🚨 New Publication 🚨

In Nature Food, my co-authors and I critique the methodological and substantive shortcomings of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) roadmap for achieving zero hunger without breaching the 1.5 °C threshold.

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nature.com/articles/s4301…

Aaron Bushnell volunteered to support San Antonio’s unhoused population and would regularly purchase blankets, sweaters and snacks from a store on base to give out to people living in encampments. He created a will before his death. He died for Palestine.
npr.org/2024/02/25/123…

What comes next for sustainable food systems?🎙️In this podcast we explore #COP28UAE the first climate conference addressing #fossilfuels and prioritizing scientific in fighting #climatechange
with BC3 - Basque Centre for Climate Change Colorado State University moderated by krystyna springer
➡️ieep.eu/news/cop28-wha…

🧵Happy to share our new Science Magazine Policy Forum paper on the sustainability limits to carbon dioxide removal.
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

EU backs down on agricultural emissions reduction target after farmers’ protests, to remove demand from 2040 climate change roadmap in knee-jerk response to placate anger that has convulsed capitals

mega story from the ace alicemhancock

ft.com/content/00b344… via @ft

Israel used U.S.-supplied white phosphorus munitions in an October attack in southern Lebanon that injured at least nine civilians, according to a Washington Post analysis of shell fragments found in a small village.

🚨Our new paper is out in nature! 🚨

We assess how key global mitigation benchmarks shift after aligning pathways assessed by the IPCC to LULUCF accounting conventions used by parties to the #ParisAgreement .

Open access and available at: nature.com/articles/s4158…

This article by @nesrinemalik is good about the protests - the reasons why people are gathering are not straightforward but not sinister. These are not hate marches. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The Nature Restoration Law #NRL saga is not over, but in its decisive moment!

The negotiators will decide the final text of the law this Thursday ⏰

César Luena / ❤️🇪🇺, Virginijus Sinkevičius & Teresa Ribera 🌹 we count on you to truly tackle the climate & biodiversity emergencies!
#RestoreNature

the rosy reality behind the noble commitments made by major institutional investors in their human rights policies and flaunted in ESG reports. fiduciary duty at its peak

🚨Breaking news: the European Parliament approved its position on the Nature Restoration Law!

The rejection of the law was avoided but at a very high cost: the ambition to #RestoreNature has been substantially cut down👎

All eyes on trilogues now👀

Next week European Parliament will hold a crucial plenary vote 🗳️ on the #NatureRestorationLaw .

Our briefing provides an evidence-based overview of the possible impacts of the law on the farming sector, climate adaptation and food security.

👉 ieep.eu/publications/n…

European Parliament. EPP Group Renew Europe S&D Group The Nature Restoration Law is an essential part of the climate policy architecture for the land use sectors to meet the EU's GHG targets. This thread explains why #RestoreNature 1/10

in reassuring news for the biggest party in EU parliament, the #restorenature law has just been demoted as the top threat to global food security

now topped by climate crisis-induced risk of synchronised harvest failures, underestimated by the newest generation of models

“We represent all 22m European farmers & their families,” boasts lobby group @CopaCogeca. Lighthouse Reports we set about contacting every listed member of the group across the EU to test this blanket claim that’s cited when they lobby against environmental reform.

Global Warming Has Made The Earth Uninhabitable, Disappointing Environmentalists

'Massive human displacement is the latest clue that fossil fuelled capitalist rule is not ushering in the promised land. It is creating wastelands. Wastelands that more and more people are trying desperately to flee.'

donotpanic.substack.com/p/the-displace…

Great piece by Adrienne Buller and Benjamin Braun on the rise of asset manager capitalism:

“A full fifth of the total value of the FTSE350 is controlled by just ten investors.” opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/…