaty negotiations will resume 5-15 August in Geneva. [Telling to my wife we need to reschedule summer holidays might be trickier than trying to convince Saudi Arabia to accept a treaty with strong provisions to phase down plastics production 😵‍💫]

Good read on yesterday's shit show, by Robert Reich. open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

What would George Marshall, of Marshall plan fame, think of that shameful TrumpMusk robbery plan?

Stand with #Ukraine 603,628 km2 🇺🇦

EU Commission VP Teresa Ribera in @elpais.com today: "The US offers us a wonderful opportunity to remind ourselves that we live in the best place in the world. An open, free market economy, with high environmental standards and high levels of protection [...] We must defend it." 👉 bit.ly/4ka1WDs

I wish everyone in the US would read this piece 👇 And that everyone in Russia could.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐝 𝐔𝐍 𝐎𝐜𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 (#𝐔𝐍𝐎𝐂2025), 𝐢𝐧 𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐞? See below 👇 #LetsBeNicetotheOcean letsbenicetotheocean.org/what-level-o...

As if everything else wasn't enough, here's Trump's declaration of love to single-use plastics. Bon appétit! www.aol.com/back-plastic...

Latest from #TrumpMusk killers: www.reuters.com/world/un-foo...

Congratulations SPAIN for becoming today the first EU country to ratify the UN Agreement on the Conservation & Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity🐟 in Areas beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) 🌊https://treaties.un.org/pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=XXI-10&chapter=21&clang=_en

the courage and foresight of Urban Ocean Lab backing up the former US government’s plans on ocean and climate which have been DELETED from US federal government websites. All that research and planning trashed by Trump. urbanoceanlab.org @remiparmentier.bsky.social @fionaharvey.bsky.social

BOOM! The Marshall Islands has established its first marine protected area, and it covers 48,000 sq kilometres of an area described as one of the most spectacular places on Earth.

She is the last safety net in the EU Commission 🙏 I've just listened to Teresa Ribera @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu's carefully worded podcast conversation on @euractiv.com.

"The Trump administration placed nearly 60 senior officials at the USAid on leave on Monday, on suspicion they had been helping humanitarian organisations cope with the freeze." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Ironic? When the new US Administration is planning to crush the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s research budgets,Trump croonies-enhanced AI speculative market is crashing under pressure from a Chinese App called...#DeepSeek whose logo is a whale. 🐳

Bluesky, Blueocean: The Ocean & Climate Platform is now on Bluesky: @ocean-climate.bsky.social #LetsBeNicetotheOcean

We break down how President Trump’s first week in office unfolded — and what to expect over the next few weeks. Listen to "The Daily."

I kept this screenshot assuming someday we might be asked to forget.

Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin (Collaboration with @politicalbeauty.bsky.social )

This 👇 just when the MAGA bigots are applauding Trump's announcement that he's walking out again of the Climate #ParisAgreement.

Brilliant to see longtime Ocean protector @remiparmentier.bsky.social finally here! Welcome to the kinder place!

Trump suspends all US foreign assisstance for 90 days pending reviews. apnews.com/article/trum...

Donald Trump's order for the US to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement drew criticism from other signatories and environmental groups, as well as statements of continued support by states, cities and other countries for the agreement's goals. #ClimateChange www.reuters.com/business/env...

20-01-25. We're entering the most dangerous four years of our existence. Spain's leading newspaper @ElPais Sunday edition yesterday had the illustrations which Edel Rodriguez, a newyorker of Cuban origin published during Trump's first term. My favourite are the two Der Spiegel covers at the bottom.

If you or your organization are thinking of taking part in the 3rd UN Ocean Conference (#UNOC2025) in Nice, France in June 2025, check this out👇https://bit.ly/40i7hPS #LetsBeNicetotheOcean

Rémi Parmentier @remiparmentier.bsky.social (co-founder and director of the Varda Group) wrote a blog post analyzing the 5th negotiating session on a future #PlasticsTreaty, published by the SDG Knowledge Hub of the @iisd.bsky.social. 👉 urls.fr/bUW1xb

Why do European leaders, like Emmanuel Macron or Pedro Sánchez for example, continue to use Elon Musk's toxic Twitter/X machine when they could use their national press agencies instead to communicate? #ElonFreeEurope

Glasnost is coming to the #deepsea. www.isa.org.jm/news/leticia...

Phew! Last year has been very busy at the Varda Group www.vardagroup.org And the one that has just begun too. Especially with #UNOC3, the 3rd UN Ocean Conference in Nice in just six months. Stay tuned.

The BBC website has a "Fly Better" (!) Emirates commercial video before their story reporting on the Azerbaijan air crash. 😵‍💫

I've been prolific this year. See two op-eds published by @iisd.bsky.social: Everybody knows but the Dice are still Loaded, inspired by Leonard Cohen in Hydra: bit.ly/41Ly89m What Went Wrong in Busan? written after the #PlasticsTreaty talks in Korea: bit.ly/49TitGX Both will b relevant next year!

I wrote this week this piece👇published by the International Institute on Sustainable Development (@iisd.bsky.social), in which I share ideas which may help resolve the political impasse we witnessed at INC5 #PlasticsTreaty negotiations in Busan. sdg.iisd.org/commentary/g...

France's Le Monde's 1985 investigative story which disclosed the French Secret Services had sunk the Rainbow Warrior is one of 4 cover stories reproduced in this week's infographic 👇 marking the newspaper's 80th anniversary. In 2015, as RW veteran I'd written about that cover story: bit.ly/4iEHnya