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Mobility justice & climate justice.
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Greenpeace International 🌍
25 days ago
In times of such extremes, hope remains as one of the important possibilities for change, a declaration that all is not lost.
www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
#WellbeingEconomy
#ClimateCrisis
#ActOnClimate
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We found hope in worrisome times - Greenpeace International
In times of such extremes, hope remains as one of the important possibilities for change, a declaration that all is not lost.
https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/78266/we-found-hope-in-worrisome-times/
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Map of 100 poems that mention, address, or center on Patrice Lumumba, written in the long aftermath of his assassination.
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/b6fa...
< Fascinating project by Maya Charlton
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I'll be on this 👇
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Giulio Mattioli
2 months ago
Interesting-looking new study from the UK finding that being hit by an SUV (as compared to a regular car) "considerably" increases the risk of death for children, and even more so for young children
doi.org/10.32866/001...
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Oregon transport bill includes luxury car tax:
bikeportland.org/2025/06/17/e...
"Oregon’s vehicle privilege tax was set at 0.5% in 2017. This amendment would raise it 1% for vehicles that sell for less than $75,000 and up to 4% for vehicles over that price."
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E-bike rebate and path funding return to transportation bill with luxury car tax
A promise kept by Milwaukie House Rep Mark Gamba.
https://bikeportland.org/2025/06/17/e-bike-rebate-and-path-funding-return-to-transportation-bill-with-luxury-car-tax-395011
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Global Energy Embargo For Palestine
4 months ago
📢🚫Disrupt the fossil fuels powering ongoing genocide and daily military violence in Palestine!
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New president, same planet: A young Korean’s perspective on the climate crisis - Greenpeace International
To make these ideas real, the power of citizens will become more important than ever. Great solutions have always been born out of great crises.
https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/75135/new-president-same-planet-a-young-koreans-perspective-on-the-climate-crisis/
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Poems on the Underground
4 months ago
Look out for the new set of Poems on the Underground on London Underground and Overground trains for 4 weeks from June 2nd with poems by Dr. Gboyega Odubanjo, Jeongrye Choi , Po Chu-i, Mosab Abu Toha, William Shakespeare and Anna Gilmore Heezen ! Poem of the Day: Daughter by Mosab Abu Toha
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"Belgium, Finland, France, Portugal and Sweden have all publicly backed the initiative put forward by Dutch Foreign Minister – whose government is considered a firm ally of Israel – in a letter to the EU’s foreign policy chief last week."
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
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Support grows for Dutch call to review EU-Israel ties over Gaza aid
French President Emmanuel Macron has said the prospect of suspending cooperation with Israel is an “open question” for the EU. #EuropeNews
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/05/14/support-grows-for-dutch-call-to-review-eu-israel-ties-amid-gaza-aid-blockade
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New wind, solar and nuclear capacity meant China’s CO2 emissions fell by 1% in the 12 months to March. China’s emissions have dipped before, but those reductions were driven by falling demand such as strict Covid lockdowns in 2022.
www.bangkokpost.com/sustainabili...
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China first quarter emissions fell despite rising power demand
BEIJING - Surging renewable energy meant China's carbon emissions fell in the first quarter of 2025 despite rapidly rising power demands, a key milestone in the country's energy transition, analysis f...
https://www.bangkokpost.com/sustainability/3026166/china-first-quarter-emissions-fell-despite-rising-power-demand
4 months ago
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An Israeli legal order on 'Area C' will consume two-thirds of the occupied West Bank.
www.newarab.com/news/israel-...
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Israel is set to consume two-thirds of the occupied West Bank
Since the launch of Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip, dozens of Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank has been subjected to organised settler attacks.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-set-consume-two-thirds-occupied-west-bank
4 months ago
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Greenpeace International 🌍
5 months ago
This
#EarthDay
it's time to stand up for the world we want to see. Billionaires, oligarchs, and corporations are using their wealth to silence dissent and roll back social and environmental progress, leaving the rest of us to face the consequences of the damage they are causing. Enough is enough.
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Salzburg protests against plans for a private tunnel through Kapuzinerberg hill (€40,000 for the use).
www.salzburg24.at/news/salzbur...
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Erste Protest-Aktion gegen Porsche-Tunnel im Kapuzinerberg
Der geplante Porsche-Tunnel im Salzburger Kapuzinerberg stößt Aktivistinnen und Aktivisten sauer auf. Im Rahmen einer Protestaktion wurden nun Plakate gegen das umstrittene Vorhaben gehisst.
https://www.salzburg24.at/news/salzburg/stadt/erste-protest-aktion-gegen-porsche-tunnel-im-kapuzinerberg-176925832
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Greenpeace UK
6 months ago
Greenpeace UK co-director Will McCallum explains why they turned the US embassy pond red. The UK and US must STOP all arm sales to Israel.
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Greenpeace EU
6 months ago
Did you know? A tax on the super-rich could be a game changer in funding the transition to sustainable heating and cooling for homes. 🏠🌍💡 Let’s dive into how this could unlock a green future for all. 👇
#TaxTheSuperRich
Read more:
greenpeace.at/uploads/2025...
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Jules Birch
6 months ago
Very early days but looks like the policy of doubling council tax on second homes in Cornwall is working
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Demand for second homes in Cornwall has 'fallen off a cliff'
Estate agents say interest from buyers has been affected by new council tax rules.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj9ejjyeeelo
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Tax Justice UK
6 months ago
"If you brought in a wealth tax of just 2% on people with assets of over £10m that would raise £24 billion a year" –
@hackneyabbott.bsky.social
We couldn't agree more.
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Really good on the environmental disaster of increasing SUV sales. But misses the danger to other road users, esp children, the higher fatality rate, the entitlement to ever more public space.
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With the world heating up, why are more SUVs being sold?
Despite dire predictions of climate breakdown, more Sports Utility Vehicles are being spotted on, and off, the roads.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c778ekg64mjo
6 months ago
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SLOCAT Partnership
7 months ago
Affordable fares alone aren't enough.
@gavinthomson.bsky.social
reminds us that sustainable public transport requires safe networks, expanded routes, and greener vehicles. 🚍🌱 In addition, of their article on SLOCAT's Website, dive in & listen to their podcast🎧👉
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pML0...
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Buses are Free for Women in Delhi: What Can the World Learn From That?
YouTube video by Greenpeace International
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pML0AgrBTBI
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How a Chinese battery factory sparked a political meltdown in a small Michigan town.
restofworld.org/2025/gotion-...
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How a Chinese battery factory sparked a political meltdown in a small Michigan town
The ambitious executives at Gotion wanted to join America’s EV gold rush. Then came geopolitics.
https://restofworld.org/2025/gotion-ev-battery-us-expansion-backlash-michigan/
7 months ago
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fun fact: Eddie's description of the UK economy as "the people at the top are having a disco" inspired this weird and beloved placard.
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7 months ago
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Greenpeace India campaigned for, and helped win, free bus travel for women in Delhi a few years ago. This podcast ⬇️ looks at the impact of the policy.
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7 months ago
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Greenpeace International 🌍
7 months ago
🚌 Transportation costs or safety concerns can act as barriers, limiting women’s mobility and reinforcing gender inequality. Delhi’s scheme to provide free bus travel for women challenged those barriers. 🎧 Listen to the full episode of the latest
#SystemShift
podcast
act.gp/43jrQ1D
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Edwin Heathcote
7 months ago
Or you might phrase this as ‘Israel breaks ceasefire agreement’.
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Stephen Bush
7 months ago
Terrific resignation letter by Anneliese Dodds, this.
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So much in this report from Greenpeace MENA, inc how Europe is externalising the climate costs of its energy consumption and how 'green hydrogen' represents a continuation of colonial extractivism.
www.greenpeace.org/mena/en/beyo...
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Greenpeace warns in a report: European investments in energy and agriculture may worsen environmental and social harm in the Middle East and North Africa - Greenpeace Middle East and North Africa
European investments in energy and agriculture in the region may worsen environmental and social harm. Thus reveals a new report by Greenpeace MENA and the MENAFem Movement for Economic, Development, ...
https://www.greenpeace.org/mena/en/beyond-extractivism-towards-a-feminist-and-just-economic-transition-in-morocco-and-egypt/
7 months ago
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'China's clean energy investments nearing scale of global fossil investments, researchers find.'
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
6.8 trillion yuan ($940 billion) in clean energy in 2024 vs $1.12 trillion in global investment in fossil fuels -
@carbonbrief.org
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China's clean energy investments nearing scale of global fossil investments, researchers find
China invested 6.8 trillion yuan ($940 billion) in clean energy in 2024, approaching the $1.12 trillion in global investment in fossil fuels, according to a new analysis for U.K.-based research organisation Carbon Brief.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-clean-energy-investments-nearing-scale-global-fossil-investments-2025-02-19/
7 months ago
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"During my reporting, the phrase neocolonial was never far from conversation." Great long read tracing the opposition to a huge lithium mine in Serbia.
www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
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The battle for the soul of Serbia
The need for lithium is driving a global race for resources – and plans for a mine 120 miles from Belgrade have triggered social and political turmoil.
https://www.newstatesman.com/international-content/2025/01/serbia-mining-protest-environment-lithium
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Greenpeace International 🌍
8 months ago
🚨BREAKING The
#TaxTheSuperRich
movement is going strong! Yesterday Greenpeace international activists blocked the heliport for the
#WEF25
in
#Davos
, today they had a clear message to send INSIDE the conference center! >>
act.gp/taxthesuperrich
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New Greenpeace report showing that if a
#GlobalWealthTax
is implemented, revenues could be up to €185bn in Europe alone to fund solutions for people and the planet.
www.greenpeace.org/static/plane...
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https://www.greenpeace.org/static/planet4-international-stateless/2025/01/1ec2c079-factsheet-tax-the-super-rich-2025.pdf
8 months ago
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A great read this. Comprehensive view of the data, the politics, the sectoral challenges. "In short, an end to China’s oil boom would be a tectonic shift that is unlikely to be reversed, according to analysts."
www.ft.com/content/341f...
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Has China already reached peak oil?
The country’s demand for crude seems to be plateauing sooner than expected. The implications are huge
https://www.ft.com/content/341f0aaa-7173-454c-89fd-103287625d38
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Charles Onyango-Obbo
8 months ago
Teenage girls as young as 13 sold for grass to feed cattle amid droughts in Kenya’s Maasai areas, providing a frightening insight into the human toll of climate change
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Teenage girls as young as 13 sold for grass to feed kettle amid droughts
When the grass that feeds their cattle vanishes, several parents opt to sell their teenage daughters for survival.
https://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/teenage-girls-as-young-as-13-sold-for-grass-to-feed-kettle-amid-droughts-d48f912e-fd5f-4dc4-a861-4816c95829f9
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Aviation industry plans for growth ‘irreconcilable’ with Europe’s climate goals
www.transportenvironment.org/articles/avi...
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Aviation industry plans for growth ‘irreconcilable’ with Europe’s…
Europe’s aviation industry plans to double its passenger traffic by 2050 and will deplete its carbon budget as early as 2026
https://www.transportenvironment.org/articles/aviation-industry-plans-for-growth-irreconcilable-with-europes-climate-goals
9 months ago
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Spanish Government announces a Climate ticket.
elpais.com/clima-y-medi...
It will bring together complex systems, many providers, municipalities etc, to provide a single ticket. Cost tbc.
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España planea un billete único para el transporte público que valga en todas las ciudades en 2026
La medida anunciada por el ministro de Transportes, que ya funciona en Alemania o Austria, consiste en un abono para viajar por todo el país por una cantidad a definir
https://elpais.com/clima-y-medio-ambiente/2025-01-09/espana-planea-un-billete-unico-para-el-transporte-publico-que-valga-en-todas-las-ciudades-en-2026.html
9 months ago
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The Edwin Morgan Trust
9 months ago
... that eerie arctic song as one by one the muzzles lift and open in the dark, and the dark is long. — ‘Wolf’ by Edwin Morgan, published in Virtual and Other Realities (Carcanet, 1997) 🐺
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Bernd Parusel
9 months ago
Important read on illegal pushbacks at the Lithuania-Belarus border and how measures to counteract the ”instrumentalisation” of asylum seekers punish the victims of persecution instead of the perpetrators.
euobserver.com/migration/ar...
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Lithuania's pushbacks of Cubans into freezing forests cast long shadows over rights
In their quest for asylum, Dianalay Gonzalez Castaneda and her three friends spent more than a week in the forests between Lithuania and Belarus, in what authorities have framed as a hybrid attack by ...
https://euobserver.com/migration/arfa0a011d
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Emily Nussbaum
9 months ago
Brilliant, deeply reported piece by
@rachelaviv.bsky.social
about the horrible revelations about Alice Munro — & yes, this is a v different piece than the one that was in the NYTMag, which was largely an analysis of how the story played out in her writing
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Alice Munro’s Passive Voice
The celebrated writer’s partner sexually abused her daughter Andrea. The abuse transformed Munro’s fiction, but she left it to Andrea to confront the true story.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/12/30/alice-munros-passive-voice?utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=bluesky&mbid=social_bluesky&utm_brand=tny
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Alycia Pirmohamed
9 months ago
if you haven't read this article on the Pelicot trial, you must. "What was the testimony of her body?" Sleeping Women' by Sophie Smith:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Hetan Shah
9 months ago
That is some graph on bus usage outside London after deregulation
on.ft.com/49PfLlV
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de Verbranders
10 months ago
Now online: ep 28, with Manja Petrovska On the EU-IOM border regime in the Balkans as a contemporary form of imperialism. And on the weapons companies that benefit from displacement and global apartheid, as they do from the ongoing genocide in Gaza🍉
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'Swiss voters say no to bigger motorways and easier evictions in referendum.'
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
More lanes means more cars and more journeys, requiring more lanes. It's a money pit, not a solution.
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Voters in Switzerland say no to bigger motorways
The federal government argues that the volume of traffic on the motorway network has increased more than five times over the past sixty years. #EuropeNews
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/11/24/voters-in-switzerland-say-no-to-bigger-motorways-and-to-easier-evictions
10 months ago
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Giulio Mattioli
10 months ago
Interesting-looking new study finding that relying too much on cars for your daily mobility reduces life satisfaction
doi.org/10.1016/j.tb...
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Greenpeace EU
10 months ago
Bikes rule, cars drool
www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...
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French Revolution: Cyclists Now Outnumber Motorists In Paris
Official measurements have found that Paris is rapidly becoming a city of cyclists.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2024/04/06/french-revolution-cyclists-now-outnumber-motorists-in-paris/
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@ryan-morrison.bsky.social
thats a great profile pic, that is. lovely.
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Hoping bluesky is good for sharing job ads. Both roles are within the Social & Economic programme at Greenpeace International. Policy Specialist:
workfor.international.greenpeace.org/o/senior-por...
Campaign Coordinator:
workfor.international.greenpeace.org/o/spm-campai...
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Miriam Matthiessen
11 months ago
Went on @deverbranders to discuss how the shipping industry is structurally set up to generate the conditions under which seafarers are abandoned, and the work I’ve been doing w
@jacobbolton.bsky.social
and Eliza Ader mapping abandonment cases that you can find here:
abandonedseafarermap.cargo.site
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Bus gate fines to fund new free late night Aberdeen bus service
Bus gate fines are funding the new weekend Aberdeen services to run from Saturday until 5 January.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgl7y62q1mo
11 months ago
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25 Books for 25 Years of NYRB Classics
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25 Books for 25 Years of NYRB Classics
In honor of the 25th anniversary of New York Review Books Classics, we've selected 25 gems that the publisher has unearthed during its quarter century on earth—plus one from this year, for good measur...
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/96099-25-books-for-25-years-of-nyrb-classics.html?oly_enc_id=5790G4325167I9Z
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