🚨 #MeetYourLobbyist episode 3! Today we’re paying a visit to IOGP a group representing our besties from the fossil fuel industry. Their main goal? Keeping us hooked to oil & gas & avoiding too much taxes for their members 💰

Europe's food and farming systems stand at a crossroads, facing mounting challenges from environmental degradation to geopolitical turmoil. The Strategic Dialogue, initiated by EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, brought together 29 key stakeholders from across

When looking for ways to fill the biodiversity funding gap, look at harmful subsidies before looking at credit schemes.

Currently following negotiations at #COP16Cali. Besides the interesting events on amazing initiatives around the world, one may still wonder if world leaders will achieve the #KMGBF 's targets? Short answer is: not in the absence of a proper review mechanism & adequate funding!

... and what of national legal action? While a full assessment of revised #NBSAPs & national targets has not yet been completed, early insights show that the #KMGBF has not triggered highly necessary legal reforms to align sectoral legislation with global #biodiversity objectives

EU Dystopia: Member States want to downgrade the protection of cormorants for... eating too much fish! Let's do everything, besides addressing the elephant in the room: overfishing!

I am glad that European Commission 's asks at #COP16 are a bit more science-based than its proposal to downgrade the wolf. #COP16Colombia

These are your elected representatives. Nothing more to be said.

... And the EU vs wildlife fight continues. Seriously, is everything ok with y'all down at the European Commission ? Blink twice if you need help.

The EU is shaming itself by trying to prevent vital biodiversity conservation measure to cater for a small and rapacious commercial lobby (Danish sand eels trawlers). Ursula von der Leyen please put some order in the house.

Full house in European Commission 's event on #biodiversitycredits. Florika Fink-Hooijer🇪🇺 talked about non-commodification of #nature, still she referred to a purely #market mechanism to fill the biodiversity financing gap. This is #deregulation in its worst form. COP16 COLOMBIA 🇨🇴 #COP

"Marine conservation" without a total ban on bottom trawling is nonsensical, at best.

We need resilient ecosystems at the centre of the fight against climate change, not unproven, unreliable and excessively costly technological solutions.

And yet COP16 COLOMBIA 🇨🇴 has been, till now, silent on the major impacts of industrial animal farming on biodiversity, indigenous & other human rights. #CoP16 #GoVegan #deforestation #soy

I highly regret IUCN 's side event on financing the #Amazon 's #conservation , where one of the speakers shamelessly said that there can never be adequate public funding to cover the biodiversity financing gap & we need to rely on the private sector. 😂

Hearings for EU Commissioners are next week. 🚫 Empty rhetoric 🚫 False solutions (nuclear, low-carbon hydrogen) 🚫 Private meetings with fossil fuel lobbyists ✅ Realism: treat the climate crisis with urgency ✅ Dialogue: listen to civil society, workers, households

A new study examines 3 pathways for sustainable development - a high tech one, a post-growth pathway, & a mixed path. The study found that the post-growth path reduces warming & biodiversity loss the most w/o reliance on non-existent tech. This is the way iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…

Despite the inconclusive outcomes on other issues, #COP16Colombia delivered for #indigenous peoples' rights

Very mixed feelings with COP16 COLOMBIA 🇨🇴 . I am afraid that we are setting ourselves up for "Aichi 2.0", failing to meet any of the Targets by the end of the decade.

.European Commission's proposal to scale down wolf protections is flawed & shouldn't be adopted, says the Large Carnivore Initiative for Europe. The wolf is falling prey to unscientific political games that endanger the core of EU biodiversity conservation. 🔎🐺lciepub.nina.no/pdf/6386704981…