Longer term “everybody knows” that the world “cannot rely on oil” - not an activist but emerging markets chief investment officer at private banking arm of Deutsche Bank www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

Tonight I'm thinking of the many Hungarians I've met over the years - many of them abroad against their wishes, many of them queer - who haven't stopped fighting, for sixteen years. For most of us, Orbán was an on-and-off nuisance on TV - at best. For them, he was a constant nightmare.

Vote hope! Greens win Kent County Council by-election and take seat previously held by Reform🙌 www.kentonline.co.uk/thanet/news/...

As a glimmer of hope for international cooperation to protect the environment, the new High Seas Treaty must stop the lobbyists and bring the science oceanographicmagazine.com/news/high-se...

India pauses its first deep sea mining auction after ZERO companies bid for offshore mineral blocks "The impression we have is that it is not economically feasible for companies" (Not an April fool - but this industry is a joke) economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/ind...

VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England. I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A reminder: Matt Goodwin lost heavily in spite of an almost total lack of tactical voting, not because of it. The combined Green/Labour vote was 66%, versus 28.7% for Reform. If Labour and the Greens split the vote 50/50 – a total coordination fail – he'd have finished third, not second.

True development strengthens resilience rather than risking it. For Tonga, saying no to deep sea mining is not fear—it is leadership Former MP makes strong case that “companies move on, but the environmental, legal & reputational consequences remain with the nation” matangitonga.to/2026/02/12/w...

Listen to the elders! Scientist still diving at 90 says deep sea mining won’t succeed www.mining.com/web/scientis...

"This is a wildly unpopular initiative that the Trump administration is trying to force on the territories in the Pacific" Bipartisan resistance to "violent proposal for deep sea mining" unites across Guam, American Samoa and Northern Marianas www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Loving that clean energy is increasingly how governments are responding to Trump's chaotic oil grabs From Canada-China & India-EU deals cutting tariffs on electric vehicles & renewables, to UK and EU hugely scaling up offshore wind to "get off the fossil fuel rollercoaster" - this is true security

The global ocean treaty is a sign that in a divided world, protecting nature and protecting our global commons can still triumph over political rivalries. The ocean connects us all. www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

Loving the unintended irony that putting British flags up lampposts is how China is welcoming Starmer to Beijing 😂

This headline omg

Another day, another political disaster for Starmer New poll for the New Statesman: Let Burnham stand, voters say www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

‘Under my leadership, Starmer was admitting, this party is too broke and too unpopular to risk asking the voters of Greater Manchester — Greater Manchester! — for a mandate’ - not a good look

Err OBVIOUSLY not

Would you believe me if I told you a new international law dedicated to environmental protection is coming into force today? And that it covers nearly half the surface of the planet? 🌊

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning." -Churchill

“This is not the time to comment on the legality of the recent actions” - this is PRECISELY the time to comment on the illegality of attacking & abducting another country’s leader Upholding international law means actually defending it, esp when it’s not “easy” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Wrote a thing: The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....

Maduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela. Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law. Both of those facts are simultaneously true.

What changed for deep sea mining in 2025? Everything - except the fundamental point that this risky industry still hasn’t started anywhere in the oceans, and Trump’s interest is galvanising more opposition than ever before grist.org/global-indig...

Hope comes alive when we take action - and even in 2025, we can win Take some inspiration from these victories for the oceans, forests and against Big Oil this year from @greenpeace.org www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

The concept of 'critical minerals' has always served the military - but Trump's stockpiling doubles down on military priorities, rather than an industrial strategy to deliver public benefits, stabilise the climate and provides the foundation for climate co-operation www.ft.com/content/42ab...

Norway’s decision to halt any deep sea mining licences and withhold public funds for such activities marks a major advance for ocean protection, environmental integrity, cultural identity and human rights, say UN experts @srenvironment.bsky.social www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Deep sea mining nodule extraction in the Cook Islands is more likely to lose money than turn a profit, says independent new report act.gp/4aAcgCb #stopdeepseamining #protecttheocean

Even test-scale deep sea mining significantly damages life on the seafloor - reducing the diversity of species by a third and the number of animals by even more That's not ok We need to stop this new threat before it starts at industrial scale - and we can www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Welcome to dystopia Under Trump, the US is diverting minerals that could build climate technologies to “AI-driven autonomous warfare platforms” (was there ever a more hideous phrase) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Wherever this industry tries to start, it fails. We can protect the oceans from extraction," said @louisacasson.bsky.social of @greenpeace.org.

Deep sea miners thought it would be easy to start mining the Arctic seafloor… 🤨 But thanks to campaigning, Norway has just halted all deep sea mining development! Wherever this industry tries to start, it fails. We can protect the oceans from extraction 💪 www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

Nice one @carbonbrief.org chasing for clarity on who exactly are the governments opposed to a transition away from fossil fuels? While 90 countries were happy to publicly call for a roadmap, the laggards prefer to stay in the shadows - not a good look www.carbonbrief.org/revealed-lea...

The deep ocean's had a glow up scitechdaily.com/researchers-...

Thanks to @cliveefford.bsky.social for raising concerns over deep sea mining in UK's new Critical Minerals Strategy Good to see @chrismcdonaldmp.bsky.social confirm that the UK Government "are extremely concerned about the ecological impact" of deep sea mining www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=...

"Even in a moment of chaos, one thing stood out: people from every corner of the world, different nations, creeds and affiliations, looked out for one another” #COP30 Mohamed Adow @powershiftafrica.bsky.social always finds the best words for every COP situation www.theguardian.com/environment/...

More than 80 countries at Cop30 join call for roadmap to fossil fuel phase-out - this is what climate leadership looks like www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"They know how to manipulate us" UN human rights chief warns of tech bros' unaccountable power - and that unregulated AI "can be a huge source of distraction, which then takes away the political energy that we need in order to actually fight autocratic tendencies" www.france24.com/en/live-news...

More progress! South Korea has announced it will not build any new coal plants and will shut down 40 existing plants by 2040 to address the climate crisis. That’s massive. #COP30 #ClimateChange www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/2...

#COP30 continues to shine a light on the issues unavoidable to properly tackling climate change - from misinformation to now critical minerals African, European & Pacific nations backing language for a just transition that doesn't deepen the problems of extraction www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

By me: One in every 25 participants at Cop30 is a fossil fuel lobbyist, outnumbering every country delegation apart from Brazil, and as Indigenous peoples struggle to get a seat at the table www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The world will build more renewable energy projects in the next five years than have been rolled out over the last 40 This seals the end of the fossil fuel era - no one government can derail this transition www.theguardian.com/environment/...

That this company is a new entrant to the deep sea mining space sums up the entire industry Grand claims, fail to live up to their own hype www.wuwm.com/term/arts-cu...

If the Paris agreement was pointless, would Trump have bothered pulling the US out of it, twice? well said @pilitaclark.bsky.social Although efforts to cut emissions have been inadequate, they have not been meaningless - and yearly COPs keep our focus on this www.ft.com/content/4b88...

10 years since the Paris Agreement: here's the good, the bad and the ugly of what's changed A highlight being 'coal is in a weird place' www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Deep sea mining would disrupt the food web, threatening fisheries and climate-critical processes new study finds Let's just not let it start www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"Right now global superpowers like the US are vying for control of deep sea minerals throughout the Pacific...Any govt or corporate looking to exploit us in this way is no true partner of ours" Pacific kayaktivists take action in Cook Islands: don't mine the Moana www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...

"No one should mortgage the ocean floor to pay for short-term bills" - strong statement from Antigua & Barbuda's prime minister as he announces support for a moratorium on deep sea mining!

The sun came out for us to take part in @hopenothate.org.uk’s weekend of action - it always feels better to do something rather than doom scroll! 💪

Support for mining the seabed at an all-time low among the public, as new Norwegian government debates whether to abandon unpopular, risky deep sea mining in the Arctic klassekampen.no/artikkel/202...