Lets talk plastic on Earth Day: more than 12 billion tonnes of plastic had been produced globally by 2025. The plastic crisis not only threatens human and planetary health but runs along the fault lines of gender and global inequality. Find out more in our new paper: www.boell.de/en/combattin...

📣 Tonight at Spore Berlin: "Global Politics in Flames: Is the End of Fossil Fuels Near?" Join us! 📌 Spore Initiative, Hermannstr 86, Berlin ⏰ 7:30 pm, 21/04/26 w/ Luis Alvaro Pardo, Susanne Götze, Tonny Noshwin, Karin Zennig @medico2.bsky.social spore-initiative.org/en/programmi...

1/ 🌿 Last year in Belém, on the sidelines of #COP30, we relaunch our renewed Manifesto Against Geoengineering. ✊🏽Our message was clear: Our HOME is not a laboratory. #NoGeoengineering #HandsOffMotherEarth @foeint.bsky.social @ciel.org @etcgroup.bsky.social @cjaourpower.bsky.social

🌍 New article: Sun-dimming is the new climate #colonialism bit.ly/4uSq2YO Drawing on Gaza, Mohammed Usrof warns that solar geoengineering is being shaped by power, not consent, & highlights how harm can be normalised through bureaucracy. Hear him LIVE: 26 March | 2PM UTC Register: bit.ly/4lzzUCm

🌍 Webinar Invitation: Who funds and who pays? How solar #geoengineering research is being bankrolled 📅 26 March 2026⏰ 2–3PM UTC🌐 EN/ES/FR 🔗 Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Join us to explore how #billionaires & the UK gov are funding the rapid rise in SRM funding, & why it matters.

🧵Solar geoengineering funding increased >10x since 2020. www.boell.de/en/2026/03/0... New report - Who Funds and Who Pays: The Funding of Solar Geoengineering, 2020-2025 - shows sharp rise in private & public investment, w/ new peaks in 2024 & 2025. Who is funding - and where does the money go? ⬇️

Wie gelingt die Plastikwende? Diskutiert beim Runden Tisch für NGOs mit @exitplastik.bsky.social am 10. Februar, welche Narrative, Allianzen und Lösungen wir dafür brauchen. Anmeldung und Programm: exit-plastik.de/runder-tisch...

Wir laden Euch herzlich zur @exitplastik.bsky.social Podiumsdiskussion "Wege aus der Plastikkrise-Mit der Verpackungswende die Gesundheit schützen" am 10.02. um 18 Uhr ein: calendar.boell.de/de/event/weg...

Want to know what #COP30 is all about? Our web dossier compiles information, analyses, and background information on COP30 debates and sticking points in the negoations. 👉 www.boell.de/en/cop-clima...

Water Atlas author Friederike Rohde and Paz Peña on the dangerous impacts of AI's unchecked growth on our global water systems. 👉 Just launched: 💧Water Atlas 2025 eu.boell.org/en/WaterAtlas www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

🟢 Overuse, pollution & #climate crisis are fuelling a global #water crisis 🥵 💧 New #WaterAtlas 2025 by @boell.de reveals the scale, urgency & politics of global water challenges – and how more equitable, sustainable governance is possible 👉 eu.boell.org/en/WaterAtlas #COP30 @cop30brazil.bsky.social

🟢 Overuse, pollution, climate change & weak governance are driving a global #water crisis. 💧 @boell.de's English edition of the #WaterAtlas presents the complexity & urgency of global water issues in a clear, visual way. 🗓️ Join our launch on 5/11 in Brussels&online! calendar.boell.de/en/water-atl...

💥Our message is loud, clear, and rolling: STOP THE OMNIBUS. 🚍 We are making our tour around the EU institutions to make sure lawmakers can’t look away. We want clean air, safe water, and a future for all. Follow us 👉 handsoffnature.eu/the-campaign/ #HandsOffNature

🔥 🏭 Waste-to-energy is a FALSE solution to plastic pollution. The REAL solution? CUT plastic production and scale up REUSE systems. Learn more about reuse: https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/reuse-solutions/ #BreakFreeFromPlastic #WasteToEnergy #Incineration

Yesterday Colombia handed in a resolution towards UNEA for an agreement on raw materials supply chains. The text is not public yet. Last week more than 50 organisations encouraged Colombias to put forward it planned resolution for a bining treaty resourcejustice.org/statement-of...

Together with more then 50 organizations around the globe we made a joined statement on the Colombian efforts towards a global agreement on minerals. Monday @UNEP set the date to hand in draft resolutions to be negotiated further!

Die Verhandlungen zu einem global verbindlichen Abkommen zur Eindämmung der Verschmutzung mit Plastik in Genf sind ohne Ergebnis zu Ende gegangen. Die Internationale Zivilgesellschaft fordert baldige Wiederaufnahme der Verhandlungen: bsky.app/profile/brea...

Africa’s Youth is Rising – The World Must Listen! From the Sahara to the Serengeti, their message is clear: Plastic Free Africa Now! Video by GAIA Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives www.youtube.com/shorts/T1VCT...

📣 Jetzt kommt es drauf an die Chance zu nutzen & die #Plastikverschmutzung an der Quelle zu stoppen! 👍 Wir brauchen ein starkes & verbindliches #Plastikabkommen, das auch #Plastikproduktion einschließt. 👎Ein Abkommen, das nur Abfall reguliert, greift zu kurz! 🔗www.exit-plastik.de/plastics-treaty/