Peatlands in Canada - 5 key facts. These bogs, fens, permafrost peatlands & peat swamps are some of the most extensive boggy landscapes in the world. More to come! I've been working on peatlands in Canada for over 10 yrs - so many more facts & stories to share! open.substack.com/pub/peatpedi...

🐄 Livestock = 65% of EU agri emissions. A new report, presented today by Aaron Scheid & @juliabognar.bsky.social, shows how the CAP can change course with 10 recommendations: from better farmer incentives to stronger advisory services & greater policy coherence. 📑 Full report: shorturl.at/x0rMW

👨‍🌾 Shifting to #SustainableFarming is urgently needed. But public money alone won't get us there. 👉 Mobilising private capital could bridge the funding gap and drive the transition at the necessary scale and pace. Read what we recommend to scale up effective financing ⤵️

Canada’s forests are losing their ability to bounce back from drought—and we now have the data to show it - Using tree-ring data from 40,000+ trees across 4558 plots and 23 species, we explored how trees responded to drought over the past century In GCB onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Word of the day is ‘forwallowed’ (15th century): extremely weary from tossing and turning all night.

📑Our recent brief on LULUCF sink trends shows that maintaining or expanding the EU forest carbon sinks is becoming increasingly difficult due to climate change and harvesting rates. As a result, growing demands from the bioeconomy risk placing unsustainable pressure on Europe’s forests

A4.4 The Forest Navigator project highlights these tensions. IEEP will contribute creating an advanced modelling of policy pathways to inform decision makers lead a coherent approach for forests and the bioeconomy. A report on EU forest policy coherence assessment will be published in October.

A2.4 Find here examples of innovative agroforestry practices in the EU ieep.eu/publications... #LifeTerra @laureloutremblay.bsky.social reloutremblay.bsky.social‬

A1.4 Our recent report analyses the interplay between current and future EU targets in relation to climate and nature ⤵️ ieep.eu/publications... #LifeTerra @laureloutremblay.bsky.social

A3.4 ➡️Close-to-Nature Forestry creates benefits for both climate and biodiversity through a variety of practices such as longer rotations, lower harvest intensity, preservation of species,etc See more in our study exploring policy options #LifeTerra @laureloutremblay.bsky.social

🚨 HAPPENING TODAY 🚨 🌲 Life Terra Bluesky Chat: an interactive discussion on the future of forest governance and sustainable land use in Europe. Tune in with #LifeTerra on our Bluesky account and join our conversation! [Public Projects Content]

🚀STARTING SOON 🚀 🌲The #LifeTerra Bluesky Chat is ready to take off at 12.30! Join us on our Bluesky account and let’s have a thoughtful conversation about the future of European forests. 🚨 Don’t forget to use the #LifeTerra hashtag and click the “Latest” tab to see the most recent posts.

New @carbonpulse.bsky.social article: “Forest carbon protocols are currently yielding low-quality credits, and need to be strengthened according to a report published on Thursday led by top forest scientists.” 🌲 Check out CATF’s new scorecard and report: www.forestcarbonprotocols.org

🌳🌏As Europe moves forward on its #climate & sustainability journey, forest-related policies & management practices need to evolve.🤝 This is the shared objective of three Horizon Europe projects 👉 forestpaths.eu/storage/app/... @forestpaths.eu #EUforestprojects #climatechange #forestresearch

Great inequalities persist in air quality monitoring. People in rich countries are 12x more likely than to have monitoring. But that doesn’t mean we need to wait for more monitors to reduce air pollution… ⬇️ new paper with Camille de Lauriere and Ella Henninger in PNAS : www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A beaver dam in British Columbia shows its ability to hold back sediment pollution during heavy rainfall, sediment damages freshwater habitat. Two pairs of beavers are making a new wild home in Studland #UK & their unrestricted www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #nature #climatecrisis

Commenting on the @thecccuk.bsky.social's Seventh Carbon Budget,  @tommlancaster.bsky.social, @eciu.net said: “The Climate Change Committee makes it clear that, after over a decade of delay, now is the time to tackle emissions from farming and land use" eciu.net/media/press...

Tropical forests are not changing fast enough to keep pace with climate change. New paper in Science today by @jeaggu.bsky.social shows that <22% of new trees recruiting into forests have traits better adapted to the new climate. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#FoodSecurity could be hurt by declining crop diversity if #temperatures rise over 1.5°C. Warming decreases the cropland suitable for staple crops that account for over 2/3 of global food energy intake. Tropical root crops, #cereals & #pulses are most vulnerable… (1/2) www.aalto.fi/en/news/stud...

forests have memories. mushrooms communicate. trees warn each other of danger. entire underground networks pulse with messages, storing knowledge older than civilization. western science is only just catching up to what indigenous cultures have always known—nature isn’t just alive, it’s intelligent.

"There is a lot of uncertainty about meeting #Climate goals in Europe and the world. Operating in this environment is challenging. We need clear objectives on the horizon" says our @juliabognar.bsky.social in her interview with @mauromereu.bsky.social @en.ioplus.nl‬ 🌱 #GreenTransition

Swiss #farmers sue their government for not acting on #climatechange, as #drought & heat, #storms, hail and changes in the seasons led to losses of 10-40% in annual turnover over 3 years. The agri-food sector (esp. livestock) accounts for one-third of global GHG emissions: doi.org/10.1038/d415...

Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.

Incredibly moving Justin Trudeau remarks: "We have fought and died alongside you....During your darkest hours...we were always there. Standing with you, grieving with you, the American people....Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us."

Update on EU's 2040 Target: European Parliament EPP Party MEP Peter Liese has indicated that the EPP cannot currently support a 2040 climate target to cut 90% of emissions as recommended by the European Commission.

"We need a fundamental shift in how we produce food—one that recognizes that food production efficiency comes at the cost of ecosystem robustness and the loss of #biodiversity. By mimicking nature's complex mosaic of habitats, we can strengthen the resilience of food webs." 🌐🧪🌎

This shouldn't be a surprise, but according to researchers from the Max Planck Institute and the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, extreme climate events (heavy rainfall, droughts) disrupt the soil's natural purification capacity and threaten groundwater quality. www.uni-jena.de/en/295196/gr...

New study: "Healthy diets are high in plant-based foods like legumes, whole grains, nuts, fruits, vegetables & herbs - rich in phytochemicals which play an important role in promoting gut health, healthy aging & healthspan" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... www.news-medical.net/news/2025012...

Drax lobbied Canadian officials to intervene in EU standard-setting for biomass, in order to water down the protections on old-growth forests www.ft.com/content/37be...

There's zero evidence that grazing cattle perfectly can ever be better than this: “The preservation of SOC can be effectively achieved through the protection of natural ecosystems and the introduction of perennial crops in croplands” 🧵meta-analysis of 25,000+ studies www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A third of the Arctic’s vast carbon sink now a source of emissions, study reveals Critical CO2 stores held in permafrost are being released as the landscape changes with global heating, report shows #Climate #ClimateCrisis

The proposed EU Forest Monitoring Framework was discussed in the Parliament's Joint Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development last week. The discussion highlighted the importance of integrating nationaI inventories, remote sensing, and ground-based assessments.

Apparently folks think that writing that contains an em dash is a dead giveaway that it's from ChatGPT, which I guess is a sign that most people have never read anything in their lives.

We reduce emissions to reduce long-term damage from climate change. We adapt to reduce near-term damage from climate change. New open access paper discussing how emissions mitigation and climate adaptation are complementary approaches to reducing climate damage: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

What a wonderful story about @edgarmcgregor.bsky.social

A #carbontax on emission-intensive agricultural goods – #meat, #dairy – can reduce agricultural #emissions in Germany by over 20% & generate #revenues over 8 billion EUR/year… (1/2) doi.org/10.1016/j.fo... #meattax #taxation #Germany

Register now for IEEP UK’s annual conference 2025 on 22 Jan, 09.00 – 12.00 GMT! This session will explore what the Labour government can take from Europe to deliver on its 5 environmental priorities, and how the UK and EU can cooperate on European environmental policy. ieep.uk/news/event-b... 1/3

Little progress towards a formal proposal for the EU's 2040 target is expected under the Polish presidency due to the national situation. This is despite Tusk's earlier expression of support for a 90% reduction target back in January 2024. table.media/en/europe/fe...

Predictably, no mention of the significant, pervasive impacts of 150 yrs of commercial logging on increasing fire hazard -- "A prohibition on indigenous burning, fire suppression & a warming climate have made California’s forests more susceptible to extreme wildfires..." www.ppic.org/water/forest...

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This is very, very important. While the food system contributes about 22-34% of the world’s greenhouse gases — it only gets about 2.5-3% of the climate funding. And most of that food system climate funding goes to the wrong solutions. futureoffood.org/wp-content/u...

Today in Faith in Humanity, a Canadian man who has experienced homelessness is building homes so tiny that they qualify as bicycles. They have heat, water, and electricity. He is giving them to homeless people. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

📢 NOW OUT📢 UNEP has launched the 2024 #AdaptationGap Report. The report provides an assessment of global progress in adapting to the climate crisis and its worst impacts. www.unep.org/resources/ad...

The only offsets we believe in: working out so you can eat more holiday sweets.

We have global crises for biodiversity, climate, water, food and health So it is good to see this new IPBES report on how they need to be tackled together, and the threat of cascading and compounding of impacts www.ipbes.net/node/85582

Investigation by Deutsche Welle finds that environmental authorities in DE approved fake carbon credit projects in China which did not meet the legal requirements of a specialised carbon scheme. Such credits were utilised by investors such as Shell, Exxon, Total, and BP. www.dw.com/en/how-a-chi...

This is insane. Drax will log forests to provide 1 million tons of woody biomass a year to power a plant that will make 30 million gallons of "sustainable aviation fuel" each year, enough to power "5,000 carbon-neutral long-haul flights annually." The average number of flights *per day* is 101,480.

Of one-fifth of the carbon credit volume issued to date, almost 1 billion tons of CO2e, less than 16% of the carbon credits issued to the investigated projects were estimated to constitute real emission reductions. 🤡 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Jetzt zu investieren ist deutlich günstiger, als später zu reparieren! Stellungnahme #ANK www.wissenschaftlicher-beirat-fuer-natuerlichen-klimaschutz.de/veroeffentli... @haraldgrethe.bsky.social @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social @urbannature.bsky.social @oekoinstitut.bsky.social @tannebergerf.bsky.social

The overhyping of regenerative grazing as a climate solution needs to end. While it has some other benefits, regenerative grazing pales as a climate solution compared to shifting diets and reducing food waste. The hype is not helping anything. drawdown.org/index.php/in...