Kingfisher oil project at Uganda's Lake Albert is part owned by #TotalEnergies #CNOOC. Reports include illegal dumping & spills of oil & chemicals, people forcibly evicted w/o compensation & coerced into selling land at low prices. Many now struggling to earn living #StopEACOP 👇

BREAKING: the day when thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people are killed by wet bulb heat is closer than we previously thought.

💥 Launching TODAY: Workers 4 Energy For All! 💥 No one should suffer in fuel poverty. Join us to fight for everyone's essential energy needs to be met. We have some amazing speakers lined up!😍 RSVP for the launch at 6.30pm here: actionnetwork.org/events/workers…

The high temperature in Phoenix has officially reached at least 100°F for 100 days in a row. Previous record was 76 days.

At least 81 arbitrary & unlawful arrests of land, human rights & environmental defenders since May this year! 20 activists & EACOP-impacted community members are currently sitting in a maximum security prison for holding their ground against EACOP. #FreeThe20 #StopEACOP

BREAKING: We're outside Policy Exchange, the right wing think tank that wrote some of the most draconian police laws in the western world. It's time to end their political influence. #StopPollutingPolitics #UniteAgainstTheRight

BREAKING 🚨: Rosebank’s co-owner, Ithaca Energy, has close financial links to a company that has held a contract to provide fuel to the IDF since the start of the war in Gaza.

"The risk that some of the profits from this huge UK oil field may flow towards a company that is linked to human rights violations against Palestinians, and which has a contract to provide fuel to the IDF, is indefensible." Read the full story 👇 theferret.scot/firm-linked-no…

African🌍 nations are losing up to 5% of GDP every year as they bear a heavier burden than the rest of the world from #ClimateChange. A new World Meteorological Organization report finds many African nations are spending up to 9% of their budgets on climate adaptation policies apnews.com/article/africa…

Our new report finds that incinerating waste, especially #plastics, pollutes the air and produces high amounts of highly #toxic ash, concluding that alternatives to incineration should be implemented globally. Read more and download the report: ipen.org/documents/wast…

We can all get behind Feargal Sharkey & RiverAction's March for CleanWater on Saturday 26 Oct 2024 in Central London💧🌊🌏 marchforcleanwater.org

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#FreeThe20 activists unjustly detained for peacefully protesting against the harmful #EACOP project. Holding human rights defenders in maximum security prison is an outrage! We stand with them! ✊ Uganda Police Force #StopEACOP

Detention, repression, and violence are not the solution. The 20 activists deserve justice, not imprisonment. We stand in solidarity with our fellow activists. #FreeThe20 Uganda Police Force #StopEACOP

#FreeThe20 activists unjustly detained for peacefully protesting against the harmful #EACOP project. Holding human rights defenders in maximum security prisons is an outrage! We stand with them! ✊ .Uganda Police Force #StopEACOP omct.org/en/resources/s… 1/6

The brilliant Simon Sharpe, climate diplomat: “We’re headed for over 5m of sea level rise. That exceeds the limits of adaptation of London. So at some point during the next century it will probably be impossible for you to sit in this room.”

‘Saastal in🇨🇭is blocked from the outside world’ It wasn’t Extinction Rebellion Switzerland but 🌎 and the 🗻s who organised this roadblock and climate protest. “Progressively more ‘non human’ roadblocks and highway protests are to be expected in the years to come”, Mother Earth announced.

NYPD arrests scientist Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 at Citibank: “I’m a biologist, I’ve been studying climate change since 1982 and no one is listening to the data. So today they’re going to have to listen to my body blocking the doors of the world’s largest funder of new fossil fuel

Until this heatwave... Sweden 🇸🇪 and Norway 🇳🇴 had never hit > 30 °C in September. New national records have been set and by huge margin. Extraordinary weather pattern in Europe right now. THREAD

Plastic is big business, which is why companies like Unilever keep pushing them, when they know plastic pollution is out of control, and plastic production is a huge, and growing, emitter of CO2 #GlobalPlasticsTreaty #Greenwashing