"The increases in fossil fuel production [in governments' current plans] would lead to global production levels in 2030 that are 500%, 31%, and 92% higher for coal, oil, and gas, respectively, than the median 1.5ºC-con­sistent pathway." productiongap.org/2025report 🤦

We asked the UK advertising watchdog, the ASA, to investigate its own ads for being misleading. Then, to use the universal language of clickbait, this happened (they said their own rules didn't apply to them) @badvertising.bsky.social @adfreecities.bsky.social theecologist.org/2025/sep/09/...

We went to see The Roses. I need someone to tell me, why didn't they just get childcare?

A majority in the Dutch parliament wants "antifa" banned. Including the "grown-ups" of the VVD. This despite there being no such organisation as "antifa", and a complete absence of debate about the proposal. The slide to authoritarianism is happening here too. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

💡 Did you know the Customer Union has a formal recognition agreement with The Co-operative Bank? 🤝We met with the bank to represent our members and ask their questions. 📖Read our update on the meeting in our latest newsletter: saveourbank.coop/newsletter-2... #union #coops #ethical #banking

"Because someone died, we have to take away your rights" -- the same pretextual rationale that authoritarians always use

The fossil fuel industry is behind most of the climate disinformation you see and hear today. Charlie Kirk was no exception.

🚨 Fighting harmful bank finance? We just launched a Users' Guide for communities & their allies on how to use bank human rights complaint channels: 👇 www.banktrack.org/campaign/hru...

Proud and happy to launch our new Users' Guide to bank human rights complaints channels. We hope it makes these channels more accessible and widely used, and that banks take action as a result!

Here are 10 provocations on climate and energy. Tell me if you agree, disagree or have a nuanced take. Drop your own provocations in reply or quote post. Start: 1. By 2030, the use of air conditioning will lead to greater increase in electricity demand than data centers. And it's not even close!

Trump's aid cuts in Uganda and Tanzania are leading to babies being born with HIV because mothers could not get medication and a rise in life-threatening infections. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)

Air pollution from the oil and gas sector causes 91,000 premature deaths and hundreds of thousands of illnesses in the US each year. Communities of colour face the greatest burden. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is wild, and topping the list is Raiffeisen Bank International. RBI currently earns nearly 50% of its profits from its Russian subsidiary, which has allegedly invested in Russian sovereign debt. But Austria’s Finance Ministry sees no problem here - and just announced it won't take action.

Of 33 minerals the UK calls 'critical': ⛔6 are not needed at all for a green transition; 🔽15 are only needed in small amounts; ⛏️Only 7 need significant production increases for a move to net zero. Overall, a net zero transition "can be accommodated" with existing mineral production levels.

So, the Labour govt reaction to Farage's plans to deport hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers was to say it was "pie in the sky". Their problem with this abhorrent plan is that it's ... impractical? Simply not realistic? I'm so much more stunned by this than Reform UK's performative cruelty.

So, the Labour govt reaction to Farage's plans to deport hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers was to say it was "pie in the sky". Their problem with this abhorrent plan is that it's ... impractical? Simply not realistic? I'm so much more stunned by this than Reform UK's performative cruelty.

BREAKING: UK watchdog accepts #humanrights complaints against Barclays and HSBC over private prison investments. www.banktrack.org/article/rele...

NEW: A former Microsoft AI engineer says the company's "AI for sustainability" claims are BS, a distraction from their hyper-polluting AI contracts with oil companies. “From what I saw," he said, "I believe that finding and extracting more oil is one of the biggest use cases of AI today."

Important research, pointing to the potential to hold commercial banks like Santander, ABSA and FirstRand accountable for their fossil fuel finance through MIGA's accountability channel.

World Bank Group guarantees — not as "green" as they seem?⚠️ New research shows how MIGA guarantees are boosting big banks’ ability to invest in fossil fuels, including 🇲🇿 🇨🇦🇻🇳 LNG in Mozambique, Canada, Vietnam 🇦🇷 Oil & gas in Argentina Find out more: bit.ly/MIGA25 #FfD4People #FfD4 #WorldBank

One climate scenario for 2200: a dead planet. In just 175 years. We need to not just be talking about climate outcomes for 2100 or this is what we sleep-walk into.

Good @theguardian.com long read on the state of international criminal law. I did miss any reflection on its impact on business, though. Corporate impunity is of course rife, but law plays an important role in setting expectations and even sometimes gets results.

“The US’s commitment to undermining the court runs deep. In 2002, Congress passed a law known as the Hague Invasion Act, giving the president power to use ‘all means necessary’ to release a US govt official detained by the ICC” Today’s long read by Linda Kinstler www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jun...

New Social LobbyMap report from @influencemap.bsky.social finds the finance sector was the "most oppositional sector" on #CSDDD, especially opposing measures for remedy and stakeholder engagement. Full report >> sociallobbymap.org/wp-content/u...

It is all feeling very 2003 isn't it

This seems very sensible, but why not also set a max temperature of 20 degrees on central heating thermostats in colder countries? I know people in the UK who heat the house to 24 degrees in winter.

Bravo! ✊🔥 French dock workers are refusing to load military equipment for shipment to Israel. www.lemonde.fr/en/france/ar...

Is this the best the fossil fuel lobbyists at Africa Energy Chamber can do? How exactly would the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline tackle energy poverty in Uganda? It is literally designed to take oil *out* of Uganda.

🔴As part of the second lawsuit against Total’s Tilenga and EACOP projects filed in June 2023, an initial hearing is taking place today. It could prove decisive in gaining access to evidence that Total has so far refused to disclose. www.amisdelaterre.org/communique-p...

Climate change is being largely driven by the lifestyles of the richest 10% globally. And that probably includes you. (If you are lucky enough to earn over €42,980 (£36,605) per year). www.carbonbrief.org/two-thirds-o...

The expulsion of 1000 trans people from the US military is a human rights violation and must be rejected outright by all of our elected representatives.

🚨 While the world requires climate action, ING is fueling the crisis. From toxic LNG terminals in the U.S. Gulf South, shady energy companies like EPH, to destructive coal giants Adani and PLN, ING is STILL pouring billions into fossil fuels.

Join BankTrack, Fossielvrij, Milieudefensie, PACAN, Better Brazoria and Reclaim Finance at the AGM or stay tuned for more updates throughout the day!

The Board of Deputies leadership has engendered a reckless tolerance for Israel's fanatical, genocidal politics - born from a support for occupation and apartheid that has created a moral crisis in our community. The 36 signatories chart a different course. We encourage more to join them.

We're in the Raiffeisen Bank International AGM. Expecting to hear at least a few questions on the bank's continued engagement with Russian warmongers, as exposed in a series of recent articles: www.bloomberg.com/news/article... www.derstandard.at/story/300000... www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

It's the day of Raiffeisen Bank's AGM — just a day after an investigation revealed the bank imported tonnes of cash into Russia in the days before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. BankTrack's Max Hammer is at the AGM; follow him @worstbeatlesong.bsky.social for live posts and updates!

I can't stop laughing at this man I'm sorry. This is the kind of shit the biggest loser in the world would say to their girlfriend about buying her flowers on Valentine's Day once, and he's doing so in an argument that started because he called her a bitch

Our economy doesn't work for us – but it should. We're looking for people to train as community economists. You'll use the stories and visions of the people around you to learn how our economy works, how it could work, and how we can all get there. Apply now at equalitytrust.org.uk/project/comm...

Elon Musk's AI platform has been retrained to generate a "both sides" response to whether climate change is a threat. One is the view of science, while the other is fossil fuel industry waffle.

Our first newsletter of 2025 is out now, with news of the Co-op Bank's take-over by Coventry Building Society: what it means for customers and what it means for us as a union. TL:DR : it's great news 🚀 saveourbank.coop/newsletter-2...

"Since 1977, there have been 11 murders, 42 bombings, 200 arsons, 531 assaults, 492 clinic invasions, 375 burglaries, and thousands of other incidents of criminal activities directed at patients, providers, and volunteers of US abortion clinics." (NAF). But the UK's buffet zones, that's the problem.

Kind of obsessed by this JD Vance speech. The Greta Thunberg/ Elon Musk comparison. Just fucking what?

Land for peace. Works every time ... 🙄

"I gotta be honest with you, I don't really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another." JD Vance, 2022.

NEW: These are the banks that have underwritten Israeli government bonds since 7th October 2023. Bonds which funded Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza. These banks risk complicity in war crimes. www.banktrack.org/news/seven_u... W/ @paxvoorvrede.nl

Former diplomat Mark Smith calls on former Foreign Office colleagues — those who still believe in the values of integrity and justice — to refuse to be complicit in war crimes, ethnic cleansing and genocide. #FCDO

One day, the world will ask, how was this allowed to happen, and how do we ensure it can never happen again? I look forward to that day, but how many years will it take and how much damage will be done before we get there? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Bet when they programmed this at @duolingoverde.bsky.social it seemed like a bland, even obvious sentiment.

Shutting down USAID is not about efficiency—it’s about undermining America’s global leadership. USAID counters extremism, fights diseases, and creates more markets for U.S. exports. This is reckless and dangerous.