Damage to nature is slowing the UK economy, and could lead to a 12% reduction to GDP by 2040 – larger than the hit from the global financial crisis or Covid-19.

Banks could see reductions in the value of their domestic portfolios of up to 5%

greenfinanceinstitute.com/news-and-insig…

'The recent history of environmental activism in the US shows that the repressive policies being advanced now will have repercussions far beyond a single social movement—& that they’re likely to hit climate & land defenders particularly hard.'Alleen Brown drilled.media/news/gaza-stan…

Thank you to Senate Budget Committee for inviting me to testify as an expert witness in Congress on Wednesday, and especially for exposing thousands of new documents showing that Big Oil's climate promises continue to be full of hot air. ICYMI, here are my opening and closing remarks. 1/n

We're joining Tom Roche - Just Forests & other #FreeDonzinger campaigners at the US Embassy to seek a pardon for environmental & human rights lawyer Steven Donziger following his unjust prosecution (& persecution) by Chevron for defending indigenous rights and the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador.

In my novel (out next week!) my main character is fixated on the horrors of the Great Mississippi River flood of 1927. Today, I can think of nothing but the horrors in Gaza, so I put them in conversation with each other. scalawagmagazine.org/2024/05/hell-a…

Meet one of the brave students from Columbia elected by peers to negotiate with the school to divest from Israel. Mahmoud Khalil is a Palestinian refugee who is a grad student in public administration.

Calm, smart, and measured -- and backed by millions around the world.👊☮️⤵️

BIG UPDATE: today CBS released a special segment about our group. Our hard-hitting activism is running on television in living rooms around the country. Politicians are quaking. Media moguls are taking notice. CEOs are hiding. We will not stop. We will not back down. Get ready.

🚨Shell confirms it has quietly dropped plans to spend £20-25 billion, mostly on clean energy, in the U.K.

Nicholas Earl reports

(£) pro.politico.eu/news/179415

'I don't know why it is happening. Maybe we have tortured the earth. Maybe we have sinned.' -- Indeed some humans have, while the poor pay the price in record-breaking heat, with lack of rainfall or access to cooling, resulting in deaths across Bangladesh
phys.org/news/2024-05-a…

today's Senate Budget Committee hearing with Oversight Committee Democrats focused on evidence re: the oil indusrry's pivot from climate denial to climate delay

but some senators' remarks made it clear that denial is still alive and well

theguardian.com/us-news/2024/m…

BREAKING: Columbia U hired Cas Holloway (below) weeks ago to 'contain' growing pro-Palestinian protests. Turns out he led the massive police repression of the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011 as NYC deputy mayor.

Yesterday: Same strategy. Same repression. Same mastermind.🤔

A win in the Australian Climate Case would be similarly transformative. The case asks the court to order emissions cuts in line with science — which is about a 75% emissions reduction this decade.

Learn more here! australianclimatecase.org.au

WATCH: A wave of legal action is hitting governments around the world for their inaction on climate 👇

We are headed into the hottest summer of our lives. We are already seeing monstrous tornadoes and torrential downpours and it’s not even hurricane season yet.